The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-07-08
CONGRESSIONAL.
The work q the Senate and House
q Representatives

IHE river und nhrDOf Dill, WIN auendnent6,
was reported to the Senate on tho 2sth ult. The
conference report on the pension appropriation
bin was presented TO the Senate and agreed To.
Tie House receded from its dsagreements.
The Senate. by vote OF IS 20 ~, decided to in
sist upon its amendment TO the postoiice APP
Mail steamships. The senate passed
a bill granting pension OF sio9
stsnnard OF Vermont. A bill authorizing the
President To appoint and retire Alfred Pleason-
ton as Major General was introduced in the
Senate. The Senate debated the veto Of the
Des Moines River land bill without action, SEN
ator Evarts IN " opposing and Senator Allison
uowa) favoring the passage OF the bill over the
the name of William q. Ewing To be United
States District Attorney for the Northern
District OF Illinois IN, Mr. Randall intro
Mr.. King. Of Louisiana. introduced in the House
a resolution condemning tho proposal OF the
French Government to assist tho Panama Canal
Company by means OF lottery loan ms opposed
20 the Monroe doctrine, and calling 1.-THE Sec
rotary Of State for all correspondence bearing
the subject. Mr.. Gallinger, OF New Hanp-
shire, introduced in the House n resolution pro-
viding for an inquiry by the Civil-servce Re
form Committee into the truth OF newspaper re-
ports that the Democratic Campaign Committee
is soliciting contributions from Democratic
Congressman and others in the employ
OF the Government While the sundry
civil appropriation bill was under consideration
in the House Mr. Laird (Nsb.l made a severe Mt
tack upon Commissioners Sparks in his admins
Qnd.j defended the Commissioner. declaring
that his action was meeting with the
condemnation OF every every land-grabeeer
Mr.. Payson IN said that he. member OF
the Committee on Public Lands had advised
and counseled Commissioning Sparks to issue
tho order Of April 3, 1885, and lie stood by that
order to-day. 1t was said that Sparks was
an enthusiast. lie was enthusiast;
but his in .Sa to this
who desired to receive home from
his country Sparks order was notice
be called upon them and he Mr. Payson, re,
gretted that owing TO the pressure that had been
brought by letters written by men stepped in
fraud up to their eyes there had not been sufii-
Gent backbone on the part OF the Secretary OF
the Interior to keep that order in existence.
THE Senate passed the Des Mones land bill
over the Presidents veto, on the 10Th ult., by a
vote of "a to ~. The Senate agreed to confer
ence reports on the army appropriation bill and
the bill To amend the Pacific Railroad acts. Mr..
Camden wv Val denied newspaper state
ment that he had telegraphed from Washington
the Senate for Payne, and the Standard Oil
Company would pay $500 each for Them The
Sentaor said that at the time named he
was not in Washington and that the story was
without foundation and absurd: resolution
was adopted appointing Gen. William j. Sewell,
Gen. M. L. Mcmahon. and Capt. John l..
Mitchell as managers OF the National Homes
for Disabled Soldiers The Senate took up the
legislative, executive and judicial bill, and
some amendments reported by the Committee
Appropriations increasing the clerical
force OF the State Department gave rise TO
a sharp debate in which Senators Edmunds Of
Vermont, ingalls,, OF Kansas, and Hale OF
Maine criticised tho ministration. Senator
Cockrell, OF Missouri, brought the discussion To
n close with the remark that the administration
needed no defender in the Senate. The people
of the United States would live to bow their
knees in everlasting thankfulness to Almighty
God that Grover Cleveland had become Presi-
dent of the United States. He was an honest
man, brave man, true man. He was doing
all that any mortal being could do TO give the
people Of the United States an honest. fearless
economical. and constitutional administration
The discussion having closed, the amendments
on which it was based were agreed to. The
House, in committee of the whole, rejected the
motion of Mr. Laird tNebl to strike out the
clause I'm the sundry civil bill appropriating $780,
900 for protecting the public lands from fraudu-
lent entry The general deficiency bill was
ported to the House. II appropriates So 062, S45
The House agreed TO conference reports on the
pension and agricultural appropriation bills.
SENATOR EDMUSDs introduced in the Senate,
on the 30th ult bill vesting in the President
the sole power OF appointing large number OF
officers who now appointed by and with the
advice and consent Of the Senate" Among
these are postmasters OF all classes, collectors
of internal revenue, certain collectors Of GUS
toms, all territorial officers except judges of the
Supreme Courts, all district attorneys, and
United States MARSHALL, Indian agents,
and district land Officers Resolutions t1o5s
were laid before the Senate to the effect
that the previous resolutions Of that body pro-
testing against the forfeiture OF the Northern
Pacific land grant for the uncompleted PORTION
of thu Cascade branch were inconsiderate and
illegal and should be expunged from the record
of the board. The House in committee OF the
whole adopted amendment presented
by Mr.. Randall pa appropriatng
si4620 for the service Of the army
and navy hospital at Hot Springs, Ark.
Chairman Boyle OF the Pan-Electric Telephone
Committee presented report signed by himself
and Messrs. Oates, Eden. and Hall. The report
al hv FOL res
which concurred in by Mr.. Hale. who also
presented report Of his own: ,.Resotsed,
ton has failed to adduce any evidence
which tends to show that Attorney-General Gar
land, Solicitor General Goode, Secretary Lar
mar, Indian Commissioner Atkins, Railroad
Commissioner tombstone, or Senator Harris, they
being the officers named in the Pan Electric
publications Of the newspaper press which gave
rise to this Investigation did any act official or
otherwise, connected with the matter investi-
gated which was dishonest dishonorable, or
censurabla."
THE House bill for the relief Of the survivors
OF the Jeanette and the widows and children
OF those who persisted in the retreat from the
wreck OF that vessel in the arctic re-
ported fayorably TO the Senate on the LIST inst.
from the Committee on Naval Affairs. Senator
Riddleberger introduced bill providing for
% per cent. reduction in the salaries OF Cabi-
net officers, Senators and Representatives.
henator Miller, from the Committee on Agri-
culture, reported back, without amend
four members OF the committee dissenting.
The President nominated John G. Shields OF
Michigan to be Chief Justice of the Supreme
Court OF Arizona, and e.. Chase Goodwin TO be
United States Attorney for the Western District
OF Michigan. The House passed the sundry
civil appropriation bill. and refused to pass the
Des Moines River land bill over the Presidents
veto