Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1886-03-03
CONGRESSIONAL.



WASHINGTON, March among the
petitions presented ia the Senate today
vas one by H0ar from the workinemen
employed ia Government workshops
SINCE the eIght-hour law of 1865 WAS
passed, praying for compensation for
overtime, or for the reference Of their
claims 60 some tribunal that may ad-
Indicate the question whether they
ought to have such compensation. Hoar
said he favored the request of the petit
TONERS. de believed that the object of
the eight hour law was to test the
sounduess Of the economic Law affirmed
by the vorkingmen of this country.
Van Wyck. from the Committee on
Pensions, reported with an amendment
the House bill to increase the pensions
Of widows and dependent relatives of
deceased soldiers and sailors. The
amendment provides for an increase Of
the pensions Of miner children from 81
per mouth, the amount liked oy tue
House, to 81 per month. Van Wyek
SAID hs would ask for an early consider
alton of the bill and would ask the
Senate to increase minor ohildren's
pension to g. month instead of the s.
recommended by the committee. He
would also ask that insane or helpless
| children should receive the pension
given t. minor children beyond Is years
of age, so long as the insanity or dis
ability might continue.
Logan hoped the bill would soon be
taken up and that II would be passed.
| dc thought, however, that 1t would be
better II the points suggested by Van
| Myok, some of which Logan favored,
should be lnoorpOIat d into the Senat
instead OF REMEMBERING the House bill.
| Logan also expressed tue hope that the
| Arrears of Pensions bil introduced by
, the Senator from Kansas (lngalls
would shortly bs introduced anu paesed
Van WSok ID lught the amendments
| proposed we're directly IN the line of ths
bill just reported and sboaid be ineor-
sorated into that bill. He also said
that Congress ought to have passed Al
the last session a biii granting pensions
to the Mexican soldiers. he bill re-
ported by Van Wyck was placed on the
calendar.
At o'clock the Senate took up the
education bill. and Call addressed the
Senate IN opposition to Allison's amend
ment. He characterized IL as q refiec
| tlon on the States and an abandonment
OF one OF the principles OF our Govern
ment.
MIR. Salisbury opposed the bill,
whether with or without the Allison
amendment.
Mr.. Ingalls, said IL this money we're ia
be distributed We should throw about il
all the safeguards possIble. This bill,
to-, Mr.. Ingalls, said, was for fsnd 10
De applied TO nouseetsrian schools.
lie then read from q speech delivered
by MIR. Zlch Montgomery before the
Roman Catholic sunday School Teach
ers' Association of California in 1873.
Mr.. Ingalls, would do Mr.. Montgomery
the Justice to say that be had declared
that the pamphlet report was incorrect,
bat Mr.. Ingalls, would read certain ex
tracts which MIR. Montgomery had not
tnclnded IN the extracts vhich he
claimed misrepresented him. Speaking
of tei.graphs. railways and newspapers
the pamphlet report says: They are
the means of spreading false runners
and moral sentiments that corrupt the
minds of good Catholics IN this land.
Instead of reading oorruptina nesspa-
PEERS, teach them (ehildrenl the truths
Of the church and save them from the
in all its forms. Tue notion that Pro-
testsnts entertain about the great pro-
sress made in the nineteenth ceniury, |
wisk to abstain from. The Protestant
theory of indepssdence and of making
up our minds for ourselves on mat
tiers Of religion are false as well 80
damnahle IN the Outcome. There is no
such thing "a personal freedoms in re-
ta.shs a
lies with the successor of IT. Peter,
Hesy Pho Mono and the Holy See OF
Rome" These. Mr.. Ingalls, said. were
extracts thai had not been denied, yet
the bill before the Senate VAS 10 be add
asinlstefed on a ponsectarian basis.
After turtser debate toe Senate ad-
l0uFned.
Morrill, II Kansas. FROM the Commit
tee on Invalid Pensions. reported bill
extending until July l, ISIS, the tine
sst0in which apphoatlons for arrears
II pensions may be iled. extending tie
provisions of the arrears act 10 special
s'enssosers. snd providing that IN ap-
slieatiaus for pensions the persons en-
whose account the pension Is claImsd
stall be presumed prss.a flsis t. ~
ssf0ud and Tree from disease at the date
ef entering the service. Referred 10
committee Of the whole.
Belmont, from tue Con- nlittee on For
eten Affairs, reported the eons0lar and
diplomatic appropriation bill. Referred
- Committee OF the Whole.
The SPEAKER laid before the House
tue rsspanse Of the Secretary q tie
Treasury TO the Rand res luton. cali
iag for Information concerning tie eir-
ca.Ataoo of standard silver dellars and
tie policy 10 be parsned a. 60 the pay
naent % silver. Ref rreSi 10 the Con-
N &c on Coinage, wsigess and Meas
urxS.
Mr.. Wise, OF Virgiaiz. on behalf OF
tie Committee 90 Manufactures. in the
moruiag hour called up the bill author
lEtng the Pressdeut 10 appoint q CON
uissios Of SVEN experts SKILLED in sbe
Investigation. produstion and use Of
metallic saesszr ces and ether structural
nstesiai. 10 extcute tests and sxpxri-
neSts upan tie iron, steel and other
materials used Ia the coustYucsiau OF
hrf as. busiainAs snd mernanical
ssfaeSares. and - deaaes The usual ra.ss
ttersftou.
After debate the morning hour ex-
psrSd and the House vent lnie eosn-