Huntsville gazette., 1890-01-25
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources.
CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS.

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CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS.
| IN the Senate, on the 18th, after routine
| business, Mr.. Morgan's resolution recogniz-
Ing the United States of Brazil as free, in
| dependent and sovereign state was taken up,
| and Mr.. Turpie addressed the Senate in its
| support The resolution went over without
! action, and after passing number OF Senate
| bills, among them one relating to homestead
| entries in the Indian Territory, the Senate
| went into secret session and soon after ad
| iourned ...@ II the House consideration OF
the reports of the Silcott committee was re-
sumed, and the report of the majority, ap
| proprating $75, 900 to reimburse members for
| their lost salaries, and the Hemphiil substi-
tute, permitting members to sue in the
| Court of Claims were voted on and defeated.
| In the Senate, on the 18th, after the dis
| patch of routine business, the bill introduced
| by Mr.. Butler to provide for the emigration
| of persons of color from the Southern States
was taken up, and Mr. Butler delivered
| long speech in favor of it's adoption, being
followed by Messrs. Hoar and Blair in oppo-
siton to the measure. The bill went over
| without action. In the House the day was
| taken up by an extended and general discus
| sion of the minority report of the committee
| on rules, instructing the committee on for
| eign affairs to report to the House q method
| of selecting the locality of the Worlds Fair,
|
| but on recount was agreed to: Yeas, 1877 ;
nays, 1874. The majority resolution as amend
cd was then rejected Yeas, 1873; nays. 1873.
! THE Senate was not in session on the 17th.
| .. In the House the motion to reconsider
| the vote by which the House had refused to
substitute the resolution reported by the
| committee on rules (as amended by the
| adoption of the Cannon resoluion) for the
original resolution referred to the comm it
| tao tn
| CURED on the original motion, that select
| committee of nine be appointed to be called
| "the Worlds Fair committee" which was
| adopted. Mr. Flower then introduced the
| New York Worlds Fair bill, and 1t was re-
| ferred to the special committee when ap-
! pointed. The House then went into COM
mittee of the whole on the Oklahoma Town
| Site Entry bin.
| THE Senate was not in session on the 18th
-. In the House bill was introduced locat
| ing the Worlds Fair at St Louis, and referred
| to the special committee. resolution was
! offered authorizing George E. Adams, chair
man of the special Slcott committee to pay
the claims of private depositors out of the
money withdrawn by Silcott from the
National Metropolitan Bank. A bill to
refer questions of law in relation to the
cases of members growing out of the de-
falcation of Silcott to the Court of Claims
was introduced and referred. The House
then went into committee of the whole on
the Oklahoma TownSite bill, and after q
long discussion adopted an amendment pro-
hibiting United States marshals, deputies or
agents from acquiring titles to lots in Okla.
homa town Sites
In the Senate, on the goth, the principal
features of the days proceedings were the
| speeches of Senators Pascoc and Chandler
| on the paragraph in the Presidents message
respecting Federal control of elections. Mr.
hat fha ha on
move the consideration of Mr.. Buffers bill
! for the deportation of Southern negroes, for
| the purpose of making some observations
| thereon. 80. In the House the Speaker an
| nounced the appointment OF the Worid's
| Fair committee as follows: Messrs. Gambler
| (Mass.), Hit tIll.), Bowdoin Va.), Beldon
| IN. w, Frank MOI Springer (Ill.), Hatch
| MO- Wilson wv. Va) and Flower IN. W.
| The House then went into committee Of the
whole on the Oklahoma Town site bill
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
| THE order issued by Emperor William
against the Kruez Zeitung and other too
Independent journals, not only excludes
them from the royal palaces and offices
| but prohibits their circulation among
the army, or at least in the barracks.
| IT is said that an abscess has appeared
on the exterior of Emin Pasha's skull
and partial paralysis of the tongue has
supervened.
| On the night of the Goth the Harlem
| IN. W Southern Auld Lang Syne gave
| it's first annual dinner. Speeches eulo-
gizing Lee, Davis and Grady were made.
| Colonel A. II. II. Dawson, Major Joe FL.
| Stewart, Colonel John Garnet and other
| representative SOuthernerS were among
| the speakers.
MGR GRUscHA, haplain-General of
the Imperial army of Austria, will sue
ceed the late Cardinal Bauer as Arch
bishop of Vienna.
| THE Young Mems Democratic Club of
New York City has indorsed the Aus
tralian ballot system, including the ex-
elusive official ballot.
On the Goth Franz Lachner, the famous
German musician, composer and con-
ductor of operas, died in Berlin. He
was eighty-seven years of age.
| Mrs. GENERAL FITZPATRICK and Sem
ator Mcpherson recently called at the
War Department and presented Secre-
tary Proctor with the sword worn by
General Fitzpatrick during the war.
The sword, which is handsome, heavi-
| ly gold-mounted one, will be placed in
the archives of the War Department..
| Upon it is engraved ''To Colonel Jud-
son Fitzpatrick From the officers and
men of the Harris Light Cavalry"
| The Republican Club of New York
City, after heated debate, adopted the
report of committee against coalition
with any Democratic faction in the
| makeup of municipal tickets.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
| On the 10th word was received by the
| Harrison family in Germantown, Pa,
| that Butler Harrison, who has been as
| sisting his brother Alex Harrison. the