Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-02-23
FROM WASHINGTON.
Reagan Declares the Union
Is Menaced.
GENERAL ROSECRANS RETIRED,
But Only After Being FOrcibly
Reminded of His Bitter
Attack on Grant.
Associated Press Dispatches to the HERALD.

| Associated Press Dispatches to the HERALD.
| WASHINGTON, February 90. = In the
Senate, the Army Appropriation bill was
reported from the committee and placed
on the calendar. Hoar moved to take
up the election outrages resolution.
Agreed to. Yeas, 30; nays, 26. party
vote)
German took the floor, but yielded to
motion of Allison to proceed with the
consideration of the Sundry Civil APP
preparation bill. So ordered, the ques.
ton being on Hiscock's amendment,
appropriating 100000 for expenses OF
celebration of the centennial of the Con
stitution.
Hoar offered a substitute for the
amendment, which was agreed to. Il
declares Tuesday, April 80, 1889, the
anniversary of the Inauguration of the
first President of the United States, q
legal holiday, aud prescribes for the as.
sembling of both Houses of Congress in
the Hall of Representatives on the sec.
ond Wednesday in December, 1889, when
suitable ceremonies will be further held
in commemoration of that event, includ-
ing an address by the Chief Justice o.
the United States, in the presence of the
National and State officers and foreign
representatives.
Mitchell offered an amendment, which
was agreed to. appropriatiDg $6, 800 for 8
telegraph cable. two and half nautical
miles long, between Cape Flattery and
Tatoosh Island. The bill was then re.
ported back to the Senate and all the
amendments agreed to.
Daniel offered an amendment appro.
pr;ating 900 for a site and pedestal
for the statue of General Wiufield Scott
Hancock in the city of Washington.
Agreed to.
Plumb moved an amendment reliev.
ing honorably discharged soldiers and
sailors and their widows and children oi
the necessity of competitive examina
tion, suggesting, in connection with it.
the query: "Was it to be done with
their grandchildren ?" A point of order
was sustained and the amendment ex-
cluded. The bill passed, and the Senate
proceeded to the consideration of the
Agricultural Appropriation bill. George
moved an amendment strih ing
out the amendment for the distribu-
ton of seeds through Senators and
Representatives, and providing for their
distribution through the experimental
stations established by the various States
under the law of March 2, 1887, in con-
nection with agricultural colleges. Re-
jected.
Regan moved to strike out the para
| graph appropristing $500 for the en-
couragement of the raising Of raw silk
and $4,000 for study and experiments as
to the wild native silk worm of Califor-
| MIA. Rejected. The bill then passed.
The House amendments to The Senate
bill for pension to the widow Of General
Sheridan were MI. concurred in and con-
ference asked. The Senate then pro.
ceeded to the consideration OF q resolu-
tion reported by Evarts from the Com
mittee on Privileges and Elections, for
the revision of the existing laws regulat-
ing the election of members of Congress,
and Reagan addressed the Senate in op.
position to the resolution which he de-
clared to be for the purpose OF
carrying on crusade against the
| Southern States. He would vote against
the resolution because it was not war
ranted by the testimony; because the
Senate had no rightful jurisdi ction over
the question, and because the proposed
proceeding would be denial of the right
OF local self-government. If the feder-
atlve system were once broken down and
the capacity of the people of State for
! self-government were denied, en- the
Union was destroyed and the liberties OF
the country sacrificed.
AT the close of Reagan's speech, Hoar
moved that the resolution be laid aside,
and his resolution, instructing the Com
mlttee on Privileges and Elections to in
vestigate the election outrages in certain
States, be taken up. Several, roll-calls
followed on Hoar's motion, on motions
to adjourn and 60 into executive
session, and finally, without action, the
Senate adjourned.
THE HOUSE.
WASHINGTON, February 22 AS the
Clerk finished reading yesterdays jour
nal the rival chairmen of the important
committees of Ways and Means and Ap.
preparations were on the floor claiming
recognition. The Speaker recognized
Mills, who called up the resolution touch
ing the constitutional right of the Senate
to amend the Mills bill by means of
substitute dealing with the entire sub
1ect OF taXatlon.
Randall, stating that he had reports TO
make from the Committee on Rules,
raised the question of consideration.
The House refused-yeas S8, nays 143
to consider the Mills resolution.
The following Democrats voted in
the negative: Bliss, Bryce, Cand-
Ter, ChiDman, Clements, Cowles,
Grain, Cumming, Dibble, Greenman,
Hall, Henderson of North Carolina.
Hopkins OF Virginia, Johnston of North
Carolina, Latham, Lynch, Merriman,
O'Farrall, Cultivate. Pennington, Ran
dali, Rowland, Simmons, Spinola, Stew
art of Georgia. Vance, Washington and
Wise. Bland, of Missouri, also voted
in the negative, but did so only for the
purpose of moving reconsideration. AL
motion to that effect, made by him, was
promptly met by Randall with motion
to table. The motion to reconsider was
tabled; yeas 116, nays SO.
The Committee on Rules reported a |
resolution for beginning business in the
House at 10 o'clock hereafter. the frat
hour to be for business by unanimous |
consent
Bland, of Missouri, objected TO the
resolution on the ground that the time of
the House should b devoted to the con.
sideration of the Appropriation bills and
the California contested election case.
The Committee on Rules reported
resolution for the immediate considera-
tion of the Senate bill GRANTING a nana;on