Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1888-05-10

WASHINGTON. May THE principal
attraction in the Senate to-day was the
reply of Senator Ingalls, OF Kansas to the
remark OF Senator Voorhees, made some
days ago in relation to the military
records of Mcclellan and Hancock The
galleries were crowded with spectators,
principally ladies. Ans o'clock Ingalls,
commenced his speech, and continued his
remarks at considerable length. Speeches
were also made by Eustis, of Louisiana,
and Gibson, But little business was
transacted. and the Senate adjourned.
HOUSE.
The Senate bill was passed granting
the right of way through Indiana Terri.
tory to the Kansas City & Pacific Rail.
road Company. The House went into
Committee Of the Whole on the tariff
bill. McCreary, of Kentucky spoke in
favor of the bill, aud was followed by
Foran, Of OHIO. sgainstit. O'Farrall, OF
Virginia, supported the bill, and Dorsey,
of Nebraska. followed in opposition.
The Committee then rose and the House
adjourned
SENATE.
WASHINGTON, May AFTER the trans.
action of routine business, the Senate
went into executive session. This, being
first q secret session for several days, the
accumulation Of nominations by the
President, among them that Of Mr. Fuller
TO be Chief Justice, were referred to the
committee and number of reports,
mostly upon postmasters. were made by
the committee. The bill appropriating
800, 600 for public building at Atchison.
Kas, was passed after the doors had
opened The Senate then resumed con
sideration of the bill for the establish
ment of u Bureau Of Animal Industry.
Paddock made speech In favor of il,
defending il both on constitutional and
economic grounds. The bill was then
temporarily laid aside. The Senate then
proceeded to the passage of the individual
pension bills on the calendar, The whole
number of bills passed lin 55 minutCs) was
l05, forty.two of them being House bills.
Several Of them were for volunteer nurses
at the rate Of $25 per month, and one was
for the widow of Gen. Chas. p. Stone
blouse bilD at $50.
HOUSE.
The House went into Committee Of
the whole, Springer Of Illinois in the
chair. on the tariff bill.
Wilson of Minnesota denounced the
protective system. After some discussion
the committee and House took recess.
In the evening Stewart, Of Georgia,
spoke against protection, and Davis, Of
Mississippi in its favor
SENATE.
WASHINGTON, May ga bill for the
rigid exclusion of Chinese immigration
was introduced by Stewart. Discussion
on the unearned land grant forfeiture bill
was resumed. Several amendments were
acted upon, and the bill went over. The
Senate resumed the consideration of the
bill for the establishment of the Bureau
Of Animal Industry, and after speeches by
Palmer, Vest, Plumb and Blair, the mat
ter was laid aside An executive session
was held, after which the Senate ad
iourned.
The House adopted the conference re-
port on the Joint resolution accepting, on
behalf of the United States, the invitation
of the French Republic to take part in
the International Exposition to be held In
Paris in 1889. The House went into
Committee of the Whole On the tariff bill.
Springer of Illinois in the chair. Wilson,
Of West Virginia, spoke IN favor of the
Mills bill and Dingley, of Maine, spoke
against 1t. and was followed by Kinney,
Of New Hampshire, In its favor The
committee then rose, and the bill was
passed authorizing the construction OF
bridge over the Missouri river at Omaha.
An amendment was agreed to providing
that the bridge shall not be located less
than one-third of mile from any other
bridge now built, or in process Of coz
struction. Adjourned.
WASHINGTON, May 4.-Private business
having been dispensed with the House
went into Committee Of the Whole,
Springer Of Illinois in the chair. on the
tariff d. l. Caswell of Wisconsin, criti
cized the method of the tariff reduction
proposed by the Committee on Ways and
Means, declaring that it does not provide
for any substantial decrease upon articles
of general consumption. Mcdonald, Of
Minnesota, spoke in opposition to the
cN SLNhl, upOh
the Injuries resulting to the people by the
locking up of vast surplus in the treas.
ury. Guenther, of Wisconsin, remarked
that his colleague (HuddD swallowed the
whole dose prepared by the Democratic
ma jority, and seemed TO relish it, endeav
oring by political sophistry to persuade
the people of the District that 1t was a
very palatable decoction and panacea for
all evils-the long.looked for st. Jacobs
Oil that would heal all evils of the body
polite Uaughter) Wheeler. Of Ala
bama, spoke in favor of the bill. The
committee then rose and the House took
recess until 8 o'clock, the evening ses-
sion to be for the consideration of private
pension bills. At the evening session the
House passed twenty-seven pension bills,
and adjourned until tomorrow.
WASHINGTON, May 5.-The House de-
voted its time to-day almost entirely to
tariff discussion. A bill was passed
authorizing the construction Of bridge
over the Tennessee river at Knoxville.
Tenn, and the House went into Commit
tee Of the Whole on the tariff bill. Mr..
Wheeler. of Alabama, took the floor to
finish his speech begun yesterday in favor
Of the bill. Mr. Bland, of Missouri, fol-
lowed on the same side of the question.
He criticised the Republicans for not
having brought bill reducing taxation
and denounced pools and trusts as evils
directly traceable to high tariff. MIR.
WOODBURY., Of Nevada, ridiculed the
clam Of the Democrats that their party
was the friend of the workingman. He
denounced the policy outlined by the
Mills bill. At $50 %. m. the committee