Huntsville gazette. [volume] (Huntsville, Ala.) 1879-1894, 1890-08-09
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources.


IN the Senate, on the 3oth. the resolution
to meet hereafter at 10 a. M was agreed to-
The Tariff bill was taken mp, and the duty
on chloroform was reduced from forty ce nts
to twenty five cents, but number of other
proposed reductions were rejected The
conference report on the District of Colum-
bla Appropriation bill was discussed but
not disposed Of. In the House fifteen re
quests for leave of absence were passed
over. The conference report on the Dis
trict of Columbia Appropriation bill was
agreed to. The Senate irrigation amend
ment TO the Sundry Civil Ap preparation bill
was discussed without action. commit
tee was appointed to Investigate the PEN
sion Office.
In the Senate, on the 3lst. aftor some tim @
lost in waiting for quorum, the confer
ence report on the District of Columbia An
preparation bill was agreed to. During
the afternoon four pages of the Tariff bill
were finished, all of the committee amend
ments being agreed to......In the House a
resolution providing for an investigation of
the charge that money was spent in lobby
ing the Silver bill through Congress was
ruled out as not embodying Il question of
privilege. The Senate's irrigation amend :
ment to the Sundry Civil Appropriations
bill was non concurred IN 5ut without a
conference being ordered
IN the Senate, on the Ist, Mr. Blair Of
fered a resolution which went over, to in
struct the committee on rules to provide a
rule for ordering the previous question
The Tariff bill was discussed further. and
sponges and sulphate of potash were put on
the free list, and the rate on sulphate Of
soda was made one tenth of cent per
pound. instead of twenty per cent ad va
loren. 80. In the House resolution was
adopted calling on the Secretary of War for
the report of the engineers on the Calves
ton harbor Improvement The Sundry Civil
Appropriations bill was taken up and dis
cussed for some time when the previous
question was ordered, but the remainder Of
the afternoon was wasted in efforts to Sc
cure a quorum An evening session, de-
voted to private pension bills, was held
In the Senate, on the I'd, Mr.. Blairs "pre-
vious question" resolution was referred to
the committee on rules, and consideration
of the Tariff bill was then resumed. Tho
general subject of taxation was discussed by
several Senators, but no progress as made
with the bill. -. In the House consideration
of the Senate amendments to the Civil Sun
dry Appropriations bill was complet ted
mos. of them being rejected-and the bill
was sent to conference.
In the Senate, on the 4th the presiding Of
ficer (Mr. Ingalls) rebuked certain Senators
for q violation of the fundamental princi-
pies of parliamentary law in speaking in
terms of disparagement of the proceedings
of the other house of Congress. The Tariff
bill was taken up. and of the large number
of amendments offered a few were adopted,
between eighteen and nineteen pages of the
bill being disposed Of. -. In the House, af-
ter preliminary business. the General De-
fciency Appropriation bill was tax en- up IN
committee of the whole, but no progress
was made with it, the entire day being
taken up with speech making. Mr. Rogers
made long speech critcising severely the
methods and manners and rulings Of Speak
er Reed, and Mr.. Breckinridge criticised the
rules and legislation Of the Republican ma
jorty. Messrs. Henderson and Boutelle de-
Tended the Speaker and the legislation OF
the session.