Morning journal and courier., 1886-03-24
FORTY.NINTH CONGRESS-.
WASHINGTON. March 8.

WASHINGTON, MATcu 50. SENArE-A number of House bills we1
 passed, among them the bill granting pen sion of &, ,00O year to the widow of Genera Hancock.
 Mir. Beck called up the resolution called
 up by him last December relating to tho
 payment of custom dues in coin. He sai6
 the resolution had been amply discussed and
 he now moved it's reference to the Finance
 committee. The motion was agreed to.
 MT. Logan's bill to increase the efficiency of the army was then taken up. Mir. Man derson spoke in favor of increasing the force to thirty thousand enlisted men. He read from the reports of General Schofeld to show the inadequacy of the present army force on the frontier if @ called upon to with the Indians, he maintained, was an ever present danger. He was no alarnist, but many families on the Nebraska frontier lived in 8 constant condition of alarm for their lives MT. Manderson said he would not discourage any practical efforts to civilize the Indians, but the nature of the Indians had not changed; they were still brutal savages and we should treat them as we find them and as they are, and police the frontier with an adequate armed force.
 MT. Beck opposed the proposed increase of the force of the army. He argued that as we had better railroad facilities now than former ly for concentrating army forces to suppress OuJUTShkSJ duu dS buo 0HAkVA 4Aohl such outbreaks was not greater now than formerly, it was unwise to increase the ex- penditures of the government. He had seen enough volunteer soldiers upon Pennsylvania avenue when President Cleveland was lnau- gurated to carry on an Indian war. them selves. He admitted that regular troops would break up mob better than volun- teers, but the standing army would become the creature of its commander whenever he should make up his mind to become 8 despot.
 Mir. Logan said he would not use the word demagogueism in respects to arguments made in the Senate, but he repelled any in the purpose of using it against the people. That was unworthy of the Senator from Ken lucky. MT. Logan had been recommending this increase for ten years.
 Mr. Beck said he had never thought of the Senator from Illinois in connection with the bill He had not known that the bill had been introduced by him.
 The conference report on the urgent de- fciency bill was adopted as presented by the conference committee.
 The army efficiency bill was then laid aside and upon motion of MT. VanWyck the Senate took up and passed the bill to con firm entries heretofore made on public lands in accordance with the ruling of the general land office at the time they were made.
 At o'clock the Judiciary committee reso- lutions were taken up and Mir. Jackson re- stunned his speech begun yesterday in opposi- tion to the majority report. MT. Jackson 1n- quired whether it was in the line of "calm and orderly administration of government" referred to by Mir. Edmunds that the Senate should permit all the pending nominations to remain unacted onto let the vacancies in office remain thrilled and have the session close leaving all these troublesome and doubtful constitutional questions to be raised in the recess. The papers called for MT. Jackson contended were irrelevant to the matter of filling the office in question. In concluding Mr. Jackson said: I see nothing in this but an attempt to encroach on the functions and rights of the executive and of obstructing him and his ad ministration in their efforts at reform. No President for the past half century nas ever acted with more moderation--none with more coIscientiousness, and yet at the very outset of his administration he is to be ob structed in this way on grounds wholly un- warranted. He may we'll appeal from the Senate to the country. for the country will sustain him in his action.
 Mr. George followed in opposition to the majority report. The American Senate, Mir. George said, was to day engaged in the con- sideration of question of great moment. It was claim on the part of the Senate of supremacy over an independent branch of
  sempt to subvert the constitution. Regard ing executive sessions he declared himself ready to consider all executive business in open session except in cases where ,he President in relation to for eign affairs shall request for the He quoted from MT. Sherman's speeches of 1869 the statement that all the Senate could 10 in the case of nominations was to ascer ain the fitness of the persons nominated. He read from the speeches of Messrs. Logan, aoar and Allison among others in the de- pate on the attempted repeal of the tenure of office act to show the want of sympathy of Senators then with the act of 1887. The obligation of the President to make acts was to the American people and not to he Senate. MT. George would undertake to ay that whenever the people made de- nand, that demand would be met by the President. Until we have removed the veil # secrecy it ill becomes us to complain that ,ther departments do not choose to give us easons for their actions.
 It was arranged that tomorrow 8 time hould be fixed for vote
 At 5:35 the Senate adjourned.
 HoUsE.-Among favorable reports made md referred to appropriate calendars were he following: From Commerce a bill au- horizing the purchase of the site of the He'll 1ate electric light. From the Military bill o increase the annual appropriation to sup ,ly arms for the militia from $2O0, 600 to 400, ,OOO Also bill providing for the spe- ial and uniform instru ction of State militia.
 In the morning hour Mir. Richardson, of Tennessee, called up and the House passed he "4th of July claims bill" The amount involved ill the bill is $28S, 200.
 MT. Singleton called up the congressional ibrary bill, but pending the reading of the eport the hour expired and the House went nto Committee of the Whole, MT. McMillan # Tennessee in the chair, on the Indian ap- ,ropriation bill.
 Pending decision on point of order the committee rose.
 MT. Burnes, of Missouri submitted the con erence report on the urgent deficiency bill nd it was agreed to. While this was being lone MT. Willborn, of Texas, and others sur ounded MT. Nelson and appealed to him to lepart from his policy in regard to the In lian bill, but he was obdurate and at 4:45 he House adjourned.
 RIotIng Resumed at Seraing.
 BRUSSELS, March 23.-Rioting was resumed t Seraing to-day, one person being killed nd several others severely hurt. Herr and a number of other German who have since the beginning of he disturbances at Liege been conspicuous n melting the dissatisfied iron workers and ioters to violence were arrested to-d day.
 A Brutal Father.
 BOSTON, March 23.-William McClurey, a ar inspector on the New York and New England railroad living at Dorchester, was rrested to day after repeated complaints for brutality to his only child, girl aged two ears and seven months. He has repeatedly l 'eaten the child almost to insensibility and l ortured it in various ways, including pour ng spirits of turpentine on it's raw sores.
 A CHICAGO ANARCHISTS DEN. The Police stumble On Small Arsenal
 In the Heart of the City.
 CHICAGO, March 23.-When Lieutenants ,lattner and Bargall and Sergeant Kennedy f the West Twelfth street police station earched the little cottage in the rear of 231 Vest Twentieth street this morning, in earch of Christ Krawnes, the supposed hooter of Louis Friedman and Bernard 3arowsky, they found regular anarchist rsenal A number of revolvers of various ,a atfornc most of them of larpe ca1ibre and