The Penn's Grove record., 1888-09-15
50th UONGRESS.-FirSt Session


In the u. S. Senate on the 10th, the
House amendments to the Senate bill
to pension the widow of General Kill
patrick Producing the amount from
Sl0o to S75 a month"; were non-con-
Cured III, and a conference was ord.
cred. The conference report on the
Notifications bill was agreed to-. Mr..
Morgan introd uced IA bill appropriate
ing S276,6l9 to be paid to the Chinese
Minister at Washington as full indem-
nifty for losses and injuries sustained by
Chinese subjects SIN remote and un-
settled regions of the United States. "
After a speech by Mr.. Morgan, the bill
was referred. The conference report
on the Army Appropriation bill was
agreed TO. The House Retaliation bill
vas referred to the Committee on For
eIgn Relations. The Chinese Exclu-
sion bill was taken up, and Mr.. Sher-
man spoke in support OF Mr.. Blair's
motion TO reconsider the vote by which
the bill was passed. Messrs. George,
Evarts and Wilson conceded with Mr..
Sherman. MIR. Jones. of Nevada, OBJ.
tanned the floor, and then, upon his
motion, the Senate adjourned without
action on the bill.
In the U. s. Senate, on the 18th, a
conference was ordered on the House
amendment to the Senate bill for a pen
sion to General HeintZelman's widow,
reducing the amount from 500 to SIS
per month. Mr.. Sherman, from the
Finance Committee, reported the bill
to declare trusts unlawful, and it was
placed on the calendar. The "Fourth
of July Claims bill," providing for the
payment of about 600 CLAIMS reported
by the accounting officers of the
Treasury, and aggregating about $780,
600, was passed. Mr.. Blair moved to
reconsider. Pending discussion the
clusIon bill was taken up, and advo-
Gated by Messrs. Stewart, of Nebraska,
and Teller. On motion of Mr.. Plumb,
a resolution was adopted requesting OF
the President the correspondence be-
tween the State Department and the
American Minister to China regarding
the recent Chinese treaty. Adjourned.
In the United States Senate on the
18th, MI. Speoner offered a resolution
reciting the fact that Joseph Hoffman,
of Brennan, Texas, a prominent lie
publican and a witness before the Com
mittee on Privileges and Elections, had
been recently shot down in that city,
and i%nstructing that committee to i'll
quire whether the killing of Hoffman
was due, in any sense, to his testifying
before the committee. After a polite Al
debate the resolution went over with
out action. A message was received
from the President in response to the
resolution calling for copies of CORE
spondence with Great Britain In refe:-
ence to the fisheries and the discrinina-
ton of tolls on the Canadian canals. Ii
was read in full and referred. A new
conference was ordered on the Sundry
Civil bill. The House amendment, "a
verbal one, to the Postal Crimes bill
was concurred in and the Senate ad-
journed.
HOUSE.
In the U. S. House of Representa-
tives, on the Sth, the debate on the
Retaliation bill was continued by
Messrs. White, of New York; Wilson,
Of Minnesota; Lind, of Minnesota;
O'Neill, Of Missouri; Tarsney, of Mich
igan; Cochran, OF New York; Bayne,
of Pennsylvania; Mcmillan, OF Tennes-
see; Farquhar, of New York; Seney, of
Ohio; Henderson, of Iowa; Carruth. OF
Kentucky, and Cummings, of New
York. The debate being closed, Mr..
White moved to reeommit the bill to
the Committee on Foreign Affairs, with
instructions to strike out the first sec
lion, but the motion was lost without
a division. The bill was then passed
yeas ia, nays 4-tbe negatives being
Messrs, Bayne, Dalzell, Lind and White
Of New York. The House then ad.
iourned.
In the House on the 10th the confer
ence reports on the Notifications ana
Army Appropriation bills were
adopted. Bills we're introduced ana
referred under the call of States, among
them one by Mr.. Oates, of Alabama, to
amend the Naturalization laws; one by
Mr.. Grain, of Texas, to admit cotton
bagging free, and others by Messrs.
Henderson, of North Carolina, and
Culbertson, of Texas, for the suppress
sion of Trusts. The Sundry Civil bill
was considered, pending which the
House adjourned. .
In the House on the 18th the Sundry
Civil bill was considered. Pending
final action on the Senate amendment
relative to the reclamation of the arid
regions, a vote showed the absence of a
quorum, and the House adjourned.
In the House on the 18th, the Sundry
Civil bill was considered and a further
conference ordered on disagreeing
amendments. The Senate bill to
amend the Interstate Commerce. law
was considered and the Senate Postal
Crimes bill was passed. On o motion
to go into Committee on the Oklahoma
bill no quorum voted, and after spend
ing some time in a vain attempt to
secure a quorum, the House adjourned.