Huntsville gazette., 1890-02-22
NEWS IN BRIEF,
Compiled from Various Sources,
CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS.

CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS.
IN the Senate, on the 18th, the Joint reso-
luton cOngratulating the United States of
Brazil on the adoption of Republican form
OF government; joint resolution request
Ing the President to invite the King of the
Hawiian Islands to select delegates to the
Pan American Congress, and Senate bill au-
thorizing the construction of bridge over
the Arkansas river in the Indian Territory,
were passed, after which the Senate spent
five hours in secret session in consideration
of the appointment and the confirmation Of
Indian Commissioner Morgan. In the
House an adjourned session of the 11th, the
regular day and night session were all de-
voted to discussion of the code OF rules.
IN the Senate, on the 18th, a number OF
bills were reported from committees and
placed on the calendar, after which consd-
Grafton of the bill to provide temporary
government for Oklahoma was resumed the
pending question being Mr.. Plumb's amend
ment to include No Man's-Land within tn g
Territory which was rejected. Some formal
amendments were then agreed to and the
bill was passed. -. In the House the joint
resolution of congratulations to Brazil was
passed unanimously. Consideration of the
code Of rules was then proceeded with, and
several amendments were adopted.
IN the Senate, on the 14th, among the bills
reported from committees and placed on
the calendar was one to transfer the reve-
nue. marine to the naval establishment. The
Senate then proceeded to the consideration
of bills on the calendar, a number of which
were passed. -. In the House the code of
rules occupied the whole of the adjourned
session, and soon after the opening of the
regular session were again taken up. A
number of amendments were offered, most
of which were voted down. At five O'Clock
fn%n tI,n%k k1,.,,&
ton was ordered on the adoption of the
rules, which were then adopted by a strict
party vote of 161 to 145.
THE Senate was not in session on the 18th
80. In the House the first application OF
the new rules was made against several
Republican members who, coming in late;
were refused permission to record their
votes in approval of the journal of the pre-
yious day. The Senate amendments to House
bill fixing duty on ribbons were concurred
in. Senate bill providing for the ascertain
ment of the mortgage indebtedness Of the
country was amended and adopted. Public
business was then suspended, and the
House listened to eulogies OF the late Repre-
sentative Richard w. Townshend, of Ill-
nois, after which, as mark of respect to
the memory of deceased, the House ad-
iourned.
IN the Senate, on the 17th, Mr.. Dawes pre-.
sented several hundred petitions against
the export of Intoxicating liquors to Africa.
Petitions against the suppression of the Re-
publican vote in Mississippi were also pre-
sented. An original Pacific Railroad Fund
ing bill was reported. A number of bills of
minor Importance were passed, and Mr..
Blair continued his address on the Educa-
tional bill. In the House Mr.. Carlisle led
protest against the approval of the journal
on the ground that it contained an entry
made by dictation of the Speaker, indicat-
ing that the question would be appealed to
another forum. The old question of a quo
rum present but not voting soon came up
and consumed most of the remainder of the
session. The bill for the relief Of the In
dians Of Devils Lake Agency was passed
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
MGR DoANE, of Newark, n. j., who
was lately given the title of Prothono-
tary Apostolic by the Pope, has noti-
fed the parishioners of st. Patricks
Cathedral that they must take their
children from the public schools and
send them to the parocEial schools, on
penalty of accommodation and denial
of absolution.
CARDINAL MANNING, writing in the
Deutsche Revue, of London, on EN-
peror Williams labor rescripts, says:
81 think this imperial act the wisest
and worthiest that has proceeded from
any sovereign in our times. The con-
ditions of the wage-earners in every
European country is such as to form a
grave danger to every European state" ;"
JUSTICE DEAK, of the British Column
bian Supreme Court, has rendered de-
cision which declares that the Govern
ment of United States has no jurisdic-
ton over Behring's sea outside of the
marine league limit.
On the 18th Senator Blair presented in
the Senate a petition signed by $4,000
citizens praying for the pensioning of
army nurses.
IT is semi-of1icially stated that Prince
Bismarck intends to resign all of the
Prussian minist terial offices held by him,
retaining only the Chancelorship.
THE Paris edition of the New York
Herald of the 18th stated that President
Carnot had decided to pardon the young
Duke of Orleans.
CAPTAIN JEFFREY JERwAY of the fish
ing schooner Midnight, of Gloucester,
Mass, as been missing since the 18th.
He had with him $3.50, part of which he
owed his men.
On the 18th the Senate bill granting
public land for reservoir purposes to the
city of Colorado Springs, Col, was or
dered to be favorably reported by the
House committee on public lands.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
R. B. TUssEY, for four years district
clerk in Adams County, Neb., was ar
rested at Hastings, on the 18th, for en-