Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-08-14
NEWS AND NOTES.
a Summary Of Important Events.
FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS.

IN the Senate, on the 4th, the presiding Of
ficef taIr. 1ngalls) rebuked certain Senators
for violation of the fundamental princi-
pies of parliamentary law in speaking in
terms of dispdragement of the proceedings
of the other house of Congress. The Tariff
bill was taken up, and of the large number
of amendments offered a few were adopted,
between eighteen and nineteen pages of the
bill being disposed of. -. In the House, af-
ter preliminary business. the General De
ficiency Appropriation bill was tax en- up IN
committee of the whole, but no progress
was made with it, the entire day being
taken up with speech making. Mr.. Rogers
made long speech critcising severely the
methods and manners and rulings of Speak
er Reed, and Mr.. Breckinridge criticised the
rules and legislation of the Republican ma
iority. Messrs. Henderson and BouteIle do
Tended the Speaker and the legislation of
the session.
In the Senate, on the 5th the Tariff bill
was taken up and good progress was made.
The glassware and stone schedule was fin
ished. number of amendments propos-
ing to reduce the committee rates. offered
by the Democrats, were rejected. The
metal schedule was taken up, and pending a
discussion of an amendment offered by Mr.
Morgan to admit steel ore free, the Senate
adjourned....In the House most of the day
was spent debating the resolution reported
from the committee on rules, asking the
Secretary of the Navy for the reasons of the
increase of force at the kittery Navy Yard,
as a substitute for the Cumming resolution
of inquiry. After adopting the resolution
and receiving the report of the election
committee in the Clayton Brecklnridge
case, which declared Mr. Breckinridge' 8
seat vacant, the General Deficiency bill was
taken up in committee of the whole.
IN the Senate, on the 9Th, confederation OF
the Tariff bill was resumed, and Mr Nor
gam. proposed amendment to reduce the
duty on Bessemer iron ore was discussed.
Senator German made a long speech in
favor of reducing the rate. proposition
to reduce the rate from seventy five to sixty
cents per ton was defeated, and without fin
ishing the iron ore paragraph the Senate
adjourned In the House the conference
report on the Original Package" bill was
adopted after which consideration OF the
General Deficiency bill was resumed in
committee of the whole, but without dis
posing of the measure.
IN the Senate, on the 18th, cons liberation of
the Tariff bill was resumed, and consIdera-
BILE progress made with the metal
schedule. Several propositions from Demo
Gratis to reduce rates were defeated by
strict party votes......In the House, after
preliminary matters had been attended to,
the General Deficiency bill was taken up
and disposed of in committee of the whole.
When the committee rose all the amend
ments were agreed to except one granting
an extra months pay to employees of the
Senate and House, and then the bill went
over.
IN the Senate. on the Sth, the conference
report on the Fertilization bill was adopted.
long discussion ensued the confer
ence report on the Sundry Civil Appropria-
tions bill, which was finally agreed to. and
a further conference was ordered on the ir-
rigation items Late in the afternoon the
Tariff I'LL was taken up, but no progress
was made with it,. In the House consid-
Grafton of the General Deficiency bill was
finished early in the afternoon, and the bill
was passed. The remainder of the after
noon was spent discussing a resolution
from the committee rules to bring the
Senate amendments to the Indian Appro-
priation bill before the House for immedi-
ate consideration.