New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1888-07-18
FIFTIETH CONGRE
SENATE.

SENATE.
The Senate considered the fisheries treaty
and was addressed. in open session, by Mr.
Hoar, in opposition to it.
| HOUSE.
| The House went into committee of the
| whole on the tariff bill, and an amendment
| to restore the existing rate of duty on starch
| was lost.
The duty on rice -four and rice meal was
! liked at 10 per cent adyaloTem.
MIR. Boutelle offered an amendment fixing
the rate of duty on dextrine burnt starch.
| gum substitute or British gum at 8 cents a
pound Rejected, Sc to H.
Mr.. Vandever of California moved to in
crease the duty on raisins from w to. 2
cents pound (the present duty.) The re-
duction Of duty proposed struck a blow at
that rising industry in California and was in
favor of the foreign product.
1t was rejected, CT to II.
Mr.. .Guenther Of Wisconsin endeavored to
secure duty of cents a dozen ON eggs but
was unsuccessful.
The conference report on the postofice APP
preparation bill was presented to the senate.
The item for postoffice clerks for unusual
business is fixed at $780, 900 instead of $780,
600. The item as to rent, light and fuel in
thTd-class postofices is retained with a
provision that a contract for rent for
such postoffces shall be for more than
a year. The item as to postage on seeds
is fixed SO as to make the postage one cent
for every two ounces. On the subsidy clause,
the conference committee was unable to
agree. The report was agreed TO, and Mr..
Plumb moved that the senate insist in the
subsidy amendment and ask for a further
conference. After a long debate the motion
was carried-2S to 16.-It was a strict party
To- oy-a t,otA Gs,1J
Pherson and Pugh voted with the Republi-
cans in the affirmative
The house is yielding to the temptation to
indulge in political debate The rapid prog
ress of the last few days with the tariff bill
was not maintained and the house was given
in all the action of the house is counted as a
Democrat. While he was Republican
he made very bitter fight against
the Democracy, and left along series of quota.
bic sentences. Which Henderson of Iowa
effectively made use Of Mr.. Weaver will
hardly be able to recover from the effect of
the blows which were delivered by Henderson
The debate seemed to amuse all members Of
the house except Weaver.
A resolution offered to print extra copies
OF the committee report on seven vetoed pen.
sion bills created quite a breeze.
Mr.. Butler spoke of reckless pension legisla.
ton in the senate
Senators Stewart, Blair and Hawley severe
~ criticized the presidents course.
MT. George ended the discussion by m owing
to proceed to executive business, and imme.
diately began his speech on the fisheries
treaty.
HOUSE.
Sessions were ordered for next Wednesday
and Thursday nights for bills on labor mill
tary affairs,
Mr.. Force, ofMichigan, from the committee
on military affairs reported back the resolu-
ton for the appointment of a special commit
tee to investigate alleged evasions of the
contract labor law.
MI. Cox, OF New York, called the attention
OF the house to the necessity of this resolu-
ton to correct the abuses, as there was an
abnormal immigration to this country by
men persuaded to come here by false and
fraudulent pretensions
Mr. Morrow, of California, was glad that
the house at last comprehended the evil be-
setting the country from unrestricted immi-
grafton. The resolution was adopted
The house then went into committee of the
whole (Mr. Springer, of Illinois, in the chair)
on the tariff bill, the agreement peing that
no vote should be taken on the hending wool
schedule.
SENATE.
Mr.. Dawes presented a remonstrance of
large number of Northumberland and voc,
dealers against the legislation proposed in
the Mills bill. z T.eefegEedsto the committee on
finance.
/, Among the bills reported and placed on
the calendar was a house bill appropriating
$1,000 for public building at Wabasha,
MINI.
The following bills were passed:
House bill, to authorize the building of a
bridge across the Mississippi river at Wa
basha, MINI.
House bill appropriating 100000 for the
location of a branch of the National Soldiers
Home in Grant county, Ind.
Mi. DOlph spoke in the senate in opposition
to the fisheries treaty. Speaking of danger
of war with Great Britain, he said With the
exposed coasts Of the United States. and with
Its unprotected coastWise commerce, this
country did not want a war with Great
Britain; and he was equally sure that Great
Britain could not afford war with
the United States. Her fertilization sta
lions at Halifax, Bermuda and Esquimalt
We're menace to American commerce: but no
forts could protect the Canadian frontier,
and the great ironclads of England could not
protect her commerce in a hundred seas At
the call of even the present pro-English ad-
ministration, in case of war, armed men
would spring into the field from every state
and territory to make the conquest of the
Canadian provinces; and few months of
hostilities would find an American privateer
on every sea where a British merchant vessel
was to be found.
HOUSE.
On motion of Mr.. Biggs, of California, abill.
passed for the mining debris question in Cali
fornia.
Mr.. Blount. of Georgia, submitted the confer
ence report on the postofice appropriation
BILL An agreement has been arrived at on
all amendments, The crate of postage on seeds,
plants, roots, bulbs and scions has been fixed
at one cent for each two ounces or fraction
thereof
The report was agreed to, and then Mr..
Bingham, of Pennsy moved to concur
in the senate subsidy amendment, with an
amendment reducing the appropriation from
$500, 900 to $3.50, 600, authorizing the post
master general to increase the mail facilities
not only between the United States and Cen
trail and South America, and the West Indies,
but between the United States and China and
j apan, the Sandwich Islands and Australia,
and providing that American ships CARRYING
the mails shall be allowed four times the rate
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