The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1890-01-30
AT WASHINGTON.

The ways and means committee hs 8
further progressed towards the prepara.
tion of tariff bill at its meeting, by or
dering the cotton schedules of last wear 3
Senate bill to be attached to the schedules
already passed upon. The Democratic
minority confined It's opposition to Offer.
ing as substitutes the cotton schedules Of
the Mills bill, which were rejected by
party votes.
The President has sent to the Senate
the following nominations: Augustine
Hoard, Massachusetts, minister resident
and consul general to Corea; Lewis
Gattschalt, California, consul at Stu,t
CART; John F. Winterdelinors, consul at
Mannheim; Richard Guenther, Wis onsin,
consul at General City, Mexico; Thomas
McDermott, Tennessee, consul at 81
Thomas, West Indies; George NJ Pepper,
Ohio, consul at Milan.
In the House measures were presented
as follows:
BY Mr.. Kelley, of Kansas to pension
widows and orphans of people killed for
political purposes, since the close of the
late war.
By Mr.. Burrows, of Michigan, for
erecting monument to Isabella of Spain
Mr.. McCreery, of Kentucky. offered a
resolution declaring that the United
States OF Brazil Is recognized by the
United States of America as a free, SOW
ereign and independent republic.
Mr.. Mckinley of Ohio, from the com
the House without division passed bill
amending the tariff act of 1883 so as to
impose duty of 80 per cent on silk rib
hons.
In the Senate the resolution offered by
Mr.. Chandler calling on the Attorney Gen.
eral for the report of the United States
marshal for the northern district of Mssis
sippi, concerning the maltreatmcnt of
Henry j. Faunce at Aberdeen, Miss was
taken up for consideration. Southern
Senators opposed the resolution tiercely.
They don't want the light turned on.
The bill to credit and pay to the several
States and Territories all moneys collected
under the direct tax of 1861 was taken
from the calendar Of the Senate, and after
short discussion passed by vote of A to
T. This bill would give Maine about
1920, 900.
The committee on invalid pensions re-
ported aud the House passed the bill pro-
viding that in the case of pension clnims of
dependent parents, it shall be necessary
only to show to the pension office that par
ents are without other means of support
than manual labor.
The President sent to the Senate the
following nominations: Augustine Heard
of Massachusetts, to be minister resident
and consul general to Corea Louis Cots
chalk OF California, to be consul at Stutt.
CART; John F. Winter of Ill.,, to be consul
at Mannheim; Richard Guenthen of Wis.
consin, to be consul general at the CITY
of Mexico; Thomas McDermott of Ten
nessee, to be consul at St. Thomas, West
Indies; Geo. M. Pepper of Ohio, to be
consul at Milan; Commander William M.
Folger United States Navy, to be Chief
of the Bureau of Ordnance OF the Navy
Department with the rank of Commo.
dore.
The Ways and Means committee fur
Their progressed towards the preparation
of tariff bill at its meeting Monday
morning by ordering the cotton schedules
Of the last years Senate bill to he at
tached to the schedules already passed
upon. The Democratic minority confined
Its opposition to offering as substitutes
the cotton schedules of the Mills bill,
which were rejected by strict party votes.