Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-05-07


amendment TO be 70 make u impossible
for railroad companies 70 tie up COM
plants against them by legal proceedings.
This amendment II now the pending
amendment.
Mr. Miller from the committee on edu.
cation and labor reported favorably the
bill applying 70 the letter carriers the
provisions Of section 1888 Of the Revised
Statutes, making eight hours days
work
II was unanimously agreed that vote
should be taken on the interstate com
merce bin before adjournment Tuesday
night. The senate then went Into execu.
tive session and when doors rcopenod adj.
joumcd until Monday
TiiE HOUSE.
WAsuiNoToN, May MIR Tucker of
Virginia, from tho committee on indicl.
AIRY, reported adversely the Joint r,solu-
ton proposing a constitutional amend.
ment providing for female suifmgo.
Placed on the house calendar.
The following committee report was
submitted by MIR, Perkins OF Kansas,
from the committee on Indian AFFAIRS,
authorizing the Kansas City, Fort Scott
Gulf Railroad company TO operate a
railroad through the Indian Territory.
Placed on the house calendar.
In the morning hour Mr.. Hatch Of Mis-
souri, called up the bill TO create depart.
mont of agriculture aud labor. Opposl-
| tion TO the measure took the form OF
dilatory motions and the hour expired
without any consideration OF the bill
having been entered upon.
The house then went into committee OF
the whole, Mr.. wellboru OF Texas ln the
chair, on the river aud harbor bill,
Mr.. Eyerhart OF Pennsylvania and Mr..
Stone Of Missouri opposed the bill. The
committee then rose and reported the bill
10 the house. The only amendment re.
ported from the committee upon which q
I separate vote was demanded was that di.
| recting the secretary of war to negotiate
| for the purchase of the works OF the
Monongahela Navigation company II
was agreed TO by n vote Of i2i TO AZ.
Under an arrangement made in the
committee Mr., Holman OF indiana offered
an amendment providing tnat the money
appropriated for the Improvement OF the
Lower Mississippi, except as required to
protect works already In process, shall
be expended In the continuance aud con-
ductlon OF works on Plumb Point and the
Lake Providence region. Agreed TO, 1872
TO rs.
MIR. Hepburn OF Iowa moved to strike
out the appropriation for Galveston har.
Dor, Mr. Hepburn moved TO amend by
/ providing that the appropriation for the
Improvement OF the Lower Mississippi
shall be expended under the direction Of the
secretary OF war without the intervention
OF the Mississippi river commission
Agreed to, yeas 1926, nays 1907, Mr. Hep
burn also offered an amendment proyid.
ing that the improvement Of the Missouri
river from Its mouth To Sioux City shall
be conducted without Intervention OF the
Missouri river commission, Agreed TO-
yeas 20, nays II.
Mr.. Spooner Of Rhode Island moved
TO re-commit the bill with Instructions &c
the committee on rivers aud harbors &c
report back bin appropriatlng Sl0,0 900
600, to be expended under the direction
Of the secretary OF war, on such public
works MS he may deem proper Lost.
MIR. Holman OF Indiana moved To re
commit the bill with instructions to The
committee on rivers and harbors to re
port back q measure appropratini
SS,000,000 for the Improvement OF river
and hafbor5 under the direction OF th'
secretary Of war, subject TO the approva
Of the president. Rejected yeas So, nay
M.
The bin was then passed, yeas lAS
nays log,
An unsuccessful attempt was made L
bring up the electoral count bill and tn
house adjourned.