The Brookhaven leader., 1888-03-08
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Cleaned BY Telegraph and Mail
CONGRESSIONAL.

NONOhESSlONAL-
A BILL was reported in the Senate on the
2'th abolishing the ONCE OF Surveyor. General
for the district OF Nebraska and Iowa The
Senate then took up the bill incorporating
! the Nicaragua Canal and after some debate
passed II by vote Of 8S TO IL. The Total Dis
| ability Pension bill was then taken up and de-
| bated at length. Senator Plumb introduced a
| bill for public buildings at Lawrence and Kan
sas City, Kan. Adjourned . In the House the
resolution directing an inquiry into the circular
issued by Commissioner Black requiring certain
pension claimants to perfect the prosecution
OF their claims within 100 days was tabled.
Bills and resolutions were introduced. After
tTansacting business pertaining to the District
OF Columbia testimonial of respect in mem.
ory OF the late w. w. Corcoran was placed on
the record and the House adjourned,
AMONG the bills introduced nlo the Sen
ate on the 2Sth was one by Senator Sherman
authorizing the issue Of circulating notes to Ma
tonal Banks to the par value Of bonds de-
posted. After unimportant business and some
political talk consideration OF the Dependent
and Total Disability Pension bill was resumed
in Committee OF the Whole. An amendment
was adopted extending its provisions TO soldiers
of the Mexican and Indian wars who served
thirty days Then followed long talk which
ceased only with adjournment. In the House
the Oklahoma bill was further considered in the
public building measures we're considered and
a number passed on When the committee
rose the House adjourned
IL tue Senate on the 29th the bill to estab
lish a National Art Commission passed. The
bill to provide for the compulsory education OF
Indian children passed. The five civilized tribes
are excepted from its provisions. The Total
Disability Pension bill was then taken up and a
lively debate followed without reaching a vote.
Adjourned After work
the House went into Committee OF the Whole
for the consideration OF the bill authorizing the
Secretary Of the Treasury to purchase bonds
with the surplus and debate continued until
the special order-eulOgies upon the late Repre-
sentative MoTatt, of Michigan,-was reached.
Euloges were delivered and the House ad-
journed.
IN the Senate on March l the resolution
reported from the Committee on Foreign Rela-
tons requesting the President to negotiate a
treaty with China containing provision that
no Chinese laborers shall enter the United
States was taken up and after some de-
bate adopted. The Pension bill was then
taken up and debated until adjournment. -.
In the House the bill forbidding the
transmission through the mails Of pa
pers containing lottery advertisements
was reported adversely. The resolution accept
ing the invitation of the French Repu lie to
take part in the International Exhibit at Pa S
in 1850, was discussed in Committee Of the
Whole, also the resolution authorsing a confer
ence to be held in Washington in 1899, to pro
vide commercial relations with the Republics OF
Central and South America. When the Com
mittee rose the resolutions passed and the
House adjourned.
THE Senate was not in session on the
I'd. -. In the House resolution was adopted
setting apart each Friday evening, beginning at
1880 o'clock, for the consideration of pension
and political disability bills. After the report
of committees the House IN Committee Of the
| Whole took up the private calendar and the
Omnibus bill providing for the payment Of a
large number of claims for supplies used by the
army during the war. When the committee
rose the bill passed. At the evening session
twenty-five pension bills and several bills re-
moving political disabilities were passed.