Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1888-05-12
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Tuesday next he would reply to the at
tacks made on him yesterday in his alb
sence 10y Senator Voorhees,, and would
call attention to some singular omissions
OF the senator in his defense OF the pres
emit administration in its attitude toward
the Union veterans and in regard to
pension legislation. The conference
report on the house joint resolution Re.
eepting the invitation of the French re-
public to take part in the international
exposition in Paris in 1889, was agreed
TO. 1t fixes the appropriation at $780,
900, The senate passed a number of
building bills and the house bill to
authorize the Kansas Valley railway to
construct and operate railway,
through the Fort Riley reservation in
Kansas, and granting right of way 100
feet in width to the Kansas City Y Pa
cific railroad company through Indian
Territory. AdiS lrned till Monday.
HoUsE,-The senate bill passed for the
Omaha tribe of Indians in Nebraska,
and to extend the time of payment to
purchasers of the land of said Indians.
The house then went into committee
of the whole on the tariff bill. Buchanan
of New Jersey opposed the bill, which
he said struck a blow at almost every
industry in his district. He denounced
in general and in detail the provisions
of the bill. Hemphill of South Carolina
said he could not conceive a system
more unjust, unreasonable, unfair and
Uurighteous than the protective system.
He earnestly appealed to every gentle
man who had the faintest conception of
Justice to lend his aid to the pending
bill. The house held an evening session
for debate ON the tariff.
SENATE. The senate committee on
education and labor at its meeting to.
day ordered favorable reports on the
following: Senator Blairs bill to re-
strict the sale of opium in the District
of Columbia and the territories; house
bill to establish a department of labor:
senate joint resolution proposing an
amendment to the constitution forever
prohibiting the manufacture, impolta.
ton, expectation and transportation and
sale of liquors in the United States
| Senator Call was authorized to report.
as from the COMMITTEES, his bill of last
congress to establish national college
of dental science i'll Washington.
HoUsE.-The house adopted resolu-
ton calling on the secretary of the
treasury for information relative to the
seal fisheries in Alaska. The house
then went into committee of the whole
| springer, of Illinois, in the chair on
| the tariff bill. Brewer, of Michigan,
! gladly welcomed the issue presented by
| the pending measure. For three years
| of democratic administration the demo-
cratic party had played inst and loose
on the great tariff question, until the
necessities of the government had com
| PEELED the administration to take some
/ decided position, and lie honored the
| president for having forced his party to
| stop its double-dealing and define its
| attitude (iof. of West Virginia, spoke
| in opposition to tine bill President
| Cleveland's cold blooded indifference to
/ the benefits of the people was entitled
| to precedence over all emanations from
| the executive mansion in all our history
| Lands, of Illinois, submitted an argu
ment in support of the bill and in oppo,
| sitinn to the protective theory.
SESATE.-Senator Stewart introduced
bill to require the purchase and coin
age of not less than "a 100000 worth OF
silver bullion per month. He said the
bill involved no new principles, and
asked that it be read first and second
time and laid on the table. 1t was SO
ordered. resolution offered last week
| by Senator Hale calling on the secreta
~ of the interior for information rs to
appointments III his department below
the surface grade since March 1885, wa:
adopted. The senate then proceeded
to the consideration of the railroad lant
forfeiture bill. Senator Paddock of
fered an amendment providing tina
nothing in the act should be construed
as limiting the rights granted to pur
chasers of or settlers by the forfeiture
act of the Sd of March, 1887, or as re
pealing, altering or amending that act
Adopted. The international copyrigh
bill was then taken up, and after somt
debate and the adoption Of minol
amendments went over and the senate
adjourned.
! HoUsE.-The senate bill was passed
granting right of way through Indian
Territory to the Kansas City & Pacific
railroad company. The house then
vent into committee Of the whole
Springer, of Illinois, in the CHAIR on
the tariff bill McCrcary, of Kentucky,
took the floor President Cleveland
he said, had made himself conspicuous
before the whole country by the wisdom
and courage exhibited IN his annual
message when he recommended tax re-
form and the reduction OF the surplus.
Congress should long ago have reduced
taxation, but the journals of the house
would show that the repeated efforts Of
the democratic party lit that direction
we're thwarted by tho gentlemen on the
other side He then turned his atten-
5ion to that portion of K6liy's tariff
4 speech in which that gentleman draws
/ an unfayorable condition of affairs in
! Kentucky and the speaker declared the
statements made by the gentleman were
marvellous and gross misreTFesenta'
tions. Foran, of Ohio, opposed the
| bill. He discussed it at some length
and earnestly opposed the proposition
to place wool on the free list.
SESATE-After the transaction Of rou.
tame business, the senate went into ex.
eeutive session. This being the first
secret session for several days, the ac-
cumulation OF nominations by the pres.
ident, among them that of Mr.. Fuller to
be chief justice, were referred to COM
mittees and number of reports, mostly