Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1888-02-09
CONGRESSIONAI. SuMMARY.

ported proposed constitutional amend
ment az TO the meeting of congress and
said be would ask the senate tomorrow
to take il ny and deal with it, Mr.. Sawyer
from the postofice committee reported
back adverse ~ the proposition TO reduce
letter postage TO ono cent. The report OF
the committee was discussed at length.
and the resolution finally aid over 20
make room for the Blair educational bill,
which occupied the attention OF the senate
uutil time for ad tournament.
HOUsE-' nder the call of states the fol-
lowing bills and resolutions were intro
duced and referred BY Mr. Oats Of
Alabama, TO prevent aliens from pre-
empting or entering homesteads; by Mr.
Townsend of Illinois, TO place salt in the
free list; by Mr.. Baker of Illinois, direct
ing the committee on postotiices and post
roads to inquire into the expediency of
reducing the postage OH seeds bulbs,
etc, and reducing TO cents the
fee for money orders for SO or
abolishing the tax on oleomargarine. Ey
Mr.. Turner of ansas. providing for
bounty on wheat, corn and flour exported
from the United States. BY Mr.. Cutcheon
of Michigan, calling upon the secretary of
war as TO what progress has been made in
the examination and adj Indication OF
claims for re muster of officers of the vol
unteer forces and how long It will be be-
fore the adjudication of those claims can
be completed with the present clerical
force of the Adjutant-GeneraPs Office;
also. resolution declaring 1t TO be the
sense Of the house that in any proposed
revision Of the tart the principle OF pro-
lection TO American industry and MAIN
tenance of wages of Americ an workmen
at the American standard, ought TO be dis
tinctlv recognized and firmly adhered to;
that duties ought not to be imposed for
revenue only, but the production of those
articles which the Uni ed States has album
dant raw material and labor 20 produce
ought to he protected sufficiently 10 en-
able American producers TO maintain Tree
competition in the American market, and
that articles on the free list thOuld be Sc
lected from among such necessaries of life
as are not produced in adequate quanti-
ties i'm this country. By Mr.. Tarsney of
Michigan, for the erection in W Washington of
statue to Gen. Custer BY Representative
Chapman OF Michigan a bill providing for
the fine and imprisonment OF any alien
who becomes chief officer, president, man
ager or director of corporation, or who
takes employment as conductor engi-
neer, brakeman, baggageman or switch
man or car driver on any steam or street
railroad, on any government or state con-
tract work, or on any vessel wholly en-
gagged in navigating l nited States waters.
Mr. Hatch Of Missouri called up the bill
making provision for agricultural expert
ment stations and on his motion the SEN
ate amendments merely tormaD were
concurred in. Mr.. Breckenridge OF Arkan-
sas introduced and had referred 20 the
wavs and means committee the Hewitt
administrative tariff bill, and the house
adjourned.
JANUARY 81. SENArE.-Mr. stewart of
Nevada introduced a bill to further re-
strict Chinese immigration, The Plumb
resolution for an investigation of alleged
Generalization of the postal service in the
west came up and provoked extended dis
cussion The senate then passed joint
resolution proposing an amendment TO
IL, Il 4 hot fhn
term of Office Of the president and the If
tieth congress shall continue until the 30th
day of April. lS>', at noon; that the SEN
ators whose existing term would other
wise expire on the 9Th of March, 1889, and
thereafter shall continue in Office until tho
9th of April succeeding such expiration;
that the SOth of April at noon thereafter
be substituted for the 4th OF March as the
commencement and termination or the
official term of president senators and
representatives in congress, and that
the twelfth article of the amend
ments to the constitution shall be
abandoned by striking out the words
'4th Of March" and substitute the words
'30th day Of April at noon" The Blair
educational bill was then taken up, and
Mr.. Evarts of New y DIRK addressed the
senate in its support Mr.. Evarts prefaced
his speech by saving he would he very
brief and apply his remarks TO such prin
cipal objections as he thought most
worthy of the attention OF the senate. The
bill had been widely discussed and he did
not propose TO renew agitation He adj
dressed his remarks wholly TO the necessity
of education and to lifting the masses out
of illiteracy, saying: IF ignorance could
not DO lifted out of the low level where ii
now rested it would not stay there, but
20 lower and lower and become brutal,
savage and hostile Other senators
spoke on the measure, and after executive
session the senate ad iourned.
HoUsE.-The resolution relating to the
Reading railroad str Ike was reported back
by Mr.. Clardy of Missouri from the COM
MERGE committee. with n substitute re-
questing the Interstate Commerce Com
mission to investigate the matter. An
adverse report on the bill 10 regulate the
rates of postage on second-class matter at
letter-car-ier Cilice, was submitted and
placed on the calender. The bill grant
ing pension TO the widow of Gen Logan
and increasing the pension of the widow
of Gen. Blair were reported by Mr.. Mer-
rill of Kansas, and placed on the private
calendar The house adopted "A resolution
fixing February 81, %. %. % and . for the
consideration of public building bills Mr..
Baumm of Pennsylvania, presented the
memorial OF tbs committee representing
-, 600 workingmen, asking an lnve stigation
of the Reading strike and IL was ordered
printed in the record. The house, on
motion of MIR. Anderson of Kansas. made
the resolution submitted by the committee
on commerce touching the investigation
OF the Reading strike special order for
tomorrow after the morning hour Mr..
O'Neill of Missouri, introduced bill TO
prohibit enlisted men from being engaged
in any employment where they come into
competition with civilians The house then
adjourned.
February !, SENATE.-Mr. Frye Of Maine,
from the committee on foreign relations,
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