The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1890-08-28
DOINGS OF CONGRESS.
MEASURES CONSIDERED AND
ACTED UPON.


Done by the Senate and House Old
Matters Disposed OF and Now Ones Com
sfdered.
air. QUAY's resolution, fixing the time for
voting on the tariff bill and designating the
other legislative business to be taken up at
this session, was laid before the Senate on
the goth. Mr.. Hoar demanded the yeas and
nays on agreeing to the resolution, and then
offered as a substitute for Mr., Quay's reso-
luton his own proposition making it in
order s'when any bill or resolution shall
have been under consideration for a reason
able time for any Senator to demand that
debate thereon be closed. He also moved TO
amend Mr.. Quay's resolution by adding to
1t q provision to include in the business to
be taken up the Federal election bill, and to
have the vote on it taken Sept. 1. No vote
on it was reached. The House amendments
to the Agricultural College bill and to the
meat inspection bill were laid before the
Senate and concurred in. These bills
now go to the President for his signature.
In the House the meat inspection bill
was taken up Mr.. Funston (Kan0, Chair
man of the Committee on Agriculture, said
that it was proposed by this measure to open
foreign ports to American meats. By open
ing those ports millions and millions of
foreign gold would be brought into this
country and would relieve the embarrassed
condition of all classes of industry. The
bill was then passed. The House then pro-
ceeded under the special order to the con-
sideration Of the bill defining lard, but with
out disposing of the measure the House adj
journed.
THE resolution heretofore offered by Mr..
Plumb to prevent the sale of spirituOus,
yinous, and malt liquors in tho Senate wing
of the Capitol was laid before the Senate on
the 21st, the pending questions being on Mr..
Blair's amendment to add the words, ''And
drinking" and on Mr.. Buffers amendment
directing daily search for liquors in COM
mfttee rooms and other apartments. Mr..
Gibson suggested jolingly The extern
sion of the amendment so as to direct
the search of Senator's desks. Mr.. Plumb
objected to both amendments as call
culated to belfttle the resolution, which he
had offered seriously and in Difference to
public opinion. After debate the matter
went over until the 22d. In the House
the compound lard bill was taken up. Mr..
Allen (Mfch.) supported the bill. The agi-
tation of this question had been provoked
by the careful, thoughtful action of the
farmers in their various assemblies and or
CARNATIONS. Whether they were right or
wrong they called for it. 1t was not true
that this bill in any way, shape or form
affected the men who produced cOttOn-seed
oil. The evidence of Fairbank & Co. and
OF experts all over the country was to
the effect that cOttOn-seed oil was superior
to hogs lard. If that were 50 it was alb
Surd that q tax of two mills a pound would
prevent the people who desired to use COM
pound lard from purchasing that article. If
it was true, as stated by Mr.. Fairbank, that
compound lard could be made of 20 per cent.
of lard and so per cent. of cottOn-Seed oil
why not brand it as '+cOttOn-seed oil COM
pound?" Why attach the word lizard" to
it? 1t was dome for the purpose of selling
the commodity as "lard" and by SO doing
defrauding the farmers of the market which
they would otherwise possess. No vote was
taken on the bill.
THE paragraph, IT'S, of the tariff bill re-
lating to wood screws having been reached
in the Senate on the 22d Mr. Carlisle said
that that was an article which American
manufacturers were selling abroad very
much lower than they were selling them at
home. He produced price lists in support
of his statement; also a letter from the
American Screw Company of Providence,
r. 1. That was another illustration, he
said, of the policy adopted by the other
side-in allowing drawbacks on exported
articles Mr.. Stewart said that the
assumption that there was anything
wrong in the sale of American man
ufactured goods in foreign countries
cheaper than at home arose from a want OF
information. There was nothing wrong in
it, and nothing injurious to American con-
sumers. That was the policy which Eng
gland had pursued for the last century and
which English statesmen had advised on
all occasions. In the House Mr.. Henderson
0ll.) submitted the report of the Committee
on Rivers and HarEOrS on Senate amend
ments to the river and harbor bill, recon-
mending nOn-concurrence in these amend
mentS and agreeing to the conference asked
by the Senate. Mr.. Kerr (IOWa) raised the
point of order that the amendments must
first be considered in committee of the
whole. This point was sustained by the
Speaker.
The Senate devoted the 23d to eulogieS ON
tle late Senator Beck, of Kentucky Sena-
ator Blackburn speaking of the religion of
the deceased, saidt %@His had been the
religion of humanity. He had believed that
a man who helped his feIIowmen was doing
Gods service. His life had been nodded in
that faith If there were one soul at whose
approach the pearly gates of the celestial
city would open widest and offer freest en-
trance to its eternal glories, it would GER
tainly be to one which In its life on the
earth strove hardest to aid the weak, to
shelter the defemseless, to- tighten the burdens
of the heavy-laden, and which brought the
most smiles and the fewest tears to the chill
bill was taken up in the House. Mr.. Hit
(1ll.) said that for the last ten years our
whole diplomatic service had been trying to
vtndicate the American hog ana prove that
American pork was pure and wholesome.
While our diplomats had been doing this
our citizens had been sending through the
world an adulterated pork product. 1t
was time for Congress to enfore honest
dealing. When it came to vote 1t was
found that there was no quorum and the
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