Connecticut western news., 1888-12-26
The House.

Representatives yer introduced iu he House O bill appropriating five thousand dollars to enable the Navy Department to observe a total eclipse of the sum- to occur shor:ly-Pnssrti. The bill to dispose of the reservation of the Chippewa Indians, was coucurred in. Discussion of the river and harbor appropriation b;!l resumed Representative Suwtlcn and Cummings spoke against some of it's provisions and Mir Stewart spoke in favor of it. The committee on foreign affairs reported joint resolution making an additional appropriation of $50, 900 to the expenses or tue United States at the Paris Exposition. A Senate amendment, reducing the holiday recess To twelve days, w;ts accepted
 The House in committee of the whole con- sidered the Nicaragua Canal bill An amend mcnt providing that all bonds, etc, of the company should be issued from it's office Ill New York was passed. Another, providing that two-thrtls of the directors should be citizens of the United States, was passed One providing that there should be change in the concession which would affect the rights of American citizens or o the United States, without the consent ol the United Statcs government was also passed. An amendment which provided that the company should make a report each yu;tr to the United States Secretary of the Interior was passed. A bill to give the Pensacola and Memphis railroad right of way over public | lands and reservations wns passcd. Jacob | Rogers, 105 years old waS allowed a pension | of $50 a month The House then adjourned | for the holidays.
 | The House got at the river and harbor | bill. It appropriates nearly SIP 100000. It | received its first reading ill committee Nf the whole. A gcneral debate ensued, during which Mir. Crane urged the increase of the ap- 1 propriation to S23 OOO, ,OOO:it lasted until the | adjournment A privileged report from the committee OH accounts, providing for a clerk | for each Senator and Representative in 1 Congress was defeated. X bill to pro | vide fr paying certain advances made to | the United States by Virginia was considered 1 in committee of the whole and laid over be | cause of its time expiring. It appropriated | s192 GOO. message was received from the President vctoilg the bills granting the Post master at Bucna Vista, Col, S22o, being | Post Office funds which had been lost. The bill to retire General Andrew J. SIuith was | pussed-
 The House went into committee of tha whole on the state of the Union for the con- sideration of the general appropriation bill
 Mir Blount, of Georgia, i'll the chair. An
 amendment intended to increase the clerical force of the Civil Service Commission causedsn debate which was participated in by Messrs.
 Henderson. Spinola, Cummings and McM
 Ian. It was lost. The House passed the bill
 bill to grant Jacob Rogers, 105 years old
 an increase of pension was introduced.
 The House agreed to adjourn from Dec. 9
 to Jan '. A bill for the incorporation of tn
 American Historical Society was passed. 4
 bill was introduced granting pensions of $1:
 a month to soldiers and sailors of the lat
 war over fifty years of age. MT. White o
 New York, introduced bill disposing of
 nominal Treasury surplus of S29,OO0,OO
 resolution making the Senate bill for the ad
 mission of the State of South Dakota and fo
 the organization of the Territory of Nort Dakota a special order from day to da
 until disposed of was adopted. 4 resolution
 was passed appropriating S2,0OO of tn House contingent fund to pay the expenses C the Ford Investigating committee.