The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-03-14
THE WORLD AT LARGE.
Summary Of the Daily News.
CONGRESSIONAL.

CONGRESSIONAL.
In the Senate on the Sd Mr.. Voorhees, offered
resolution looking to an inquiry into the
late lease to the North American Company
of the privilege of fur sealing in Alaska
which was referred. A bill passed fixing
the salaries OF United States District Judges
1t 500 The Educational bill was then
debated until adjournment. In the House
petition was presented from the
Seventh Day Adventists, containing 25s,
600 names, protesting against the passage
of any bill in regard to the observa nce of the
Sabbath A joint resolution authorizing the
appointment of thirty additional medical
examiners for the Pension Bureau passed.
The attempt by Mr.. Perkins to have the
ruler suspended in order to pass the Okla
homa bill failed and the Arkansas contested
election case then occupied the attention OF
the House until adjournment
THE business transacted in the Senate on
the 9Th was unimportant Several bridge
bills were reported and the bill appropriate
ing $4,000 for a monument to commemorate
the battle Of Trenton was passed. The Sen
ate occupied i've hours in executive session
debating the resolution in regard to the
manner In which proceedings in secret ses-
sion leaked out and were published in full
every day. The leak appears not to have
been discovered. The entire session OF the
House was taken up In debating the Arkan
sas contested election case
tempt to pass the bill to increase the pen
sion of the widow OF General Warren de-
veloped the fact that no quorum was present
Pending efforts to secure a quorum the bill
went over and the Blair Educational bill
was again laid before the Senate. Senator
Barbour spoke in favor and Senator Plumb
against the bill. Adjourned. The House
again took up the Arkansas contested cleo
tion case of Featherstone VS.. Cate and after
a long debate ousted Cate and seated
Featherstone by a vote OF las to lbs. Ad-
journed
A NUMBER of bills were reported in the
Senate on the 9Th and bills passed giving a
pension of S15 a month to the daughter of
Major General Worth, and increasing the
pension OF the widow of General Warren
TO 500 per month After an executive ses-
sion the Senate adjourned. The entire
morning hour of the House was con-
sumed in the discussion of a bill for
the compulsory attendance of witnesses be-
fore registers and receivers of land offices.
The House then, in Committee of the Whole,
considered bills for public buildings The
debates at times were quite exciting Sew
erai bills passed when the committee rose,
after which the House adjourned.
AFTER the usual morning business the
Senate on the eth considered bills on the
calendar and passed several bills for public
buildings. Pending discussion of the ap.
preparation OF s90,UJO lOr q DullClng at Sait
Lake City, the Educational bill was reached
as unf1n ished business. Senator Blair again
spoke in its favor and took occasion
to refer severely to the press Of the
country. Senator Hale opposed the
bill Pending debate the Senate adjourned
until Monday. The House passed the Sen
ate bill for bridge across the Arkansas
river in the Indian Territory. The report of
the committee on the Alabama contested
election case of Threat vs. Clark in favor of
Clark, the sitting member, was unanimous
1y adopted The bill referring to the Court
of Claims the claim of W. f. Woodbridge for
the use of his invention of projectiles for
rified cannon was defeated. Bills were then
considered in Committee of the Whole until
recess At the evening session pension bills
were considered.