Hillsboro recorder., 1888-06-07
WASHINGTON NEWS.
H0w CONGRESS Is SPENDING
ITS TIME AND ENERGY.
OFFICIAL ACTS OF THE PREsIDENT--AP-
PoINTMENTs AND REMoyAI6--wHERE
THE NATIONS MONEY aoEs--GossIP.
CONGRESSIONAL.

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In the Senate, on Thursday, Mr..
Faulkner offered resolution (Which
was agreed to-, directing the Secretary
Of War to furnish information as to why he
has not used the appropriations of $15,-
900 and 1900, made in 1880 and 1881,
Tor the improvement Of Shenandoah
river in Virginia and West Virginia.
The conference report on the bill
to establish department Of labor was
presented and agreed to. A number of
bills from the calendar were passed,
among them the House bill authorizing
the construction of bridges over the Ten
ncssee river at GunteTsyille, Ala, and
Chattanooga, Tenn. Conference COM
mittces on these bridge bills were Or
dered, and Messrs. Coke, Cullum and
Dawes were appointed. Mr.. Call offered
a resolution, (which went over, direct
ing the attorney general TO repolti
whether Anastasia islard, near st. Au-
gustine, Fla, is the property of the
United States, or whether it is covered
in whole or in part by the
Spanish grants confirmed and rec
ognized as valid by the United States.
In the House Mr.. 0'Neil, of Missouri,
presented the conference report on his
bill TO create department Of labor,
which was accepted, and the bill passed
in substantially the same shape as it
came from the Senate. Committees
were cal ed for reports, and then on mo-
tion of Mr.. Mills, and without negative
| vo;no fha uousa rant into ooonnittoo nf
the whole for the consideration of the
tariff bill,. and was debated for some
time. Messrs. Mckinley, of Ohio, and
Spinola, Of New York, who held the
report from the military committee,
/ sought to secure consideration for the
bill to revive the rank of general Of the
army, to be filed by Lieutenant General
Sheridan, but objection was made by Mr..
Kilgore, Of Texas, and the House ad-
journed, pending division on motion
to table Mr.. Pefers's appeal from the
ruling Of the chair on his point.
In the Senate, Mr.. Frye, from the com.
mittee on commerce, reported back the
river and harbor appropriation bill. He
stated that it appropriated SCI, 3ss, 7s3,
being 81, 7s3, 900 more than the bill con-
tanned as 1t came from the House. 1t
would be some considerable time, he
said, before the bill would be called up
for action, because the report Of the com
mittee could not possibly be ready under
4 week from the present time. Mr..
Jones, Of Arkansas, referred to portions
Of Mr.. Stewards speech Of last week on
the veto question, in which Mr.. Stewart
had criticised the attorney-general and
defended the latter. Mr. Stewart took
the floor and was making another speech
upon the same line as his previous one,
when he yielded to a motion Of Mr..
Sherman to 60 into executive session,
and the doors were closed. j.. Un-
der the call Of states, q number of
bills and resolutions were intro
duced in the House. Mr.. Sowden, Of
Pennsylvania, from the committee on
public buildings and grounds. reported a
bill for erection Of public building at
Norfolk, Va. Referred 10 committee Of
the whole. The House then went into
committee Of the whole (Mr. Blount, of
Georgia, in the chair on the legislative,
executive and judicial appropriation bill.