The Forrest City times., 1890-03-15
THE LABORS OF A DAY,
Congress Killing Time With Cons derabic
 Difficulty

Difficulty
 WAsurxarox. March 10. Among the bills reported from committee and placed on tho Senate calendar were the following:
 For public building at Baton Rouge La, sl00, 600.
 For the construction of Post office build ings in towns and cities where the post office receipts for the Inst three years OK ceeded g .0eO a year
 other public building bills tfor the State of Washington were reported and placed on thc calendar as follows Tacoma, sloo, 0o0; Seattle sl0o,o0o; Spokane Falls, $ioo, o00; Walla Walla, S30,oo.
 Mir Stanford offered a preamble and resolution instrueting the Committee on Finance 10 inquire what relief for the OK istiup agricultural depression may be fur uishcd by Inc United States government, and particularly whether loans may not hc made hy the government upon mortgages on real estate, independent of improve men's at sloh rates and to such an amount as will make tue security to the govern mont perfect, the government to receive aome small rate of interest (from to ? DOT cent), and to be ahlo to call iu per contage of the loans from time to time at itss discretion Hesubmitted some remarks in support of ss resolution, and the reso- lutlou was referred to the Committee on Finance
 Tho bilI appropriatings s1N0 ooo fer n public building at Salt Lake City. Utah. was taken up and passed
 Ou motion of AIr. Sherman tho bill re- ported by him from the Committee on Foreign Relations on the 9th inst provid
 nr for au inspection of meats for exporta- tiop prohibiting the importation of adul- tcrntea articles Of food or drink and au. therizing tho President to mako proclama- tion in certain cases and other purposes, was taken from the calendar
 Tho discussion was then participated
 in by Senators sherman, Allison, Plumb, Teller and Edmunds, and was going on when the hour of , o'clock arrived. when fhe bill was laid aside without action and the educational bill was taken up as tho unfinished business
 rus piAtR BI,I- Mir Higgins addressed the Senate in advocacy of the bill
 Mir Jones of Arkansas followed Mir. Hig. glbs in opposition,
 At ,he close of Mir Jones' speech the Senate proceeded to vote on the amend mcuts. proposed hy the committee, and they were seyerally agreed to. The bill was then laid aside. and after an executive session the Senate adjourned nouss or REPRESENTATIVES [ In the House on motion of Mir Owen of Indiana the Senate resolution was con ! cured in providing that the Senate Com mitiee on Immigration and the House ! Committee on Immigration and Naturalixa- ! ton shall jointly investigate the workings | of the various laws of the United States ! md the several States relative to immigra ! ton The resolution was so amended as to ! direct the joint committee to investigate ! the effect on American workingmen, which | is llkoly to follow tho purchase of Ameri- ] can industries by foreign capitalists also i to report to Congress the official cores i pondencc on the proposal to make Bedloc' B l Island, New York harbor an immigrant ! depot, and whether in the opinion of the ' opinion of the committee, such island Is ! the best aud most suitable place for such 1 depot
 ! h the morning hour the Senate bill was ! passed with verbal amendmentsl to pre- | won't the introduction of contagious dis { cases from one State to another ! Mir Lacey of Iowa, from the Committee : on Eleetious, reported a resolution for the \ appointment of a subcommittee to mako a | thorough investigation of tho eonssted | election case of Clayton vs. Breckinridgc, i to take and report all the evidence in c- | gard to the methods of said election, and ] whether contestant or contestee, or either l of them, was lawfully elected The sub committee Is empowered to proceed tc | Arkansas.
 | Mir Lacey, at the request of Mir. Breck- l inridge of Arkansas, offered an amendment 1 directing the subcommittee to investigate ! all events relating ta the contest or arising ] therefrum after the contest l The amendment was agreed to and the i resolution, as amended, was adopted. The House then went into committee ol 1 the whole tMr payson of Illinois in the i ehairl on the Oklahoma Territory bill | Without making much progress with the 1 bin tho committee rose and the House al | t0urncd