The Russellville Democrat., 1888-06-28
NEWS IN BRIEF,
Compiled frsn Various Sources
CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS.

IN the Senate, on the 18th, there were bu half a dozen Republican and less than score of Democratic Senators present throughout ths days proceedings. House bill for the repro sentation of the executive departments Of the Government at the Columbus tO1 Centennial Exposition was passed, with amendment appropriating sS0,0o1 A number Of unim portant and private bills were passed, and tts treaty providing for reopening Of claims os American citizens against the Vcnczuelan Go, srnment was ratified.. ... In the House consi6- eration of the Sundry Civil Appropriation bili took up most Of the day Under the point Of order of no quorum, the House was prevented from passing resolutions spproprating ta5,0e for the celebration of the Twenty-ffth asnver sary Of the battle of Gettysburg, and authora ing the loan Of tents, etc, to tho Army Of the Potomac on the same occasion. Several oilli of no general importance were passed.
 IS the Senate, on the 18th, bills were passed authorizing contracts with the Pneumatic Gun Carriage Company to supply gun ear rfages to tho Government and appro priating sieoOD therefor; and appropriat ing s6o1OOo for a fre-proof building for the uso of the National Museum to be erected In the Smithsonian grounds. .. Tn tho House, two private pension bills we're returned by the President without his approval. Consideration of the Sundry Civil Appropriation bill was re- sumed, the pending paragraph being that reiat ing to the new Congressional library. During the debate 1t was claimed that the original es inmates for the building now being construct cd were S3,0oA0O0. Later estimates showed that it would cost from sa00o 900 to SIP Ooj 0o0. A resolution in the Dorm of an amendment was adopted directing the Senate aud House com. mittees on public grounds to invite plans for a library, not to exceed 8 900 0o) in cost from five eminent architects, and to report to the next session; meanwhile the work on the library building to be stopped, and the Library Com. mission to be dissolved
 IN the Senate on tho 2oth, message from the President was read vetoing the pension bill of a widow on the ground that her husband had died of consumption. The bill to enlarge the act of June, 1872, providing for the dis tribution of the awards made under the con vention with Mexico, July, 1888, was reported. minority report was presented, and Mir. Brown read speech on it for an hour. Bill and reports laid on the table .. In the House, discussion of the Sundry Civil bill was re- sumed in committee Of the whole, and on mo tion of Mir. McAdoo, Of New Jersey, an item was inserted appropriatng t30,0o0 for post office building at Hobohen, N. J.
 IN the Senate, on the e1st @ brief secret ses- sion was held, after which, on motion of Mir. Blair, the body adjourned in eommemoration of the one-hundredth anniversary of the rati- tication of the Constitution by the State of New Hampshire, and the consolidation of the States
 
 House, consideration of the Sundry Civil bill was resumed. During the debate on the bill, Mir. Townshend, of Illinois, said that the most stupendous lie he ever heard had cmanated to- day from the Chicago convention, which had declared that the Democratic party had never forfeited any Of the land grants, whereas, 1t had recovered sO,o00G0o acres of the public land. Several amendments of minor importance were adopted, but consideration of the bill was not finished up to time of adjournment, at p. m.
 THE Senate was not in session on the 2ed. In the House joint resolution was passed ex- tending to Florida and Louisiana the provisions of the act of May i4, 1888, relating to the dis posal of public lands. Consideration of the Sundry Civil bill was resumed in committee Of the whole and after discussing several amend ments, some of which were adopted, the com mittee rose, and the bill was passed. The Naval Appropriation pin was amended and passed. An evening session was held at which thirty y-seven private pension bills were passed