Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-07-26
NEWS UF THE WEEK.
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CONGRESSIONAL

IL the Senate on the 10th the House joint
resolution passed electing Colonel Harris, OF
Ohio, General Martin, OF Kansas, and General
Hartranf, of PENNSYLVANIA, managers Of the
National Soldiers Homes to III vacancies The
bill appropriating. - 900 TO erect monument
in the city of Louisville. KY, 10 General George
Rogers Clark in recognition Of his services in the
conquest of the Northwest Territory passed after
q number Of Senators had spoken Of the great
deeds OF the Revolutionary hero. The Fish
cries treaty was then further discussed, after
which the Senate adjourned. -. In the House
the Tariff bill again had the right OF way and
after q long talk the wool clause, as reported
by the committee, was adopted by vote OF 10
TO 1G2. The bill was further debated, pending
which the House adjourned.
THE Sundry Civil Appropriation bill was
reported in the Senate on the 18th and placed
on the calendar. The bill 10 place General
Fremont on the retired list of the army with
the rank OF Maior-General was passed By vote
OF 90 to 81. The bill to adjust laborers' claims
under the Eight-hour law also passed. The
conference report on the Post-ofice Appropria-
tion bill was agreed TO, the Senate receding
from the subsidy amendment. The bill
admitting the Territory OF Washington
as a State was taken up and the
Senate adjourned . Soon after assembling the
House went into Committee Of the Whole on
the Tariff bill and its consideration completed:
the time OF its going into effect was placed at
October !, 1888. Mr.. Mills gave notice that he
would call the previous question on the passage
OF the bill at II :31 o'clock Saturday. At the
evening session bills reported by the Com
merce Committee were considered and 2 rum
Der passed.
TIE Senate on the 18th had under con-
siderstion the bill to admit Washington Ter
rtory into the Union. An amendment was
~ t0 ,po do in n y10-finp 0f
Idaho Pending consideration OF the bill the
Senate went into executive session and then
adjourned . Soon after meeting the House
went into Committee OF the Whole on the Tariff
bill and after considering it some time and
adopting several committee amendments the
committee rose and the House adjourned.
THE Senate on the 18th passed a number
OF bills, among them bill providing for an ad-
ditional justice Of the Supreme Court OF Da-
kota: amending the act OF 1888 as to postal
crimes: House bill supplementary to the Pacific
Railroad acts, requiring the Pacific roads to
maintain and operate telegraph lines and to
afford equal facilities to all connecting lines
After lengthy executive session, the Senate
adiour ed..--.After disposlng OF unimportant
business, the House, in Committee Of the
Whole, resumed consideration OF the Tariff
bill. Mr.. Springer, of Illinois, made speech
in favor of the free wool clause OF the bill Con-
SlUeTdJ On OF OIL Was cOulp!ttcu anu IL " dS
reported to the House with the recommended
tion that IL pass. BY a vote OF 14l yeas to 81
nays the House refused to pass the Allentown
Public Building bill over the Presidents veto.
At the evening session the bill passed requiring
that the army be paid monthly whenever the
Secretary of War may so direct. Adjourned.
THE Senate on the 10Th, after passing a
public building bill and placing the Naval Ap-
preparation bill on the calendar, went into ex-
ecutive session to consider the nomination Of
Melville w. Fuller 10 be Chief Justice Of the
Supreme Court When the doors were opened
il was understood that the nomination had been
confirmed by a vote Of Al TO %. Consideration of
the Fisheries treaty was then resumed and con-
tinued until adjournment. -. The first business
before the House was the bill coming over from
the session of the day before appropriating
$4,000 to aid State homes for disabled soldiers.
The bill, which was Senate bill, finally passed.
The conference report on the River and Harbor
bill was presented and agreed to. At the even
ing session twenty-four private pension bills
passed.