The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1890-10-02
DO INGS OF CONGRESS.
MEASURES CONSIDERED AND
ACTED UPON.

IN the Senate. on the 23d, Mr.. Hale intro
duced joint resolution, which was referred
to the Committee on Public Buildings and
Grounds, for the erection, in the District of
Columbia, of a memorial building which
shall be a suita BILE monument to the men,
Dry Of U. S. Grant. which is to contain d
military and naval museum, etc, and in
the inner court Of which may be placed to
rest the mortal remains of distinguished
Americans. (The title Endorsed on
vault of which shall be placed
the mortal remains of Ulysses s.
Grant.") In the House quorum
was finally secured, enough Republicans be-
ing present to take up the contested-elec-
tion case of LangstOn VS. Venable and seat
LangSton, the Republican contestant from
Virginia. T. f. Miller (Rep), of South
Carolina, was also declared elected to the
seat now filed by Elliott (Dem). BY it's
action in seating Mr.. Langston, the House
ended what was probably the most pro-
tracted and bitterly contested election case
it has ever decided. During the closing
days of the last Congress the Democrats
made a strenuous effort to unseat FELTON,
and put in Sullivan as Il Representative
from California; but they were defeated by
the refusal of the majority of the Repub-
licanS to vote upon the proposition
THE conference report on the House joint
resolution to increase the number of the
Board of Managers Of the National Home
fer Disabled Volunteer Soldiers and to fiji
vacancies in such board was presented in
the Senate on the oath, explained by Mr.
Hawlcy, and agreed to. 1t provides for a
board of eleven members, and names the
following managers: Edmund n. Morrill, Of
Kansas (for the uneXpired term of John A.
Martin, dcceaSed), Alfred l.. Pearson of
Pennsylvania (for the uneNpired term Of
J. L. Hartranft, deceased), VIM. b. Franklin
of Connecticut John O. Black of Illinois,
IJv-I, nf Tni, 1NIrH NP
Augustus B. Fa nham, named in the bilD,
and George w. Steele of Indiana. The
House instructed the Public Printer to eX--
clude from the Record Mr.. Kenncdy's
speech attacking Senator Quay. The House
then went into committee CT the whole, Mr..
Alien (Mich) in the chair on the Senate
amendments to the deficiency Till. The
French spOiatiOn claims amendment was
-concmr4d in. The committee then
arose and conference was ordered
In the Senate. on the 25th. the House bill
to provide for the establishment of a port Of
delivery at Peoria, H., was reported by Mr..
CullOn from the Committee on Commerce
and pissed. Mr.. Plumb reported a Senate
icnt resolution authorizing the extension
for one year of the time of payment for
land on presumption or hOm6stca claims
VIII 1never, by reason of failure of crops. the
settler is unable to make payment within
the time prescribed by law, and it was
passed In the House, after some routine
business had been disposed of, MIR EnlOo
(Tcnn.) introduced q resolution reciting
that it is alleged that the Postmaster Of the
House, j. ]. Wheat. whose duty it is to let
contracts for the carrying of the mails, let
a contract to enc Samuel CulbertsOn for
S., 600 a year on the condition that GILBERT
son should pay to him (Wheat) $3.50 month
out of the money received from the Govern
ment for his services and that Wheat did
receive that for five months and di-
A Ofc-+
vestigate these charges. Mr.. Caswell (Wis.)
said that his information was that this
practice on the part of the Postmaster had
obtained during several Congresses.
ON motion of Mr.. Blair the House bill to
amend ''An act to prohibit the Importation
and migration of foreigners and aliens
der contract or agreement to perform labor
in the United States, it's Territories. and the
District of Columbia" was taken from the
calendar of the Senate on the Goth. Mr.,
Plumb moved to amend the fifth section,
which provides that the act shall not apply
to professional actors, artists, etc, by
inserting before the WORD artists
the words musical or other The
amendment was agreed to. Mr.. Car
Isle moved to substitute for the words
''regularlv ordained ministers of the
gospel the words 'regularly ordained or
constituted ministers of religion" and said
that without that amendment the bill
would exclude Jewish rabDis The amend
ment was. after some discussion, agreed to.
Mr.. Gambler (Mass), from the Worlds Fair.
Committee, reported to the House resolu-
ton providing that a subcommittee of five
members of that committee shall be APP
POINTED by the Chairman to inquire into the
progress of the details for the holding of
the proposed exhibition, to examine into
the amount of space allotted to the various
displays, and all other matters which the
sub-cd mmitteo may deem advisable, and to
report to the House at the beginning of the
next session. Adopted.
THE present session of Congress has been
one of the longest and, in many respects.
one of the most interesting for many
years Although the first session OF
the Fiftieth Congress lasted until Oct. 20,
the present session. by reason of its longer
daily sessions, has far exceeded it in work
ing time and the amount of legislative
work actually accomplished. In figures
the business of the session is expressed
as follows: Bills and joint resolutions
introduced in the House, 12,4O2; in the
Senate, 1850; total, 1872, against 1888 in
the first session of the last Congress, which
in this matter far eXcellcd all previous re-
cords. Reports made in the House, 1928;
in the Senate, 1,S17 mo account being taken
in the Senate of other than written repOrts).
Bills passed: By the House,, 292, of which
the Senate has passed $40. By the Senate
100. Of which 1856 have been sent to the
President, making total number OF about
1885 acts or laws against l,'V0 Tor inc
whole of the last Congress. OF these acts
coo House and 275 Senate bills were for pen
sions to individuals. In the completed work
of the session aside from the revision OF
the tariff and acknowledgements laws by the
Mckinley -Aldrich tariff bill the following
measures which have become laws may be
named as the most important: The bill pro-
viding for the monthly purchase of 100000
ounces of silver; the customs adminlstra-
tive bill: the dependent and disability
pension bill; the antitrust bill; the anti
lottery bill; the provision for World s
Fair in Chicago in 1868 to celebrate the
40Oth anniversary of the discovery OF
America; the admission of Wyoming and
Idaho to Statehood; the meat-inspectl0n
bill: the land grant forfeiture bill; the
original package bill; the bill recon-
mended by the international Maritime
Conference to prevent collision at sea; and
the provisions lin the naval appropriation
bilD co add to the new navy three line-of-
battle ships one protected schooner, one tor
pedo cruiser, and one torpedo boat. 10
complete the list of results accomplished
during the present session there must be-
mentioned the radical changes in the rules
of the House and the action upon election
contests. There were eighteen contested
election cases before the House and seven
Of no RanuhIicou cont eStantS have BEEN