The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1890-03-07
oolNes OF THE CONGRESSMAN.
Business Rather Lively at Both Ends si
tile Capitol.

Business Rather Lively at Both Ends Of
the Capitol.
WASHINGTON CITY. Feb. 2S.-The senate
yesterday passed bill for the erection of q
bronze statue of Christopher Columbus at
the western entrance to the Capitol grounds
The bill declaring trusts unlawful was then
discussed, the committee having moved to
strike out the provision fixing penalties
George denounced the bill as demonstrations
al, and said it would prove inefficient, and .
miserable sham. Paddock introduced q
bill to amend the act creating bureau Of
animal industry. After brief executive
session the senate adjourned.
The house first took up the contested cleo
ton case of Atkinson vs. Pendleton, First
Virginia district, and, after hearing Pendle-
ton in his own behalf, adopted the report I'M
seating him. On the final vote the Demo-
Gratis refrained from voting, and the result
was-yeas, l62; nays, 0--the speaker count
ing quorum. Atkinson was then sworn in,
and took his seat amid applause on
the Republican side. The reports in the
Mudd-Compton case from Maryland, one
unseating Mudd, and the other in favor Of
Compton, were received. A bill was re-
ported providing for a census Of
Chinese in the United States; also
bill TO pay government employees the
well-known eight-hour day claiESA Bills
were introduced: To relieve dependent wi d.
ows of soldiers who are not provided for in
the pension laws; to authorize a reconnois-
ance for a railway through the Central
American states to Bolivia; to put two
women on the Worlds fair board of control
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the urgent deficiency bill, without action,
the house adjourned.
WASHINGTON CITY, March 1.-Gorman
presented in the senate yesterday resolu-
tions of the Maryland legislature asking that
soc, 900 exacted from the authorities of
Frederick, Md. by Confederates under Gen.
Early, be refunded by the government.
Ingalls, was elected to serve as president pro
tem in the absence of the vice president on
. trip to Florida, and Ingalls, at once took
the oath and seat as presiding officer. Blair
again complained that the press associa-
tons were not reporting the de-
bate on the educational bill with
satisfactory fullness. The bill granting PEN
sions to veterans unable to perform manual
labor was debated. 1t is estimated that it
will cost about $50, 000, 900 year, but Vest
declared that no one living could tell what
1t would cost. Pending debate a secret
session was held, after which the senate adj
journed to Monday.
The house passed the urgent deficiency bill,
after long debate, mostly consumed on
points of order, and then took recess to 3 p.
m. At the evening session forty-fve private
pension bills were passed.
WASHINGTON CITY, March. 3-The houss
chaplain Saturday referred in his prayer to
the shooting Of Taulbee. The senate bill
providing for an assistant secretary of war
was passed, as were a few private pension
bills, and then the contested election case Of
Featherstone vs. Cate, First Arkansas dis
trict, was taken up, but after brief debate
the matter was laid aside, owing to the scant
attendance of members, and the house adj
journed.
WARRINGTON CITY, March 4--Voorhees
sRered resolutions in the senate yesterday
implying that the form Of Law had not been
complied with in the lease of the Alaskan
seal fisheries and directing that the lease be
not executed until the senate inquired into
it; referred. The bill fixing salaries of United
States judges at q, 0O0pe year was passed.
Spooner spoke against the educational bill.
Bills were Introduces: to repeal the long
and-short haul clause of the interstate COM
merce act; providing for compulsory educa-
ton in Alaska. Favorably reported-ap-
propriating $250,000 and 800, 900 for public
buildings at Saginaw, Mich, and Lafayette,
Ind. After an executive session the senate
adjourned.
In the house O'Donnell Of Michigan
presented a petition sstsigned by 253, 900
Seventh Day Adventists, protesting against
any Sunday observance laws. Under sus-
pension of the rules joint resolution au-
thorizing the appointment of thirty addi-
tional medical examiners in the pension
bureau was adopted. An attempt to sus-
pend the rules and pass the Oklahoma bill
failed. Bills introduced: to appoint fourth
class postmasters by competitive examina-
tions; appropriating $35, 900 for monument
to regulars on Gettysburg battlefield.
Favorably reported; bills for public build
ings as follows: nlinois-Aurora, $75, QUO;
Rock Island, $4,000: Bloomington, $780,
600; Rockford, 100000. Iowa-Sioux City,
$3.50, 600; Fort Dodge, $75,0J0; Davenport,
100000. Wisconsin-Racine, $l00, 900; Eau
Claire, $4,000. The Arkansas contested
election case of Featherstone VS.. Cate was
debated, pending which the house adjourned.
WASHINGTON CITY, March 5-Voorhees'
resolution relating to the lease of the Alas
kan seal fisheries, introduced Monday, was
reported to the senate adversely yesterday
and indefinitely postponed on the ground
that the lease was already completed. A
couple of public building bills for New Hamp-
shire were reported favorably, and the sem
ate went into secret session, remaining in ses-
sion five hours, after which it adjourned
Among the bills introduced in the house
was one increasing the duty on barley,
beans, peas, hops, potatoes, hay, hides,
eggs, and apples and ticking it off binding
Irvine and raw materials used in the manu-
facture thereof The Featherstone-Cate con-
test took up the remainder Of the day, and
Springer moved an appropriation of $780,
600 to investigate the case by sending COM
mittee to Arkansas Grosvenor moved an
amendment making the appropriating $780,
600 and extending the inquiry to the whole
of Arkansas, which was accepted by Spring
er, pending debate on which the house adj
journed.
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