The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1888-09-26
THE NATIONAL SOLONS.
WORK OF THE SENATE AND HOUSE
OF REPRESENTATIVES,.

Our National Lawmakers and What They
Are Doing for the Good of the Country
Various Measures Proposed, Discussed
and Acted On.
TEE Chinese exclusion bill now goes TO tho
President for his approval, the Senate having
rejected Mr. Blair's motion TO reconsider the
vote passing the bill on the 18th by vote Of
yeas 10 nays 81. The vote was as follows:
Yeas-Bate, Blackburn. Blair, Brown, Call,
Cockrell. Edmunds, Eyarts. George German
Pasco Pugh, sherman. Wilson Iowa, Wilson
dI-2o Nays-Allison. Berry, Chandler,
cock, Jones New, Henderson. Mitchell.
Payne. Plat, Plumb. spooner, Stewart,
stockbridge, Teller, Vest, Welthan:.2i-
Senator Henderson introduced bill providing
that any honorsbly discharged soldier or sailor
In the late who has once filed declaratory
statement for a homestead entry ana who, pe-
fore the OK piration OF the six months allowed IN
which 10 make his entry, has abandoned the
entry shall not be deprived from making an
other homestead entry unless IL shall be made
TO fully appear that such abandonment was
made for the purpose OF speculation. Dill 70
authorize the President TO appoint Gen. w. =.
Rosencrans a Brigadier General on the retired
list of the army was introduced by Senator
Manderson. Senator Mitchell introduced a bill,
which laid on the table, TO reduce letter
postage TO one cent an ounce. The Senate
ssed the bill for the erection OF new light
houses and fog signals on Lakes Michigan su-
perior Huron and Erie, and range-liRhts ON
lake 81. Clair and the Detroit River. The House
got into deadlock over a resolution offered
by Mr.. O'Neill MO. assigning day for
the consideration of labor legislation. AS only
one member of the Committee on Rules lMr:
Cannon) is now in Washington, Mr. ONeh
moved its reference to the Committee on LABOR.
The vote resulted-yeas, % nays, 81. Mr..
Blount GA raised the point Of no quorum.
and after the tellers had stood at their posts
for an hour waiting for quorum, the house ao-
journed.
THE resolution by Mr. Sherman in regard to
n.
Britain ana Canada was called up in the Sem
ate on the 18th, but went over without action.
The deficiency appropriation bill was reported
to the Senate anu ordered printed. the House
has passed the bill authorizing the Secretary OF
War 10 prescribe rules and regulations for the
management of the st. Clair Flats ship canal.
Representative Barnes Ca introduced bill
offering a reward Of 100000 to any person who
will discover the true cause or germ OF yellow
fever with any certain means of efecting its
prevention. A debate occurred on the con-
ference report on the sundry civil Dill, put IL
went over without action.
THE Senate passed the following bills the
10Th: Appropriating $4,000 for a postofhce
building at st. Paul, Mimi, and $4,000 for q
public building at Kalamazoo Mich to forfeit
lands granted to the State of Michigan 10 aid
in the construction OF a railroad from Mar
quette TO Ontonagon; TO amend the river and
harbor appropriation bill OF 1884, in relation to
the OF the st. Marys Falls and other
canals granting to the Duluth and Win
n1peg Railroad r1ght or way through the
Fond du Lac Indian reservation, Minnesota
authorizing the construction of bridges ACROSS
the kentucky River and its tributaries by the
Louisville Southern Railroad, ard across the
Missouri within one mile OF the mouth Of the
Kansas River. The retaliation bill was referred
TO a subcommittee Of the Senate Committee on
Foreign Affairs, consisting of Senat or6 Sherman,
Evarts and Morgan. The House reached n vote
on the conference report on the sundry civil bill
after long discussion on the section relating to
the new library building The vote resulted
yeas, 81 nays, n no quorum. and the House
adjourned.
IN the Senate the order reported by Mr.. Ed
munds from the Committee on Foreign Relations.
directing the retention Of the Chinese exclusion
bill having been taken up on the Goth, Mr. Ed
munds said that the bill had gone out of
the possession of the Senate the order was
not applicable to the present state of the case.
Therefore, so far as he was concerned,
the resolution might be laid the table So
ordered. The Senate bill TO ratify and confirm
agreements with the upper and middle bands OF
Spokane Indians was reported from the Com
mittee on Indian Affairs explained by Mr..
ing OF the journal Mr.. Burnes of Missouri,
called up the conference report of the sundry
civil appropriation bill, and the House refused,
by vote Of 81 TO AZ, to agree TO it, bill was
reported TO the House from the Committee
on Public Lands relative 10 suspension of
land entries provides that all laws providing for
the disposal OF the public lands except tho
homestead law and the laws in relation 10 min
ersl lands and the laws touching the selec-
l
aud other purposes shall be suspended until
the pending legislation affecting the public
lands shall be disposed or the present Congress
shall adjourn. No action was taken.
THE House bill TO make the Department OF
Agriculture an executive department
passed by the Senate the 21st, the section trans
ferring the Weather Bureau TO the new depart
ment being stricken out by a vote of-yeas, 80
nays 2. As passed the bill provides that tho
Department of Agriculture shall be an executive
department under the supervision and control
OF Secretary Of Agriculture who shall be
appointed by the President by and with the adj
vice and consent OF the Senate. Another con-
ference report on the sundry civil bill was pre-
sented TO the Senate and agreed to- The Senate
bill FORGETTING the grant of lands TO the State OF
Michigan to aid in the construction of a railroad
from Marquette TO Ontonagon was passed by the
House. after having been amended by striking
out the provision limiting the forfeiture TO lands
along the unconstructed portion of the road and
applying also the forfeiture of the lands granted
to aid in the construction of railroad from On
tonagon TO the Wisconsin State line. The House
also passed the bill to suspend the operation Of
the presumption, mber-culture, and desert
land laws.