Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-03-22
THE CAPITAL.
LIGHTNING CAUSES A PANIC IN
CONGRESS-.
Denis Kearney Coming Home Dis
gusted A Government for
Alaska-Congressional.
ESPECIAL DISPATCHES To THE RrooRo.uN1oN. |
CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS.
The Senate.

WASHINGTON, March 21st-Blair, in ref
erence to his bill giving preference for
| civil service appointments to wounded ex-
soldiers OF the Confederacy as between men
who had been disloyal, said that several
| Senators on both sides had requested him
| to have the bill lie over still further. he
| therefore asked its postponement until next
Tuesday.
The bill was laid over as proposed
The Senate then proceeded to take up
| and act upon the bills on the calendar in
| regular order, passing such as were not OBJ
| jected to-
The bill providing for the inspection of
| meats for expectation, and prohibiting the
| importation of adulterated articles of food
| or drink, with an amendment allowing the
inspection of meats at places of packing
| was passed.
A bill was passed to establish United
States Court in Indian Territory. Also, to
allow soldiers and sailors who have lost
both hands, or the use of both hands, 500
| a month.
The House bill to facilitate the prosecu-
! ton of works projected for the improve
ment of rivers and harbors, with the
amendments on which conference COM
| mittee was ordered, was taken up, and
Senators Dolph, Frye and Vest appointed
The bill was passed granting to the
| Washington and Idaho Railroad Company
the right of way through the Cuur 'Alene
Indian reservation.
The bills granting to the Newport and
Kings Valley Railroad the right of way
through the Siletz Indian reservation in
Oregon, and to grant to the State of Oregon
certain lands in that State for a public
| park, were passed.
The bill reported by Blair, allowing a
Of SD5 10 Iol
during the war as army nurses, and who
| rendered six months service, having been
reached, the report was read, in which it
was stated that the beneficiaries under it
would not average more than six or eight
to each State.
Beck called for the yeas and nays, re-
marking that of course this bill would pass.
1t would apply to every colored woman
who had cooked for the soldiers during six
months, and, according to report just re-
ceived, such women were entitled Roman
matrons."
Edmunds did not see on what principle
| nurses whose memorials had been read
had not asked for it. They only asked, ap.
parently, TO be placed on the footing of SOL
diers who had been disabled in the service
No pensions we've yet given to soldiers not
so disabled, and, as the friend of woman's
| rights, he did not believe in making such
an invidious distinction
Beck objected to the further considera-
| ton of the bill, and hoped that the Com
| mittee on Pensions would call on the Sec
| retary of War for the number of enrolled
female nurses during the war, so that the
| Senate would know within at least mill
| ion dollars of what the bill was to take out
of the Treasury. If the Senate was to give
| S25 to every woman, white or black, who
had cooked for the soldiers for six months,
| the Senate should know how many of them
there were.
The bill, under objection, went over.
Several public bills on the calendar were
passed, and the Senate adjourned.
The House.
WASHINGTON, March 21st.-In the House
to-day Randall presented resolutions of the
Philadelphia Board of Trade, declaring that
the Mills tariff bill, if it should become
law would prove injurious to many i'm
portant and long established industries of
the country. Referred.
The House then went into Committee of
the Whole on the bill referring to the
Court of Claims for adjustment the accounts
of laborers, workmen and mechanics aris-
ing under the eight-hour law.
Rogers of Arkansas in opposing the bill,
said it would involve an expenditure of
nearly $10000,000. The proposition was
ill-considered, and vicious in its tendency.
Tlllman of South Carolina regarded the
measure as an attack upon the Treasury.
The most humiliating thing to him in con-
| nection with Congressional matters was the
way in which members futtered whenever
any proposition came up relating to labor.
The pending proposition was one to give a
man ten hours pay for eight hours labor,
in order to create an aristocracy of labor
and give the Court of Claims 25 or so per
cent. of the sum they might recover.
After further discussion the bill went
over.
Bills were passed to prevent the product
of convict labor from being furnished to or
| for the use of any department of the Gov
ernment, and from being used in public
buildings or other public works, etc.
The House then went into Committee of
the Whole on tie bill to establish Depart
ment of Labor.
Several amendments were adopted.
Pending action on the bill the committee
rose and the House adjourned.