Crawford avalanche., 1888-08-30
CONGRESSIONAL.
Work of the Senate and House of Rep.
resentatives.

Mn. EDMUNDs resolution directing the Finance
Committee to inquire and report as TO the depos-
its OF white depositors in the Freedmen's Bank
was adopted by the Senate the Goth. Mr.. Nor
gan resumed his speech ON the fisheries treaty,
way TO Messrs. Hoar. Evarts and Gray.
and then spoke iqr Two nours more; when dss
Ark introduced hve tariff bills In the House to
correct certain abuses arising under the present
tariff ON cotton baggins. sugar coal oil. alcohol.
nese bill after long and animated discussion.
during which the administration and the atti-
tudes Of the two parties received due attention.
TIE Senate refused TO ratify the fisheries
treaty by a strict party vote-yeas, 81; nays, 80,
ON tho 2lst. The same vote was also recorded
against each OF the several amendments pro-
posed. Those who voted for the ratihca-
tion Of the treaty were; Bate, Beck,
Berry. Blackburn, Blodgett. Brown, Cock
rel Coke, Colquitt, Daniel, Faulkner,
lArk.l Mcpherson, Morgan, Pasco, Payne,
Pugh, Ransom, Reagan, Vest, Walthall, VIII
SON Aid,j-T. Pairs-Call and Bowen, Butler
and Cameron, Gibson and Cullom, Turpio and
Davis, Eustis and Paddock, Hearst and : tan.
fcrd Kenna and Morrill,. Salisbury and Riddle
berger, Vance and Palmer. Senator Voorhees,
House amendment to the Chinese prohibition
bill and the bill now goes to the Presi-
dent. The conference report ON the
naval appropriation bill was also concurred in.
Among the bills passed by the Senate were
those granting the Leavenworth Rapid Transit
Railway Company the right to construct and
operate its railroad through q portion of the
military reservation at Fort Leavenworth, Kan
sas, and the substitute to the House bill to
change the time cf the sessions OF the Circuit
Court OF the western division Of the Western
District Of Mis- ouri. The Senate passed nine
ty-three private BILLS and then went into execu-
tive session. In the House Mr.. Lyman
tion OF the deficiency BILL after making a per-
sonal explanation. The House went into COM
mittee Of the whole and discussed the French
spoliaton claims section of the BILL but no
action was taken. Bills were introduced In
both houses prevent the introduction OF con.
tagious diseases from one State to another.
Resolutions were adopted by both houses
accepting the statue' Of Richard Stockton and
Philip Kearney presented by the State of New
Jersey. TO be placed in statuary Hall.
Mr.. BECK offered as an amendment In the Sem
ate, the 22d to the House tariff bill an additional
section suspending, until further order OF Con-
gress, all laws relating to the sinking fund, and
had it referred to the Finance Committee. He
also introduced a bill repeating all laws re-
lating to the sinking fund.- and asked that IL
lie ON the table until decision was reached on
his amendment to the tariff bill. The Sem
ate passed the substitute for the joint resolu-
tion appropriating 100000 to suppress iifec-
tion in Interstate commerce. The resolution
passed appropriates S20000) In addition to the
5n,UOD to be expended in the discretion of the
President to aid State and municipal boards OF
health to prevent the introduction of cholera or
yellow fever into the United States from foreign
Countries or into ono state from another. The
House. in committee CT the whole, adopted amend
ments to the deficiency appropriation bill ap-
propriating S562, ,482 to meet the deficiency for
the inland mail transportation on railroad
routes, and $4,000 TO reimburse the State OF
Kentucky for expenses incurred in suppressing
the rebellion. The House agreed to the confer
n ha m n IN wit IN.
out division. As agreed upon by the committee
the bill approprates S29, ,35l, 600
Mr.. CHANDLER concluded his speech in the
Senate on the Louisiana election frauds, the 23d.
The resolution pertaining thereto was laid aside
without action. resolution was adopted by
the Senate accepting and returning thanks for a
bust Of Garibaldi presented to the United
States by the Italian citizens of this country.
The Senate took up the resolution reported
from the Judiciary Committee July 80 regard
ing lhe suppression of colored votes at
the jackson Miss municipal election and was
addressed by Wilson QowaI. Before Mr.. Wilson
had concluded the Senate adjourned In the
House Mr. Richardson CTenn.l presented the
majority report of the special committee that
has been investigating the Government printing
Office 1t is comprehensive defense OF Mr..
Benedicts management and a comparison bo-
tween that and Mr. Rounds management, with
conclusions tending to show that there has been
more economy and honesty of service and
much better condition Of affairs generally since
Mr.. Benedict assumed charge. 1t acquits MIR.
Benedict of every charge made against him.
minority report will be presented soon. The
House rejected the conference report on the
~pYrvPEiutfon Dill py vote OF 3S to 6l, and
senats fartaher to sas
ordered The House passed the Senate bill au-
thorizing the Leavenworth Rapid Transit Com
pany TO construct road across the Fort Leav-
enworth KAN military reservation; also the
Senate bill delaring that certain water-reserve
lands in Wisconsin are subject to the provisions
OF the act granting to railroad companies the
right of tlfOuRl the Dc lands the limit ad
States. The House went into committee OF the
whole on the deficiency bill. No pro2ress
made, however, as the point Of no quorum was
raised on an appeal from a decision of the
Speaker sustaining the point of order against
the French spoliation claims section Tho House
soon after adjourned.
THE Presidents message ON the subject Of the
fishery treaty was read in the Senate on the oath
Mr.. Edmunds, of Vermont Immediately took
the floor and in lengthy speech accused the
President OF making political move He said
that, though there was a statute providing for
self-defonse against Canadian injustice, the
country was now informed that no step OF any
kind had BEEN taken to carry into execution the
plain provisions OF that law. II. In the
opinion sont there hSa been
to American citizens engaged in the
business described in the act of 1887, why was
IL that the President had not taken any step In
posed upon him and the exercise Of the high
duty which the Constitution imposes ON him
OF taking care that the laws were faith
fully executed? Senators Hoar. Hale,
and Sherman also attacked the Presi
dents message and the whole course o. the
administration in the matter Of the fisheries
troubles. Senator Morgan defended the mes
sage. Republican opposition to this whole
fishery affair, said ho, had not been to get the
people or the Government into better shape,
but TO entrap the Executive and put him where
he would do the bidding OF the minority Of the
people represented by the majority of the Stn-
ate. He was gra.ihed TO know that the Presi-
dent did not feel alarmed at this at all. Mr..
Morgan favored putting 1t in the
power OF the President 10 retail
ate, and thereby convince Cheat Britain
and Canada that the United States had armed
Its local authorities with power enough to rect-
fy whatever wrong they mighs do, and that the
United States meant to execute its purpose un-
less they came to 8 me wiss and just and hon.
proposed to do something else, let him avow it.
II any Senator thought it was the duty OF the
President Immediately to proceed to re-. alate
wrongs that had been done to the United
States previous t. that time, let b m avow it,
Fifteen thousand copies OF the Presidents
fisheries treaty message have been ordered
printed by the House. This House Pensions
COMMITTEES reported Mrs. Sheridan's pension
bill with an amendment similar to that report
ed TO the Senate, reducing the amount to 81, 500
The House voted to noti-concur ia the Senate
amendments to the bill for the allotment OF
lands in severalty to the unitod Miami Indians
in the Indian Territory. The House went into
committee OF the whole on the deficiency bill,
hut rothinO waa xya