The Odessa herald. (Odessa, Del.) 1888-1892, 1889-03-02
SUMMARY OF CONGRESS-.


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New York Custom House. The resolution
offered by Mr.. Hoar as to John s. McElwee;
in charge of the Sugar Division Of the Ap.
1 praiser's office in the New York Custom
| House. was agreed to-. The Senate bill for
the relief of settlers in Hettinger County.
Dakota, was explained and passed. The bill
/ authorizes an exchange of loans cn which
homestead settlements were made by mis-
tnkel for other public lands with the North
/ ern Pacific Railway Company 80. Mr.. Stew
art offered resolution (which wag referred
to the Committee on Contingent Expenses
/ continuing the select Committee on the Pa
| ciic Railroads until the Indebtedness of all
the companies to the Government shall be
| adjusted. :. The correspondence relating ia
the dismissal of Lord Sackville was trans
| mittad to the Senate !. The Conference re-
| port on the Omnibus Territorial bill was
agreed to-. The Direct Tax bill was signed
| by the presiding officer and then transmitted
/ to the President.
55TH DAY.-Mr. Stockbridge, with the aid
| of two pages sent up a petition against the
| enactment of a so-called Sunday Rest law
containing the signatures of 230,oo citizens
| of various States. The proposition to APP,
| propriate S300000 for the celebration of the
| centennial of the Constitution of the United
| States gave rise to brisk debate
| -. Mr.. Hoar called up his resolution for an
| investigation OF outrases at elections. Mr..
/ Allison submitted the conference report on
| the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial APP
| preparation bill, and it was agreed to =. The
| Senate resumed consideration of the Sundry
| Civil Appropriation bill, the pending ques4
| tion being on the amendment favoring steam
| plate printing machines, and the amendment
| was agreed to.
56TH DAY.-.The Sundry Civil and Agri-
| cultural bills were passed. There was con-
| siderable discussion over the election out
RACES resolution Of Mr.. Hoar.
57TH DAY.-The election outrage question
occupied the entire day and was still pending
| at adjournment The omnibus resolution, in
| troduced by Mr.. Hoar, which proposes to
deal with later political events in the South,
/ was under consideration. Mr.. Daniel asked
| what facts had been reported to the Com
| mittee on Privileges and Elections Mr.
| Hoar made a brief reply, and then Mr.
Daniel spoke for nearly FIVE hours on the sub
| ject.
5sTH DAY.--A message from the President
returning without his approval pension bill
| for Edwin L. Warner, was presented, read
and referred TO the Committee on Pensions
| Ar. Among the lighthou1 bills passed were
Island, N. Y. (s25, 900, fcf lightship at the
| wreck of the steamship Oregon in New York
| Harbor, and for a Lighthouse and fog bell on
| Oyster Bed shoal, in Hudson River (sS5, 900.
| Tho House amendmen is for lighthouse and
| fog signal on Orehar Shoals, Princess Bay,
New York, were non-concurred in, and a
conference was asEed. The request for a
| conference on the Kouse amendments to the
| Senate bill granting pension to Mrs. Sheri-
4 udu iItuuIluk IL lfpfn tODlb 10 SS0DUl was
i withdrawn, and the amendments were con-
Cured in. .. Resolutions were agreed to au
thorizing the Select Committee on Irrigation
| to take testimony at any place in the United
| States, and authorizing the Committee on
Indian Affairs to continue the Indian trader
ship investigation.
59rH DAY.-Mr Dolph reported back the
| Senate bill {yetoed by the Presdentl for the
| relief Of William r. WbeHton and Charles
| ii. Chssa.sslia51 Of california, with q recon-
| the objections Of the President The vote re-
l.sA.lted; Yeas 35a Qays So 80 bill sMaS az
passed . . The House amendtheat ~ shs
Senate bill granting q pension OF Siy1 ", y
patrick was agreed to. The afnendment re
i duces the rate to SIS. The Senate at 1915
resumed consideration Of the Army Appro-
priation bill. An amendment to the Appro-
| nriation bill providing $3.50, 900 for the pur-
chase Of 225 acres of land directly south Of
the military reservation at West Point, was
agreed to :. The Senate passed ths Army
Appropriation bill with amendments.
The House.
