St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1888-06-30
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Complied freR Various Sources
CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS.

CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS.
In the Senate, on the 18th, there were bu,
half dozen Republican and less than score
of Democratic senators present throughout the
days proceedings. House bill for the ropre-
Sentation OF the executive departments of the
Government at the Columbus (O) Centennial
Exposition was passed, With an amendment
appropriating $4,000. A number Of unim.
portant and private bills were passed, and tre
treaty providing for a reopening OF claims OF
American citizens against the Venezuelan Gov.
ernment was ratified. -. In the House, consid.
Grafton of the Sundry Civil Appropriation bill;
took up most Of the day Under the point OF
order of no quorum, the House wasrpreventca
from passing resolutions EApropriating s25 00c
for the celebration Of the T%enty- fifth annver.
sary OF the battle of Gettysburg, and authoriz'
ing the loan of tents, etc, to the Army OF the
Potomac on the same occasion. Several bills
of no general Importance were passed.
IN the Senate, on the 10Th, bills were passed
authorizing contracts with the Pneumatic Gun
Carriage Company to supply gun car.
riages to the Government, and appro
priating S160,000 therefor; and appropriat
ing S500O0O for a fre-proof building for
the use of the National Museum to be erected
In the Smithsonian grounds. -. In the House,
two private pension bills were returned by the
President without his approval. Consideration
sumed, the pending paragraph being that relat-
ing to the new Congressional library. During
the debate it was claimed that the original es-
Inmates for the building now being construct
ed were S3,000O 600. Later estimates showed
that 1t would cost from 81 600 900 to S12 00a0a0.
A resolution in the form of an amendment was
adopted directing the Senate and House COM
mittees on public grounds to invite plans for
library, not to exceed S. 900 600 in cost from five
eminent architects, and to report to the next
session; meanwhile the work on the library
building to be stopped, and the Library Com
m ;ssion to be dissolved
liz the Senate, on the Goth, message from
the President was read vetong the pension
bill of q widow on the ground that her husband
had died Of consumption. The bill to enlarge
the act OF June, 1872. providing for the dis
tribution of the awards made under the con-
vention with Mexico, July, 1868, was reported.
"A minority report was presented, and Mr..
Brown read q speech on it for an hour. Bill
and reports laid on the table. ;. In the House.
discussion Of the Sundry Civil bill was re-
ssumed, in committee Of the whole, and on mo.
ton OF Mr.. McAdoo, of New Jersey, an item
was inserted appropriating $4,000 for q post
office building at Hoboken. N. ].
In the Senate, on the 21st, brief secret ses.
sion was held after which, on motion OF Mr..
Blair, the body adjourned in commemoration
of the one-hundredth anniversary of the rati-
fcation of the Constitution by the State Of New
Hampshire, and the consolidation of the States
which had up TO that time ratified it. In the
House, consideration OF the Sundry Civil bill
was resumed During the debate on the bill,
Mr.. Townshend, of Illinois, said that the most
estupendous lie he ever heard had emanated to-
day from the Chicago convention, which had
declared that the Democratic party had never
forfeited any of the land grants, whereas, 1t had
recovered $1,000, COO acres of the public land.
adopted, but consideration of the bill was not
finished up TO time OF adjournment, at p. m.
THE Senate was not in session on the 2ad. -.
In the House joint resolution was passed ex-
tending to Florida and Louisiana the provisions
.of the act of May ID 1885, relating to the dis
posal of public lands. Consideration OF the
Sundry Civil bill was resumed in committee OF
the whole, and after discussing several amend
ments, some Of which we're adopted, the COM
mittee rose, and the bill was passed. The
Naval Appropriation bill was amended and
passed. An evening session was held, at which
thirty private pension bills were passed.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
ON the 20th the remains of Beethoven
were exhumed and placed in new coffin.
They were conveyed through the prin-
-cipal streets of Vienna on the 22d, and
inferred in Central Cemetery. The grave
is marked by handsome obelisk, on
which is inscribed simply the name
Beethoven.
THE announcement is made that DIR.
Leuthold has been appointed chief ply
ssician to the Emperor of Germany. DR..
Leuthold was one of the late Emperor
Williams physicians.
THE cable announces that dispatches
received in London on the 21st, from st.
Paul Loanda. state that several deserters
from Henry M. Stanley's expedition, who
had arrived at the camp of Yumbunga,
reported that Stanley, after traversing
the country of the Upper Aruwhimi,
reached q rough mountainous country,
where he had continuous fights with the
natives. The deserters also state that he
was wounded by an arrow, and that he
lost a large number of his men. Many Of
his people, they say are Ill, including the
Europeans of the party. When the de-
iserters left the explorer, Stanley was en-
.camped in the mountains and surrounded
by bands of hostile natives.
ON the 22d Hon. G.. nj. SaItsgaber. of
Vanwert County, o., was nominated for
Congress by the Sixth district Demo-
cratic convention on the twelfth ballot |
The district is now represented by Hon.
III. III. Boothman. Republican, OF Win-
Jams County.
HERR SMoLKA, President OF the Austri-
an delegation, has been thanked by Prince |
Bismarck. by telegraph, for his speech Of |
TO that body on the death of
Emperor Frederick.
IT is reported that DIR. w. A. Leonard.
pastor OF st. Johns Church, Washington, |
has refused the position Of Assistant |
Bishop of the Episcopal Church in Ohio, |
to which he was recently elected.
COLONEL JOHN ]. Cor |
PIsGER, Eighteenth Infantry, son-in-
law OF James G.. Blaine, has been detailed /
as superintendent Of the general recruit |
ing service, with headquarters in New
York City, for two years, beginning Octo-
Der next. He is at present stationed at |
Ft Gibson, /. T.
III is said that Miss Endicott has quiet |
ly acquiesced in her parents opposition
TO her marrying Joseph Chamberlain, and /
the engagement is therefore 'soff.
THE left-handed pitcher OF the San Fran
DISCO Base ball Club, Knell, has signed q
contract to play with the Pittsburg his, and
started East on the I'd. He goes highly /
recommended as pitcher, batsman and
Dase-runner.
ON the 22d Editor O'Brien's libel suit
or SO, 900 damages against the Glasgow
BeraM was settled, by the Herald publish
a,,olo0v and having the plaintiff