Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1890-04-19
N0WO W I0l06IoPH
FROM ALL QUARTERS.
NEWS FROM WASHINGTON
Work Of Senate and House
r. Yesterday. 4
A REIGN OF TERROR IN CUBA.
Over One Hundred Houses
Burned.
SERIOUS RAILROAD ACCIDENT.
Strikers in Austria BecOm-
ing RiOtOus.
Ia REIGN OF TERROR IN CUBA.
SERIOUS RAILROAD ACCIDENT.

OIL lAcI y LII AUS u Id DCCV1ue
ing RiOtOus.
THE FlFTY-FlRsT CONGRESS.
a Bin introduced In tho Senate For
the Admission OF New Mexico as
state-BiIls Passed and Referred-
War Claims In tho House-A NUM-
her of Private Pension Bills Passed.
WASHINGTON, April 1s.-Mr. Platt by
request introduced bill for the admission
of New Mexico and said that he did not, in
doing SO, intend to commit himself in one
way or the other. Referred.
Mr.. Payne introduced q bill for q monu-
ment to Commodore Perry at Putin Bay,
Ohio. Referred.
Mr.. Dolph moved to proceed to executive
business.
three times that would call up the bill con-
corning the International exposition. I am
bound to press 1t because 1t is simply justice
to the people of Chicago; who are waiting
anxiously to begin work, and not only JUS
tice to them, but to the manufacturers and
there, foreigners as we'll as Americans. I
am instructed by the committee and am un-
der constant pressure to call it up. have
applied privately to the senator from Kansas
(Mr. Plumb), and do no SO now to allow his
| bill to lie over until the senate can consider
this exhibition bill.
After some debate the vote was taken on
Mr.. Dolph's motion and 1t was agreed to-
yeas SO, nays IS, all the negative votes COM
| xvpep fNrxv, hi
The galleries were then cleared and the
doors closed.
| The doors were reopensd at 1850 and legis-
lative business was resumed. The following
bills were taken from the calendar and
passed:
The senate bill approrriating $4,000 for a
public building at Haverhill, Mass.
The senate bill increasing the pension to
the widow of General Milroy to $50 month.
| On motion of Mr.. Hawley the senate took
up and agreed to consider Immediately after
the morning business on Monday next the
house bill to provide for celebrating the fouy
hundredth anniversary of the discovery of
America by Christopher Columbus by hold
ing an international exhibition of arts, indus
mine and sea in the city of Chicago in the
state of Illinois.
Mr.. Blair asked unanimous consent to take
from the calendar and pass the senate bill
appropriating $4,000 for = monument to
General Stark ct Manchester, N. q.
Mr.. Cockerell-How long is General Stark
deadi
oldest general of the revolutionary war at the
time of his death.
Mr.. Cockrell-l think we had better take
care of the living taxpayers. hardly think
| it proper to appropriate $50 900 to raise {
monument to General Stark at this late day
| We can let 1t rest . little longer. It is nov
half past five, and think We had better ad.
journ.
Mr.. Blair-Then the senator's idea IL tina
We have not let it rest long enough. Genera
Stark was really the man who won the bat
ties of Bunker Hill and of Trenton and o
Bennington. He did more to mako rs an indie
pendent nation than any man who fought IL
the revolutionary war save Washington him
self. hope the senator will withdraw hi
objection.
i Mr.. Cockrell-I think this great waste o
the public money at this time. have JUS
as much admiration for the grand deeds ant
glorious record Of General Stark as any man
But as he has done without q monument TO
nearly q century 1t will not be hard to wait
little longer, just a little longer. It is an in
opportune time to take money from tn
pockets of the people.
Mr.. Blair-Then understand the senate
as objecting to the confederation of the bill
Mr.. Cockrell-I must object to 1t.
HousR.
After other business the house went int
committee Of the whole on the private calen
dar.
The court of claims bill was tho first OF
the calendar, tho pending motion being o.
the resolution offered by Mr.. Thomas Q
Wisconsin to report the bill back with tn
l 1~AE~ AkAks 1 l.
| committee on rules for an investigation of tn
status of the measure in connection with tn
rules of the house. The resolution was lost
67-s7.
The next question was on the point o
|, order raised by Mr.. Kerr of Iowa, that tn
committee on war claims had no jurisdiction
of the bill. This point was overruled.
Mr.. Thomas offered q resolution that tn
bill be reported back to the house with tn
recommendation that It be recommitted witt
instructions to the committee on war claim
to inquire into the legality of each claim
and Mr.. Thomas stated that the bill con
tanned 285 claims based on pretended find
ings of the court Of claims. In this humble
there are eight cases where there had been n
the usual method of ascertaining the loyalt
of the parties had not been followed. Til
committee on war claims had punched thes
1856 claims together without any examina
ton or investigation. The secretary of wa
had transmitted to the committee since tn
report of the bill statement showing tina
in "a cases the claimant had fled voucher
for supplies furnished to the oonfederat
army or subscribed to the confederate loa
or done some other thing indicating disloy
atty.
Mr.. Thomas then proceeded to cite iu
stances of apparent disloyalty on the part {
claimants under the bill as evidence of th
necessity for further investigation by th
committee on war claims before passing th
bill. He asserted that the attorneys VII
were charged with the defense OF the Unite
States before the court Of claims against thei
: !; claims were responsible and blameable.
Mr.. Comas proposed a p0stponement {
the bill for two weeks in order to give an Of
portunity for private investigation, the bi
to be then called up for final action.
Mr.. Hopkins of Illinois thought that Il
, proposition was an unfair one. The on
way In which the bill could DO thorough
investigated was to recommit 1t.
Mr.. NcComas of Maryland moved res
luton to recommit the bill, with instruction
to the committee to report It back with
two weeks, and that the bill be placed at Il
head of the calendar, and 1t was agreed t
The resolution was reported to tho house.
, Mr.. Grosvenor of Ohio raised the point
order against the resolution and the speak
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10 therefore, went back to the calendar.
The house then, at 5 p. M, took rece
n until o'clock p. III.
The house at its evening session pass
fifty private pension bills and at 1890 a
journed.
Charged with Fixed Bayoness.
/, vienna, April 18.-The strikers in Ostr
= are attacking the factories in the vicini
and damaging the buildings, and are Col
polling those at work to desist under thres
of violence.
y In Polnische, Ostrau, collision oocurz
to- day between the strikers and the trool
er Tho aold{ar~ Ia . oharOA the Yn0h vi