Morning journal and courier., 1886-07-10
FORTY-NINTH CONGRESS-.
WASHINGTON, July 8, 1886.


 can representatives in Mexico to investigat
 the truth of statements made in the newspa
 pers that Americans are confined in Mexican
 prisons without trial for alleged offense
 against Mexican law, etc., and if true to de
 mand the trial of such prisoners and theil
 humane treatment and to make provisions
 for their defense and release where no cause
 Tor detention is shown, and to open negotia l t1ons with the Mexican gove1 nment for ! convention to secure fair trial without un | necessary delay of American citizens who may
 be charged with violating the laws of Mexi- | co. The resolution went over.
 The Senate consumed all the afternoon in secret session on the nomination of John l Goode of Virginia, as solicitor general. | Senator Riddleberger led the friends of Mr. Goode and made long speech and gallant | fight. He was antagonized by Senators Ma hone; Hoar and Edmunds, who renewed | the charges against MT. Goode relating to his | connection with Virginia elections where tis- sue ballots were used and to his capacity as lawyer. MT. Riddleberger replied to each 1 of those who spoke in opposition. The de- bate was tedious and at times spirited. When | the vote was finally taken the nomination was rejected. The vote stood 25 for con frmation to 28 for rejection.
 On motion of MT. Edmunds the Senate went into executive session At 6:1O p. m. the doors were reopened and the Senate adjourned.
 HoUsE.-The regular order was the previ- ous question on the motion to refer to the Pensions committee the veto of the bill granting pension to Sally Ann Bradley MT. Burrows and MT. Watson tried to reach an agreement to prevent 6libustering. Final ly conclusion was reached.
 MT. Grosvenor spoke in opposition to the motion to reconsider, but the motion was agreed to; yeas 122, nays III.
 Matters then ran smoothly and the mes lzl.. Il veto message of the bill granting 8 pension to Francis Deming was reached. On this the Republicans demanded half an hour for de- bate. MT. Boutelle arraigned the President and characterized his veto messages as a crusade against the veterans of the country. He undertook to show that the Democratic party was opposed to recognizing the ser vices and sacrifices of men who gave their lives health to preserve the Union He thought he could see the muse of history looking at the procession of chief magis- trates and he could imagine the expression of ineffable disgust which would pass over the features of the goddess of American lib- erty when she should look on the panel up- on which was depicted the present magis- trate in his shirt sleeves with his collar un- buttoned perspiring over the vetoes of pen sion bills for heroes of the war.
 After further discussion the message wes referred without objection.
 lQo u6AG auO JdSG veto message was then laid before the House. It was a message ve- toing the bill granting pension to Joseph Romiser, and as the case is regarded as pre- senting specially strong features the Repub- icans determined to make a fight over it's reference. MT. McComas, of Maryland, who originally introduced the bill, made an explanation tpa ota of it and md a9a ana he said, had passed both houses with uranimity. The President declared that though the committee had reported that Romiser had filed a claim for pension which had been rejected by the pension officers, when the Presidents veto came to the House had telephoned to the pension office and had had no trouble in getting them. Why had not the President done likewise? Why had he reproved the committee for what now proved to be his own carelessness? The committee had been diligent, the President just, the President had denied justice.
 MT. Springer said he would not discuss the pending bill and the vote message there on except to call attention to the fact that it was first vetoed in the pension office by Con- missioner Dudley. But gentlemen on the other side of the chamber had taken advan- tage of the discussion to attack the President and the Democratic party and to charge that they were opposed to granting pensions. Nothing could be &drther from the truth. During the eight yea1s of General Grants administration only : t2 private pension bills were granted. Outing the Forty-seventh Congress, which wes Republican in both branches, only 151 private pension bills were ps ssed. But during the last or Forty eighth Congress, which contained a ma jority of Democrats in this House and when the gentleman from Indiana, (Matson) was chairman ot the Committee on Invalid Pensions there were 522 of such Ia In if had passed 665 private pension bills, of which about 575 had either been signed by Presi- dent Cleveland or had become laws He had vetoed about ninety private pension bills. But thirty three more had passed and be- come laws during his administration up to this time than during the eight years of Grants administration. MT. Watson, of h. diana, said the attempt at this time to pass the bill without referring it to the Commit tee on Pensions would result in vote to sustain the veto because there were gentlemen on the Democratic side not 1 satisfied to vote for the bill without the | veto message having been considered He | was in favor of the bill; he believed that it l was right; he believed that the man ought to | be pensioned and he thought the President | was wrong, and when he had made up his | mind to that effect he was not afraid to say | 50. He assured the gentleman from Mary land that the bill would receive the early |
 
 The bill was referred; nays 119, yeas 138.
 This cleared the Speakers table of the veto | 
 Mr. Boutelle, of Maine, asked unanimous consent to take up and pass the Blair pen sion bill, but objection was made from the | Democratic side.
 The House then resumed consideration of | the general deficiency bill. A stormy de- | bate ensued over the amendment granting to | the House and Senate employees one months | extra pay The amendment was finally | agreed to.
 Pending further action the House took a | recess until o'clock, the evening session to l be for the consideration of pension bills.
 The night session was enlivened by 8 | speech from Mr. Wallace, of Louisiana, ill | opposition to private pension bill. He said l he had found no reason to change the view | he had expressed three weeks ago to the eff l feet that private pension bills were passed by l a small minority and their passage was an | abuse. He had failed to find any dissent | with his course on the part of the free inde- | pendent thought of the country. The | President had endorsed his views. | The President had vetoed bills which | had no merit, no justice, no right, no law and which never should have emanated from 8 house having such distinguished antece | dents. After further discussion oil was poured upon the troubled waters by the with l drawal of the bill to which objection had l been made. The committee then proceeded | for half an hour without trouble when an- other snag was struck, MT. Wallace raising | the point of no quorum upon a private pen | sion bill. A cali of the committee and sub l call of the House were ordered. | After an hour had been spent in useless roll l calls the House at 11:3O adjourned.
 A HORRIBLE STORY A Baby Thrown to Trained Bears
 and Eaten.