Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1888-06-06
AT THE CAPITOL TO-DAY.
TARIFF TINkERING IN THE HOUSE.
DIPLOMATIC BILL PASSES THE SENATE
The Senate,

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| TO executive business
| VETO OF PENSION BILL
After a rev minutes the doors were reopened
and the presiding officer laid before the Senate a
| message from the President returning, without
his approval, a bill pensioning widow on the
| ground that the death oil the husband fOr which
| lne pension was allowed) had nothing TO do with
military service, but was the result OF suicide.
| On motion 10 refer the message and bill to the
| committee on pensions Mr.. Blair remarked that
| these veto messages were uniformly unjust. and
that they might as well be discussed at once, as
| they are never reported back.
| MT Cockrell took issue with that statement, and
| remarked that the legitimate way TO deal with
| SUE suCn vetoeS was TO refer them TO the committee,
ana lOr thaC committee to report them back,
their merits
The message and bill were referred to the COM
mittee on pensions
THE DIPLOMATIC APPROPRIATION BILL.
the senate then resumed consideration OF the
diplomatic and consular appropriation bill.
MI: Hale stated that the committee on foreign
relations had considered the proposition OF Mr..
CAN to nix the salary OF the minister resident to
PARAGUAY and Uruguay at $500, and had agreed
| ingly.
THE BILL PASSED.
on motion OF Mr.. spooner the consulate at
Prague iAustria-Hungary) was taken from class .
salary 1000 and placed in class salary 3d. 900.
The bill was then passed.
On motion OF Mr.. Coke Senate bill to authorize
the Paris, ChOctaw and Little Rock Railway Co.
TO construct bridge across Red River at Hooks
Ferry, Texas. was passed.
ALIEN LABOR ON PUBLIC BUILDINGS
The Senate then proceeded TO business on the
calendar, resuming consideration OF the House
bill to prevent the employment OF alien labor upon
public buildings or other public works and In the
various Departments OF the Government, the
question being on the amendment offered last
Monday by Mr. Teller adding clause requiring
puDlc WORKS 10 De constructed wholly or materials
made and prepared within the United States, and
bids and contracts to be confined citizens or the
United States.
Mr.. Blair objected to the amendment as caIcu-
lated 10 retard the passage OF the act.
MI Teller insisted that If the bill was right the
Mr.. Hawiey expressed the hope that the Senate
was aware or the nature OF the bill. He regarded
II as belonging TO narrow and i,Hberal class OF
legislation. 1t shut out from employment all
poor men who had just arrived from foreign
country and who We're looking around for the
chanGe 10 earn dollar by carrying nod or
Alter ueoate tne url was laid aside, and MI Blair
gave notice that he would call 1t up pos
Nominations Confirmed.
The Senate has confirmed the following nonna-
tious:
capt. VIM. B. Remey, to be judge advocate gen.
eral Of the Navy, with the rank OF colonel in the
Marine corps.
Lawson v. Moore, of Iowa, to be consul at Lyons
j. ID. Lopez, TO be postmaster at Saint Angus
tine, Fla.
House OF Representatives.
on motion OF Mr.. Newton Qa.) the Senate
amendment to the bill authorizing the construc-
tion OF public building at Monroe, La, were con-
Cured in. IThe only amendment OF consequence
is one reducing the appropriation from 100000 to
5,OOO.l
Mr.. stone Ky.) moved that the House concur in
| the Senate amendments TO the bill to authorize
the construction or bridge across the Mississippi
River at Hickman, Ky. Agreed TO.
MT Caine tUtah) called up the senate bill pro-
y1ding for an additional associate justice for the
| Supreme Court OF Utah, and IT was passed with
territory 10 assign the justice TO temporary duty
| In the busiest judicial districts
| THE TARIFF BILL
The House then went into committee Of the
whole on the tariff bill. The clerk read the pend
| ing paragraph: "Pickets and paling," which Mr..
| Mckinley, Of Ohio, Immediately moved to strike
| out.
