Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-06-07
FIFIIEIh GUIs ESSs
Abstract Of the Proceedings 81 the
Senate and House.

Abstract Of the Proceedings OF the
Senate and House.
SENATE.
The Senate COMMITTEES to investigate the
Jackson, Misc, election riots. alter a sus-
pension OF three or four weeks. has resum.
ed its sittines, having secured six fresh
witnesses from jackson. The sittinSs are
continued with closed doors.
The sub comm ittee oil the committee on
finance OF the Senate having in charge the
investigation OF the tariff will consider the
glass and earthenware schedule. and will
hear during the remainder OF the week
such persons as have information to give
respecting this schedule.
HOUSE.
Caucusss were held by Republican and
Democratic members OF the house.
The select committee OF the house which
investigated the late strike on the Reading
railroad viii recommend some drastic
legislation that is likely to be unpalatable
TO both the railroads and their employees.
The propositions under co nsideration are:
An absolute provision for placing IN the
hands OF a receiver any railroad company
which as the result OF differences with its
employees fails for ten ten days to operate
the road; requirement that all train
crews but no other employees shall give ten
days notice OF an Intention to quit work;
and that the railroad companies must
give ten days notice to their employees Of
q reduction OF wages.
SENATE.
The senate in executive session adopted
the following resolution without a division:
That the Injunction OF secrecy be re-
oil nf thQ
senate in reference to the treaty with
Great Britain now under consideration.
Motions from the Democratic side to
postpone the treaty until December and
to lay on the table the motion to sit with
open doors were ruled out OF order. The
motion made last week by Senator Sber.
man to proceed with the consideration
of the treaty was carried BY 81 to 10.
The agricultural appropriation bin, as
completed, appropriates 81 591, $50, an
increase over the appropriation for the
cL9rent year of 1892, 230.
The house considered the legislative bill.
Mr.. Kerr of Iowa commented on civil SER
vice reform as practiced by the Democratic
party, and sent to the clerk 8 desk and had
read a circular letter to federal Ufficehold.
ers in Iowa, written by the secretary OF the
Democratic state committee OF Iowa, ask
ing for voluntary contributions. A sharp
Interchange on the merits OF the civil SER
vics law and the attitude OF the two parties
towesd it then took place between Messre.
Weaver of Iowa. Steele ofIndiana, Cannon
OF Illinois and others.
Tho army appropriation bill was report
ed to the house to-day. 1t appropHiates
So. 2s9 700, which is 1864, 9S1 more
chan the appropriation for the current
fiscal year.
Chairman Hatch, OF the house commit
tee on agriculture, to-day announced the
following subcommittee, which, as pro-
vided by q resolution some days ago, viii
begin the compilation OF general food
adulteration act from the various meas
ures on the subject now pending before the
committee: Messrs. Burnett, OF Massa.
chusetts; Stahlnecker, OF New York.
Davidson, OF Alabama; Conger. oil Iowa,
and Laird. OF Nebraska. Mr.. Hatch was
added to the subcommittee by the sub
committee itself.
The fisheries treaty WAS debated in open
session, Messrs. Forge and Beck making
the principal speeches.
HOUSE.
In consideration OF the legislative appro-
priation bill considerable debate was had
over the clauses making an appropriation
for the office OF surveyors general.
The legislative bill as il stands contains
no appropriation for the salary OF the
governor OF Dakota. Unless the bill should
be amended in the senate, Gov. Church
will have to iarm this year for q living,
while bearing the honors OF the governor
ship for glory alone.
SENATE.
The executive journal covering every.
thing connected with the fisheries treaty
from the time it reached the senate, is to
be printed in the Record. II shows that
Senator Hoar made the motion which has
been credited to Senator Shermau, aud
which WAS adopted. that the consideration
OF tho treaty BE- with open doors. Mr..
Sherman was, however. one Of the three
tMessrs. Dawes and Teller being the 9th
ers) who voted in favor of the Riddleherger
resolution after it had been adversely re-
ported from the committee on foreign re-
lations. The resolution was lost by a
vote OF Al to 3.
The Pacific railroad telegraph bill was
fayorably reported to the senate. 1t is
the house (Anderson) bill amended by
striking out the word construct" 1t re-
quires the subsidized roads to maintain and
operate public telegraph lines, but the eff.
iect of the amendment is to permit their
acquisition by purchase. or in any other
way the companies see fit.
HOUSE.
The conference report on the bill TO es-
tablish department Of labor was agreed
to by the senate. The house also adopt
ed the conference report and the bill pass.
ed in substantially the same shape as it
cane IRON the senate.
The house COMMITTEES on the judiciary
amended the senate bill relative to disposi,
lions in the United States courts, so as to
require the United States law to conform
with the state law in taking those disposi-
tions. favorable report was ordered on
the senate bill to make judges OF circuit
and district courts interchangeable.
SENATE.
The senate committee on the judiciary
failed again to reach a conclusion in re-
gard to the nomination OF Melville w.
Fuller to be chief justice. IL 10 understood
that further information from Chicago is
awaited. The most serious OF the charges
brought against Mr.. Fuller are those from
Mr.. Dunlevy OF Chicago. They ailege that
the clerk OF the court and Mr.. Fuller were
jury commissioners in 1881, and that Mr..
Fuller drew jury before which a case in
which he was himself heavily interested
was tried.
HOUSE.
Mr.. Mills OF Texas moved that Che house
GO into committee OF the whole on the
tariff bill, debate on the first paragraph
to be limited to twenty minutes. Mr..
Holman OF Indiana spoke in favor al
cheap lumber. Mr.. Mccormick of Penn
sylvania maintained that there was no
such thing az lumber trust, and that the
existing tariff on lumber was entirely rea.
sonable.