The Minneapolis observer., 1890-09-27
FROM WASHINGTON.
Work of the National Law-Malxers
in Senate aud House.
important Measures Passed and othsr.
Under Consideration In Both Branchss !.
of Congress - A Daily sum-
spary of Events.
SENATE.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 1s.-The Senate
yesterday passed eighty private pension
bills and considered an amendment TO
tie bankruptcy bill which provides for
voluntary bankruptcy only, but no ae-
ton was taken.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 19.-Mr. Voorhees,
introduced bill in the Senate yester-
day TO retire the circulation of the Ma
tional banks, to issue legal tender notes
in lieu thereof and to reduce the in
terest-bearing debt Bills were passed
to revive the grade of Lieutenant-Gen-
eral in the army Of the United States;
allowing $12 month to women who fo~
six months rendered service in
regimental, camp or general h. 10y
and who are unable to earn .hssta 80
port Resolutions relativ "a ~, ,ss sup
OF the late Represen .siva I'D 9"S W
Nebraska were pre- .ents@l
WAsHlNGToN' .sebk ga-In the Sem
ate yesterday otlls were passed to dis
contihue = - coinage of the IS and 81
goia -<,es and the Scent nickel piece,
ana sor the protection of trees and other
rrowth on the public domain from de-
struction by fire, A Joint resolution was
introduced for the immediate increase
OF silver money by the purchase and
coinage of 10000, 900 ounces of silver
within the next thirty days.
WASHINGTON, Sept %. A bill was
passed in the Senate on Saturday ex-
tending the privileges of the free de-
livery of mail to towns having popu-
lation OF 5000, or gross postal revenue
ofS5,0oo, also eighty-hvo private pen
sion bills.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 2S.-The Senate
yesterday was occupied in discussing
the bill to define and regulate the iuris.
diction OF the courts of the United
States.
WASHINGTON, Sept "a. A resolution
was introduced In the Senate Yesterday
for the erection In the District OF
Columbia of a memorial building which
shall he suitable monument to the
memory of U. S. Grant. The bill to
regulate the jurisdiction of the courts
of the United States was further con
sidered.
WASHINGTON, Sept. ls-.In the House
yesterday the Langston-Venab con-
tested election case from Virginia was
discussed, but no decision was reached.
A joint resolution was introduced pro-
viding for the election of members 10
the next Congress from the same dis.
tricts in Ohio in which tho representa-
tives Of the Fitty-first Congress were
elected.
WASHINGTON, Sept. l9.--In the House
yesterday lack OF quorum prevented
business. The doors were locked to
prevent members leaving during roll
CALL and Messrs. Kilgore and Grain
tIex.l, Cummings IN. Y and Coleman
La, broke open the doors and wont
out Mr.. Walker (Mass.) introduced a
resolution providing that any member
who is in the hall OF the House and fails
to vote when the yeas and nays are
called shall be fined $40, to bc deducted
from his pay, and that the Speaker shall
mot entertain motion for change or re-
mission of the fine.
WASHINGTON, Sept 90. In the House
yesterday the absence OF quorum pre-
vented business. At the evening SEES
sion seventy-two private pension bills
were passed.
WASHINGTON, Sept. % I'm the House
saturday no business was done owing
70 the absence Of a quorum.
WASHINGTON Sept. 23.-Lack of a
quorum prevented business In the
House yesterday. A resolution WAS i'm
troduced to fine any member $500 who
aosents himself on the second roll-call
Tor the purpose of breaking a quorum.
bill was reported to pay So, 2Il,f14 to
the Choctaw and Chickasaw Nation of
Indians for title in fee simple to 6,10I-
0SS acres of land in the Indian Terri
tory.
WAsHISGToN, Sept 24.--In the House
Yesterday quorum was secured and the
election contests Of Langston against
Venable, from Virginia, and Miller
against Elliott, from South Carolina,
were disposed Of, in both cases the sit
ting Democratic members being UNI
seated.
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