The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1890-06-26
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
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CONGRESS-.

WHEN the Senate met on the 18th a mes
sage from the House asking further confer
ence on the Trust bill was assented to. The
Deficiency Appropriation bill for pensions
and the census was reported and passed
Debate on tho Silver bill was then resumed
and continued until adjournment. The
House agreed to several conference reports
among them that for public building al
Salina, Kan. The limit of the cost Is SIS 200
The Sundry Civil Appropriation bin was
then considered In Committee of the Whole
until the House adjourned.
SOON after assembling on the 18th the Sen
nte resumed consideration OF the Silver bill
and Senator Wolcott (Col.) made an argu
ment in favor Of silver. The Senate finally
proceeded to vote on the amendments to the
House bill. Tho amendment to strike out
the clause that the treasury notes issued for
the purchase of silver shall be legal ten
der for all debts was lost The bullion re-
demption clause was stricken out by vote
of 50 to Z, and the amendment to strike out
the free coinage section was lost. The
amendment limiting the act to ten
years was defeated and an amendment by
Senator Blair, limiting the coinage to S. ,O00,-
900 monthly, failed. After a long debate and
several amendments tho bill was reported
80 the senate and passcd-ayes, AZ; nays. 2s
THE House had under consideration
most OF the day, In Committee of the Whole
the sundry Civil Appropriation bill which
was finally reported to the House and
passed, and then the Indian Appropriation
bill was consider, until adjournment.
WHEN the Senate met on the 18th Mr.
Morrill, from tho Finance Committee, re
ported back the Tariff bill, and it was placed
on the calendar After an executive session
:he Senate took up the Legislative, Execu-
tive and judicial Appropriation bill. An
amendment was agreed to increasing the
salary of twenty six committee clerks
from $3.50 to $500, and the salary OF
clerks to Senators from $l,500 to 81 800
Adjourned. Soon after the House met a
message was received from the Senate an
nouncing the passage of the Free Coinage
Silver bill, which was received with applause
on the part OF the Democrats The House
being in Committee of the Whole on the In :
dian Appropriation bill, Mr.. Bland (Mo.)
moved that the committee rise in order to
take action on the Silver bill, which motion
was defeated and the Indian Appropriation
bill was completed and passed. Adjourned.
AFTER committees reported In the Senate
on the 18th the House bill extending for one
year the time for commencing and con
structing brilge across the Missouri river
at or near Kansas City passed. Tho Legisla'
tive, Executive and Judicial Appropriation
bill,was considered for time and laid aside.
message was received from the President
In relation to reciprocal commercial treaties
with the Latin American nations, in con-
nection with which Senator Hale presented
an amendment to be offered to the Tariff
bill authorizing the President to de-
clare the ports of this country open
and free to all products of the American
hemisphere upon which no export duty is
imposed so long as such nations shall ad-
nit free the products of this country. After
culogies on Mcssrs. Nutting and Wilber, Of
New York, the Senate adjourned. After
the journal had been read in the House MIR.
Mills (Tcxas) objected to its approval on the
ground that 1t had not been read in full
The objection was that the reference of the
Senate Free Coinage bill was surreptltious
and was by the Speaker and not or
dered by the House. The speaker
refused to recognize Mr.. Nils but
recognized Mr. Mckinley, who moved the
approval of the journal and demanded the
previous question. This brought on a long
wrangle and Mr. McKinley's motion was
finally defeated by n small majority. A mo-
tion to reconsider was lost. Pending mo-
tion to approve the journal as corrected,
striking out the clause by which the silver
bill was referred to the CDmm ttee on Coin :
age, Weights and Measures, this House ad
journed.
Soon after the Senate met on the 20th
Senator Stewart rose to question of privi-
lege and denied the special sent out from
Washington as to a conflict between himself
and Senator Reagan in the marble room,
and senator Reagan said that there never
had been any controversy or ill feeling be-
tween himself and Senator Stewart and that
the dispatch was false. The Legislative,
Executive and Diplomatic bill was then
completed and passed. Adjourned. The
controversy was renewed in the House over
the approval of the journal of Wednesday
as to the reference of the Free Coinage bill,
the question being on Mr.. Mills motion for
the previous question upon the approval of
the journal as amended. The previous
question was ordered by a vote of 1913 to l22
and the journal as amended, approved by
a vote of lsl to l29 A long wrangle was then
induldged in, and without finally disposing
of the question as to the status of the bill
the House adjourned.