Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1886-06-25
Is Inaugurated by the Switchmen
on the Lake Shore Road in
.. Chicago, And
An Attempt to Move a Train Re.
suits in q Small Sized Riot
and Several Injured.
A Gambler Shoots the City Mars shall
g. at Detroit, Minnesota, and "
H.. is Lynched.
Congressional Proceedings The Ger
emOnies at the Custer Battle
PTS GrOund-In Brief. ....
SENATE.
cRITICIzING THE PRESIDENT.

CRITICIZING THE PRESIDENT.
WASHINGTON, June 2S.-Mr. Frye, from
the committee on commerce, reported IA
vOrably a bill to amend the laws relating
to the inspection of steam vessels. The
bill provides for the payment out of the
treasury of the expenses of the steamboat
inspectors. Mr.. Frye said the bill was in
answer to the recommendation of the
president The bill was passed without
debate.
Mr.. Hawley's motion was then taken up
to reconsider the vote by which the senate
passed the bill prohibiting members of
congress from acting as attorneys of land
grant railroads. Mr.. Beck resumed the
floor and continued his remarks against
the reconsideration. Mr.. Mitchell asked
Mr.. Beck when anybody had told him that
he (Mitchell had been attorney for the
Northern Pacific railroad. Mr.. Beck said
he had been SO told, the time did not mat
ter. He was glad to hear the senator con-
fess that he had resigned as attorney when
elected to the senate. Mr.. Mitchell said he
was not in confessional but he had
resigned eight months before his election.
He (Mitchell) remembered when it had
been said in the newspapers that certain
members of congress were very jealous in
regard to certain whisky matters. Mr..
Beck-"Oh, we'll, that was just simply a
lie. that's all there is about that" Laugh
teri. The motion to reconsider having
been brought to vote it was agreed to.
Yeas, 81; nays, 81. The only republican
voting in the negative was Mr.. VanWyck.
Mr.. Hawley then moved to refer the bill to
the judiciary committee. Mr.. Vance called
for the reading of the bill by way of a final
farewell to it. [Laughter]. The bill hay
ing been read Mr.. Edmunds assured Mr..
Vance that he should have the pleasure of
seeing the bill back in the senate within
eight days. The bill was then referred to
the judiciary committee by a vote of 80
to 81.
A number of veto messages received
from the president were read and laid on
the table. Mr.. Logan remarking as to one
of them that he had never before known
such construction as that soldier on a
furlOugh was not in the line Of duty. Mr..
Blair said the president seemed to find it a
congenial duty to express himself in the
most extraordinary terms respecting the
two houses of congress. Mr.. Blair de-
Tended congress from criticisms made by
the president and stated that some of the
presidents statements were entire misap-
prehensions of facts. He charged that the
npnSion office as 0rpanizpd yvae nrOanized
to reject claims whenever that could be
done. 1t had come to be court of chancery.
Some of the statements made about the ac-
ton of congress regarding pensions were
petty, trifing and contemplate" y.el
The bill to repeal the pre-emption and
timber culture laws was then placed before
the senate and debated till adjournment.
At o'clock tomorrow vote should be
taken on the bill. t" 49,.