Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-05-24
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CONGRESSIONAL.

SENATE, May ll-1ne senate tOOK up n
passed the following bills: Authorizing tn
registry of census mail matter; House bill al
proprinting $4,000 for q public building a
York, Pa; Senate bill appropriating 100000 TO
npublic building at Rock Island, ILL.,; Senat
bill in relation TO the pay OF Rear Admira
James Il. Jouett, retired (allowing him tn
highest pay and compensation OF his grade n
Renr AdmiraD, and Senate bill to pay S., 203 L
the heirs of John Howard Payne, due on hi
salary as consul to Tunis The Silver bill wa
then taken up and Mr.. Teller addressed thu
Senate in opposition to the measure. Withou
concluding his speech Mr. Teller yielded to
motion to go into executive session. and whei
the doors were reopened the Silver bill was lait
aside informally and the Senate soon after ad
journed.
HoUsE-The House insisted on its amend
ment to the Senate Dependent pension bill ant
conference was ordered Consideration of the
Tarin bill having been resumed Mr. Bynum, o.
Indiana, moved to reduce the duty on common
earthenware from twenty-five to fifty per cent
nd valorem; rejected-66 to SO. Various Other
amendments looking to a reduction OF the duty
on earthen and glassware were made but met
with no success. The debate partook of n polit
ical character, and was at times acrimonious
After having considered sixteen OF the 15t
pages OF the bill, the committee rose and the
House adjourned.
SENATE, May ia resolution was agreed
to. calling on the Commiss oners OF the District
of Columbia for information as to employment
of lnborers on public works in the District and
whether they are required to work more than
eight hours a day. Consideration of the Silver
bill was resumed. and Mr.. Teller concluded his
argument in favor of free coinage. Mr.. Coke
next addressed the Senate in support of the
free and unlimited coinage of silver, and at the
close OF his speech the bill to authorize the sale
of timber on the Menomonee Indian reservation
tn1,a a
a brief secret session the Senate adjourned.
HoUsE-Mr Mckinley reported resolution
providing that hereafter the House shall meet
Mt eleven o'clock: that after the reading of the
journal and the disposal OF conference reports
the House shall go into Committee OF the Whole
on the Tarif bill; that the bill shall be read
through, commencing with paragraph Ill., and
shall be open to amendments on any part of the
bill following paragraph ITO, and that on We'd
nesday, May 21 at noon, the bill with pending
amendments shall be reported to the House.
After u long debate the resolution was adopted
yeas 1870, nays 93 The House then went into
Committee OF the Whole, on the Tariff bill, the
reading OF which occupied the remainder of the
day. The committee then rose and the House
took recess-the evening session to be for the
consideration OF private pension bills.
SENATE, May l6.-The bill to permit the man.
ufacture and printing of securities of foreign
governments on paper used for United States
securities was reported back adversely and in
definitely postponed Discussion of the Silver
bill was then resumed. Mr.. Sherman offered a
substitute for the amendment heretofore offered
by him (as to covering into the treasury the
funds now held for the redemption of National
bank notes. Mr.. Plumb offered an amendment
to the Sherman amendment, as follows: "And
hereafter no funds available for the payment of
the public debt Gncluding such as are kept for
the redemption of treasury notes. shall be re-
tanned in the treasury to the extent of $4,000.
CO.," A long debate followed but without ac-
tion on the amendments, the Senate went into
executive session and adjourned.
HoUsE.-After passing the Senate bill author
izing the registration of census mail matter,
the House went into Committee of the Whole
on the Tariff bill. An amendment was adopted,
including glass chimneys in the clause relative
to thin blown glass, at a duty OF 10 cents n
dozen and 40per cent ad valorem. The duty on
sugar OF milk was reduced from 10 to cents a
pound. The duty on yarn made of jute was in
creased from 90 to 50 per cent ad valorem. The
clause relative to carpets was amended so as to
provide that carpets made of jute or other vege-
table material shall pay cents per square yard,
and mats, rugs and screens cents. The duty
of fifty per cent is imposed on woos OF the
third class exceeding in value 13 cents pound.
1t is provided that on wooden and worsted yarns,
valued Mt not more than 30 cents per pound,
the duty shall be two and one-half times the
duty imposed on pound OF unwashed wool of
the first class, and in addition thereto 35 per
cent. ad valorem. Pending n vote on further
amendments to the bill, the committee rose and
the House took a recess-the evening session to
be for the consideration of private pension bills.
SENATE, May 1.-THE Senate took from the
calendar and passed several bills among them
the following: TO pay to the assignees of John
Roach $3S, $40 for extra work on the monitor
Puritan, and S20.274 for the care of the monitor
Roanoke; TO provide for the return of second.
class mail matter; for the establishment of new
hai Dor lines on Portage Lake, Michigan; to paw
10000 to the daughters of Joseph Henry late
Secretary Of the Smithsonian Institution, in
compen alton of his late public services The
bill appropriating $780, 600 for bronze eques.
trian statue of General u. S. Grant in the city
of Washington was called up and after being
amended by emitting the word equestrian" so
as to provide simply for monument and statue,
and increasing the appropriation to s300Oo0 it
was passed. After an executive session the
Senate adjourned.
HoUsE.-A conference was ordered on the
Senate Antitrust bill, and the Ho use went into
Committee of the Whole on the Tariff bill Mr.
Baync, of Pennsylvania, in speaking to q yer.
bal amendment, sent to the clerks desk and
had read letter from James Campbell OF
Pittsburgh, denying the statements rejecting
upon his character made by Mr.. Bynum, of In
DIANA and Mr. Wilson, OF West Virginia. The
letter strongly attacks those gentlemen and
uses vigorous language in denunciation OF
them. Mr.. Bynum secured the floor and de.
nounced Campbell as a periurer and liar, and
closed by saying that he had as great confidence
in his (Campbell's) character as he had In the
character of the gentleman (Bayne) who made
the attack upon him (Bynum). Amid great
confusion and uproar Mr.. Cutcheon moved that
the offensive words be taken down and that the
committee rise and report the words to the
House for action; agreed to--120 to co. Mr.
Cutcheon then moved resolution OF censure
on Mr.. Bynum for a violation of the rules and
privileges OF the House. The resolution was
l26, nays 1903, and Mr. Bynum ap.
pear before the bar OF the House and was
censured by the Speaker Mr.. Bynum said
that "under the circumstances he accepted the
censure as decoration of honor" The House
then adjourned.
WASHINGTON.
Mrs. Margaret ]. Blaine, daughter of
the Secretary of State, and Mr.. Walter
Damrosch, of New York, were married