New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1890-08-27
CONGRESSIONAL.
A Resume Of the Proceedings
Of Congress During the
Past Week.
HOUSE..

i doG w tth.
! The adoption by the house of the confer
| ence report on the Indian appropriations bill
Is very satisfactory to those who have been
interested in the Chippewa reservation. The
and carried through the senate, to add $3.50
ooO TO pay the Indians for damage on &C
count OF the construction of reservoirs on
the upper Mississippi, was part of the bill
as it passed.
The consideration of the river and har.
Dor bill was resumed, the pending question
belng on the amendment proposed by Mr..
| Frye to the Harlem river item for draw
bridges. The amendment was laid on the
table, with the understanding that the
whole question would be determined by the
/ conference committee.
Mr.. Snider Of Minnesota submitted the
| conference report on the bill to establish q
national park at the battlefield of Chicka-
manga, and it was agreed to. 1t was also
agreed to in the senate.
/ Ihe lottery has received it's death blow
The bill looking to it's suppression, one Of
the most stringent and constitutional that
could be drawn, passed the house, and the
mem bers OF congress who were supposed to
! be lottery supporters did not have the
courage to ask a yea and nay vote on the
measure, and passed without division
SENATE.
The tariff bill was debated When the de-
fcIency bill was being considered the amend
ment appropriating $40, 900 to complete the
arteslan irrigation survey was read and OPP
posed by several. Senator Sanders OF Mon
tana made vigorous speech in favor of it.
Senator Pettigrew advocated the passage
OF an amendment to the def cheney bill al
lowing South Dakota $14,S5O expense in
CURED in holding the constitutional conven-
tlon the amendment passed. also another
one allowing $10,S54 for North Dakota
4 Senator Allen presented as an amendment
to the deficiency bill, q clause allowing Wash
ington $6,O76,27 as REIN bersement for ex-
/ penses eff holding the constitutional conven-
ton. The amendment was adopted.
The house passed bill authorizing the
construction OF tunnel under the Detroit
river at Detroit, Mich.
The senate bill granting leaves Of absence
to per diem employees in the customs ser.
vices, was passed by the house.
The house adopted the majority report in
the Chalmers Morgan contested election
case (MississippD in favor of Morgan, the
sitting member. Before the vote was taken
Mr. Chalmers addressed the house on his
| own behalf
Mr. Comstock called on Speaker Reed and
urged the advisabilty of day for the
Indian committee, when the Sisseton and
Wahpeton bill might be considered. The
speaker was good natured and said proba-
ply next week. He has been saying Next
week" whenever this subject was called to
| his attention, for abOnt q month
The senate further considered the tariff
bill: Mr.. Plumb withdrew his amendment
to decrease the DUTY on tin plate, but will
offer it again. Mr. Spooner offered an
| 1895, tin plates, lighter in weight than sixty
| three pounds per hundred square feet, shall
| be admitted Tree, of duty-unless it shall ap-
pear to the president that the aggregate
quantity of such plates produced in the
| United States during any ofthe five years
tity imported and offered for consumption
in that year.
| Mr.. Thomas Of Wisconsin, moved to Law
upon the table the motion made some days
| ago by Mr.. Hayes, of Iowa, to reconsider the
motion by which the house passed the Nat
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nays 70. This finally passes the bill.
SENATE
The result of the debate in the senate ha-
been to intensity the feeling among the sen.
ators who are for and against the considera-
| ton OF the federal election bill the present
session. 1t is not understood that all the
men who are supporting the Quay resolution
are against the election BILL but as matter
OF e1pediency and as the only hope of an ad.
| journment before December they insist that
the resolution must pass.
Mr.. spooner moved to refer the Quay reso-
luton to the committee on rules. Mr. FRYE
made an impassioned address to Republican
senators against that motion and in favor
of an amendment to the rules providing for
the adoption of the previous question. Mr.
Hiscock opposed the reference of the resolu-
ton as leading to delay, Mr.. Edmunds re-
| piled to Mr., Frye's remarks, and declared
his opposition to the muzzlng process,
though he favored the consideration of the
electric bill, and thought it m ore important
that the tariff bill. of is evil he said,
defeat it; if it is good, pass it," While Mr.
Edmunds was speaking the clock struck II.
and the tariff bill was laid before the senate.
Chairman Dunnell, OF the house census
committee, is at work upon plan for reap
pointment, and as soon as the census Office
suDnits coHPteGe usuIeS OF the states q Dill
will be drafted.
The house passed the senate meat inspec-
ton bill with amendments. The house
amendments to this bill and the agricultural
college bill was concurred in by the senate
These bills now go to the president for his
| signature.
SENATE. 2
Immediately after the tariff bill was taken
up a and Senator Coke began reading speech.
| Republican senator's deserted their seats and
gathered in knots to discuss the situation,
What, il anything, will be done, is o matter
OF mere conjecture, but it is evident: that an
effort is being made to agree upon an order
of business that can be supported by the
whole Republican vote. A conference of Re
publican senator's was held, but it came to
no conclusion in regard to the election bill.
Another conference will be held Meantime
| the Quay resolution will not come up in the
senate.