The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1888-06-28
CONGRESS.
An Abstract of the More Important
Proceedings in Both Houses.
WEDNESDAY. JUNE 20.

i IUIJCulHS3O III bUIl A4puOOCt
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 20.
The absence of Members n both branches of
Congress continues, and whenever roli-call is
demanded by any Member or Senator, the per-
son who asks for it is usually prevailed upon
to withdraw his demand, as n call of the roll
would develop the fact of no quorum.
The President sent in his daily veto of
widows pension-that of Mrs Virtue Smith
whose husband was bugler in Minnesota
regiment, who, though wounded badly in an
Indian campaign in 1862, and afterward dis
charged in consequence of said wound and
pensiOned for the same at the rate of $40 per
month, could find no connecting link between
the disability for which the soldier had been
pensioned and the disease which caused his
death.
The Senate considered the bill for awards
under the Mexican Treaty, besides passing
large number of private pension bills.
In the House the Sundry Civil Appropria-
ton Bill was discussed at length. Another
veto message was sent to this branch OF Con-
gress by The President-that Of Mrs. Elizabeth
Burr widow of VIM. Burr, who died of dropsy,
the Executive claiming that the disease was
not contracted in the service.
THURSDAY, JUNE 81.
The Senate was in session only an hour to-
day, and but little besides executive business
transacted. When they adjourned it was until
Monday, June %.
In the House the District of Columbia APP
preparation Bill-which had been received
back from the Senate with amendments-was
taken up, and several amendments being nom
concurred in, Committee of Conference was
ordered.
The different appropriation bills were dis
eussed throughout the day, amendments of
various kinds ordered, when the House ad-
jQurned at o'clock p. m.
FRIDAY, JUNE %.
The Senate was not in session to-day.
The House went into Committee of the Whole
this morning on the sundry civil appropria-
ton bill. In connection with the paragraph
making an appropriation for special assistants
to District Attorneys, Mr.. Oates, of Alabama,
defended reaction of the Department Of Justice
in prosecuting the telephone suit, saying that
the officers of the Department Of Justice, the
Commissioner of Patents, the law officers of
the Interior Department., and the Secretary of
the Interior himself acting independently, had
declared the prosecution to be just and necessary
to the public good. He deprecated any reduc-
tion of the appropriation for the purpose.
Mr.. Snowden pa denounced the account of
/ Mr.. Lowery, one of the special counsel, as
wholly unjustifable. He wanted to know if
it was true that the Attorney General, with his
assistants and the United States District At
! torneys, could not represent the Government
/ for the salary they received, and not allow
/ the Government 10 be mulcted IN 100000 for
/ one suit.
Mr.. Breckenridge ARK. and Mr. Oates (Ala.)
/ united in q denial that the Attorney General
/ had had anything to DO with the telephone
suits, which led Mr.. Buchanan to remark sar-
/ castically that he would not undertake to say
/ that the Attorney General had anything to do
with running the Department Of Justice. The
committee then rose and the bill was passed.
! On motion Of Mr.. Herbert (Ala) the House
again resolved itself into Committee Of the
! Whole on the Naval appropriation bill.
Without making any substantial amend
ments, except to provide an appropriation of
/ $4,000 for guns for the new dynamite cruiser
! Nesuvius, the committee rose and the bill was
passed.
Mr. Holman (Ind.) called up the unfinished
business being the general land bill, but be-
fore any progress was made the House, after
passing. at the instance OF Mr.. McAdoo, of New
Jersey, the Senate bill to restore to their status
in the Navy certain cadet engineers of the class
of 1661yS2, took a recess until 8 o'clock, the
evening session TO be for the consideration OF
private pension bills.
At the evening session the House passed 81
private pension bills and at 1890 o'clock ad-
journed.
SATURDAY, JUNE %.
The Senate was not in session to-day.
In the House, Mr.. Belmont IN. Y } presented
the conference report on the international
Maritime Conference Bill, and it was agreed to-
The conferrees recommended an increase OIL
the number of delegates from five to seven, two
to be Naval officers, one officer Of the Life.
Saving Service two Captains Of the merchant
marine aud two citizens skilled III shipping
and admiralty practice. The appropriation is
fixed at $4,000, as it was in the original Bel
mont bill. The time and place of meeting is
it, ~,
pr0viso that the commission Of the delegate!
shall expire Jan. j. 1890
Mr. Belmont also reported, from the Com
mittec on Foreign Affairs the bill introduced
by him to give effect to the Chinese treaty
, The only amendments are provisions takeI
from the Morrow bill, making the bill takt
effect upon the ratification Of the treaty anC
allowing six months during which Chinese
may return upon certificates. The report i
unanimous Mr.. Morrow consenting to TIT
recommendation that his bill lie upon the
: table.
The contested election cases Of the House il
this Congress have thus far cost $23 43019 di
vided as follows For allowance to contestant
and contestees in full for expenses incurred by
them in contested election eases: J. =. Morgan
SOL q. H. Thobe. $1,000; j. b. White, - 600
w. o. Arnold, $3.50; +. VI. Simmons, 1920
William Vaudever, s.. 600; Y. r. Worthiugtou
: $1,000; a. G. Davidson, $1,000; J. V. McDutfy
92,UUJ; j. u. 1ynch, S2,UOB; i. ,. POST, a%,OUO
Robert Smalls, - 600; ]. q. Carlisle, 81 207 10
) William Elliott, $1,000; in all so, 1901
e The appropriation has been inserted in til
Sundry Civil Bill. Several of the claims wer
], for larger sums, but the law limits the allow
ance for each party to $1,000. Thobe, VIII
n contested Mr.. CarlisIe's election claimed 4 700
0 Rowell of Illinois, tried to get Posts aIlowanc
: raised to $7G69, and White, of Indiana, mad
S a bold fight in the House to have his ow
S allowance increased to s. 800; but in each cas-
: the party had to submit TO the limitations {
IS the law.
The Secretary of the Treasury sent to Tn
: House Of Representatives supplementary dc
!, fcency estimates required by the several Dc
u partmcnts Of the Government to complete th
o service of the fiscal year 1883 and for prio
years, aggregating $2I7, 326; also, an estimat
{, of SAT- 1893 for DEFICIENCIES in the postal service
/ All the general appropriation bills hayin
i been disposed of, and there being no desire I
e resume consideration of the tarG until aftc
the Chicago convention there was q contest j
n the House over order of business. The Con
d mittee on Public Buildings ultimately obtaine
Al the floor for their bills but some Member
K present demanded quorum, and as a quorul
'e could not be obtained, the House adjourne
g at 2:30
u MONDAY, JUNE 25.