Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-02-16
SENATE'S SUBSTITUTE.
A Resolution Declaring 1t Un-
 constitutional.
RIGHTS OF THE HOUSE UsURPED.

MT. Mills Reported the Resolution and It
 Will Be Debated Tuesday-House Agrees
 on Instructions to the Territorial Com
 mittee-The Panama Bill Passed.
 WASHINGTON, Feb 16-The house passed the resolutions instructing the conferrees on the territorial bill and the senate bill, en- abling the president to protect United States interests in Panama.
 Mr. Mills reported back the Mills tariff bill, with senate amendment, and by direction of the speaker it was referred to the committee of the whole.
 Mir Mills also reported the following reso- lution, the consideration of which, he said, he would ask the house to enter upon on Tues day next:
 Resolved, That the substitution by the senate, under tine form of an amendment for the bill of 1he house. No. 9,o51, (the Mills bilD of another and different bhl, containing general revision of the laws imposing import duties and internal taxes is in conflict with the true intent and pur- pose of section :, article 1, of the constitution, and that said bill be returned to the senate with the respectful suggestion that that section vests n the house of representatives the sole power to originate such a measure.
 MT. Reed (Me.) reseI we'd point of order against the resolution.
  remain upon the speakers table with the point of order reserved against it.
 Mir McCreary (Ky) reported back the senate bill appropriating $25O, 900 to enable the president to protect the interests of the United States in Panama. Brief speeches followed
 The question being on ordering the bill to third reading, Mir. Kigore (Tex) raised the point of no quorum
 The yeas and nays were ordered, but pend- ing the roll call the hour of 12:45 arrived, and the matter was laid aside temporarily to enable the house, under the special order, to consider the resolution introducing the house confelrees on the territorial bill as to the methods they should pursue ill arriving at an agreement. The pending motion was that to table the motion to reconsider the vote by which the house agreed to that portion of the resolution directing the conferrees to amend the bill as to provide for the admission of South Dakota under the Sioux Falls con stitution by proclamation of the president, without a new vote being taken on the question of division.
 By vote of IA to 1O9 the house tabled the motion. Tho remaining instruction relative to the admission of North Dakota, Montana and Washington by proclamation was agreed to without division and the bill again sent to conference after the adoption of the prelimi- nery instructing clause by vote of: Yeas, 14e; nays, lOl.
 The house resumed the consideration of the Panama bill.
 Mr. Kilgore withdrew his point of no quo rum, and the bill was passed. THE SENATE. The senate considered the Texas elections resolution and the resolutions on the death of Representative Robertson The credentials of William D. Washburn | of Minnesota, for the term beginning March next, were placed on the files of the senate STILL MORE TARIFF BILL. ! The house committee on ways and means will begin at once the preparation of a tariff bill, with which to antagonize the internal revenue bill agreed upon by the appropriation | committee The bill will contain the free list of the Mills bill, its wool sections, and the internal revenue sections of the Cowles bill. The house committee on ways and means ! will report tariff bill, prepared by Mir. Mo Milan, embracing the principal features of | the Mills bill and reducing the revenue about ! $7O, 100000 The Randall bill reduces the | revenue about $33, ,OOO, ,OOO The Cowles bill, | for which the Randall bill is substitute re- duces the revenue about S22, 900, 900. Both | the Randall bill and the McMillan bill will be | reported to the house, and lively fight is ex- pected over the Randall bill, the members of | the ways and means committee declaring | that it shall not go on the calendar if they ! can prevent it. Conference reports, which | are privileged, will be offered to prevent the ! house voting on it. It is understood that the Republicans will support the Randall bill | soidly and that seventy Democrats have pledged themselves to support it, and secure for it consideration.
 coLMAN's COMMISSION SIGNED ! The president signed the commission of Norman J. Colman to be secretary of agri-
 culture. Secretary Colman took the oath of
 office ill the department library, in the pres ence of all the employees of the department The oath was administered by Mir. o. D.
 Ladow, the secretary's private secretary. AN EXTRA SESSION CERTAIN.
 Republicans in the house say that the prac- tical determination of the passage of the omnibus bill for the admission of the terri
 tories will not affect the prospects of an extra session of the Fifty-first congress. A large number of them were interviewed yester- day and they expressed the belief that there | would be an extra session called by President Harrison. A ma jority of them believe that
 the extra session will be held, beginning about the middle of April while the rest ex- pect that congress will be called together in October
 | STEAM PRESSES WILL STAY. ! MT. Hiscock presented to the senate the re- port of the finance committee on the bill
 whose object is the substitution of hand work
 for steam presses in the bureau of engraving
 and printing. The committee makes an elab-
 crate report, the substance of which is that
 there is a saving of more than $500, ,OOO a year to the government in the use of the
 steam presses, and that the work done by
 them is as good, if not better, than the work
 done by hand The report was agreed to and
 the bill indefinitely postponed.
 One Taken, the Other Left.
 ALEXANDRIA, Minn., Feb. 16-John Lee,
 the murderer, has expiated his crime upon