St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1888-03-10
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
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CONGRESSIONAL.

| A BILL was reported in the Senate on the
18th abolisEing the office Of Surveyor-Genera
| Tor the district of Nebraska and Iowa. The
senate then took up the bill Incorporating
| the Nicaragua Canal and after some debate
| passed it by vote of 3S to Is. The Total Dis
| ability Pension bill was then taken up and de.
bated at length Senator Plumb introduced a
Dill for public buildings at Lawrence and Kan
sas City, Kan. Adjourned. ;. In the House the
resolution directing an inquiry into the circular
issued by Commissioner Black requiring certain
pension claimants to perfect the prosecution
of their claims within 100 days was tabled.
Bills and resolutions were introduced. After
transacting business pertaining to the District
OF Columbia testimonial of respect in mem.
ory Of the late w. w. Corcoran was placed on
the record and the House adjourned.
AMONG the bills introduced into the Sen
ate on the 2sth was one by Senator Sherman
authorizing the issue of circulating notes to Ma
tlonal Banks to the par value OF bonds de-
posted. After unimportant business and some
political talk consideration of the Dependent
and Total Disability Pension bill was resumed
in Committee of the Whole. An amendment
was adopted extending its provisions to soldiers
OF the Mexican and Indian wars who served
thirty days. Then followed long talk which
ceased only with adjournment In the House
the Oklahoma bill was further considered in the
morning hour. In Committee of the Whole
public building measures were considered and
number passed on When the committee
rose the House adjourned.
In the Senate on the 29th the bill to estab
lish National Art Commission passed. The
bill to provide for the compulsory education OF
Indian children passed. The five civilized tribes
are excepted from its provisions. The Total
Disability Pension bill was then taken up and a
lively debate followed without reaching vote
Adjourned. After the usual sroutine work
the House went into Committee of the Whole
for the consideration of the bill authorizing the
Secretary of the Treasury to purchase bonds
with the surplus, and debate continued until
the special order-eulogies upon the late Repre-
sentative Moffatt, of Michigan,-was reached.
Eulogies were delivered and the House ad-
journed.
IN the Senate on March the resolution
reported from the Committee on Foreign Rela-
tions requesting the President to negotiate
treaty with China containing provision that
no Chinese laborers shall enter the United
States was taken up and after some de-
bate adopted. The Pension bill was then
taken up and debated until adjournment. :.
In the House the bill forbidding the
transmission through the mails of pa
pefs containing lottery advertisements
was reported adversely. The resolution accept
ing the invitation of the French Republic to
take part in the International Exhibit at Paris
IN 1889, was discussed in Committee of the
Whole, also the resolution authorising confer
ence to be held in Washington in 1889, to pro-
vide commercial relations with the Republics of
Central and South America. When the Com
mittee rose the resolutions passed and the
House adjourned.
The Senate was not in session on the
3D.. In the House resolution was adopted
setting apart each Friday evening, beginning at
7:30 o'clock, for the consideration of pension
and political disability bills. After the report
of committees the House in Committee of the
Whole took up the private calendar and the
Omnibus bill providing for the payment of
large number of claims for supplies used by the
army during the war. When the committee
rose the bill passed At the evening session
twenty-five pension bills and several bills re-
moving political disabilities were passed.