The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1888-05-10
DOINGS or CONGRESS.



Wednesday, Edmunds introduced
bill to increase the pensions of soldiers and
sailors who contracted heart disease In the
service. :, The senate then procee led TO ex-
ecutivs business The doors were reopened
10 minutes later, when the senate resumed
consideration of tho railroad land grant for
fixture bill, the question being on an amend
ment offered by Mr. Call This was amend
ed SO as to simply provide that all ac-
tual settlers on any lands in Florida affected
by railroad grants who made actual Settle
ment after the time limited in the granting
act and before May l, 1888, shall have the
right to perfect their entries respec-
lively under the homestead or presumption
laws. After some discussion the amendment
as amended was agreed to-. Mr.. Chase gave
notice that he would at 2 O'Clock tomorrow
ask the senate to take up and consider to
conclusion the international copyright bill
80. The senate then took up and in 65 min
utes passed 105 individual pension bills, AZ of
them being house bills Several of them were
for volunteer nurses, at the rate of $25 per
month, and one was for they%idow of Gen.
Charles p. Stone Ia house bib at $50. The
senate then took from the$calendar and
passed q number of bills, among them the
senate bills approprating SIS, 900 each for
public buildings at Woonsocket, R. l., and
Dover, N. H.
Thursday.-The senate resumed considera-
WIN VI thc Otiu ldui VII,
the question beicg on the amendment offered
yesterday by Mr.. Hoar Mr.. Hoar with
drew his amendment, with the explanation
that Mr.. Palmer desired to offer one which
would accomplish what he tMr. Hoap in
tended to accomplish and something else -.
Mr.. Palmer thereupon offered an amend
mont providing that the act shall not be con-
strued to prejudice any right of the Portage
Lake Canal company, or the Ontonagon 81
Brule River Railroad company, or anybody
claiming under them, to apply hereafter to
the courts or to congress for any legal or
equitable relief to which they may now be
entitled, nor to prejudice any right Of for
fixture or recovery OF the United States in re-
spect of any of the lands claimed by such
companies, nor to prejud &c the right of any
person claiming adversely to said companies
or to their assigns. :. After n long discus
sion, participated in by the western MEM
bers, the bill went over without action on
the amendment, and will be taken ken up at
the close of morning business. The senate
then resumed consideration of the
animal industry bill. Mr.. Palmer
addressed the senate in support of
the BILL and had read various long com
munications "to show the animus of the
opposition to the bill," which was, he said,
"machine work right through" The general
idea sought to be conveyed was that the OPP
position came from the existing bureau Of
animal industry. Mr.. Vest opposed the bill
as too arbitrary and dictatorial. He then
paid his respects to 1.-THE cattle syndicate of
Chicago, which regulated the price of cattle
every day. These men, he said, confiscated
the cattle raisers property, and were guilty
of the mot infamous tyranny that ever ex
listed in the United States. The statesman
who would invent a remedy for this pool
would deserve q monument more enduring
than the capitol. The Senate then pro-
ceeded to executive business. When the
L Se@IN
feet the quarantine service Of the United
States. 1t imposes a punishment of fine Of
not more than $500, or imprisonment for not
more than 80 days, or both, upon any person,
MASTER pilot or owner of any vessel entering
any United States port i'll violation of the
quarantine regulations framed under the act
to prevent the introduction of infectious or
contagious diseases.
The senate adjourned until Monday
HOUSE
Wednesday, motion of Mr.. Dingley Of
Maine, the senate bill was passed for the es-
tablishment of a lighthouse at Goose rocks,
Fox Island Thoroughfare, Me. 80. The House
then went into committee of the whole on the
tariff bill Messrs. Wilson, McComas, Lam
ham, Allen, Stewart and Davis taking part
in the discussion.
Thursday.-Mr. Belmont of New York
presented and the house adopted, the confer
ence report on the JolnU resoluolou,uccepulnS
on behalf of the United States, the invitation
of the French republic to take part in the
international exhibition to be held in Paris
in 1889. The commissioner representing
the United States will receive salary of
$4,000. The house then went into COM
mittee of the whole on the tariff bill. Mr..
Wilson of West Virginia made a brilliant
speech in favor of the mills tariff bill, hold
ing his own against the assaults of New Eng
land members, giving singing blows to
Messrs. Boutelle. Lodge and Davis.