Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-02-09
FIFTIETH CONGRESS.

THE Senate, on the 3drh, received O memo
nal from the National Board of Trade in favor
of reel procal trade relations between the
United States and Canada. The proposition to
reduce letter postage to one cent was reported
back adversely. and after considerable discus
sion the report was placed on the calendar.
Gdr. Frye offered a resolution ask.
ing for certain Canadian statis-
tics. The House bill relating to ag-
riculturai experiment stations was passed.
Mr.. Morgan, of Alabama, spoke in opposition
to the Blair Educational bill for the third
time. In the House, among the bills intro
duced were the following: To prevent aliens
from entering homesteads and to provide for
leasing grazing lands; providing for a bounty on
wheat, corn and flour exported; to establish
a United States land court. The report of the
public printer replying to resolution asking
for an explanation of the alleged delay in
furnishing printed matter and the discharge of
certain employees was received and it aroused
lively discussion. The printing committee
was instructed to investigate the management
of the office by Mr.. Benedict and also of his
predecessor.
THE Senate, on the 31st, held an important
session. Mr.. Plumb's resolution calling for an
investigation of the alleged inefficient mail
service in the West was discussed at length
and laid over without action. Bills granting
the right of way through public lands for irri-
asation purposes, and to punish crime in the
Indian Territory, were passed Sen
ator Hoar's joint resolution for a
constitutional amendment changing the
time for the expiration OF the
terms of office of the President and members
of Congress from March to April so. was
adopted. In the House the bill was passed
authorizing the construction of q bridge over
the Missouri river at Jefferson City, Mo-; also
bills providing for the erection Of public build
ings at Asheville, n. c., Springfield, Mo-, and
Monroe, La.
IN the Senate, the 1st, Mr.. Cameron intro
duced q bill to place on the pension-roll, at the
rate of one cent per month for each day served.
all officers and enlisted men serving in the
Union army during the war. Mr.. Riddleberger
tried to have the treaty with Great Britain con-
sidered in open session, and incidentally gave
Mr.. BLAIR, of New Hampshire, rubbing down,
ana was sat down upon himself by
the Chair. the House the cues
ton of investigating the Reading
strike provoked long and interesting discus
sion, resulting in the passage of a resolution
calling for the appointment of special COM
mittee to carry on an immediate and thorough
investigation of this subject. and also of the
coal troubles in the Lehigh and Schuylkill coal
regions.
THE Senate, on the I'd, passed the bill to in
crease the pension of the totally helpless to
seventy-two dollars month. Senator Ingalls,
announced the special committee on the Pacific
railroad reports Senator Kenna, of West Vir-
ginia, then replied to the address of Senator
Sherman on the Presidents message He ey-
posed the Ohio Senator's change
of heart on the tariff and i'm
migration questions, to which Senator Sher-
man replied In the House bill was
passed authorizing the Secretary of War to
convey to the City of Austin, Tex, a tract of
land for educational purposes. The Lowry
White election contest was then taken up and
discussed, but no action was taken.
THE Senate was not in session on the 3D.
In the House the Senate amendments to the
House bill to punish robbery, burglary and
larceny in the Indian Territory were concurred
in. A number of private bills were con.
sidered, among them one for the re-
lief of the sufferers from the WRECK
of the Tallapoosa. 4 resolution was
offered calling on the Secretary of the Treas
ury for information in regard to the refusal of
the Canadian authorities to allow American
wrecking vessels and machinery to assist
American vessels while in distress in Canadian
waters; and as to whether Canadian wrecking
vessels and machines permitted to operate
in American waters. A bill was introduced for
the establishment CT a soldiers home at Knox
vile, Tenn.