Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-04-20
CONGRESSIONAL.
Work of the Senate and the House
of Representatives.

BIZ a vote of 81 yeas to ID nays the Senate. on
the 4th inst, adopted Mr.. Beck's Amendments to
the bond purchase bill providing Tor the com
age of silver in excess Of the present monthly
limitation to take the place OF nstlonal nah .
ne to, withdrawn from crcuiatoi. MI. Ln ss
of spelling was introduced in tho Senate
Nv Mr. Palmer The House hlibustered
al day hi; and The c s n ~ was
reached when. after motion Tor recess Ia
been made and was pending. M Brecklnridse'
OF Arkansas, moved that NJ ;e 90 ,nnn
the point OF order rsised by Mr. iced, OF maine,
the speaker ruled that the motion TO excuse
House. This being the case the question was
raised as to what Limitation could 70 piacou
upon this for OF ilibustering. Mr. Grosveno:,
Of Ohio drew e.tsn tnndr.a vs s1 Of a1
periencc in legislation and parliamentary prac-
tice the House had for the first time made the
ton for an indefinite period. There arc s2s
members of the House, and with separate
motion to excuse each one, and . separate mo-
ton to reconsider the vote Just taken the OBJ.
structionsts may obtain CSC roll calls on any
enc question.
WHEN the Senate took up the bond purchase
bill, on the 9Th inst, Nj. Mcpherson withdrew
the amendment offered by him the day prev
ious vhen tho substitute as amended NY Mr..
Beck, providing for hddtlonsi colnaSe, to take
latlOn, was agreed to without discussion aud
the bill was read the third time aud passed.
M Wilson Of Iowa the Senate S on
House spent the day in f1ibustering over the
bill to refund the direct taxes, the time be ng
con Hnai1u Mr Hntch ;ntroaucsd @ rssoution
which was referred to the Committee on COM
merce, instruct:ng the Int .r-State Commerce
prevent tho loss of life and limb in coupling
and uucoupling cars. aud report 10 the House
t.ie result OF their inquiries.
THE bill creating bureau Of animal indus
try to facilitate the expectation OF live stock
and its products and to extirpate contagious
pleuro- pm eumonia, was discussed by the Sem
ate Oh the 9th inst, but no action was reached.
Texarkana, ARK and to prevent obstructive de-
posits in New York harbor. A rssoiu-
ger calling on the President for copies
Of letters ETC., bearing on the recent
acquisition of territory in Venezuela by Circuit
Britain Among the enc hurd red and twenty
seven private pension bills passed by the Sen
ate inside OF ninety minutes was one granting
So, month to DR.. Mary +. Walker ut ono time
OF General Judson Fitzpatrick. the famous cav
airy header, and General Robert Anderson the
hero OF Fort Sumter receive 500 each per
month The House spent another day flibus-
tering on thu direct-tax bill
The oppone nts of the direct-taH bill contin-
ued their tilibustering tactics in the House on
the 7th inst, and the day was consumed in
calling the roll on dilatory motions. In answer
to Il call from Chairman Cox about l25 OF the
Democratic members OF the House met in
caucus in the evening, to decide upon line OF
policy to be followed by the party in the I'D
mission Of Ter itories as States OF the Union
resolution was adopted declaring that an
enabling act for the Territories OF Dakota
Montana, Washington, ana New Mexico should
be passed ut this session providing for Consti-
tutional Conventions in each Territory and tho
submission OF those Constitutions for rntifica-
ton or rejection at election in November,
1883, substantially as provided for in tho bill
reported by the Committee on Territories.
ANOTHER day was wasted in the House in
flibustering against the direct tax bill on the
9th ult., the entire time being consumed in q
dreary round Of dilatory motions and roll calls.
In the Senate the bill for the admission Of
South Dakota into the Union was
up for consideration, and Mr.. Plat
lie the sale Of mineral lands to aliens was
taken up. and Mr.. Faulkner spoke in opposition
TO it. Mr.. Allison introduced d bill for perma-
States ana Great Britain and France. The SEN
ate. in executive session, confirmed these nomi-
nations: William f. Purcell to be United States
Attorney for Dakota; Y. w. Grierson, Postmas-
ter at Calumet Mich (; j. Herman. Postmaster
Fort Howard, Wis. The President nominated
TO the Senate Joseph J. Rogers and John Schlyer
to be Receivers Of Public Moneys at Grand
Forks, d. T.. and Wakeeney, Kan, respect
ivelv.