59TIs sDAY.-Immediatel after the read-l
ing of tbs Journal the contest over the Direct
Tax Bill was resumed, MIR. Caswell calling
up the conference report as a matter of
privilege Mir. Crisp raised the question Of
consideration against the report, stating that
he was willing to give precedence to appro-
/ priation bills. The House determined-yeas
1874, nays 93-to consider the conference re-
port. Mr.. Kelley moved to table the motion
to reconsider. Carried. The House adopted
the conference report ON the Direct Tax bill
49,. The House agreed to the conference re-
port on the Omnibus Territorial bill.
j GOTH DAY.-The House passed the Post
Office Appropriation bill The conference
report on the Legislative, Executive and
judicial Appropriation bill was agreed to.
49,. Mr.. Randall introduced a resolution to
amend the rules so as to provide that on
blank date the House shall proceed in Com.
mittee of the Whole to the consideration OF
the Randall -Cowles bill. and that at p. NJ
on that day the bill and its amendments shall
be reported to the House and the previous
question ordered upon its passage. This was
discussed at great length.
6lsT DAY.-Mr. Mills's resolution regard
ing the Senate's tariff action was defeated,
143 to 49,. ). The bill to retire General Rose
Grams was passed -. The bill to pension Mrs.
Sheridan was passed.
62D DAY.-The House went into Commit
tee of the Whole on appropriation bills. Mr..
Dockery, Of Missouri, was called to the chair.
The Deficiency bill came up as unfinished
business. Forty seven of the sixty-three
pages of the Deficiency bill were passel, An
amendment reimbursing the widow of Cen
eral Hancock for money expended by her
husband in entertaining French, German and
other visitors at the Yorktown centennial
celebration was passed. IA message from
the President was presented us
soon as INC lOuFudt WIS tDpEoNtl
49,. On motion of Mr.. Cox, the Senate
amendments were concurred in to the House
bill for the taking of the eleventh census -.
The House passed the Senate bill to ratify
and confirm the agreement with the Creek
Nation of Indians for the purpose of opening
to settlement the unassigned lands in the In
dian Territory ceded by the Creeks to the
United States. 1t was now two o'clock,
the hour set apart for tributes TO the memory
of General Burnes of Missouri. Mr..
| Hatch in n faalinar CfNaaah Offara1 tla
resolutions of respect Speeches were then
made by Messrs. Dockery, Randall, Henier-
son, Breckenridge. Long. Sayers. Butter
worth, Ryan, Holman, Marsur, McAdoo,
Glover, and Morrill, of Kansas The House
then adjourned out of respect TO the memory
of General Burnes.
63D DAY.-The Senate amendments to the
Agricultural Appropriation bill were nom
concurred in. -. The last week of the Fifteth
Congress was ushered in by flibustering, set
in motion by Mr.. Bland, who raised the point
of no quorum upon the approval of the
journal. After delay of a few minutes Mr..
Bland withdrew his point of order, in order
to enable @. f. Booher to qualify as the sue
cessor of the late James n. Burnes, of Mis-
souri, -. Mr. Crisp then called up the con-
tested election case. and Mr.. Sayers. in the
interest of the Deficiency Appropriation bill,
raised the question of consideration. The
House decided-yeas lis, nays l02-to con-
slider the election case, but Mr.. McKenna,
who had voted in the affirmative for this
purpose moved reconsideration. All efforts
to get quorum to vote failed
6IrH DAY.-The Speakers table having
been cleared of business, the Speaker, acting
in conformity with the special ordor, recoS-
nizel Mr.. Abbott who called up bill for
the erection of a public building at Fore
Worth, Texas Mr.. Randall asked unahi-
mous consent to report from the Comnlitth'
of Appropriations che Sundry Civil bill with
Senate amendments. The recommenda,
tions OF the Senate were agreed to, a coz
ference was ordered, and Messrs. Randall.
Forney and Ryan were appointed cun-
ferees. No effort was made to call up the
contested election case, and the House wlllt
into Committee of the Whole Mr. Dockery
in the Chair on the Deficiency Aopropria-
tion Bill. After brief concluding debate,
the Deficiency bill was passed.
, BEiAE STARR, the female desperate re-
Gently shut in Indian Territory, was forty
} four years old She was picturesque tlg ure,
, hut SHE was by no means an ATTRACTIVE