The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1888-04-27
CONGRESSIONAL
House.

House.
WASHINGTON, April 20.-The house
this morning resumed consideration of the
Indian appropriation bill, the pending
question being on the motion of Mr.. Ran
dali, of Pennsylvania, to strike out the
Choctaw judgment section. The motion
was lost and the bill was passed.
A motion to proceed to the Considera-
ton of private business was defeated by
the managers of the various appropriation
bills and the house went into committee
of the whole ON such measures.
The first bill on the calendar was the
pension appropriation bill. General de-
bate having closed, Mr.. Congel offered
an amendment providing that in all cases
of pensions to widows, payment shall be
made from the date of the death Of their
husbands. Adopted.
An amendment was adopted providing
that all officers of the United States au-
thorized to administer oaths shall admin
lister all Oaths required 10 be made by pen
siOners and witnesses free of charge.
The committee then rose and the bill
which appropriates $~S0,2S0,0O0 was pass
ed.
A contest for precedence of consideTa-
ton then arose between the pOstOtiCe,
District of Columbia and river and har-
Dor bills, in which the latter anne out
victorious, and the general debate having
been dispensed with its consideration by
paragraphs was Immediately entered
upon in the committee.
After considerable discussion and with
out making any progress with the bill the
committee rose and the house took a re-
cess until 7:30, the evening session to be
for the consideration of private pension
bills.
WASHINGTON, April 21.-After a contest
this morning the house refused-yeas IS,
nays 126-to consider the special order
and went into committee of the whole on
! the river and hsrboF bill.
Mr.. Golf, Of West Virginia, expressed
his belief INF the system of internal i'm
provements, He was in favor of liberal
appropriations.
Mr.. Randall, of Pennsylvania, offered
an amendment appropriating $250,00O
for the improvement of the harbOr of
Philadelphia.
Mr.. Dibble, of South Carolina, moved
to increase from $350,0O0 to 100000 the
appropriation for the improvement of
Charleston, South Carolina, harbor. Lost.
Mr.. Henderson, of Iowa, in speaking to
a verbal amendment, said that he could
not give his approval to the bill as he fla
vOred the system of improvement of the
great water way as 3 safeguard against
the eXtOrtions of railroad corporations;
but this bill made appropriations for riv-
ers and harbOrs which it would test the
geographical knowledge of any gentle
man to locate.
The house adjourned.
WASHINGTON, April 23.-The pending
business coming from Friday nights ses-
sion was the senate bill granting a pension
Of 500 a month to the widow of Gen.
James B. Ricketts,, with an amendment
reducing the rate to $50. After some de-
bate the amendment was adopted and the
bill passed.
The house then went into committee of
the whole upon the river aud harbor bill.
Mr.. Boutell criticised the scheme of the
improvement of Galveston harbor,
MI. Foran offered an amendment in
creasing from $4,000 to $150,000 the APP
preparation for the harbor at Cleveland,
EOhio.
Pending action the committee rose and
the house adjourned.
WASHINGTON, April 24--The house
went into committee of the whole ON
the tariff bill, the floor being accorded to
Mr.. Mcmillan, of Tennessee. He declar-
ed that the internal revenue system,
against which the gentleman from Penn
sylvania, Mr.. Kelley, invelghed, had not
been inaugurated by the democratic
party.
Mr. Kelley admitted that the democrat
ic party had not enacted the law, but de-
clared that it had made ii necessary for
the republican party, which remained in
congress during the war, 10 provide
the sinews for that war.
Mr.. Mcmillan compared China, which
he said desired no intercourse with for
eign nations and would not have AMI that
copld be avoided, with England, which
mac ridden n waves OF all oceans and
had her flags Ia every sea, and these two
were 1T illustrations Of the difference be-
tween thai exclusive policy which his OBJ
/ poGcnts Ecuid iuculcate and that broader
lpolfcy which seeks commerce wherever II
can be made profitable.
Mr. Burrows, Of Michigan, said the re-
/ publican party insisted that the present
protective system should not be disturbed
except SO far az il was made necessary to
correct It's incongruities and harmonic
its provisions.
The committeeman rose and an IT.
ssmpt was made to have a night session
butt was defeated by the republicans
refusing TO vote, leaving the house
without q quorum.
Adjourned.
senate.
WAsHrxarox. April 23.-Tn tie aenas'