Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-06-19
Lively Times in the House This
Afternoon.
SPEAKER REED IS DEFEATED
His Right to Refer the Silver Bill
the Cause of Contest.
EIGHT REPUBLICAN VOTES AsTRAY.
SENATE.

Mr.. Morgan presented a petition Of owners
Of certain lands in the Fiji Islands claiming
their ownership by conveyance from native
chiefs, and asking for joint commission to be
organized by agreement between the govern
ments Of Great Britain and the United States
for the purpose of taking their claim into con-
sideration. Referred to the committee on
foreign relations.
Mr.. Hoar presented a petition from Boston
against the increase of duty on fresh and salt
fish. Laid on the table.
BILLS REPORTED.
The following Senate bills were reported and
placed on the calendar:
To enable the Secretary of the Interior to
carry out an act for the rellef and civilization
OF the Chippewa Indians of Minnesota
To adopt regulations for preventing collisions
at sea.
To authorize corporations to become
surety IN certain cases in the courts of the
United States. Also the following House bills:
10 authorize the county of Pulaski, Ga. to
maintain high wagon and foot bridge across
the Ocmulgee river near Hawkinsville, Ga.
To authorize the construction OF bridge
across the Savannah river.
Senate bill to provide for paying certain ad-
vances made for the United States by the states
of Maryland and Pennsylvania
Also adversely Senate bill to make the Lake
Borgne outlet and to improve the low water
channel OF the Mississippi river. Indefinitely
postponed)
BILLS PASSED.
The following bills were reported and passed:
Senate joint resolution to surrender certain
bonds and drafts in the State Department to
Robt. I. Hargous, administrator of Louis S..
Hargous.
House bill to extend for one year the time
FOR the commencement and conclusion of a
thn II.
City, Kan.
House joint resolution to increase the num-
Der OF members of the board of managers of
Soldiers National Home (from ten to eleven)
and to fill vacancies with an amendment sub
stltuting the name of Thomas w. HYDE of
Maine for that Of Augustus B. Farnham.)
Mr.. Wolcott introduced (by request) a bill to
establish and maintain a national park in
Colorado. Referred.
SALOONS AND BREwKRIEs IN wAsHINaroN
Mr.. Call introduced a bill to provide for the
removal of saloons, breweries and distilleries
in Washington city on the complaint of per-
sons residing in their immediate vicinity, Re-
ferred.
SENATOR QUAY AND PAGE xAxx.
Mr.. Quay's resolution, offered yesterday, for
bidding the sergeant-at-arms TO remove any of
his subordinates before the LIST Of July without
consent of the Senate was taken up.
Mr.. Cameron offered a substitute for it,
directing the employment as an additional
page for the present session of George H.
Mann, the employe whose removal was the
cause OF MIR. Quay's resolution being offered
Both resolutions were referred to the COM
mittee on contingent expenses
After short discussion, in which Mr.. Sher-
man spoke OF Mr.. Quay's resolution as
sLAPPINa A MAN IN THE FACE
just as he was leaving his Office, and said that
the emplOye had been removed because he had
passed the limit Of age for page, and because
OF 'the urgent request of a Senator who had a
right to claim something at the hands of the
sergeant-at-arms for another very worthy
person."
LEGISLATIVE, ETC, APPROPRIATION BILL.
The Senate then resumed consideration of
the legislative, executive and judicial appro-
priation bill.
In the course of the consideration Of the
bill (several omissions or defects having
been noticed and supplied) Mr.. CockreI said
that the recent reported interview
with Speaker Reed (in which the
Speaker is represented as having thanked
Heaven that the House is not Il deliberative
bodyO might account for the shape in
which this and other bills come to the
Senate. In the same connection he
recalled the circumstance that one of the House
clerks with message from the House had an
nounced, some weeks ago. the passage of certain
bills ''by the Speaker"