Western cyclone. [volume] (Nicodemus, Kan.) 1886-1887, 1886-08-05
CONGRESSIONAL .


SENATE.
In the senate on July % bills for public
buildings at Clarksburg, West Virginia,
Spring feld, Missouri and Nebraska City,
Nebraska, were passed. Mr.. Hale from the
conference committee an the naval appro-
prlatlon bills, submitted report which was
agreed to. The senate then resumed con-
sideration of the Payne case, and when an
adjournment was taken the debate had not
closed
In the senate on July %, the consideration
OF the Payne case was resumed. Finally
the resolution of Messrs. Hoar and Frye for
further Investigation was rejected-yeas II
nays A. Pending the consideration of the
sundry civil appropriation bill an adjourn
ment was had.
In the senate on July "a, the resolution
offered by Mr.. Edmunds, instructing the
committee on foreign relation to inquire
quire into the violation of the rights of
American fishing and merchant vessels in
Canadian waters was taken up, and adopted.
Mr.. Hawley, from the committee on print
ing, reported resolution for the collection
and printing of the presidential vetoes from
the organization of congress to the present
time, arranged in chronological order
Adopted. The senate then resumed consid.
Grafton of the sundry civil appropriation
bill, and after long discussion, passed it.
Adjourned.
In the senate on July &C. the committee
on education and labor, reported back a
house bill directing the commissioner of
labor to make Investigations as to convict
labor. Passed. Also a senate joint resolu-
ton proposing an amendment to the con-
stitution in relation to alcoholic liquors and
other poisonous beverages. Calendar. Mr..
ingalls, offered a resolution, which was
adopted, requesting the president to COM
munlcate information concerning the al
legged detention of A. K. Cutting, an Ameri-
can citizenn, by the Mexican authorities at
Paso Del Norte; also, whether any additional
United States troops have been recently
ordered to Fort Bliss. The senate then pro-
ceeded to the consideration of the
deficiency appropriation bill. The
bill was passed. The senate then pro-
ceeded to the consideration of private PEN
sion bills which have been favorably report
ed. Fifty were passed, including one
granting pension to the widow of General
Durbin Ward. On motion of Mr.. Vest a
bill was passed, authorizing the construction
of hot3l on government lard Fortress
Monroe. On motion of Mr.. Mehone the
senate proceeded to the consideration of
public building bills, when several were
passed. On motion of Sewell bill was
passed appropriating $25O,000 for the estab-
lishment of military post at Denver, Col.
The senate then adjourned.
III the senate July II, MI. S6 Well, from
the committee on pensions, reported back
the vetoed senate bill granting pension to
Mrs. Annie @. Owen, recommending its pas
sage, Notwithstanding the presidents OBJ
jectiOns. Calendar. The senate then passed
six hours in secret session to-day, and dur
ing that time disposed of five of the con-
tested nominations. The case of Thomas
Hanlon, to be collector of the Seventh Indi-
ana internal revenue district, was further
discussed, and when brought to vote was
rejected by tie. The nomination of Morris
Thomas, of Baltimore, to be an Indian in
spectOr, after an hours debate, was con-
tirmed by vote of 81 to %. Adjourned.
In the senate July 28th, Mr.. Mcmillan
from the conference committee on the river
and harbor bill, reported that the committee
had been unable to agree. The chair, Mr..
Sherman, therefore laid before the senate
a message from the house, to the effect that
it had instructed its conferees to insist
striking from the bill the items as to the
portage lake and Lake Superior ship canal,
the Lake Michigan and Hennepin canal, the
Sturgeon Bay and Lake Michigan ship canal
the Mississippi river improvements and the
Potomac river improvements. Mr.. Plumb
offered an amendment appropriating $780,
o. to enable the secretary of the navy to
provide additional tools and machinery for
the finishing and assembling of heavy ord
nance at the Washington navy yard. The
senate then took up the surplus Joint resolu-
ton and thereupon adjourned.