Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1888-03-22
A LIVELY DAY
IN BOTH HOUSES OF CONGRESS-
DISCUSSIONS ON BILLS.
Additional neutrality-suspicious. of
Fostmasters-RAndan SHES His Castor
Into the Ring-The New osparment of
Labor.

WASHINGTON. March Pin the Senate
yesterday the Blair bill to give preference
for civil service appointments to honorably
discharged wounded eX-Confederatc sol
diers, was laid over until next Tuesday,
st the request ofseveral Senators who wish
to discuss it Mr.. Vance took occasion he
fore the bill was laid aside, to contradict 4
statement made by Mr.. Blair yesterday, in
which he intimated that there are 10000
dependent wounded ex-Confederate SOL
diers in North Carolina His State. he
declared did not allow any of its old SOL
diers 10 20 10 the Aims House.
The bill providing for an inspection of
meats for expectation and prohibiting the
importation of adulterated articles of food
or drink having been reached, Mr.. Beck
asked Mr.. Evarts (who had reported it from
the Committee on Foreign Relationsl
whether il were the unanimous report of
that committee or whether due care had
been taken to protect property rights. Mr..
Evarts replied that a like I'll had been in
troduced. reported and passed at the last
session. Ii was the unanimous report of
committee, but he had an amendment 10
offer. allowing the inspection of meats a:
places OF packing. The amendment was
offered and agreed to, and the bill passed
Bills were also passed to allow soldiers
and sailors who have lost both hands a..
the use of both hands, pension of 500
month, and 10 authorize the construction
OF public building, not to cost over $780,
900, 81 Springfield, No. The bill allowing
SIS month 10 women enrolled during the
war rs army nurses and who rendered six
months service, after some discussion went
over ON objection from Mr.. Beck. The
Senate substitute for the bill was passed,
providing for the division of q portion of
the great Sioux Indian reservation into
separate smaller reservations and TO secure
the REIMBURSEMENT of the Indian Ii lie TO
the remainder.
Mr.. Frye, from the Committee on For
eign Relations, reported back the House
bill authorizing the President TO arrange a
conference for the purpose of promoting
arbitration and encour ging reciprocal com
mercial relations between the United States
and Mexico, Central and South America
and Brazil. calendar
The Senate then, at $40, adjourned.
House.
Mr. Randall presented in the House
yesterday morning memorial of
,he Philadelphia Board of Trade,
urging the passage of the Under
Valuation bill. Referred. Also. reso-
lutions of the Philadelphia Board of
Trade, declaring that while the revision OF
the tariff aud the laws governing the tariff
may have become necessary, no law should
be passed which would tend TO cripple
break up or destroy the home institutions
and home markets of the United States.
That the extension Of the free list should
be only of such character as will aid
the further development of manufac-
lures and that no free importation
of any article should allowed that will
initiate against any of the industries of the
country. That TO destroy or even seriously
,,,.n a,rt 10 int IF
United States means the deprivation Of
employing IT or the reduction of the wages
of millions now engaged in these industries
20 the low standard of the foreign wage
worker, 3ad that the mills tariff bill, if il
should iecome a law, would prove injuri-
Gus TO many important and long established
industries of the country.
The House then went into committee Of
the whole on the bill referring to the court
OF claims for the adjustment of the accounts
of lsborers. workmen and mechanics arising
under the eight hour law, Quite a number
of short speeches for and against the bill
were made. Messrs. Rogers, of Arkansas;
Tillman, of South Carolina: Taulbee, of
Kentucky, aud Others opposed the bill.
Mr. Tillnan said the passage OF this bill
would give the court of claims all IL could
do for the next five years, for Is lar back as
1884 the claims amounted TO nearly
$50, ,o0O.O He stigmatized the bill
as an attempted raid on the
treasury. MeSsrs. Tarsney, Michigan:
Bland, of Missouri: Lodge, of
Massachusetts,, and Dingley, of Maine, and
others. advocated ite passage.
Mr.. Tarsney declared it was a revolving
proposition that men. sent here to make
laws, should themselves publish to the
country that they as representatives vio-
lated the very laws they told their con-
stituents to obey. He stated that the
Committee on Labor had given careful
hearing to mechanics and laborers, who
asked that which should never be denied
in any civilized Countrywide right TO go
into the courts of their country and have
their rights and the duties of the Govern
ment defined and placed on record.
Mr.. Tarsney then moved that the COM
mittee rise, stating that his intention was
10 let the bill go over until April 10th. in
order that the gentlemen who were shoot
ing at q bird that they didn't see and that
wasn't there. might have an opportunity
10 examine the record and become better
informed as to the merits of the case than
their speeches to-day indicated them TO be.
The committee then rose and the bill went
over.
Bills were passed to prevent the product
of convict labor from being furnished TO
or for the use of any department of the
Government and from being used in public
buildings or other public works and 10 pre-
vent the employment of alien labor on pub
lie buildings and other public works and in