Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1888-07-19

conference report on the District of
Columbia appropriation bill was present
ed and agreed to AMI the senate adjourn.
ed.
House.-The house wept into commit
tee of the whole on the tariff bill immed
lately after the the journal was read and
consumed the day IN discussion. At the
night session of the house bills were
passed granting rights OF way through
Indian territory, to number of railroad
companies. Bills we're also passed grant
ing right of way through the reservations
in Idaho, Dakota, NJ Minnesota aad Oregon.
WEDNESDAY, July u.
Sendte.-The conference report ON the
pOstoffice appropriation bill was present
ed to the senate. The conference com
mittee were unable to agree on the
amendment known as the subsidy clause.
Senator Plumb moved that the senate
insist on the subsidy amendment After
a long debate, the amendment was agreed
to-yeas, %; nays, 16. The senate then
proceeded to the consideration of the
bill to provide for Notifications and
other sea.coast defences, but without
action the senate adjourned.
House. The house TO day spent much
of lis time in an animated political de
bate, in which Phelps interview on the
Chicago nomIua Iop, Ingalls, Letter, and
the alleged personal and polite al incon-
sistencies OF Weaver, of Iowa, were the
Subjects. Mr.. Hateh, of Missouri, sub
United report of dlsag on the
Agricultural Appropriation BILL stating
that the point of disagreement was the
senate amendment making appropriations
of 100000 for surghum sugar expert
mentr. Mr.. r an moved concurrence in
the senate amendment. The motion was
tually agreed 70; yeas, 1876; nays, q. At
the evening session, the house passed the
dill for taking the eleventh census. The
bill, in Its salient features, 10 the same
as the one provl led for taking the tenth
census. Some statistics, which can be
gathered from department reports, will
be omitted.
Tuesday, July u.
Senats.--A resolution offered in
the senate this morning to print extra
copies of the report of the commit
tee on pensions on seven vetoed pension
bills, raised a big breeze. Senators
Stewart, Blair and Hawley criticised the
president feyerely for his pension vetoes
in general. Mr.. Butler spoke OF and con-
fessed to having been party to reckless
pension legislation IN the senate. Mr..
Blair criticised the president and said he
might at least have sent in his message
like gentleman. Mr.. Butler, reply ing
to this, said: "What calamity it would
be if the senator FROM New Hampshire
|. had to establish the standard of gentle
men," and again criticising reckless
pension legislation, referred TO an Ia
stance where the senate had passed 147
pension bills in one hour.
HotSe.-In the house, to day, Mr.. Ford
of Michigan, from the committee on
military affairs, reported back the
resolution for the appointment of
special committee to Investigate the
alleged evasions OF the contract labor
law. After speeches by Morrow and
Vandever, of California, referring to the
Chinese, and Cox, of New York, regard
ing the Italians, the resolution was
adopted. The house then went into
committee of the whole on the tariff bill
the agreement being that no vote should
be taken on the pending wool schedule
to-day.
FRIDAY, July Is.
House. Mr.. Blount subtuitted the
conference report on the post
Office appropriation bill to-day. An
agreement has been arrived at on all
amendments, except the subsidy amend
ment. The rate OF postage on seeds,
plants, bulbs, roots and scious, has been
iized at one cent for each two ounces, OF
fraction thereof. The report was agreed
to. Mr. Bingham, of Pennsylvania, moved
to concur in the senate subsidy amend
ment, with an ameH lment reducing the
appropriation from 100000 to $450,000,
authorizing the postmaster general to IL
crease the mail facilities, not only be
tween the United States and Central aud
South America and the West Indies, but
between the United States and China,
Japan, the Sandwic islands and Aus
tralia and providing that the American
chips carrying mails shall be allowed four
times the rate of compensation they now
receive. The house, at the evening session,
passed twenty -four private pension bills
| including one granting a pension TO
"Much-a Pee. Wah- Keuh Cab" or John"
and at 1890 adj burned.
Sendte.-Sen. Dawes presented the re-
monstrance of large numbers of WOO!
manufacturers and wool dealers against
the legislation proposed in the Mills bill
Referred. The senate then went into exc
cutive session aud Sen. Dolph spoke at
some length in opposition to the treaty
When it came to pass that the most i'm
poltan acts of the highest Legislative
body in the country we're controlled by
fear of foreign war on treaty of execu
tive proceeding that would involve the
country in financial distress, then the re-
! publican Institutions were indeed in
! danger: but the danger WAS from within,
not without. Dolph did not court war
| with Great Britain, nor she with US, but
he was not alarmed at the prospect.
The nation could emerge from costly
and saDguinary war with its honor uu-
tarnished-love CT liberty intensified aud
its foundat' IN of prosperity strengthen
| ed; but when II barely yielded TO uni ust
| demands, il lost its own self respect and
the respect of other nations.
SQUlBS
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