Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1886-12-17
CONGRESSIONAL D0INGS.
VAN WYCkS STATEMENT REGARD
ING HIS OWNERSHIP OF LAND.

Wednesday laid over for the day the bill re-
peaiing the tenure of Office law, and then by
vote of SO to u tabled Platt's resolution for
open executive sessions A short debate on
The bill to prohibit members OF congress from
acting as attorneys for subsidized railways
was began by Beck, who characterized the
defeat his own and intinated that the sena-
tors were afraid TO vote on the naked prop
osition A short executive session took place
before adjournment.
Thursday the following bills, petitions,
ETC., were introduced and referred: By Pugh,
bill fixing salaries of the commissioner of
education and commissioner of labor at
s., 600 By Van Wyck, proposing an amend
ment to the constitution relating to the cleo
ton of United States senator's. By Plumb,
bill concerning transfer of the stock of
railroads engaged in interstate commerce.
By Vest and Ransom, petitions
from tobacco manufacturers in St Louis,
New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Lynch
burg and other cities, protesting against the
passage of the house bill respecting packing
of cut tobacco. BY Evarts, remonstrance
against the establishment of a marine hos
pital on Staten Island.
The senate adopted Van Wyck's resolution
offered Wednesday, calling for information
as to the appcrtionment of money
by the Missouri river commission
House bill passed relieving Lieut.. Myron
Z. Dunlap of the Fourteenth New York ar
tiliery of the charge of desertion. Blair Of
tered a resolution which was adopted in
structing the committee on finance to inquire
into the propriety of reporting bill provil-
ing a rebate on all imported materials i'll
carporated with domestic materials or con-
vefied into other articles and exported to
foreign countries for sale.
The calsndar was then taken up and bill
was passed 10 permit the owners of Ameri-
can vessels ard their cargoes TO sue the gov
eminent for losses caused by collision with
United States vessels arising from their mis-
management. A number of other measures
were laid aside.
Beck referred to his remarks of Wednesday
disclaiming any intention of being offensive
to members OF the Judiciary committee, and
if they were so construed, he retracted them.
Pugh said he had construed Beck's remark
as personally offensive, and that gentleman's
statement was very gratifying to him.
Van y yck moved to make a special order
for the second Tuesday in January the bill
for the relief of settlers and purchasers of
lands in Nebraska and Kansas adjoining the
Denver & st Joseph railroad. He made
statement in the nature of personal explana-
ton in regard toit Malicious falsehoods he
said. had been circulated By some papers in
Nebraska, to the effect that the bill woulG
have been passed and tue settlers paid, only
that he had insisted on his title to some of
these lands being protected He had
sumnarily disposed Of that falsehood by a
statement which he had mode to the repre-
sentatIveS from the district in which the
lands are situated. His ownership Of q por-
zion Of the lands concerned had been an oper
fact il Nebraska where it had been made
the basis OF an infamous falsehoodn in the
senate and in the supreme court, where
he had slit pending about it. He
had always refrainei from voting on
the bill either in committee or in the senate
He intended to leave the matter to the SEN
ate'S sense of justice without further sug-
gestions. If the senate could do am
pie justice to those settlers who had
trusted implicitly to the good
faith and honor of the government, whileex-
Guiding any claim that he had he should not
only advise that course, but should cheer
fully consent to such deter mination
The house Thursday passed bill making
Hartford, Conn, a post of entry instead of
Middleto~n; also senate bill amending sec
tons 4, 746 and 4, IA revised statutes. lit
provides for the payment of a pension out of
the naval pension fund to every person
who served an enlisted per-
son in the navy, on marine corps; and
the bill is designed TO cover the cases of
those who actually rendered the same sery-
ice as appointed petty officers, although not
actually enlisted
On motion of Wise of Virginia, the house
passed senate bill providing that Admirals
Rowan AMI Warden may, after forty years
service, be retired, on their own application
with the highest pay OF the grade to which
they belong.
Din@iey presented circumstances against
the Dunn free ship bill from the following
associations and firms: Boards of trade of
Bath, BE, Bridgeport, Conn, Minneapolis
Mimi, AMI San Francisco, Cal, the Pacific
Coast Ship Owners association, the Ma
tional Shipping league, the National Ship
Owners association, T. E. O'Brien of Than
asann, Me, Carleton, Norwood q Co. of
Rockport, Ne, and the Harlan and Holigs
worth company of Wilmington, Del The
circumstances, which were appropriately re-
Esrred, represent that the adoption of a free
IMP policy would destroy the ship building
industry in the United States and make this
cG5ntry dependant on British yards for
ships for commercial p1Irposos, und Tor do.
-eaIse in time Of war
The house passed the senate bill providing
+9r the allotment of land In severalty to In
cEans, and The urgent deficiency bill for pub
liz printing, etc, and then in committee OF
the whole resumed consideration of the sun
sirv civil bill.