Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-12-18
The Senate,

In the Senate today among the bills
reported from committees and placed on
the calendar were the following: To
relieve the Treasurer of the United
States from the amounts now charged to
him and deposited with the several
States; to increase the pensions of PEN
sioners who are entirely helpless.
Hale, from the Committee on Appro-
priations, reported back the deficiency
bill appropriating $l50,0O for public
printing and binding, and $3.50, 900 for
the preliminary printing of the eleventh
census. The bill vas passed.
A communication from the President
to Congress in regard to the International
Maritime Conference now in session,
and recommending earnestly that fur
ther extension of the limit of its continu.
ance for two months from the 1st of
January, 1890, be authorized, wes pre-
sented and with the accom- pauying
pspers) referred to the Committee on
Foreign Relations.
: NAVAL ORGANIZATIONS.
Chandler offered resolution calling
on the Secretary of the Navy for infor-
nation as to whether organizations not
expressly authorized by the Secretary
of the Navy, exist among naval officers
for purposes not merely literary or scien-
tific, and if go what are the objects of
such organizations, and what officers
are members of them; whether
such organizations embrace only one
branch of the naval service, and
are designed to protect and ad-
vance the special interests Of that
branch; whether any of them have been
organized for the purpose of influencing
Congressional Legislation; whether sums
of money have been paid or contracted
for, to influence legislation and whether
such organizations are compatible with
proper discipline.
Hale asked that the resolution be laid
over, and it was done.
Manderson offered resolution, which
was agreed to, calling on the Secretary
of the Interior for information as to the
disposition of lands comprised within
military reservations that have been re-
linquished by the War Department.
MIrCHELL's PENSION PAPERS.
Mitchell withdrew the resolution
offered by him last week in reference to
the failure of the Pension Bureau to
furnish him with copies of certain papers
in pension claim. Commissioner
Raum had sent him tho papers, with q
letter stating that the refusal to furnish
them had been based on an old regula-
ton OF the Office, which seemed Judi.
cious one, in order to prevent the waste
of the effective strength of the office.
Mitchell remarked that any Senator.
Representative or duly authorized attor-
ney of an applicant, or the applicant
himself, should have the right to copies
Of papers. There was brief discussion
on this point.
Mitchell offered q resolution, which
was referred to the Postoffice Committee.
calling on the Postmaster. General for
estimates on the increased cost required
for the extension of the free delivery
system to all towns and cities having not
less than 5000 inhabitants, and where
the gross postoffice revenue is at least
IS 900; also to cities and towns of 5000
inhabitants, and with gross postofice
revenue of $1,000.
Senator Turpie, from the Committee
OH Pensions, made favorable report on
Quay's bill fixing $72 per month as the
pension to be granted all persons who
are, or may become, totally helpless from
injuries received or diseases contracted
while in the military or naval service OF
the United States.
NEW BILLS.
Among the bills introduced in the
Senate were the following:
BY Mitchell, the Chandler bill OF last
Congress for the creation of division of
silk culture in the Department of Agri-
culture.
By Teller, authorizing citizens of Colo
rado, Nevada and the Territories to fell
and remove timber on the public domain
Tor mining and domestic purposes; also
that the half dollar shall con-
tain one-half, the quarter-dollar, one
fourth and the dime one.tenth Of the
amount Of silver contained in the stan.
dard dollar; also his bill Of last Congress-