The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1888-03-15
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Glsansa by Telegraph and Mail
CONGRESSIONAL

In the Senate on the 9th Senator Reagan,
from the Post-office Committee, reported al
verselS the Edmunds and Cullom Postal Tcle-
graph bills, and instead reported an orig
inal bill subiecting telegraph companies to
the supervision OF the Interstate Commits
sion. Petitions were presented from citizens
of Kansas against the Springer Oklahoma bill
and from Nebraska IN its favor. When the
Urgency Deficiency bill was reached tilt
took place between Senators Hoar and
Hawley upon the provision to strike out
the clause In regard to enforcing the eght-hour
rule IN the public printing office. Adjourned.
go. In the House, Mr.. White, of Indiana intro
duced a resolution for the appointment Of a
committee to investigate the Burlington strike
After the introduction Of bills the House took
up the McDuffie- Davidson contested election
case from Alabama which, after some debate
went over After the transaction OF unimpor-
tant business the House adjourned.
WHEN the Senate met on the 9th joint
resolution was passed directing the Secretary
OF the Interior TO investigate the practcabiity
Of constructing reservoirs for the storage
OF water In the arid regions Of
the United States The Pension bill was
then taken up and debate continued, Mr..
Ingalls, replying in severe terms to the
speech previously made by Mr.. Vest in opposi-
tion to the bill, 10 which Mr.. Blackburn re
3oined with equal spirit Adjourned The
House resumed consideration of the Alabama
contested election case OF McDuffie VS.. David
son. After long debate Davidson was con
f1rmed in his seat by IA to l22. Adjourned.
AFTER routine business in the Senate on
the 7th the Urgency Deficiency bill was taken
up. The provision inserted by the House re
quirng a rigid enforcement OF the Eight-hour
law by the Public Printer was struck ont by a
vote OF 3 to %. A long and irrelevant debate
followed and the Senate adjourned with
out action 1. In the House committees re-
ported and IN Committee OF the Whole
public measures were considered. The
public measures considered, however, were
mostly public buildings After debate bill
appropriating $1,000 for building at Sedalia,
Mo passed. Two bills passed relating to the
Indians. one confirming an agreement with Ger
tain tribes in Montana and the other TO divide
the great Sioux Indian reservation into smaller
reservations Adjourned.
In the Senate on the Sth a monster petl-
tion signed by over 10e 900 persons from thirty
three different States was presented remon
strating against the admission Of Utah as a
State so long as her people were under Mormon
priesthood control. The Pension bill was taken
up. All amendments that had been offered
were voted down, and the bill passed by
q vote Of a to 16. Twelve democrats, Blodgett
Brown, Faulkner, George, German, Hamp
ton, Kenna, Mcpherson, Payne, Pugh Turpie
number OF pairs After routine business the
Senate adjourned =. In the House bill passed
appropriating 5000 to purchase certain swords
belonging to the late General Shields. After
committees reported the House went into Com
mittee of the Whole on public land measures
When the committee rose a bill passed concern
ing the allotment OF lands to certain Indiar
tribes in Minnesota, and the House adjourned
THE Senate was not in Sc Ision on the 9th
having adjourned on Monday the 18th. ....I In the
House the Omnibus War Claim bill was con
sidered, beng the regular order. Along SQUAD
BILE ensued over the amendment TO pay The
Protestant Episcopal Theological Seminary o
Virginia i2O, 900 for occupation and damage du
ring the war but it was finally incorporated il
the bill and as amended the bill passed by
vote OF l05 10 100. Private bills occupied tht
attention OF the House until FIVE o'clock A
the evening session pension bills were consid
cred.