Omaha daily bee., 1890-07-09
IT IS FASTENING SLOWLY.
The Title to the PostoffCe Site is Now
Vested in the Government,
why Mr., CoNNELL CANNOT COME HOME.
The Fate or the Original Package
Bill Rests in the Hands ofthe
Dcmocrats-A Forty.Four
Starred Flag.
WAsuINGroN BUREAU The OMAHA BEE, !
EiQ IHnrurrpNTu S-ruEEr


Senator Manderson today received letters
from the treasury depart ment informing & him
that the title to the site for the Omaha pubic
building had passed into the name of the
federal government, the payments having
been rendered in full and accepted. The seu-
ator called with Skip Dundy, who has hiseyo
upon the position Of dsbursnE officer for IL
funds in payment for the construction of the
general superstructure. The senator and
Mr.. Dundy were informed that not until
after the plans and specifications were all
made and approved and the contracts
let will either dsbursng officer or super
intendent be appointed, and this may not and
likely will Ut be in this year. twill take,
several months of the hardest and closest
work to make al the sketches and plans and
then time must capse before the contracts
are let. Customs Collector Alex xander has
been appointed custodian of the building and
he will if precedCnts set at Detroit and else
where are followed be the dis bursting officer.
1t looks to the citizens of aha, undoubt-
edly, as though their public 'nting waspro-
crossing very slowly, but i'll olnt ol TACT II Is
going forward as rapidly as has those in
other cities. AT Detroit and milwaukee,
much less progress has been made The De-
troit building has been in the course OF con-
struction for five or six years, and yet sew
efal more years lnuSJ CldpSc DtlolO ~ ~
finished.
CoNNELL CAST COME HOME.
Owing to the contrary and unusual atti.
tude of the democrats in the house no re-
publican can now get leave of absence ex-
cept on account OF sickness or death. SeV,
eral requests were refused yesterday and
today There are but 160 to S0members
from both parties in the city at present and
ordinarily less that one hundred in attend
| ance upon the proceedings of the house
| daily For this reason Representative Con
| nelli unable to respond anirmativey TO the
| many requests made by his constituents to
| attend primaries and the convention In his
| district. He could not get a leave of absence
| for tina, purpose, and if he should leave at
| this time it would be at the cost of coustltu-
| ents interests. If the voters of the First
| district knew the exact status in the house
| they would not want Mr.. Connell to leave his
| seat at this time for any purpose.
THE ORIGINAL PACKAGE.
It depends upon the democrats whether or
| not the original package bill shall become a
| law at this session OF congress. Today the
| defeat of the resolution of the committee on
| rules setting the balance of this week for the
discussion of the national bankruptcy and
original package bills does not indicate the
defeat of the original package by republicans
| even though it was republican votes that de
| feated the resolution There are two dincul-
sideration Of this bill In the
| first place a large number of members
| of the house believe that the substitute is too
sweeping, and in the second place nearly all
| the democrats are opposed to the proposition
| in any form whatever, as sayoring OF PROM,
| bition legislation, and having determined
| that no partisan or offensive legislation shall
| be passed without republican quorum
| present they are practically masters of the
fate of the bill. 1t is known that substi-
|, tute will be offered in the house as n substi-
tnte for the pending bill which will define
strictly the term 'ori ginal package and which
| will provide as did the Faulkner amendment
| in the senate, tEat when any package is de
| liyered TO its consgnee, in any state, 1t be
| comes subject to the police laws of that state.
| The original Wilson bill as it passed the SEN
| ate. confning this legislation to lntoXlcants,
| will also be offered again i'll the house.
| FoRTY-FoUR STARS l.; THE FLAG.
Wyoming slipped up to the range of state
| hood very easily, At moment in the house
| this afternoon when there We're very few
| members present and nearly every one was
| yawning aud stretching under a sweltering
| atmosphere the Wyoming statehood bill,
| as amended by the senate, was
| called up and concurred in without word of
debate or explanation twas less than sixty
| seconds from the moment the speaker recOg-
| nized Mr.. Baker ofs New York to take the bill
off the speakers table for the purpose OF CON
| sidering the senate amendments until the
| measure was finally adopted. Delegate Carey,
who is to be one of Wyoming's first senators,
has been very busy looking after the meas
ure during the past week and he had it en-
| crossed and ready for the signatures OF the
| two presiding officers of congress. The
members of the house scarcely
realized what they had done until some min
! utes had elapsed after the concurrence in the
| senate amendment Therefore there was not
| IA word of comment among individual mem
| bers, nor single handicap, and the few
| stran gers in the almost deserted galleries cid
| not realize what was done. Speaker Reed
| iI,r bod n
and il was sent over TO the senate, but owing
| to the nature of the proceedings in tnat
body the signature of the speaker
| could not be announced, and therefore
| Mr. mgals, president pro tenn, did
not have an opportunity to sign the bill He
| will do so tomorrow when 1T Will go TO the
president, who viii promptly give it his auto
graph. The campaign in Idaho and Wyom-
ing will progress with about even dates ana
elections will likely be held for the selection
of state and congressional Officers on the
same day and it is said the legislatures will
meet at the same time and choose United
States senator's simultaneously, so that they
may appear at the bar OF the United States
senate and take the oath Of Office at the same
time There can now be seen forty-four
stars in the flag
| sWELTERING LEGISLATORS
This was the hottest day Washington has
| experienced within year. Thermometers
| throughout the city pu ushed the mercury up
to from So at an early hour this morning TO
| as high as 9S7. The average temperature
was about 95o the latter indicating the tom
| perature at the white house In the hall of
the house of representatives the atmosphere
was almost sitting at times, despite the
efforts of the powerful machinery to force
| fresh air into the chamber. Dur
| ing most OF the day there
were not over sixty or seventy
five members present and IA call of the house
was made, when the sergeant-at-arms and
his deputies were exercised considerably,
| succeeding in drumming up $50 members,
! fourteen abovea quorum. Immediately that
the quorum was announced the number
| ill., +n a rod