The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-01-23
WOKR OF CONGRESS.
Resume Of the Important Measures
Consined by Congress the Past
Week.
What is Being Done by the Senate and
House Of Representatives at
Washington.
Thursday. Jan. is,

Thursday. Jan. is;
SENATE.
The silver bill as passed by the senate il
q nee coinage measure pure end simple,
free from all the national bank and bond
leglslauon contained in the financial bill.
Mr.. Milliken, of Maine, submitted re-
ports on the bills providing for the erection
OF buildings at Sioux Falls, s. D.. and Port
land, Oregon, which were agreed to.
e Inc speaker announced the appointment
OF the specia! committee to investigate the
silver pool" question as follows: Messrs.
Dingley, Paine, Rowell, Dockery and Oates
MI. Dockery, however, has resigned, and
Mr. Peel, of Arkansas, has been appointed
in his place.
Friday. Jan. 16.
SENATE.
After miscellaneous business the senate
took up the consideration of the elections
bill, and Mr.. PascO addressed the Senate in
opposition to it.
All night was spent in vain endeavor to
secure quorum.
HOUSE.
The house went into committee of the
whole on the District of Columbia apprO-
priation bill. The day was devoted to
speeches by Mr.. Rogers on the free coinage
bill by Mr. Shivery on the subsidy bill and
by Mr.. LangstOn on the elections bill.
Without action on the District bill the
house took recess until o'clock. The
house, at its evening session, passed bill
granting pension Of $50 month to Gen.
Franz Sigel, and one granting pension OF
500 a month to Gen. N. P. Banks. The
passage of the latter bill was greeted with
general applause on both sides of the house.
Saturc ay Jan. 10.
SENATE.
The senate adjourned at o'clock to-
night, after continuous session of thirty
hours, the longest session in late years
The senate found itself no further advanced
to final action upon the elections bill than
when it entered upon its consideration at
the beginning of the second session of the
F1tty-first congress, now rapidly drawing to
q close. The hours between a. M; and
for quorum which did not come.
HOUSE.
=. An effort will be made Monday to secure
the passage of an omnibus bill covering
four separate Indian bills now on the
house calendar.
This includes the bill for the payment OF
the Sisseton and Wahpeton, Sioux and the
agreed to recognize some member for the
purpose of calling it up. The aggregate OF
appropriation is more than 1000, 900, and
It is doubtful if so large bill will go
through. The separate bills on the oalen.
dar will be in precisely the same stage il
the omnibus fails.
Monday Jan. 1e.
The vice president laid before the senate
message from the president transmitting
the agreement made with the Crow Indians
for the sale of the western part of their res.
ervation in Montana; and stating that il
was thought important by the interior de.
partment that the matter should receive
the consideration of congress during the
present session.
The house committee on improvement OF
the Mississippi river agreed upon bill fol-
its Improvement by a system of levees.
proved, and will recommend that the APP.
preparation for the improvement be in.
creased to $10,O00,OOO The bill will be re.
ported to the house as soon as prepared.
Tuesday JAM, Goth.
Mr.. Harris rose to a question of order and
quoted Rule 40, which provides that no
or part thereof, shall be in order except on
one days notice, in writing, specifying pre-
cisely the rule or part proposed to
be suspended, modified or amended, and
the parts thereof.
The clerk having concluded the reading,
Mr.. Bland made the point that the journal
had not been read in full and demanded
that the description of the various execu.
tive communications, resolutions, bills and
petitions, which are referred under the
rules and not in open house, be read.
The speaker directed the clerk to read
this portion of the journal, which is Ordin.
arily omitted. This was by far the longest
portion of the journal, and its reading was
not completed until o'clock.
Then issued one of the widest scenes OF
confusion that the house has seen during
the present congress.
Mr.. Mills then expressed his wish to de.
bate the question of approving the journal,
but the speaker declined to recognize him,
on the ground that thehouse was dividing.
With excited gestures, Mr.. Mills strobe
speaker, poured out a volume of denuncia-
ton, accusing him of practising fraud on
the house.
"You are perpetrating fraud upon the
house" he Numbered, "and you know it,
And his party colleagues burst into round
of applause and cheers and gathered around
the champion.
But the speaker was immovable, and,
amid the excitement, requested those op.
posed to the approving of the journal to
rise. Phlegmatically he counted zone,
two, three" and announced the motion
carried-97 to 8.
By this time affairs had approached so
tleeu W pn the onnosno s;%es t the gen
speaker was obliged to call upon the ser.
geat-at-arms for assistance, and that officer,
bearing the mace in front of him, induced
Mr.. Mills to take his seat, and the storm
passed away for the time. The journal was
approved-144 to lob.
Wednesday, Jan. ~.
SENATE.
WASHINGTON, Jan. N.-In the senate to-
day the whole time was given up to dis
cussion of the closure rule and the election
bill, brought forth through a motion by
Mr.. Morgan to amend the Journal, wherein
it was recorded that q motion by Mr.
Aldrich yesterday that the senate resume
consideration Of the rule to amend the rules
as to Limitation of debate was determined
in the affirmative.