Huntsville gazette., 1891-01-31
NEWS IN BRIEF
Compiled from Various Sources.
CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS

Compiled from Various Sources
CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS.
In the Senate, on the 2lst, the whole time
was given up to discussion of the cloture
rule and the Elections bill, brought out by a
motion OF Mr. Morgan to amend the journal
wherein it was recorded that a motion by Mr.
A.drich that the Senate resume considera-
tion of the motion to amend the rules as to
the limitation of debate was determined in
the Affirmative. Mr.. German NOV ed to strike
out the words sit was determined in the
affirmative" because of its ineorrectnese. The
Vice President said that from his recollec-
tion he had not formally declared the vote
as carried, although he had stated that the
ayes appeared to have it, He said he would
again submit the question to the Senate
In the House wrangle occurred during the
discussion on the approval of the journal
The journal was finally approved and the
previous question on the District bill was
ordered at five O'Clock. At that time, no
quorum being present, the proceedings
dragged along until 6:l5 p. M, when the
House adjourned, the bill going over as un-
finished business.
In the Senate, on the 22d, Mr. Aldrich
moved consideration of his resolution to
amend the rules. A point of order was
made by Mr. Harris that the question before
the Senate was the approval of the journal
of the 20th. After extended debate the
point of order was ovcrruled and the clet-
ure resolution was brought before the Sen
ate. Discussion of this resolution occupied
the remainder of the session. -. In the
House the journal of the goth was finally ap-
proved. The District of Columbia Appro-
priation bill then passed without
further difficulty, and the House in commit
tee of the whole considered the Naval Ap-
preparation bill, but without action on it ad-
lourned.
IN the Senate, on the 23d, the entire session
was taken up with the discussion of the
clOture rule, Messrs Cockrell and Gray adj
dressing the Senate in opposition to it. Mr..
Aldrich endeayored to have an hour fixed
when debate should close but without ac-
ton the Senate took recess at p. m. until
eleven O'Clock on the 9th. 80. In the House,
on demand of Mr.. Breckenridge, the journal
was read in full, and after some debate was
approved. There were some sharp passages
between the Speaker and Mr.. Cooper, of In
diana, growing out OF a point of order by
Mr.. Mckinley on a resolution offered by Mr..
Cooper directing the committee investigat-
ing the Pension Bureau to report the resolu-
ton to the House The resolution was fin
ally reported and referred to the committee
on rules. The House then went into COM
mttee of the whole on the Naval Appropria-
tion bill
In the Senate, on the 24th after brief ex-
remainder of the day spent in dis
cussing the cloture resolution Senators
Stewart and Morgan spoke in opposition to
the proposed change in the rules, and Sena-
tor Saunders spoke in support of the resolu-
| ton, and incidentally favored the passage
| of the Elections bill. During the afternoon
Mr.. Aldrlch asked unanimous consent to
| limit debate on the resolution and to name
| the 26th as the day for taking vote on it but
objections to each request came promptly
| from the Democratic side of the chamber
| =. In the House two hours time was spent
| in the reading and approval of the journal.
| The Naval Appropriation bill was then taken
| up in committee of the whole, but without
| disposng of the bill the committee rose and
/ the House adjourned
! In the Senate, on the 26th, Mr.. Morgan con-
! tinued his speech against the cloture rule
| and the Elections bill. At l :45 p. m. the Sen
| ate adopted motion offered by Mr.. Wolcott
| to take up the House Apportonmcnt bill,
| thus displacing temporarily the cloture res
| olution, by vote Of 35 to "a. The journals
| of the 20th and t1st were approved. -. In the
House the reading OF the journal was de-
manded by the Democrats. Mr.. Mckinley
| demanded the previous question on the ap-
| proval of the journal, which was accorded,
and the journal was approved.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
AT the session of the South Dakota
House of Representatives on the oath
several members announced that they
had been offered bribes, or threatened
with the defeat of bills in which they
were interested, to influence their votes
in the Senatorial contest.
DocToRs BERTIN and Pieq, Of the
faculty of the Nantes School of Medi-
cine, have exhibited to their colleagues
of Paris an experiment in incubation
with goats blood for the treatment of
tuberculosis. Fifteen grains of the
preparation were injected into the
muscular tissues Of the thighs of two
patients. The injections will be re-
newed every ten days.
On the Gath Rev. Benjamin Herndon,
aged seventy seven, and his wife, Hulda
c. Herndon, aged seventy-five years,
died at Shorterville, Ala, within few
seconds of each other. The remains were
deposited in Shorterville Cemetery in
the same grave.
WILLIAM WRIGHT. who was recently
chosen deacon OF the New Bedford (O.)
PRESBYTERIAN Church, has been found to
be ineligible because, being bachelor,
he is not s'the husband of one wife, hav-
ing his children in subjection." The
old gentleman is greatly chagrined.
The Democratic majority in the In
diana Legislature is taking measures to
retaliate if the Lodge Federal Elections
bill passes. A bill is being prepared to
restore the October election for State
and county offices. Another measure
is to withhold's the Worlds Fair appro-
priation,
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
On the 22d Tom Leavis, a well-known
horseman, was tried in the United States
Court at Indianapolis, Ind, on the
charge of passing counterfeit money.
and was acquitted The principal
prosecuting witness was at once sent
to Jail for perjury for discrepancy be-
tween his testimony at the trial and
that given before the grand jury.
EARLY on the morning of the Esd tie
tow-boat Silas P. Coe caught fire at Cln-
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