The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1890-03-28
oo,Nes OF THE coNoRessMsN.
Business Rather Lively at Both ENDS Of
the Capitol.


the Capitol.
WASHINGTON CITY, March 2L-A protest
of the Pork Packers association of St Louis
against the meat inspection bill was pre-
sented in the senate yesterday. A bill was
introduced providing that artificial limbs be
supplied to veterans once every three years
instead of five years. The educational bill
was then taken up for final action. Speeches
were made by Blair and Edmunds in sup
port thereof, and then the vote ON third
reading was taken, resulting-yeas, 81 nays,
81 Seven Democrats voted yea and seven
teen Republicans nay. Blair entered mo-
ton to reconsider A brief executive ses-
sion was held and the senate adjourned.
In the house aresolution of the Iowa legisla-
ture against the aduteration of lard was
presented. The Mudd- Compton contest was
then taken up and Compton was unseated-
159 to 145-and Mudd took the oath and the
seat. The house then went into committee
on the pension bill, but the committee inn
mediately arose and the house adjourned
WASHINGTON CITY, March 22.-Many pc
titions were filed in the senate yesterday,
ono against the employment of aliens on
government works, some for free coinage Of
silver, and one for jute and free jute bagging
The house joint resolution authorizing the
appointment of thirty medical examiners
for the bureau of pensions without the in
PREVENTION of the civil service reform COM
mission was reported favorably. The
anti trust bill was then taken
up and debated by Sherman for and Vest
and Hiscock against. The opposition urged
that the bill was unconstitutional, and that
the matter should rest with the states. In
gals gave notice of an amendment aimed at
dealing in options and futures. The debate
drifted to the effect of the tariff on trusts,
the Democrats claiming that protection was
the Egis of combinations and the Republic
ans controverting that position. Blair re-
newed his motion to reconsider the vote on
the educational bill, and Ingalls, entered a
motion to lay Blair's motion on the table A
brief secret session was thu held and the
senate adjourned for the day.
Bills were introduced in the house APP
propriating S4OO, 0O0 for public building at
Butte, Mont. providing for the disallow-
ance of all claims of the Northern Pacific
railway to mineral lands along its line;
joint resolution for the printing of a COM
pilation of presidential messages, biogra-
phies, illustrated with portraits of the pres
idents, etc. In committee of the whole the
pension appropriation was taken up, and
after debate in which Cheadle of Indiana
advocated service pension, and Bynum
de Jared that the Democrats from Indiana
were ready TO vote for one, and In which
the two parties devoted a great deal of time
to proving that each was opposed to PEN
tions the committee rose and the bill was
passed. A bill retiring Gen. Fremont was
also passed. The usual night session was
held at which fifteen private pension bills
went through, and at 1890 p. m. the house
adjourned
WASHINGTON CITY, March 4.-Bills were
reported adversely to the senate Saturday
granting bounty on beet sugar and provid-
ing for the purchase of beet seed abroad and !,
exempting beet sugar machinery from duty.
A bill was favorably reported appropriating
500, 900 for public building at Ashland,
Wis. A long discussion took place on the
bill appropriating $500, 900 for building at
San Diego, Gala, Sherman saying that
he thought the appropriation rather
large for the place and Ingalls,
remarking that there was a good deal
of press criticism on the amounts appropri-
ated for buildings. The senator's from the
Pacific coast said Ingalls, was too sensitive to
press criticisms, and gave notice that they
and get them, too. The bill was passed
Blair introduced another educational bill
reducing the amount to be appropriated to
IS, 900, 900 for the first year, and making
corresponding reduction for future years.
About fifty bills were then passed, some of
them being of general public interest, and
the senate adjourned.
WASHINGTON CITY, March 25.-Protests
were presented in the senate yesterday
against the ratification of the extradition
treaty with Russia. The reports on the
Montana senatorship were then presented,
the majority in favor of the Republicans
and the minority for the Democrats The
antitrust bill then came up, and the debate
took a wide range, participated in by Turpie
Pugh and Sherman in advocacy, and Teller,
Hoar, Hiscock and Vest in opposition. The
bill went over, a short executive session was
held and the senate adjourned.
The house fixed on to-day as the time for
action on the Worlds fair bill, non-con-
CURED in senate amendments to the urgent
deficiency bill and ordered a conference and
then went into committee on District
affairs A communication was received
from the interior office stating that no money
would be saved by transferring the pension
duced to remove the limitation from the ar
rears of pension act; to incorporate the Ma
tional Woman's Suffrage association, and to
amend the interstate CONNER ce act so as to
permit commercial travellers to travel at
reduced rates.
WASHINGTON CITY, March 26-Bills were
introduced in the house yesterday providing
for bounty of 500 to each veteran of the
late war who received none; to punish those
who embezzle the pensions Of their wards
The Worlds fair bill then came up, and was
amended so as to include in the manage
ment a board of women, and also providing
that women shall be appoi nted on award \
committees where women's work is on exhi-
bition; making the time of opening the fair
not later than May 1, 1898, and its close not
later than Oct. 81, 1898, the buildings to be
dedicated with appropriate ceremonies on
Oct. 12, 1892. After fight by Belden and
Flower of New York to have Chicago re-
quired to "show Gown" her money the bill
passed as amended-yeas, 202; nays, 40
and the house adjourned.
Bills were introduced In the senate: by
Morrill, to provide an educational fund from
all monies received from public land sales