After debate participated in by Mr.. Boothman
tCal.), Mr.. Cultivate ohio, and Mr.. Sherman (N.
| ~, the motion was rejected and the paragraph
| Mr.. Buchanan On. JD moved to strike out the
nineteenth line, ''shingles," and insert 'Shingle
the democrats to vote honestly upon the amend
ment. vote against IL meant Tree trade, for
| shingles were an article Of manufacture. The
amendment was rejected without division.
With little delay and almost no debate on the
part OF the democrats, the remaining paragraphs
| Of the lumber sections-"ciapboards, pine, or
| spruce and '.logs'-were passed over down to
the provision beginning on line %: that existing
duties shall be levied upon the articles the lum-
Der schedules where export duties are imposed by
| the country from which they are Imported.
Mr.. DiDgley (MeJ proposed an amendment con-
wherever the exporting country denied our vessels
| the right TO touch and trade and take bait.
NEWS OF CLEvELAND's NOMINATION ArPLAUpEp.
Mr. Cox On. W created a diversion by having
| read dispatch from ST. Louis announcing Cleve-
lands nomination by acclamation The democrats
burst into applause, and Mr.. Tarsney, who had
/ the noOr, waved his badana rapturousiy. There
was moment OF silence ON the republican SIDE
| followed by a storm OF cheers and hand-clapping
TO answer the other side.
| The District I'm Congress.
THE TWO RAILROAD BILLS PASSED IN THE HOUSE.
The House this morning, upon motion OF Mr..
| Hemphtll, adopted the conference reports upon
the Rock Creek Railroad bill and the lexington
| and Soldiers Home Railroad bill. AS stated In
yesterdays STAR, the House cOnferees agreed to
The senate amendments, except In one or two very
un1mpOrtant matters
| AT WORK ON THE DISTRICT APPROPRIATION BILL
| The Senate appropriations committee were In
session nearly all day to-day going over the Dis
| trict appropriation bill. The District Commis-
sioners Mr. Davis, the new District collector, and
| Superintendent Powell were before them for sew
| eral hours. The committee has made no change
| whatever In the paragraph It came from the
House relating to the Increase Of the salaries Of
teachers by promotion and OF the superlntendents
During the morning hour in the Senate Mr. Rid
dleberger offered an amendment TO the District
appropriation bill for the consideration OF the ap-
preparations committee, appropriating $4,000 for
the improvement OF North Capt oil street, between
Boundary street and Soldiers Home.
| Mr.. Teller announced an amendment to the same
bill! approprfating 81, 500 for the grading or 9th
street northeast. The amendments were referred
| 10 the committee On appropriations
| Capitol Topics.
| DOWN TO THE SIXTEENTH LINE OF THE TARIFF BILL
The House got as far as the sixteenth line of the
| tariff bill yesterday. Much time was taken up In
talk OF the oregon election and the St Louis con-
vention. On Mr. Months trepublican) motion to
| strike from the free list "Sawed boards planks,
deals and other sawed TIMBER Tarsney Niichj
and Sowden (Pa.) voted with the republicans and
! FULLER Qowa) voVed with the democrats The mo-
| tl0n was lost
RED BANDANAs IN THE HOUSE.
Several enterprising pages OF the House to-day
secured large supply Of bandana handkerchiefs,
| which they distributed freely among the demo-
cratic members. Frank Lawler tucked the corner
VI one IN nis vest 'front.' Spinoia tied his nag FASH
Ion 10 the brass rail- IN front OF him Randall spread
MS upon his desk. All OF the democratic members
| OF the ways and means committee haunted the
rudy cloth, and the bandanas peeped from every
| pocket on the democratic eide OF the House.
| NOTES
senator Spooner said, yesterday, that he In
ate some time during this week.
| senator Quay has been authorized to report fav-
oraDly his DILL granting pensions to soldiers and
| sailors confined In confederate prisons.