Omaha daily bee., 1889-12-19

WASHINGTON, Dec. 1S.-Mr. Mckinley of
Ohio, from the committee on ways and means,
reported q concurrent resolution for a holi.
day recess from December u until January
9. Agreed to.
The speaker having laid before the house
a message from the president recommending
that the limit of the international marine
conference be extended for two months, Mr..
Hitt of Illinois introduced a joint resolution
extending that authority until March l. 1890,
which was passed.
On motion of Rowell of illinois the COM
mittee on elections was granted leave to sit
during the session of the house.
Mckinley. from the committe on rules, re-
ported a resolution Tor an immediate roll call
OF the states for the introduction ana refer
ence of bills. Adopted. Before this order
was carried out MIR. Payne, from the Silcott
committee, reported a resolution authorizing
the sergeant at-arms to offer a reward of
$5,0 DOC for-the arrest and delivery to the ma r
shall of the District of Columbia of c. E. Sill
colt, the absconding cashier, the reward to
be paid out of the contingent fund of the
house. Adopted.
Under the call of the states the following
bills were introduced and referred:
TO reduce the tobacco tax; to regulate
immigration and to amend the naturalization
laws; also to prohibit aliens from acquiring
title to lands in the United States; to declare
the forfeiture of all unearned land grants;
10 provide II graduated income lax; TO pre-
vent the contraction of the currency; to re-
peal all laws requiring the accumulation of
gold for the redemption of treasury notes;
for the free coinage of silver; to permit the
president to veto separate items in general
appropriation bills.
BY MIR. Hltt-To promote commercial union
with Canada.
BY Mr.. Lawler-To pay Colonel John
George Ryan 500, 900 damages. (He was
arrested charged with being John Surratt) T;
nlen 4, n,n II, - conn ono e., ,a,~,; 49,
office building at Chicago; also 10 place letter
carriers who have served twenty years en-
the retired list on half pay; also remove the
tax of 2 cents a pound on oleomargarine.
BY Mr., Misunderstanding it to be the
sense of the house that tine committee on
ways and means should report at an early
day a plan and rate of taxation by which
$3.50, 000, 900 shall be raised annually on
incomes and salaries in excess of s., 900.
BY Mr.. Holman-To preserve the purity Of
the electoral franchise.
BY Mr.. Henderson of Iowa-To declare
unlawful trusts and combinations in re-
straint of trade and production.
BY Mr.. C~onger-Deiuing lard, aud N
posing q tax on the manufacture, sale, i'm
pcrtation or exportation of compound lard.
BY MIR. Anderson of Kansas-To create q
postal telegraph.
BY Mi. Perkins Of Kansas-To open to
homestead settlement certain portions of the
Indian territory.
by Mr.. Turner Of Kansas-To shorten to
three years the period required in home
stealing public lands
by Mr.. Morse of Massachusetts, re-
peal the interstate law
BY Mr.. Dockery of Missouri-To ascertain
the amount of Indebtedness of the farmers of
the United States and the percentage of far
mers who are tenants; also to enlarge the
free list and equalize taxation.
by Mr.. Frank of Missouri-For the loca-
ton of the worlds fair at st. Louis.
BY Mr.. Spinola-For the retirement Of
John G. Fremont with the rank of major
general.
BY Mr.. Ewart of North ~Carolina-For the
total repeal of the interna. revenue laws.
BY Mr.. Butterworth-For full reciprocity
between the United States and Canada; also
to regulate the manufacture and sale of
counterfeit or compound lard.
BY Mr.. Grosyenor-To provide for an in
crease Of the pension to minor children; also
to make the minimum rate of the pension SIS
per month.
BY MIR. E. b. Taylor-To restore the
former rate Of duty on imported wool.
BY MIR. Enloe-TO prohibit gambling con-
tracts in agricultural and other products;
also q resolution calling on tho secretary of
the interior for information in regard TO the
Tanner investigation.
by various delegates-For the admission
into the union of Idaho, New Mexico and
Wyoming.
Among the bills introduced for the GREG
ton of public buildings were the following:
At Bloomington, Galesburg, Sterling and
Aurora, MI Sioux City, Cedar Rapids,
Burlington, Fort Dodge and Davenport, la.
Grand Island. Kearney, Norfolk, Beatrice
and Hastings, Neb. Sioux Falls, Yankton
aud Aberdeen, S. D.; Eau Claire, Mani
towoc, Green Bay, Sheboygan and Racine,
Wis.
The number of bills introduced under the
call was 1854, Many Of these arc duplicates.
If not in language az least IN the subject
matter of their provisions.
The deaths of James Laird OF Nebraska.
S. S. Cox Of New York, N. w. Nutting of
were announced 10 the house, which, as "a
mark of respect to the memory of the de-
ceased, adjourned until Friday.