Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1886-06-17
CONGRESSIONAL.
The Work Of the Senate and House
Of Representatives

thry OF the interior Tor the authority Tor the
issuance by the Land Commissioner Of an order
suspending the receipt of applications for pub
lie lands under certain acts, passed the Senate
ON the 9Th inst. The private pension bills rushed
through numbered 220. The oleomargarine bill
being brought to the Senate from the House tho
question OF its reference was postponed and the
bill was allowed to lie on the table to await the
return OF Mr.. Miller, Chairman Of the Commit
tee on Agriculture. Mr.. Beck gave notice
that he would insist ON its reference
to the Committee ON Finance. Mr.. Blair
reported favorably from the Committee ON
Labor an amendment to the sundry civil bill,
proposing an appropriation OF 100000 Bland
In Utah under the direction of the Industrial
Home Association of Utah. The object OF the
amendment Is stated to be to aid in the sup
tatives passed bills appropriating 5000 each
for public buildings at Sioux City and GAINESVILLE.
During debate over the Union Pacific bond
extension bill an exciting controversy took
place between Mr.. Holman Qndiana) and Mr..
Crisp tGeorgial. Mr.. Holman insinuated that
the Pacific Railroad Committee was unduly in
fluenced In favor Of the corporation, and Mr..
Crisp's indignant denial and recriminations.
caused considerable OF q sensation. On motion
of Mr.. Holman an amendment was adopted in
creasing from forty TO fifty per cent the amount
OF the net earnings to be paid into the sinking
fund I'm case the companies refused to accept
the provisions OF the act.
THE consular and diplomatic appropriation
phBbeu the beuuuo on tn6 lLn inst. Inc
oleomargarine bill was referred to the Commit
tee ON Agriculture. The Committee ON Public
Lands made a favorable report on Mr.. STAN
ford's bill to grant the Seal Rocks In trust to
tho city of San Francisco. The Senate, i'm
executive session, confirmed the nomination
Of A. p. Swineford to be Governor OF Alaska.
In the House of Representatives bills were in
troduced To estahlish a naiIitesy fe-+ sloes Den
widow OF General Durbin Ward TO prohibit tho
employment of convict or alien labor ON public
works; to erect a monument in Brooklyn to the
victims OF prisOn-ships, and to prohibit the OBJ
struction Of interstate railroad business. Judge
Paysons bill repeating the pre-emption, desert
land, and timber laws, and amending the
law, was passed by vote Of 1873 to 40.
A resolution was presented for an inquiry into
the Pension Department, and to report upon the
propriety of continuing the excessive expendi-
lures under the present system. Mr.. Crisp, Of
Georgia, apologized for O warmth OF expression"
in the House In regard to Mr.. Holman, OF In
diana. The apology was accepted.
A BILL appropriating $4,000 for the erection
OF branch homo for disabled volunteer soldiers
west of the Rocky Mountains was passed by the
Senate on the sth. A bill was passed providing
for a commission of three persons to be ap-
pointed by the President, to investigate the
truth of alleged discoveries of the specific
cause Of yellow fever. In the House
of Representatives, in moving to expunge
from the Record speech by Mr.. Wheeler,
vania, read private letter written in the spring
of 1869 by Secretary Stanton, frankly defining
his attitude toward General Mcclellan The res
olution offered by Mr. Kelley was referred to the
Committee on RIies. An effort in the House to
get unanimous consent to report the amended
se@b6b s6ee direction Of Caine, the Mormon delegate
from Utah. The incident served to show the
watchfulness OF the Mormon lobby and its de-
termination to throw every obstruction in the
xuaU fnf nd
some hours in committee of the whole MR.
fdtIvc, execduve, and Judicial appropriation bii1
A MEASURE was favorably reported to the Sem
ate, on the 9th inst prohibiting the transmits
sion OF lottery circulars through tho mails.
