Huntsville gazette., 1890-05-24
NEWS IN BRIEF,
Compiled from Various Sources.
CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS.

1 CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS.
/ In the Senate, on the 14th, Senate Dill au-
4 thoriZing the registry of census mail mat.
| ter; House bill approprating $50, COO for a
| public building at York, Pa, and Senate bill
| appropriating $4,000 for public building
/ at Rock Island Ill, were passed, after which
the Silver bill was taken up in executive ses-
i sion and Mr.. Teller resumed his speech
| giving way later in the day that the Senate
| might proceed to business on the calendar
| when number of minor bills were passed.
.... In the House the House amendment
to the Senate Dependent Pension bill was
| insisted on and a conference was ordered
| Consideration of the Tariff bill was then re.
| sumed.
In the Senate, on the 18th, business Of a
| routine nature having been transacted, con-
| sideration of the Silver bill was resumed
| and Mr.. Teller concluded his speech in ad-
yocacy of the bill. and was followed by Mr..
| Coke in opposition. In the House Senate
bill to change the route of the Rock Creek
railway Of the District of Columbia was
read and passed. A resolution defining
| the rules Of procedure in the further consid-
| Grafton of the Tariff bill was adopted. Mr..
| Morrill, and Mr. Sawyer were appointed con-
| ferees on the Senate Dependent Pension
| bill, and the House went into committee of
the whole on the Tariff bill, the reading of
which consumed the remainder of the day
| An evening session for the consideration Of
| private pension bills was held.
! IN the Senate, on the 18th, after the dis
posal OF several unimportant matters the
| Silver bill was taken up and lead to an in
| teresting discussion of the question of
| Treasury reserve and developed consider
able opposition to the bill in the Republican
ranks. The delivery of eulogies of the late
Representative Kelley, OF Pennsylvania
| was postponed to the 10Th, and, after a brief
| executive session, the Senate adjourned. ...
In the House, petitions for and against the
| Mckinley bill and certain provisions thereof
were presented and referred. Senate bill
was passed authorizing the registration OF
| census mail matter, and the House then
| went into committee of the whole and re-
sumed consideration Of the Tariff bill.
IN the Senate, on the 18th, after the trans
| action of minor business the calendar was
| taken up, and large number OF bills were
considered and passed, those of most gem
| eral interest being: To pay to the assgnees
| of John Roche S3S,S40 for extra work on the
| monitor Puritan and S20,274 for the care of
| the monitor Roanoke; Senate bill to pay
| $40 900 to the daughters of Joseph Henry,
| secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, in
| compensation of his public services, and
| Senate bill amended to appropriate $780,
900 for the erection of bronze statue to
| General Grant in the city of Washington. =.
| In the House, in committee of the whole on
| the Tariff bill, Mr.. Bynum, of Indiana,
| speaking to a question of personal prvi-
| lege, used grossly supplementary Ian
| guage and was (after the passage of a rcse-
luton to that effect) taken before the bar OF
| the House. in custody of the sergeant at
| arms, and censured by the Speaker.
| IN the Senate, on the 18th, consideration
| OF the Silver bill was resumed, Mr. Dolph
| speaking at great length against the bill,
IT. MALL av,ao II in q n
its favor In the House conclliatory
speeches closed up the breach which the
Rvnum episode had created, and good feel
ing was restored The Tarin bill was tnen
| taken up, and several amendments offered
| by its opponents were rejected, and several
| offered by Mr. Mckinley were adopted.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN was among
| the passengers arriving at New York
on the 18th by the steamer Etruria,
from Liverpool. He started the next
| evening for Tacoma, Wash, to COM
plete his journey round the world
On the 18th State Senator Charles S.
Adams, of Baltimore, Md, died as the
| result of a stroke of apoplexy.
| On the 18th David S. Coffrod, a we'll
| known contractor and bridge-builder,
who built nearly all the Pennsylvania
| railroad bridges, and whose speedy work
| in rebuilding the ravages OF the Johns
town flood was greatly complimented,
| died in Philadelphia of injuries caused
by being thrown from wagon some
| time ago.
PRESIDENT HARRISON sent to the Sem
ate. on the 10Th, letter of the Secre-
tary of State submitting plan for
preliminary survey for railway line to
| connect the principal cities of the
| American hemisphere, in accordance
| with the recommendations of the Pan
| American Congress.
| Mr.. UPPER, Canadian Minister of
Fisheries. returned to Ottawa, from
Washington, on the 10th, without con-
Guiding negotiations in reference to the
Behring Sea dispute.
| EX-SENATOR JONES, of Florida, has
| been declared insane and arrested and
confined in ST. Joseph's Retreat, at De-
troit, Mich. He says he will appeal to
The higher courts.
Mrs. ELLEN G. WHARTON, formerly a
| resident of Baltimore, died near Phila-
delphia, on the 10Th, aged about seventy
wears. She attracted National attention
twenty years ago as defendant in case
in which she was charged with poison
| ing a retired army officer.
THE remains of the late President
James A. Garfield were quietly removed
from the public vault in Lake View
Cemetery, Cleveland, O., early on the
morning of the goth, to the crypt in the
Garfield Memorial, which will be dedi-
Gated to the memory of the late Presi-
dent with great pomp and ceremony on
the 30th.
Ex-ALpERMAN JAMES BARKER, late
Tammany Hall leader in the Seven
teenth Assembly district of New York,