Morning journal and courier., 1889-02-26
Fiftieth Congressional Session

mains, which consisted of trunks, arms, legs and skulls.
 Fiftieth Congressional Session
 WASHINGTON, Feb. 25
 SENATE.-Among the lighthouse bills re- ported from the committee on commerce and passed were those for lights at the western end of Coney Island, N. Y., ($25, ,000), for 8 Eghtship at the wreck of the steamship Ore gon in New York hsrbor, and for light house and fog bell on Oyster Bed shoal, in Hudson river, (s35 ,060). The House amend- ments for lighthouse aud fog signal on Orchard Shoals, Princess bay, New York, were non-eoncurred in, and conference was asked.
 The request for conference on the House amendments to the Senate bill granting pensien to Mrs. Gen. Sheridan (reducing it from s3, 800 to $2, 800 and making it sub ject to the pension laws) was withdrawn by MT. Davis; and the amendments were con- cured in.
 divide portion of the Sioux reservation in Dakota was taken up, read, amended and passed. the reading occupying an hour. On motion of Mir. Bowen the Senate bill to rat- ify and confirm an agreement with the south ern Ute Indians in Colorado and to make the necessary appropriations for carrying it into effect was taken up and read. Mr. Plumb moved to insert an additional section to con- tinue the agreement as validating claims on lands that have been entered under the min. ing laws.
 The amendment was agreed to and the bill passed.
 The army appropriation bill was then taken up.
 The consideration of the bill had not been concluded when at 3 o'clock message was received from the house announcing the death of Mir. Burns, of Missouri, on January 24th last.
 MT. Cockrell offered resolutions that the senate has received with profound sorrow the announcement of MT. Burns death ard tenders to his family the assurance of sym- pathy in it's sad bereavement; that the busi- dess of the senate be suspended so that op- portunity may be given for fitting tributes to the memory of the deceased and to his emi- nent public and private virtues, and that at the conclusion of such remarks the senate as 8 further mark of respect adjourn.
 MT. Cockrell reviewed the life and charac- ter of MT. Burns, and was followed by MT. Ingalls,, who also made appropriate re- marks. Eulogies were also pronounced by Senators Vorhees, Hale, Hampton, Coke and Vest, the latter suggesting as fitting epitaph: "Here lies one much loved, much hated, but never despised by friend or foe."
 The resolutions were adopted and the Ssn- ate at 4:25 adjourned till Il am. tomorrow.
 MOAE
 HoUsE.-The last week of the Fiftieth Congress was ushered in by flibustering, set in motion by Mir. Bland, who raised the point of no quorum upon the approval of the journal After delay of few minutes MT. Bland withdrew his point of order in order to enable o. F. Booher to qualify as the suc- ceesor Of J. N. Burnes Mir. Booher having qualified and the journal having been sp- proved, MT. Bland resumed his dilatory tactics and moved @ recess for thirty min utes. The hour of Il found the tellers still at their posts, and then MT. Bland, having accomplished his object in nullifying the or der assigning one hour to the consideration of measures called up by unanimous consent, withdrew his motion.
 The house then on vote by tellers, de- cided-127, 43-to consider the conference report.
 MT. O'Neal demanded the yeas and nays, but not being able to muster sufficient strength to support his demand, resorted to flibustering methods and moved an ad- iournm ent. He was ably seconded by Mir. Bland, who interjected a motion that when the house adjourn to-day it be to meet on Wednesday next. After some time the mo- tions were withdrawn and the conference re- port was agreed to. The Senate amend- ments were non concurIed in to the agricultural appropriation bill. Mr. Crisp then called up the contested elec- tion case, and MT. Savers, in the interest of the deficiency appropriation bill, raised the question of consideration. The House de- cided-yeas 116, nays 102-to consider the election case, but MT. Kenna, who had voted in the affirmative for this purpose, moved a reconsideration.
 MT. Crisp moved to table that motion. This time the edict of "don't vote" went forth and the Republicans withheld their votes. The vote resulted, yeas 124, nf the House was ordered. The 251 members who responded to their names faded away when the vote recurred on the motion to table the motion to reconsider; and only 124 were foand recorded in the affirmative, while cipher represented the negative vote. The hours passed and there was no change in the situation. Time and again Mir. Sayres called attention to the fact that it was impossible for the Honse to pro- ceed to-day with the election case and ap- pealed to the House to allow the deficiency bill to be taken up. The Republicans ex- pressed their assent to this proposition, but a demand for the "regular order" from MT Crisp operated in each case as an objection On one occasion MT. Crisp expressed his de- | termination to keep the House in continuous session until the election case was taken uI ! if he could receive the support of his side ol | the House.
 A 5:15 the House wearied of its inactivity ! AuJOOIhCA.
 THE SUNDAY CIVIL BILL. The house committee on appropriation has passed upon the senate amendments tt the sundry civil appropriation bill. Concur renee is recommended in the following items Making appropriations for statues to Sheri
 dan, Hancock and Logan; for tablets, site
 and roadways on Gettysburg battlefield; fo
 lighting the Raritan river, N.J., Indian river l Fla. and Washington Sound, Wash. Ter.
 for the expense of the international bureau o
 customs tariffs, Brussels; for ventilating tn
 Supreme court room; and for survey of tn
 Gulf of Mexico to select site for a deer
 water harbor. All other material amend
 ments will be non-concurred in.
 Pardoned After Twenty-Five Years
 BOSTON, Feb. 25.-Joseph Bent, life
 convict, who has already served twenty-6v years for the killing of a sailor on an Amer
 can whaling vessel in 1864, was discharge
 to-day, his pardon having been granted b
 President Cleveland. Bent, whose real nam is Joseph Noneto, is Portuguese, aged 7s | D~1e