The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-05-16
THE ACTS OF CONGRESS.
eUCCMUT SUMMARY OF a WEEKS
LEGISLATIVE WORK.
0ills ana RESOLUTIONS and Top
Ics Discussed by the National Body OF
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Law Makers.
IN the senate on the 7th number of
bills were reported from committees and
placed on the calendar. including the house
regular appropriation bills for the army
and for the military academy. Considera-
ton Of the bill to transfer the revenue ma
sins service TO the navy department was
then agreed TO and the same consumed
the sntire time Of the senate for the day.
Conference reports were presented and
agreed to on the bills for public buildings
az Cedar Rapids, Ia; Burlington To-, and
Ashland, Wis. After executive session the
senate adjourned.
In the house on the 7th the entire ses-
sion was devoted to the consideration of
Mckinley tariff bill.
In the senate on the 9Th the house bill
providing for the classification of worsteds
was takcn up and debated at some length.
Il was passed without amendment by a
vote Of 80 to 30. The senate
then, on motion Of Senator Allison,
took up the pension appropriation
bill, appropriating for the next fiscal year
997, 090, 761. Amendments offered by Sem
ators Sherman and Washburn to increase
the number Of pension agents from eiRh-
teen and twenty to twenty-one gave rise
to Q long discussion. As q vote disclosed
the absence Of q quorum the senate adj
journsd.
In the house on the 9Th, after the read.
ing Of the journal, the house went into
committee of the whole on the tariff bill,
which consumed both the time Of the day
and evening sessions.
In the senate on the 9Th the annual ap-
preparation bill was taken up, the ques-
tioa being on the amendment offered
by Senator Sherman increasing the num-
Der of pension agents (salary $4,000
from eighteen to twenty. It was
egreed to-yeas, 20; nays, 1O-a party vote,
except that Senator Payne voted yea, and
Senators Ingalls,. Allison, Plumb and
Teller nay. The bill was reported back
from committee Of the whole to the senate,
and the question of that amendment came
up again for action, which created quite o
to by a vote of % to 81. Senator
Payne voted with the republic
ans, and, Senators Allison, In
gals and Plumb with the democrats.
The bill then passed, and the military
academy bill was taken up and passed.
The army appropriation bill was then taken
up, Among the amendments agreed to
was a paragraph a%ppropriating 800, 900
for buildings at military posts for libra
ries, gymnssiums and canteens. Sem
atoi Hale moved an amendment that
no alcoholic liquor, beer or wines should
be sold or supplied to enlisted men in any
such building. Senator Cockrell moved to
amend the amendment by striking out beer
and wine. No quorum voted and the sem
ate adjourned, leaving Senators Hals'a
and Ceckrell's appointments pending.
In the house Oh the 9th Mr.. Hit, Of
Illinois, called up the bill granting a
pension Of 81, 200 a year to Mrs. Della
T. s. Parnell, daughter of Admiral
Charles Stewart, with the amendment
reducing the pension to $50 per
month. After some opposition the
amendment was agreed to and the
bill as amended WAS passed. The senate
bill granting $75 per month pension to the
widow Of Brig.-Gen. Ayres was passed.
The house then went into committee OF the
whole (Payson, of Illinois, in the chair,) on
the tariff bill. which consumed the entire
time of both the day and evening sessions.
Adjourned.
In the senate on the 10th Senator Dawes
presented communication from the dele
cations Of the five Indian nations remon-
strAting against the numerous grants Of
rights-o of way for railroads through the
Indian territory. The remonstrance
was referred TO the committee on
Indian affairs. The army appropria-
ton bill was then taken up. Sem
ator Hale's amendment providing that
no alcoholic liquors, beer or VINE, be sold
or supplied to enlisted men in any ~canteen
or building in q garrison or military pos,
was agreed to-yeas, %; nays, Is. Senator
Cockrell's amendment striking out the
words beer or wine was disagreed to
The bill was then passed. The ca!enda
was then taken UP and the following
bill among Others was passed: Senate
bill authorizing the secretary Of the in
terror to ascertain the damages resulting
to any person who settled upon the Grow
Creek and Winnebago reservations il
South Dakota, between Feb. 81, 1885, ane
April Is, 1885. The senate then took W
the individual pension bills on the calen'
dar and passed all OF them (ls5) in an houl
and q half. After executive session the
senate adjourned.
In the house on the 10th the entire ses
sion was consumed in discussion Of the
Mckinley tariff bill.
In the senate on the 18th Senator Hoar
from the judiciary committee, reported
back to the senate the house amendment
to the senate ANTITRUST bill. The matte,
went over. The senate then proceeded tc
the consideration Of the bill AUTHORIZING
the issue Of treasury notes on deposits Of
silver bullion, Senator Jones, who re-.
ported the bill from the committee on
finance, addressed the senate at great
length, not finishing his speech. Ad-
journed,
In the house on the 18th after the read
ing Of the journal, Mr.. Mckinley moved
that general debate on the tariff bill be
quorum rendered a call of the house nee.
| aQGorv 4 n11ornm anpaQrinn tho poof;op
was agreed to, and the house went into com.
mittee of the whole, Mr.. PRyson, of Illi-
pois, in the chair on the tariff bill. No
one desiring to occupy one minute the
clerk proceeded to read the bill by para.
graph for amendments. The debate on
some OF the amendments offered became
desultorY in Observation-Disclosures anus.
ing, sometimes political and sometimes
bordering on personal. When the hour
for adjournment arrived the committee
rose and the house adjourned.
In the senate on the 18th among the
petitions presented was one BY Senator
Quay from the business men Of Fbiladel-
phis demonstrating against the increase Of
OF partly from wool, Senator Da-.
Wis, from the committee on pen.
sions, reported back the house substi.
tute for the senate dependent pension bill,
with a written report, and moved that the
house substitute be non-concurred in and
aconferencs asked. Agreed to and confer
res appointed. The senate then resumed
consideration of the silver bill, and Sem
ator Jones, Of Nevada. continued the
speech begun by him the day before. Con.
sidezation Of the bill consumed the entire
day, and the same went over. After ex-
ecutivs session the senate adjourned.
In the house on the 18th, after the trans
cotton of routine business, that body went
into committee of the whole, with Mr..
Payson, Of. Illinois, in the chair, on the
tariff bill. Mr.. Butterworth, of Ohio, ad.
dressed the house at length. Various
amendments were offered, but all we're re.
jected. and after considering thirteen Of
the l68 pages Of the bill, the committee
rose and the house adjourned.
England as Elgypt's Protector.
IN the house Of commons Sir James
Ferguson, under foreign secretary, denied
that the government had proposed a CON-