Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-05-29
Ridd|eberger' s Victory.
Fisheries Treaty to be Con-
 sidered in Open Session.
THE PRESIDENTS VETO POWER.
Senator Jones' Reply to Mir. Stewards Recent speech-More Civil Service Re form Talk in the House-A substituts Land Forfeiture BfIl.'


 form Talk in the House-A substituse Land Forfeiture BiII.
 WASHINGTON, May 2.-In the senate yes terday Mir. Frye, from the committee on reported the river and harbor bill, stating that the bill, as reported, car ried with it a net appropriation of sal ,5Ss, 7S3, or q, ,7SS, 900 more than the bill con- tained as it came from the housel As the committee's report to accompany the bill was not ready, he said he would probably not call the bill up for consideration for a week or SO.
 Mir. Jones, of Arkansas, asked considera- ton of the senate resolution relating to the presidents veto power, for the purpose of replying to some remarks made by Mir. Stewart last week.
 MT. Jones denied the charges made by the Nevada senator against the attorney general, to the effect that he assumed authority to set aside all land patents issued by the gov ernment and thus cloud the title of innocent purchasers for the years to come on the mere dictum of the executive
 Mir. Stewart defended his position in ref erence to private land claim suits in Califor- uia. The attacks upon land titles by inter ested parties he characterized as ''blackmail" under 'stand and deliver process"
 While Mir. Stewart was speaking he yielded for a motion to proceed to executive business, which was adopted At p. m- the doors were reopened and the senate lstill in execu- tive session. voted on the following resolu- tion, which was agreed to without division:
 Resolved, That the injunction of secresy be removed from all the proceedings of the sen- ate in reference to the treaty with Great Britain now under consideration.
 MT. Call asked unanimous consent to offer a resolution, but objection was made by MT. Sherman on the ground that the senate. e..was in executive session.
 MT. Frye wanted to address the senate on the pending treaty, but at the suggestion and on motion of MT. Cullom the senate ad- journed-
 In the house yesterday, under the call of states, bills were introduced by Mir. Cheadle, of Indiana, to retire on pay ex-soldiers and sailors who have been wounded in battle after serving twenty-one years in the civil service, and by Mir. Plumb, of Illinois, to provide for refunding the national debt by a new issue of bonds
 Under the call of committees Mir Thomp- son, of Ohio, from the committee on invalid pensions, submitted minority report on the bill repeating the limitation of the arrears of pension act, and it was ordered printed. It differs from the majority report only in the
 
 rears should be limited to those who have applied for pensions up to the passage of the bill.
 The house then went into committee of the whole on the legislative, executive and judi. i cial appropriation bill
 Mir. Kerr, of Iowa, in discussing an amend. ment, branched on on civil service reform as practiced by the Democratic administration
 Mir. Cannon, of Illinois, criticized the hy- pocrisy of the Democratic party, from the president down, with respect to civil servics reform, and MT. Compton, of Maryland, made 8 counter charge of hypocrisy against the Republican party, and declared that on principle he was heartily opposed to the civil service law.
 Mir. Cannon confessed that his charge of hypocrisy against the Democratic party was too broad, and said the party in Maryland | should not be included in it Maryland Democrats had all along spit upon and tram pied under foot the civil service law, and a chief of that party in Maryland, standing high in the counsel of the president, spat upon the law to which the president pretended | to be devoted.
 After making some progress with the bill l the committee rose.
 Mir Townshend, of Illinois, reported the army appropriation bill, and the house ad- journed.
 | The house committee on public lands has l adopted MT. Holman,s substitute for the senate land forfeiture bill The senate bill forfeited all lands not yet earned, and the Holman substitute forfeits all lands granted to roads which were not completed within the time required by law, which includes all the land grants beyond the Missouri river.