The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1889-01-31
THE SENATE AND HOUSE.
NATIONAL LAWMAKERS AND WHAT
THEY ARE DOING.

Proceedings of the Senate and House of
Representatives Important Measures
/ Discussed and Acted On Gist of the
| Business.
/ MIR. CoCKRELL, from the Committee on Mill.
tary Affairs, reported to the Senate on the DIST
inst., the Senate bill to authorize the Omaha.
Fort Dodge and Southern Railway Company to
Dulid It's road across the military reservation in
| Kansas, not exceeding one hundred feet in
width. and on motion of Mr.. Plumb the bill was
| passed The Senate occupied the balance
| of the day considering the tariff bin In tbe
House Mr.. Payson Qll.l, by introducing inoonse.
| quentlal bills and demanding their reading in
full, succeeded in the double object of forcing the
| friends OF the Oklahoma bill to yield to certain
amendments he desired to have Incorporated I'm
the blu. and in extracting from the friends of
the Union Pacific funding bill promise that
| tney would not call up that measure
Mr.. Bower IN. c. introduced a bill
! 1or the repeal OF the tobacco tax and moved it's
| reference to the Committee on War Claims The,
| yeas and nays were ordered and resulted: Yeas
| LOO, nays 126-so the motion was agreed to and
the the 6 34 was referred to the Committee Ways
anu Means. The call of States was concluded.
and then Mr.. Warner Ohio withdrew his pend
ing motion to suspend the rules and pass
| the oklahoma bill and in lieu thereof
| moved to suspend the rules and adont q
| resolution providing for a final vote on that
pill on Thursday next with permission to MIR.
Payson (Il1.) to order amendment to the sec
| ton relative to town sites. Agreed to.vens
l65, nays rs. j. d. Taylor Ohio introduced for
EeIerence preamble and Joint resolution
| directing the Government officials in charge of
| any building which may be used for the in
| Hugural ball not to permit Wine beer ale or
other intoxicating liquors to be sold or served
| 70 any person on the occasion of the ball
THE Senate passed the substitute for the
Mills tariff bill by a strict party vote on the
22d inst The days proceedings were largely
| devoted to disposing of various amendments
| When these had been exhausted the vote.
| was taken, first on agreeing to the substitute,
and then ON The passing of the bill. Both
| votes We're Identical - yeas 81; nays, 30
| as follows: Yeas-AIdrich, Blair Bowen Cam
eron, Chance, Chandler, Culom, Davis, Dawes.
Dolph, Edmunds, Evarts, Farweu, Frye, Haw-
Henderson, Mi1cheil, Morrill, Jones pad oaee
Palmer Platt' e Plumb; Quay, sher-
son Qa.l-32. Nays-Bate, Eustis Pavne
Berry, Blackburn, Brown, Butler, Call, Cockrel
| Coke Colquitt Daniel Faulkner George. Glib
son, German, Gray, Harris, Jones ARK, Nor
| gan, Pasco, Pugh, Ransom, Reagan, Iurpie
Vance, Vest, Voorhees,, WaIthal, Wilson lMdj
80, Mr.. Riddleberger said that he had voted
right along with the Republican parry and with
the Finance Committee for the bill. But there
was nothing in the bill which would have ius.i-
fed him in voting for it after the adoptiOu of
the amendments of the Senator from Kansas
NNr Plumb; presumably the customs-commis-
sion provision). Therefore, if he had not been
| paret and had not telt under an obligation to
preserve that pair, he should not have voted for
| the bill. The House refused to consider the
Smalls-Elliott election contest, and took up the
river and habor bill. On Mr.. Cutcheon's mo-
| ton, e appropriation for continuing the i'm
proVements at Portage Lake, Michigan was
| increased from $1,000 to $40, 00J.
THE concurrent resolution for the counting of
| the electoral vote WAS passed by the Senate on
the 23d inst. It provides hat the two houses OF
| Congress shall assemble in the hall of the
House of Representatives IN Wednesday,
d dS1 Of the 5s0V senate at a m tGd tqe Pres
tellers on the part of the Sena and two the
part of the House shall make list OF the votes
rs they shall be declared that the result shall
be delivered to the President of the Senate who
shall announce the vote and the persons elected
to the two houses, which shall be deemed a
declaration OF the persons cleo cd President aud
Vice President of the United Sta es and to-
gether with list of the votes. shall he entered
on the journals of the two houses. The Senate
passed the House bill for the relief of he State
National Bank of New Orleans formerly the
Louisiana State Bank, after amending it SO
as to read the proceeds of cot on alleged to be-
long to said bank, An amendment providing
that it must be made to appear to the Court of
Claims that the managers of the Louisiana
State Bank were at the time of the purchase of
the cotton in fact loyal to the United states and
had not been in fact engaged i'll the rebellion
was rejected-yeas II, nays 35. The bill allows
the bank to prosecute a claim for the proceeds
of the cotton seized by the Government Sena-
tors Platt and Edmunds opposed the bill Oh
the ground that the Louisiana State Bank was
the fiscal agent of the Confederacy. Senator
Hoar chanpioned the BILL holding that what
ever may have been the character of the State
bank the national bank loyal and it WAS
from the latter that the cotton had been taken.
The vote on the passage of the bill was Yeas,
50; nays, 20. committee of conference was
appointed. bill granting the right OF way to
the Big Horn Southern Railway through the
Grow reservation III Montana was passed. The
House, in committee of the whole. continued
the consideration of the sundry civil bill, and
heated debate occurred over an amendment to
fix q royalty on every thousand impressions
made by steam presses.
BOTH houses of Congress adopted suitable
resolutions, On the Oath inst, on the death Of
Representative James n. Burnes, of Missouri,
and then adjourned as a mark of respect to his
memory. joint committee consisting of Sen
ators Vest, Teller and Coke and Representatives
Mansur Stone, Wade Sayers, Bynun,, Hender-
son and Perkins Was appointed to accompany
the remains to st. Joseph Mo-, where the fun
eral took place. The body in charge of the
COMMITTEES, and was taken over the Penlsyl-
vania Road.
IN the Senate, on the 25th inst, Mr.. Allison
moved that the Senate insist on it's amendment
to the tariff bill, and asked for conference with
the House on the bill and amendment. The
motion was agreed to without objection.
The District of Columbia appropriation bill
was taken up, amended and passed. One
of the amendments appropriates S200,00 for IL
geological park near The city of Washington.
Conferrees appointed on the part of the Sen
ate and then the following bills were passed 70
provide for the sale of land allotted and patented
| to certain members of the Black Bob band Of
| Shawnee Indians. For the presentation of suit
able medals to the survivors OF the "Forlorn Hope
Stornling Party" of Port Hudson, on the 18th Of
| June, 1868. The Senate bill TO establish two ad-
ditional land districts il the State of Nebraska.
! To authorize the construction of bridge or
| bridges across tho Mississippi La Crosse,
| Wis. Among the thirty bills pissed was one "a
Senate bill increasing the pension of the widow
of General Rousseau to 800 II month. Tie
House went into committee of the whole on the
sundry civil appropriation bill The appropria-
ton for repairs of lighthouses was in
creased from 100000 to 1895 COO The
appropriation for the salaries of lighthouse
! keepers was increased from Sj0uCOJ to
| So, 900. The appropriation for the pay OF as
| sistaut custodans and janitors of public build
| incs was increased from S460,0OO to S490,00O
| Mi Randall, from the Committee on Aplropria-
| tions, reported Joint resolution making an APP
! preparation of $4,000 for payment to The legal
| representatives of J. B. Eads. Referred TO the
| committee of the whole.