New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1889-12-18
.DOINGS OF CONGRESS-
What our National Lawmakers
Have Been Doing the
Past Week.

| 1 dSG WC0k.
The Congress of the United States, on
| Tuesday, December IL, devoted the day to
COMMUNICATING the memory of George
| Washington our first president. The presi-
/ dent. and members of his cabinet gathered in
the presidents room adjoining the marble
room of the senate corridors, while in the
marble room were congregated the members
of the diplomatic corpse and the delegates
to the Pan American and International Ma
rine congresses. The latter apartment was
ablaze with colors,. the diplomats
and delegates appearing in all the gor-
| geousness of their official costumes
and insignia of the various orders to which
they belong The persons in the senate wing
! waiting to move to the hall of the house,
formed in line and the procession started.
/ Two stalwart capitol policemen headed the
line, followed by Charles R. Reade acting as
| slStant dOorkeeper OF the senate represent
| ing the sergeant-at-arms in the charge
of the arrangements. Then came Presi-
| dent Harrison arm in arm with Seere
| tary Blaine, Secretary Proctor and
Attorney General Miller, Secretary Tracy
and Postmaster General Wauamaker, Secre-
tary Rusk and Private Secretary Halford,
AS they passed the supreme court chamber,
the associa tie justices in their robes of Office
| took places in the rear, according to date of
appointment. The members ofthe senate and
employees followed, headed by Capt Bassett,
doorkeeper, and Chaplain Butler, Vice Presi-
dent Morton and Secretary McCook
Following them were the diplomatic corps
and delegates to the, conferences. led by
Chief Clerk Lee, of the state department.,
Mr.. Morton assembled to the speakers chair
and assumed the gavel, Mr.. Reed standing
on his left. After prayer by Rev. J. &. But
! les chaplain of the senate, during which
the multitude stood in reverential attitude;
the Marine band. stationed in the south
lobby, broke into the national air of "Hail
Columbia AS the strain ended the chief
| justice was escorted to the clerks desk by
Senator Hiscock and representative Bayne,
the chairman of the committee in charge of
the arrangements. Chief Jnstice Fuller read
his GRAFTON in q powerful voice and with q
clear enunciation; and he was listened to
with the greatest attention. -f s.
SENATE. s.
! Senator Davis bill creating new district
| Of the United States circuit court was read in
| the senate to-day and went to the committee
on judiciary. The bill proposes to divide the
Eighth district, over which Judge Brewer has
presided, and create the Tenth district, to in
clude Minnesota, North Dakota, South Da-
| kota and Montana. The terms of court are
to be held the same as at present. except that
| the two terms are provided for in Minneapo-
lis, one on the first Monday i'm February and
one on the second Monday in September
| Senator Butler introduced a bill to-day to
provide for the emigration of persons of col
or from the Southern states of the United
States 1t provides that the head of any
family, or for himself, if not married, may
make application to the nearest United
States commissioner, under oath, setting
| ho fact hat; no To 70 10
a foreign country for permanent residence
and citizenship and that he is too poor to
| pay the cost of transportation. A certif-
cate of this statement shall be forwarded by
the commissioner to the quartermaster gen
eral of the army, who shall thereupon fur
nish to said applicant the necessary trans
portations by the cheapest route. For this
purpose the bill appropriates $5,O0O,O0O.
| HOUSE.
ME-. Butterworth of Ohio, rising to a ques-
| ton of privilege. offered preamble and res
| olution, setting forth the fact that the Gin
cinnati Commercial Gazette and other public
Journals had published an exact copy of g.
certain contract, said to have been entered
| into by certain members of the house and
senate, and that this contract was O. basis
for charges of corruption and fraud in the
matter of the proposed purchase of certain
ballot boxes, and providing for the appoint
/ ment of committee OF five to invertigate
and report by whom the contract was %pre-
| paired, and whether the appended signatures
are forged or genuine.
The Southern members have already COM
menced their war upon the internal tax. Re-
preventative Brewer of North Carolina put in
the first bill of the kind to day-repealing the
/ tax on tobacco-and had it referred to the
| com mittee on ways and means. The ways
and means committee is not made up in the
interest of this movement the only Southern
mem bers being from the Democratic side of
! the house, and they are in favor of reducing
the customs duties instead of internal rev.
! enue
Senator Moody has been busy the past few
| days preparing bills which heintends to intro
/ duce He is looking up authors so as to make
his bill for national prohibition in the prohibit
ton states sound in the matter of constitu-
| tionality. He does not expect it to pass,
but he wants to get it before the senate.
Members of congress were to-day paid their
mileage at the rate of ten cents mile each
in which they were placed by Silcott. To
is not great, but to those far away the
can't. Minnesota members receive on the ay-
Dakotas rake in perhaps $40 each, Florida
mans 1920 and Oregon $3.50.
i Exhibition Prayer,