The Portland daily press., 1888-09-22
In the Senate.

In the Senate.
Senator Stewart introduced bill in the
Senate to-day regulating the presentation of
Dllls and joint resolutions to the President of
the United States, which was referred to the
committee on rules. 1t makes 1t the duty of
the Speaker of the House and of the Presi-
dent OF the Senate to have bills and Joint
resolutions presented forthwith to the Presi-
dent in person and to have the fact reported
to their respective houses. Mr.. Stewart also
offered resolution reciting the statements
In the public press that the presentation of
bills to the President is frequently DELAYED
lor several days, and sometimes for weeks by
the House committee on enrolled bills and
resolving that the Senate as branch of the
legislative department of the government
call the attention of the House to such DELAYS
IN presenting bills to the President, and ask
the House to require its officers to present
such bills without unnecessary DELAY. He
desired to submit some remarks but deferred
them until the agricultural department bill
be disposed of.
The House bill to make department of
agriculture one of the executive departments
OF the government was then taken up. fine
question being to strike out the fifth section
which transfers the weather bureau of the
signal service to the department of agrieul-
ture.
Senator Reagan sent to the clerks desk a
substitute Tor the whole bill. 1t was for
creating department of industry embracing
both internal and foreign as well as
agricultural.
The Senate voted 80 to against the trans
Ter OF the weather bureau to the department
Of agriculture
department of agriculture with a secretarv
VINO shall hold position in the cabinet and
De appointed as are the other cabinet officers
and paid the same salary. 1t also provides
1or an assistant secretary to be paid the
same s salary as the first assistant secretary of
the Interior Department.
"A committee of conference was ordered on
sdisagreeing votes, and Senators Palmer, Sa-
DIN, and George appointed conferees. The
conference report on the sundry civil appro-
prlatlon Dill was agreed to.
senator Stewart inquired what had be-
come OF MS amendment regarding the land
and timber frauds.
senator Allison replied that the Senate
conferees had yielded that point.
senator Stewart thereupon proceeded to
re-state his views on the subject from manu-
script.
After Senator Cockrell had replied to Sen
at0r Stewart Senator Sherman asked Mr..
Allison whether the conference report COW
cred all matters in dispute between the two
houses.
1ShoeoA 1AuloOD ItpL6u I0dL the only Qu6S-
tlons on which the conferees had been una
pie 70 agree was the amendment as to the
new library building.
senator Sherman suggested that there was
no sense In keeping up controversy be-
tween the two Houses as to the library build
ing. The Senate could not agree to the
House proposition to break existing con-
tracts and make new start. In his judg-
ment, the only proper course was to drop the
whole subject for the present He moved
That the Senate insist on its disagreement to
the House proposition but recede from its
own amendment in the way of a substitute.
senator Allison made detailed statement
OF the positions of the House and Senate
ccqn1erees and expressed the opinion that the
House proposition involved the entire sus-
pension OF work until the next Congress.
certainly for year and a.half or two years.
senator Hale, one of the conferees, ex-
pressed the belief that some plan could be
agreed upon that would embody the two
IDEAS of each House, that of
the House being that the charge of the work
shall be taken away from the present man
agement, and that of the Senate being that
mere shall be no unreasonable delay in the
construction of the building
senator Sherman moved to instruct the
senate conferees that, if the conferees of the
.wo Houses cannot agree, the Senate con-
,erees shall propose that the text of the
douse bill disagreed to by the Senatel be
stricken out of the bill. This motion was
agreed to and the conferees, on the part of
,he Senate Senators Allison. Hale and Cock
'elD were reappOinted. The Senate then
ADJOURNED until Monday.