Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1890-08-14
CONGRESSIONAL.
MONDAY, Aug. 4.

CONGRESSIONAL.
MONDAY, Aug. 4.
r Senate.-In the senate today Mr.
Davis offered resolution calling on
the secretary of war for informa-
tor on the subject of the accident last
Friday to the lock of The Sault Ste. Marie
canal. He spoke of il as "A most serious
calamity to the commerce of the nation,
costing, as he had been informed by tele-
graph, s5GH, 900 day. He also mention
ed, incidentally, the failure of the house to
act on the bill passed by the senate some
months ago, providing for second and
larger dock Mr.. Cannon hoped that the
house would be induced to take up
the measure and pass it. If not,
it would be we'll enough for the senate
to take up the river and harbor
bill at an earlier day than had been
agreed upon, so as to have the appropria-
ton secured for that very important work.
The resolution offered on Saturday last
by Mr.. Plumb as to the reinterment of the
remains of Gen Grant in the Arlington
National cemetery was at the suggestion
OF Mr. Plumb, allowed to remain on the
table, to be called up at some other time.
The tariff bill was then taken up.
Honse.-ln the house today the appro-
priation bill was taken up. Mr.. Henderson
Iowa explained that the Pacific railroad
claims were not provided for in the bill.
Mr.. Rogers attacked the speaker and
MS rulings. The code of rules, he said,
under which the house proceeded, gave
the speaker power to stifle debate, gag the
house, force the passage of bills, avoid ex-
posture, outrage and mistreat the minority,
and bulldoze the majority. Mr..
Henderson uowa) defended the speaker
against the attack made upon him
by Mr.. Rogers. He referred to him as the
mighty man from Maine, and declared
that he stood today as a towering. historic,
grand figure of this age of Legislative vic
tory and reform. Mr.. Breckenridge
Ark then arose and made an eloquent
appeal against the action of the republi-
can party in the south He stood
before the house, God ana the people
of this country as an honest man and
said the republicans had no cause for
being suspicious of the south. The south
demanded hearty cooperation from the
north to build up their languid industries,
etc. Mr.. Breckenridge was constantly
interrupted by hearty cheers.
TUESDAY, Aug. 8.
Senate. The senate met at 10 a. m and
Immediately proceeded to to the considera-
tion of the tariff bill, the pending item be-
Ing paragraph 10Y, on page 10, Cylinder
and crown glass, polished.
HOuSe-After the reading of the jour
nal, Mr.. Bingham, of Pennsylvania,
FOL ,yr On, hn tall Ia hA
(which mas been pending for some time
passed a bill to grant leave of absence to
clerks in the first and second class post
offices. The motion 30 recover was tabled.
Yeas IL, nays 80. Mr.. Snyder, of Min
nesota, rising to a question of privilege,
denounced as a falshood an article appear
ing in Il Detroit paper, stating that at a
conference between the Minnesota delega-
ton and Speaker Reed, relative to certain
Improvements of the Sault Ste. Marie
canal, the Speaker had declared ito hell
with your inland seas" Mr.. /, Mckinley,
of Ohio, from the committee ON rules re-
ported a resolution asking the secre tary of
the navy for the reasons for the increase of
the force at the kittery Navy Yard. In
speaking of the resolution Mr.. Cummings,
of New York, said that he rose in defense
of pupic morality and public law, which
had been menace by high public official.
the order increasing the force of the Kit
tery navy yard looked as though the de-
sign was to use executive power for par
tisan purposes. He referred to the great
evil which would result from the introduc-
ton of politics into the navy yards and
going back to the administration of the
Navy department by Secretary Robenson,
he commented severely upon the cotton of
that official in filing the navy yards with
partisan friends just previous to congress
ional election He charged that the Kit
terry yard was used for political purposes
and quoted figures to show that previous
to elections the list of employees was much
larger than it was a month or two after
ward The majority of the men employed
came from Maine, the State of Thomas
Bracket Reed.
WEDNESDAY, Aug. 6.
SeHdts-After routine business of little
Importance the senate proceeded to con
Sideration of the tariff
HouSe.-Mr. Reed of Iowa presented
the conference report on the original
package" bill The report leaves the bill
exactly as it passed senate, and is dissent
ed from by Mr. Oates (Ala.) one of the
copferees. After debate the conference