The Brookhaven leader., 1890-05-01
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Cleaned By Telegraph and Mail.
CONGRESS.

CONGRESS.
AFTER the disposition OF routine business
IN tho Senate on the 21st Senator Reagan in
troduced a bill to repeal oil laws for the re-
tirement OF army and navy officers from
active service on pay. Senator Plumb in
troduecd a concurrent resolution directing
the Secretary of the Treasury to Increase
the treasury purchase and coinage of silver
to the maximum amount authorized by law.
The Senate then took up the House
Worlds Fair bill which was debated
at length, amended and passed by q
vote of 3 to 1a. Adjourned. In the
House Mr.. Dorsey (NebD introduced a
dill for the coinage of silver to the maximum
allowed by law. A bill passed providing that
soldiers who lost their limbs during the war
shall be entitled to receive an artificial limb
every three years. The bill to pension ex-
prisoners of war was called up when Mr..
Tarsney (Mo.), who had been a prisoner of
war, vigorously opposed the bill. The mo-
tion to suspend the rules and pass the bill
failed and the House adjourned.
AFTER disposing of unimportant routine
business in the Senate on the 22d Senator
Plumb's resolution for the increase of the
treasury purchase and coinage Of silver was
presented and Senator Eustis offered an ad-
diton to 1t that the free coinage of silver Is
essentia; to a sound financial policy, and all
laws limiting its coinage ought to be re-
pealed. The subject went over and Senator
MlICnell huuTeSSGu LDo CSudIt III ldNOT VI HIS
proposition for the election of United States
Senators by the people, The District of Co.
lumbia Appropriation bill was passed and
the Senate adjourned. In the House the
Ways and Means Committee presented bill
for the classification of worsted cloths as
wooden. The Senate amendments to the
Worlds Fair bill were concurred In. The
Legislative Appropriation bill was then con-
sdered IN Committee Of the Whole until ad-
iournment.
IN the Senate on the 23d a concurrent reso-
luton was adopted requesting the PI esdent
to enter into negotiations with Mexico in re-
lation to the irrigation of arid lands in the
valley OF the Rio Grande. The conference
report on the Oklahoma Territory bill was
agreed to. After passing several bills
of local private character the
Land Forfeiture bill was taken up
and became "unfinished business" and the
Senate adjourned. Soon after assembling
the House went into Committee of the Whole
on the Legislative Appropriation bill and
the debate that followed had but little refer
ence to the bill under consideration. Ad-
iourned.
In the Senate on the Path Senator Hoar,
from the Elections Comm ttee, reported
bill to supplement the election laws of the
United States, which was placed on the
calendar. Senator Pugh, in behalf OF the
minority, dissented from the bill in some
vigorous remarks. The bill to transfer the
revenue cutter service from the Treasury
Department to the Navy Department
was considered at some length. The
Land Grant bill was then considered
until adjournment. soon after assembling
the House went into Committee OF the Whole
on the Legislative Appropriation bill. he
clause in the bill making appropriations for
the Civil Service Commission ELECTED spicy
debate in which the Commission and the law
were severely attacked, and pending debate
on the motion to strike out the appropria-
tion for tho Civil l-Service Commission the
House adjourned.
Soon after meeting on the 2jth the Senate
took up and passed the House joint reso'u-
tion appropriating sl5OOOO to be used by the
Secretary of War for the relief of sufferers
by the Mississippi floods The Railroad Land
Forfeiture bill was then further debated at
length. Eulogies were then delivered upon
the late Representative Gay, of Louisiana,
and the Senate adjourned. In the House
petition was presented from Philadelphia
business men asking the aid of Congress
in the promotion of the building of Ameri-
can ships to trade with foreign ports, and
also one from mer chants of New York ask
ing for the classification of worsted goods as
woolens. Mr.. Cannon Ill }, from the Appro-
pl liations Committee, reported Joint reso-
luton appropriating SIS ',oao for the sufferers
by the Miss ssippi floods, which was imme-
diately adopted. The House then further
considered the Legislative Appropriation
bill. Pension bills were considered at the
evening session.