The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1890-07-19
FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS.
House..

House:
WEpNDEsDAY, July 9.-Mr. Hit, of
Illinois. from the committee on foreign
affairs, reported back a resolution re-
questing the President to furnish the
House with correspondence between
the government of the United States
and Great Britain touching the subjects
in dispute in Behring Sea, since March
/, 1889. After some debate the resolu-
ton VAS adopted. An attempt was
made to adopt the conference report on
the diplomatic and consular appropria-
ton bill, but no quorum was present,
and the House adjourned
TUESDAY, July lo.-The Hotise indulged
in long controversy over the approval
Of the journal, several members claim
ing that their votes had been recorded
in favor of the adoption of the report
on the diplomatic and consular
appropriation bill, during their
absence from the floor. Some cor
rections were finally made and the
journal approved The conference re-
port on the diplomatic and consular APP
preparation bill was adopted-yeas IA,
nays 90; also the conference report on
the agricultural appropriation bill. The
House then went into committee of the
whole (Mr. Peters, of Kansas, in the
chair on the land grant forfeiture bill.
Following are the estimates for river
and harbor improvements for the next
fiscal year: Cedar River Harbor, Mich,
to complete, Sl0S,oo0 Oconto Harbor,
Wis, to complete, So 900; Pensaukec
Harbor, Wis, to complete; $50
600; Green Bay lIarbor, Wis;
for year, $4,000, and to COM
plete, 100000; harbor of refuge, en-
trance sturgeon Bay Canal, Wis, for one
year, 5000; Ahnapee Harbor, Wis, for
year and to complete, SIS, 900; kewaunee
Harhor. Wis, for year, S15, 900; to com
plete, Sl37 900; Two Rivers Harbor,
Wis, for year, S, 900; and to complete,
| So 600; Manitowoc harbor, Wis. for
year, So2 600, and to complete S3,62o;
Sheboygan harbor, Wis, for year, $50
600, and to complete So, 900; Port Wash
/ ington harbor, Wis, for year and To com
| plete, s. 900; harbor of refuge, Milwau-
kec Bay, for year 100000, and to COM
plete SllS0N; Milwaukee harbOr, Wis.
! for year and to complete $50, 900; Racine
harbor, Wis, for year $4,000. and TO
complete So 900; kenosha harbor, Wis,
for year $50, 600 and to complete So, 900;
! Waukegan harbor, H., for year $4,000,
and to complete Sl2l 900; Fox and Wis
consin Rivers, Wis, for year 500 900,
and to complete. SAG, 900; Great Kama
| wha River, w. Va, for year, son, 600,
and to complete, 100000; operating
and care of locks of same, s. 800; Can
| ley River, w. Va, to complete, 1000;
| New River, Va. and w. Va, to com
plete, $4,000.
FRIDAY, July 11.-Mr Conger ia. }
| presented the conference report on the
| silver bill Mr.. Bland Mo raised the
! question of consideration, and the House
| decided, by vote of lC6 yeas to A nays,
to consider the report. 1t was then
| agreed. on suggestion of Mr.. Blount
| GA. }, that four hours debate should be
allowed tomorrow on the silver confer
ence report, at the end of which time
the previous question should be con
sidered as ordered. Mr. Perkins tkas.
presented the conference report on the
| bill granting the right of way across the
Mile Laos Indian reservation TO the
Little Falls. Mile Lacs and Lake
Superior county. The report was
adopted
SATURDAY, July 12-The House
adopted the conference report on the
silver bill by vote of I22 yeas to 9O
nays-a strict party vote. The vote was
preceded by long discussion, Mr..
| Conger Ia. and Mr.. Bland Mo- being
/
MONDAY, July 1.-THE House went
| into committee of the whole fMr.
Dunncll, of Minnesota, in the chair on
the bill known as the Atkinson bill (sup-
! elemental To the act authorizing the
construction of the Baltimore x PotO-
mae Railroad in the District oit tolumhIa.
1t was recommittcd to the commit
tee on the District of Columbia, With
instructions to report back a substitute
providing that before the 1st of Jan
uary 1894, the railroad company shall
remove its present station from Sixth
and Is Streets to the intersection of Nlr-
ginia and Maryland Avenues. This was
agreed to-69 to n.
TUESDAY, July l5.-The House to-day
went into committee of the whole on
the bill appropriating S636, lS9 for addi-
tional clerical force to carry into effect
the provisions of the dependent pen
sion act. After long debate the com
mittec rose and the bill passed.
Senate.
WEDNESDAY, July 9.-The only husi
ness Of the session was listening to 8
discussion of the conference report OF
the silver bill.
THURSDAY, July 10.-The Senate
agreed to the conference report on the
y
20 navs. A long debate preceded tho
ballot The bill as passed provides thai
the secretary of the treasury shall pur
chase from time to time silver bullion tC
the aggregate amount of 4,HD,Wt
ounces, or SO much thereof as may be
offered, in each month, at the market
price thereof. not exceeding II tor 3ioi
grains of pure silver. The treasury
notes issued in payment for the bullloI
shall be rcdeemable in coin and lega
tender in payment of all debts, public
and private. except where otherwise
expressly stipulated in the contract, and
shall be receivable for customs, take:
and all public dues. Upon demand oi
the holder of the treasury notes the sec
retary of the treasury shall, under sucf
regulations as he may prescribe, re
deem such notes in gold or silver coin
at his discretion. il being the established
policy of the United States to maintain
the two metals on a parity with eaci
other upon the present legal ratio, %
such ratio as may be provided by law
The secretary of the treasury shal
each month coin 1000, 900 ounces of the
silver bullion purchased under the pro
visions of the act, into standard sllye
dollars. until the first day of Juty, 1891
and after that time he shall coin of th'
silver bullion purchased under the pro
visions of the act as much as may h
necessary to provide for the redemp
sion of the treasury notes. The las
section provides for covering into th
treasury the fund held for the redemp
ton of national bank circulation.
| FRIDAY, July 1l.-Mr. Teller miro
duced a joint resolution declaring il t
be the determined policy IF the Unite
States government to use both gold an
silver as full legal tender money
instructing the President 10 in
vite the governments of tb
Latin Union countries, and of s1lc
other nations ar he may deem advlsabi
to join the United States in cor
ference to adopt a common ratio be
tween gold and silver for the purpos
of establishing, internationally, tn
use of hl-mctalic money an
securing fixity of relative value betwee