The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1890-04-03
NEWS AND NOTES.
FIFTY.FIRsT CONGRESS

N the Senate, on the 2lth, several peti.
tions againts the ratification OF the Extra.
dition treaty with Russia were presented
The report on the Montana contested eIec.
tion case was presented, and the remainder
of the session was taken mp with a discus.
sion OF the bill to declare unlawful trusts
and combinations in restraint of trade, the
amendment offered by Mr.. Reagan, the Anti
Trust bill, being first considered. In the
House the Worlds Fair bill was made
special order for the 2Sth The Urgency De-
hciency bill was reported back with amend
nents, which were non. concurred in and a
conference was ordered. District of Colum-
bia matters were then taken up, and Senate
bill approprlating 81, zoo, 900 to establish the
Rock Public Park was debated in committee
OF the whole until the House adjourned.
IN tine senate. on the 18th, a bill was
passed to enable the Secretary of the Treas.
ury to gather full information as to the con.
uttton and preservation of the fur. seal in.
terests of the Government in Alaska. The
sherman Anti Trust bill was taken up
argued at length, amended and lard over for
one day......In the House the Worlds Fair
bill was read and several amendments
thereto were adopted, the most important
of which was one offered by Mr.. Gambler
providing for the dedication OF the buildings
of the Worlds Fair with appropriate cere-
monies october IL, 1892, and further provId.
ing that the exposition shall be open to Wis.
itors not later than the LIST of May. 1893, and
shall close not later than October 80, 1893.
The bill was then passed: Yeas, 202; nays, 40.
IN the Senate, on the 18th, after the trans
teton of routine business, the Anti Trust
Till was taken up, to which Mr.. spooner Of
Tered an amendment giving the courts au.
lhority to issue writs of injunction prohib
ting and restraining combinations from
proceeding any further in the business ex.
iept to wind up their affairs. The amend
nent and the bill were dis cussed at great
length and with some warmth but a vote was
not reached. In the House the Wyoming
Admission bill was considered and strongly
opposed, on the Democratic side, because of
the provision of the Constitution of the Ter
ritory extending the right of suh rage to
women.
In the Senate, on the 27th, House bill to
amend the Census act of March 3, 1882 to al
low special agents s. a day for subsistence
when travelling; House bill appropriating
$4,000 for the purchase of tents for the use
If flood sufferers of Arkansas, Mississippi
and Louisiana, and Senate bill suspending
;or one year the statute that requires steam
Crs to be provided with certain life saving
appliances, guns for throwing lines, etc,
we're passed, after which the Ant Trust bill
was further considered. In the House the
Wyoming Admission bill was taken up, and
encountered strenuous opposition on the
Democratic side on account of the woman
franchise feature of the Constitution adopted
by that Territory, but was finally PASSED by
A vote of l39 to l27.
IN the Senate. on the 2sth, Mr.. Edmunds
moved that the Senate go into executive
session, and after an agreement had been
made that Mr.. Dolph should address the
Senate on the 29th on Mr.. Voorhees, resolu-
tion as to agricultural depression and the
rest of the day should be devoted to the cal
endar, the Senate at one O'Clock proceeded
to executive business, which occupied the
remainder of the session. In the House,
while considering bills on the private cal
endar in committee of the whole, the entire
afternoon was spent in discussing a point
of order raised against bill for allowance
of claim for stores used by the Govern
ment during the war. An evening session
was held at which twenty eight private pen.
sion hills were passed.