Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1890-02-06
NATIONAL CONGRESS-.
Proceedings In the Senate and
House at Washington.
Bills Introduced and Passed and Resoln-
tions offered and Adopted =
Complete Summary of Daily
Transactions.
SENATE.

SENATE.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 2s.--In the senate
yesterday Senator Hoar Mass present
ed the resolution adopted at a mass
meeting held recently in Boston on the
subject OF the cruel deprivation Of col
ored people of the right to take part in
elections in some of the Southern States.
Senator CocArell (Mo.) introduced bin
to repeal the silver coinage bin Of Feb
ruary IS, 1873, and to require the pur-
chase and coinage OF $1,000 600 a month
in standard silver dollars. Mr., Walt
hall ia. spoke on the race question and
said he agreed with Senator ingalls,
kan that the race question was the
most formidable ever presented
to the free people for solution.
He saw no remedy which Congress could
apply that promised any practical re-
suit. lie believed that arbitrary enact
ments could but increase the difficulty,
and criticised all the proposed remedies
for the race trouble Including deporta-
tion and disfranchisement) as impracti-
cable and impossible,
WASmINGroN, Jan. % The Senate
yesterday passed the direct-tax bill.
which passed the last Congress and was
vetoed by President Cleveland. The
bill appropriates SEQ 600, 600 for the pay
ment TO the States and Territories all
moneys collected under the direct tax
levied by act Of Congress in 1861. 4
memorial was presented for the estab-
ishment of a republican form of gov
eminent in the State Of Mississippi. A
long argument took place against the
resolution in relation to the maltreat-
ment Of Henry J. Faunce, Of In
diana, at Aberdeen, Miss.
WAsmINGToH. Jan. 80. In the Senate
yesterday Senator Ingalls, (Kan.l pre-
sented joint resolution for the erection
Of monument to Abraham Lincoln on
the Gettysburg battlefield The House
bill granting honorable discharge to
the sailors and marines who have
lost their certificates of discharge was
passed After the introduction of a few
unimportant bills Senator Mitchell
tore called up the bill relative to the
free coinage of silver which he sup
ported in speech Of some length.
WASHINGTON, Jan. SIN the Senate
yesterday the bill instructing the super
intendent Of census to gather informa-
tion regarding mortgages on homes and
farms was passed. Mr. Vance IN. CO
spoke on the negro emigration bill in
answer to Mr.. Ingalls,. The President
sent in the following nominations: Will
lam H. Taft, Of Ohio, to be SOLICITOR
General; Robert Adams, Jr-, of Penn
sylvania, now accredited Envoy Extra
ordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
to the Empire Of Brazil. to be Envoy EX-
traordinary and Minister Plenipoten-
tiary to the United states Of Brazil.
HOUSE.
WASHINGToN, Jan. % in the House
yesterday the bill appropriating 81, 500,
900 for the erection of three United
States prisons for the imprisonment Of
United States prisoners was passed. Bills
were introduced for the appointment Of
a Commissioner of Immigration; pro-
hibiting the transportation of intoXi-
eating liquors from one State or Terri
tory to another State or Territory in
violation Of the laws thereof to pension
the widows and orphans Of people killed
for political purposes since the close Of
the late war.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 29.-In the House
yesterday a bill was passed providing
that in cases Of pension claims Of de-
pendent parents. it shall be necessary
only to show to the pension Office that
tte parents are without other means of
support than manual labor. A bill was
reported to provide for the issue of cir
culating notes TO National banking as
sociations
WASHINGTON, Jan. 30. In the House
yesterday the election case of Smith
versus jackson from the Fourth West
Virginia district was taken up. The
Democrats generally refused to vote and
made the point of no quorum. The
Speaker. however. counted the members
refusing to vote and declared a quorum
present. This ruling caused long de-
bate.
WAsHlNGToS, Jan. 81. In the House
yesterday the time was occupied in
wrangling over the ruling of Speaker
Reed that members present but not vot-
Ing shall be counted in order to make
up a quorum. The Republicans sus-
tanned the ruling and tho Democrats de-
nounced it.
WASHINGTON, Feb. L. Speaker Reed
yesterday succeeded in suppressing the
hlibusters, and the West Virginia con-
tested election case is now before the
House. The uproar yesterday was sim
liar to that which occurred Thursday,
Mr. Springer Ull) and Mr. Bland
~IMo.) being the principal partici-
pants The Speaker declined to recog-
nize any one who arose to make a dila-
tory motion, and refused to allow APP
peals from his decision. When the
Democrats refused to vote he ordered
the clerk to record that sufficient num-
Der of them to make quorum we're
present and not voting, and then de-
clared aquorum present. The fight was
brought on by the Democrats, who at
tempted by flibustering to prevent the
consideration Of the case of Mr.. Smith,
of West Virginia, Republican, gho
contests the seat Of Mr. jackson, DEM
ocrat.
WAsHINGToN, Feb. 3.-In the House
Saturday the stormy scenes of the past
few days were repeated, but Speaker
Reed firmly maintained his position,
and finally several arguments in the
contested election case Of Smith vs..
jackson, Of West Virginia, were made
WAsHNGIoN, Jan. 50 Secretary
Window has issued second cali to Ma
tional banks for the surrender on or be-