Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1888-06-14
THE WHITE HOUSE.
OUR WEEKLY BUDGET FROM
WASHINGTON.
Interesting Gossip by onr News Man ut the
National Capitai-CongressiOna
and Other Matters.
CONGRESSIONAL.

reading of the journal, on Wednesday,
brief executive session was held. All
pension bills on the calendar-116--
were passed, sixty-four of them being
House bills, besides considerable num-
Der of other bills affecting local inter
ests. After some unimportant business
the House went into committee OF the
whole on the tariff bill. The clerk read
the pending paragraph, 'pickets and
palings," which Mr.. Mckinley, of Ohio,
Immediately moved to strike out. The
motion was rejected. A general tariff
discussion followed and without action
upon the amendment the committee rose.
The House Immediately went again luto
committee of the whole to actupon Senate
amendments to the Indian appropriation
BILL These were generally non-concurr-
ed in. The committee rose and the bill
was sent to conference.
The Senate took up the diplomatic and
consular appropriation bill, and amend
ments were adopted increasing some sal
aries. An item of $25, 900 was inserted
for salaries and expenses of scientific
commission to investigate the Congo ba-
sin. An amendment offered by Mr.. Call
to increase the salary of the minister res
ident and consul general to Paraguay
and Uruguay from $4,000 to $1,000
started long debate, and was finally
concluded on point of order. The
demand for the regular order cut off the
usual consent business in the House.
Mr.. Dobble, of South Carolina, from
the committee on public buildings, rc~l
ported back the Allentown public build
ing bill, vetoed by the PresidenD. with
the recommendation that it be passed,
Notwithstanding the Presidents action.
Placed on the calendar. The House then
went into the committee CT the whole
on the tariff. The speaker pro- tenn.
laid before the House message from the
President, returning without his approval
bills for the erection of a public building
at Bar Harbor, Me, and for the purchase
of additional ground for the building at
Council Bluffs, Iowa.
On Monday, the Senate proceeded to
the consideration of bills on the calen-
dar, and passed, among Others, the fol-
lowing bills: House bill to authorize
the county of Laurens, in Georgia, to
construct a bridge ac,oss the Oconee
River at Dublin, Ga. Senate bill appro-
priating $50, 900 for the extension Of the
public building at Lynchburg, Va.
Senate bill granting the right of way to
the Mobile & Birmingham Railway across
Mount Vernon arsenal reservation, in
Mobile county, Ala, Senate bill appro-
priatlng $4,000 for an addition to the
public building at jackson, Miss, The
Senate at a o'clock adjourned,
having passed in all seventy eight bills,
forty of which were pension bills.
49,. "A bill was introduced in the House,
by Mr.. Oates, of Alabama, to restrict the
immigration of foreigners into the United
States. 1t also imposes a tax of twenty
five dollars on each immigrant Diplo-
matte representatives are excepted.
GOSSIP.
Gen. Sheridan's condition is better
now than it has been for the past two
weeks.
The subcommittee of The House Com
merce Committee has made favorable
report on the bill for lighthou at
Dog Island, Fla.
Mrs. Cleveland denounces as ''heartless
hes" the statement made by Rev. Mr..
Pendleton of Worcester, Mass, that the
President had misused her.
The very latest report from the bedside
OF Gen. Sheridan is unfavorable, and
decided change from his condition in the
latter part OF last week, when he rallied
under the inspiration of the news that
Congress bad raised his rank to that of
full general, equal to the honor conferred
on Gen. Grant.
Within day or two, the Washington
Post and the Natiouat Republican, viii
cease to exist. 1t is understood that the
two papers are to be purchased by syn
dictate, headed by VIM. Henry Smith, of
Chicago, manager of the Associated
Press His associates are known TO be
v hitelaw Reid, oil the New York 7ri-
bunc: Richard Smith. of the
Cincinnati Commercial Gazette, and Will
liam Walter Phelps, of New Jersey. The
plants OF the two papers will be moved
INTO one and run as an independent re-
publican paper. As yet, nothing is
known as to what the name Of the papef>
will be.
The weather crop bulletin issued bv
the Signal Office SAYS: The weather
through the week has been generally
~ az OioPs III tnc states OF
the mississippi Ohio and Missouri yfley,
wherc the crop conditions have doubtless
improved. although in the e&rcme
northern states the temperature hS8 been
too low for rapid growth. Portions of
Michigan report too much rain fdf<orn.
and some damage from hail is r62bricl
from Kansas. The season is wdElAaa.
vanced in Tennessee and South CafoIk,,
H.. l.. =. n
The weather conditions have parti0H
~ favored the crops in the former
but not so much in the latter. q
states on the Atlantic coast, exd
rains and almost total cIoudines7
not been favorable for rapid grow
have delayed planting N some loo
A Profitable Practice.