Morning journal and courier., 1888-02-29
Fiftieth Congress--First Session.
WASHINGTON, Feb. %.

SENATE.-The Senate resumed considers
| ton of the dependent pension bill, the guess
| ton being on the adoption of Mr.. Calls
| amendment making the bill apply also to
| Qor thirty days. in any of the Indian wars.
| The amendment was agreed to.
| Mr.. Blair offered resolution changing the
| phraseology of the second section and in
| planning it he said that the construction
given in the debate yesterday to the word
sfincapacity' would make the bill one of the
| most far reaching of any pension bill yet
passed, as minimum pension for the slight
| est incapacity would be S12 a month. He
| did not believe that with that construction
given to it the bill would ever cross success
| fully the wide wastelying between the Senate
/ and the statute book. The bill as drafted
l by the pension committee of the G. A. r.
| would reach from Il, 900 to $4,000,
| soldiers who were now in almshouses on
| their backs incapable of the slightest physi-
| cal exertion, and as he desired to secure at
| least that relief he would withdraw his
| amendment and support the bill as it came
l from the committee.
| Mr. Cullom said that it seemed to him that
| the further the country got away from the
late war the less was being done or attempted
to be done for ex soldiers Instead of inereas
| ing pensions Congress had been going the
| other way and diminishing them. 1t seemed
| to him that the time had come when Congress
| ought to attempt to do more for the soldiers
| instead of attempting to do less, appeared
| to be the case in the pending bill.
| After a long debateEby Messrs. Plumb
| Faulkner, Blair, Teller, Hoar, Blackburn and
Henderson the bill went over without action
i and the Senate proceeded to executive BUSH
ness and at o'clock adjourned.
| HoUsE.-Mr. Anderson, of Iowa, offered as
| question of privilege a resolution reciting
that on the 18th of January the House or
dered the printing of ten thousand copies Of
| the Pacific railroad commission reports with
| the accompanying documents and the Presi-
| dents message therein, but that the order has
| not been complied with, and calling on the
public printer to report what steps he has
| taken to execute the order, stating in detail
his action Hereunder, giving the number of
copies if any he has printed, what DISPOSE
ton he has made of them and to whom he
| has delivered them
| The House resumed in committee of the
whole consideration of the bill for the organ
ization of the territory of Oklahoma, but the
l committee rose without taking action on the
bill.
The House then went into committee of
the whole on public building measures. The
first bill called up was one appropriating
$780, 900 for public building at Bar Harbor,
Me. The appropriation was finally reduced
to $25, 900 and the bill was agreed to.
The House took up and unanimously
agreed to bill for the ection of an ap-
| pfdlsoI LII tAo Clty VI NEW
! The bill provides that the site shall not cost
over $780, and the building over $3.50, 900
Bills for public buildings were agreed tc
and the committee rose, the House subse
quently passing the bills. A bill was also
passed authorizing the use and improvement
of Castle Island, Boston harbor.
Il The House adjourned at 5:15.
"A PROTEST FROM GLOUCESTER
Against the Adoption of the Fisher,
Treaty.
t GLOUCESTER, Feb. 2s.-The city council
. tonight adopted the following resolutions:
. Resolved, That the city council of Glouces
ter earnestly protests against the adoption O.
the so-called fishery treaty now before thu
D United States Senate for ratification, believ
ing that it will be great injury to the fish
ing interests of the country.
Resolved, That the senators and members
r of Congress representing the State of Massa
: chusetts be requested to all their ipfu
ence to prevent the adoption of this treaty
y to the end that the fishery industry of tn
3 country may not be sacrificed.