Bills were reported favorably appropriating the
following-named sums for public buildings !:
Duluth. Mimi. 800, ,OCO Ell Paso, Texas $50 600 |;
for repairs and enlargement Of the public build
ing at Dos Moines. Iowa, S153, ,0O0 increasing the
limit of cost of the public building at PEORIA ILL.,,
from S225,000 to 275,000. and making an adj
ditional appropriation of $4,000 for the public
building at Keokuk, Iowa. Bills were passed.
providing for portrait of Gen. George H.
Thomas; to establish two additional land dis
tricts in Dakota to legalize the Incorporation
Claims for examination and report to Congress
certain claims for property seized by
expedition Of 1857 The oleomargarine bill
was considered by the Senate. Senator Butler
read a telegram from the Mayor and a large
number OF citizens of Spartanburg, s. c., urging
the Senators from that State to use their influ-
ence in defeating the oleomargarine bill which
the signers declare the worst form Of protection.
Let people buy oleomargarine, they say, .as
they would any other article of food" In the
House OF Representatives, while the logs-
lative, executive, and judicial appro-
priation bill was under consideration,
Mr.. Hit, OF Illinois, commented ON what he
termed the extraordinary provision that re-
quiring the certiication OF the entire list of APP
plicants from each State who passed the exam
inatlon) which had been fore ed upon an appro-
priaton bill to nulify the civil service law. Mr..
Cox, of North Carolina, Chairman OF the Com
mitteo on Civil-Service Reform Mr.. Compton
and Mr.. Shaw, of Maryland, boldly attacked the
law without any disguise, while Mr.. Springer,
Mr.. McAdoo, and Mr.. Randall advocated the
notifications proposed by the Approprla-
Mr.. Butterworth, OF Ohio, and Mr.
Bayne, of Pennsylvania Republicans argued In
favor of the principle of civil-servico reform.
with having gone out OF its province to insidi-
ously attack civil-service reform. Mr.. Randall
declared that the regulations enacted had
cheated the representatives of the people out of
rights which they should have stood up and de-
Tended in behalf OF their constituents.
Mr.. BEcK's bill to prohibit members OF Con-
gress from accepting retainers from subsidized
railroads passed the Senate, on the 10th inst 1,
by n vote Of 81 to IL, but Mr.. Hawley secured n
reconsideration of the matter The Senate also
passed the agricultural appropriation bill. with
items OF S17, 900 for the encouragement of silk
culture, 81, 900 TO bore artesian wells in Oregon
or Washington Territory, and $4,000 for sor-
ghum making with American machinery On
motion of Senator Allison, the Senate passed n
bill approprating $50 900 as an additional sum to
complete the Des Moines Qowa) public building.
Senator Riddleberger insisted upon the consd-
Grafton by the Senate OF the resolution providing
for open executive sessions, and the Senate re-
fused to take 1t up by a vote of 80 to &. bill
was introduced by Senator Mcpherson to in
crease the naval establishments 1t appropriates
Sc AIS 900. The Senate in secret session rejected
the nomination of Posey s. Wilson to be assayer
of the mint at Denver, Colo. Among the nomi-
nations for postmasters sent TO the Senate were
the following: Reuben Stanley, Crestline, o. (;
John ID. Thompson, Mt Vernon, o.. Samuel s.
CLAYTON, Ada, o.. G. A. Gallagher, Cheboygan,
Mich. Prior b. Mayo, North Springfield, Mo.
The report Of the House Judiciary Committee
ON the Edmunds anti-polygamy bill was pre-
its dissent from the twelfth section Of the Sem
ate BILL the effect Of which would be that the
conduct OF the corporate Church OF Jesus Christ
OF Latter-Day Saints" would be controlled by
trustees OF the church in conjunction with
trustees appointed by the President. This
union OF trustees of the church and those of the
government could not be distinguished from n
union OF the church and state and a law re-
specting the establishment of religion. Nor
could it be other than Limitation on the FREQ
exercise of religion where majority who con-
pointed bv the President. The committee rec
ommends n revocation Of the charter and dis
solution of the corporation I'm the limo OF pub
lie poliov IL it can cOnstitutiOnally be done