Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-12-02
I'm HARNESS AGAIN.
Congress Ready to smart the
Legislative Machinery.
TARIFF REFORM AND FREE SILVER

Get the Floor In the House Mt the First
Opportunity-Some of the Bills Intro
duced-Repubiican Statesmen Prcpar-
ing to Line Out the work-The MONTH
~ Financial Undergraduates ON
Appropriations and Revenue--Informa-
ton Wanted of an Alleged silver Pool
Capital Notes.
! WASHINGTON CITY Dec. 2-The second
session of the Fifty-first congress began
business at the Capitol yesterday without
any sensational feature to mark its OPEN
ing. The fact that it was the last chance
OF the Republicans for at least two years
did not have the effect of providing any
thing dramatic, and the only evidence of
special interest was the large attendance
OF spectators. In the senate there were
floral tributes on the desks of Voorhees,,
Sanders, and others, and a pyramid of
flowers ornamented the speakers desk in
the house, while half a dozen members of
each political party had been similarly re-
membered
Proceedings I'm the Senate.
There were thirty-eight Republicans and
twenty-three Democrats present in the
senate when Morton called it to order
The two Wyoming senators, Carey and
Warren, were sworn in, and ON drawing
for class" Carey drew the long term and
Warren the short one. The usual commit
tees TO wait on the president and the house
were appointed and performed their due
ties, and at 1:30 p. m the presidents mes
sage was received and the reading begun,
the senators paying close attention there
to. At the conclusion its senate ad-
journed.
Lots of Bills In the House.
Ii looked, shortly after the message was
read in the house, like most of the 2s7
members present had bills in their pockets.
The elections had evidently had an effect.
for many of the measures were for free
coinage of silver and lower tariff. The
first thing that was done after the usual
committees had been appointed was to
swear in new members and when Breckin-
ridge of Arkansas came forward. the DEM
ocrats applauded, for he had been re-
elected in the district whose seat had been
declared vacant by the first session of this
congress. Then several other newly
elected members were sworn In, among
them Harvey, delegate from Oklahoma. The
message arrived at l:S0 p. IN and was i'm
mediately read. the Republicans applaud
ing it.
An Avalanche of Bills.
As If there was not much more bust
ness than the present session can pos
sibly attend 10 already before the house.
the members then began unload.
ing themselves of measures. each one
OF which is guaranteed by its author to
save the country. A few of them are
given: Townsend of California, Bartine of
Nevada, Picker of South Dakota, Glenn
ents of Georgia, and Bland of Missouri
oobbed up as soon as they could be recog-
nlzed with free silver coinage bills. They
all provide for the free coinage of the 4I2.5
grain piece, with other provisions of va
rious import and Importance
Tariff Reduction and Pensions.
Then come the men who want lower
duties on necessaries and raw materials
McCreary of kentucky offered bill to mt
tin, tinplate, agricultural implements.
edge tools, worsteds, binder Irvine, blank
cts, salt, and cotton ties on the free list
NIke OF Illinois asked that the ways and
means committee be instructed to report
bills sbating all increases of duties in the
Mckinley bill, putting wool, lumber, salt,
anu many Otner articles On the free list
and providing for any deficits created
thereby in bill imposing an income tax
Sgraduated) on all incomes in excess of
$1,000 Picker introduced two pension
bills, one granting a service pension.
and bill providing that So per month
shall be the lowest pension received.
Miscellaneous Measures
Grosvenor introduced joint resolution
authorizing the printing of LOCO, 600 copies
of the census law of 1888 and the Mckinley
law and administrative law of the last SEES
sion. The document is to be printed so as
to show the comparative rates Of duty on
all dutiable articles, and the articles trans
ferred in the Mckinley law to the free list
Cutcheon introduced another authorizing
the secretary OF war to issue l ZOO rifles and
ammunition for them to the state of South
Dakota for protection against the Indians.