Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-06-29
NATIONAL LAWMAKERS.
What Is Being Done by the National
Legislature.

THE concurrent resolution authorizing tr1es
President to negotiate for international arbitra-
ton passed the Senate, on the 14th inst. The
Senate amended and passed the Agricultural
Department and postotfics appropriation bills.
bill was also passed appropriati,s Sz75, 900 for
the reconstruction of tho Government dam at
ton of q Temporary dam. The Senate adjourned
to the 18th. The House managed to- dispose of
forty five lines Of the tariff bill. The motion to !
strike tin plate from the free list was rejected,
a. were also several motions to modify the
paragraph Glue, gelctine and liquorice Juice ,
were stricken from the free list, and Ash glue or
is1nglass was restored to, the existing rate Of /
duty. The House Military Committee reported
the bills providing for Assistant Secretary of /
War and to retire Gen. Alfred Pleasonton..
THEIR were many vacant seats on both sides
of tho chamber when the House settled down for
business on the 18th inst. About eighty Repub- /
lican mon,bers had left for Chicago. Mr. Towns
bend was defeated in IN effort to have the army
appropriation bill considered, and aftcrward
took his revenge by blocking, oil other business
for half an hour, which how enabled. to do by !
reason of tho light attendance. which m,lie it in
the power of any member to ruiso the t,Dla. of no
quorum. resolution OF. sympathy for The Ger
man nation in the loss of their beloved Emperor
was adopted. The Senate was not III session
THE House passed the army appropriation bill !
on. the 16th.inst, after adopting all amendment
appropriatins 5000 ,fora military post near
Chicago Mr. Randall reported the sundry civil
estimates, and 81 1891, 27ss less than the regular
and special estimates. The amount appropriat-
ed for the Same purposes, for tho current
fiscal year was 1922, sos $40. The apparent excess
OF 81 ,203,257 over tho present appropriation is
nearly accounted for in two features of the bill
alone--for the Congressional library S514 900 and
for expenses Of United States courts IN increase
Of S65SG0D. Among tho increases in the bill over
the present appropriation are 1915, 900 for the
Rock Island dam and $4,000 for the Rock Island /
bridge
AMONG the measures passed by tho Senate on J
the 18th inst. the bills for the representation
of the several departments at tho Columbus con-
tennial, with amendment apprcprinting $4o,-
600; authorizing the sale OF portion OF the Win,
nebago reservation in, Nebraska; appropriatinK
CAL and authorizing tho construction OF rail-
road bridges at Parkxille., Mo-. Alma, Wis,
and Fort Smith,, Ark Tho Senate in se-l
cret session, ratified tho lels- pending treaty
providing for an adjustment OF the Venezuelan
claims. The House passed. bills appropriating
$4,000 for q public building at Brownsville,
Texas. and $50 900 for the completion OF the pub
appropriation OF $4,000 zach for the erection Of
public buildings at Faribault and Red Wing.
Mimi, were introduced in the House. The naval
appropriation bill was reported from the House
Naval Committee. Both houses nsreed to the,
conference report OH the Indian appropriation
bill.
The House went into Committee on the Sum.
dryCivn Appropriation Bill the 10Th, and after
debate provision appropriating $500, 600 for the
library buildings was stricken out. The COM
izing the appointment OF on additional Associ-
ate Justice for Dakotu adjourned.