The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-01-24
THE WORLD AT LARGE.
Summary Of the Daily News
CONVERSATIONAL.

THE Senate transacted no business of gen
eral Importance on the 18th. Several public
buildings bills were reported. bill passed
for a railroad bridge across the Missouri
river In Nebraska Senator Plumb addressed
the Senate on his resolution relating to the
lease of certain islands in Alaska, and the
Senate adjourned upon being notified of the
proceedings In the House regarding the death
of Representative Kelley. In the House q
report was made by the committee investi-
eating the silcott defalcation and a bill
offered appropriating $4,000 to cover the
defalcation. A minority report was also
submitted. Under the call of States many
bills and resolutions were offered. The Ok
lahoma Townsite bill was then considered in
Committee of the Whole until adjournment
In the Senate on the 18th the bill to declare
trusts and combinations in restraint of trade
unlawful was reported and placed on the
calendar. The remainder of the session was
occupied in debating Senator Calls resolu-
fion In relation to the claims of Florida un
der the swamp land grant, in which Senators
Call. Plumb and Dolph took part. After the
Introduction of several bills the House re-
fused to go into Committee of the Whole on
the Oklahoma Townsite bill, but considered
the bill appropriating $4,000 to cover the
Silcott defalcation. No action was reached
before adjournment.
In the Senate on the 18th Senator Sherman
National bank circulation. The Senate then
took up Senator Morgans resolution recog-
MIXING the United States of Brazil and Sena-
tor Turpie spoke at length in support of it.
The resolution went over. Several bills
passed, among them the bill relating to
homesteads in the Indian Territory: for the
settlement of claims of the State of Missouri
for payment TO militia during the rebellion,
and authorizing the construction Of bridge
over the Missouri river within one mile OF
the mouth of the Kansas river, The House
resumed consideration of the bill appropri-
>2ting 80 "pto reimburse members who lost
by the Silcott defalcation, and when a vote
was reached the bill was defeated by 126 yeas
to l42 nays. The House then adjourned
In the Senate on the 18th Senator Hale
reported adversely the bill requiring the
Superintendent of the Census to ascertain
what percentage of the people owned their
farms, the number of farms under mortgage
and amount. Senator Buffers bill to provide
for the emigration of colored people then
came up and Senator Butler addressed the
Senate in support ~ it and was replied to by
Senator Hoar. Adjourned until Monday.
The whole session of the House was occupied
in talk upon a resolution in regard to locat-
ing the Worlds Fair in 1892, the fight being
virtually one between the East and the West.
The friends of each section were SO near equal
that the House reached no definite result be-
fore adjournment.
The Senate was not i'm session on the 18th.
1.-The house again took up the pending
question at adjournment, the motion to re-
consider the vote on the substitute for the re-
port on the W orld's Fabrication. The motion
to table prevailed by IA to 142 and the original
motion for a select committee to be called the
Worlds Fair Committee prevailed. The
House then considered in Committee OF the
Whole the Oklahoma Townsite bill until ad-
jouInment