The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1891-02-19
THE NATIONAL SOLONS.
SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRE-
SENTATIVES.

Our National Lawmakers and What They
Are Doing for the Good of the Country
Various Measures Proposed, Discussed.
and Acted Upon.
THE Senate on the nth agreed to a reso-
luton calling on the Secretary of the Treas
ury for a list of all persons firms or associ-
ations by whom bullion had been offered
(under the act of July IA, 1900, the amounts
and prices; a list of those from whom silver
bullion had been purchased, the basis on
which an estimate is made of the market
price of silver and the amounts and prices
or silver bullion purchased outside of the
United States In the House Senate amend
ment to House bill to fix the rate of wages
or certain employees of the government
printing office was non cOncurred in. Sen
ate bill was passed to establish a record
and pension Office in the War Department;
also Senate bill providing for the selection
of a site for a military post at San Diego,
Cal. A bill was passed extending the time
within which the Choctaw Coal and Rail-
road Company shall construct it's road
through the Indian Territory. The House,
then went into committee of the whole on
the legislative appropriation bill.
IN the Senate on the 18th the credentials
of Mr.. Teller for the new Senatorial term
beginning March were presented and fled.
The following among other bills were passed:
Senate bill establishing pier lights at Alma
CfGdGlOn q
fourth judicial district in Utah; House bill
to grant right of way through the Grow
reservation to the Montana s. Wyoming
Railroad Company with amendments. The
Senate then resumed consideration of the
copyright bill, the pending question being the
amendment offered by Mr.. Sherman to
strike out the word "prohibitedn and insert
the words "subject to the duties provided
by law,n so that foreign copies of books
patented in the United States shall not be
prohibited, but shall be subject to tariff
duties. Owing to the absence of Mr. Sher-
man the bill was laid aside. In the House,
Senate bill was passed authorizing the Kan
Sas and Arkansas Railroad Company to
extend it's lines in the Indian Territory.
The House then went into committee Of
the whole on the legislative appropria-
tion bill.
THE Committee on Coinage, Weights and
Measures continued it's hearing on the.
18th. f. J. Newlands, of the National
Silver Committee. continued his argument
begun last week. Mr. Newlands, in refer
ence to statements made before the COM
mittee fOrecasting the flooding of this
country with silver if the free coinage bill
was passed, said this could be prevented
very easily by passing the bill with pro-
vtso limiting the coinage to bullion, the
production Of the mines of the world and
excluding foreign coin Mr.. Newlands was
then excused and Mr.. Holden, of Colorado,
addressed the committee in favor of free
coinage. In the Senate the diplomatic and
consular appropriation bill reported
and placed on the calendar. The House
bill for public building at Richmond, KY,
at a cost not to exceed $75, 900, was passed.
Consideration of the copyright bill was then
resumed.
The credentials of William T. Villas as
Senator elect from the State Of Wisconsin
for the term commencing March 4 next
were presented by the Vice President in
the Senate, on the 18th, and placed on file.
Among the bills reported and placed on the
calendar were House bills authorizing the
construction of bridge across the Red
River at Alexandria, La, and across the
Mississippi at South st. Paul, Mimi. The
copyright bill was then proceeded with. Mr..
Carlisle offered an amendment intended
to carry out the policy Of the Sherman
amendment already adopted The roceed-
ings were here interrupted by a message
from the President announcing the death OF
Gen. Sherman. In the House, q Senate bill was
passed authorizing the construction of a
bridge across the st. Louis River between
Minnesota and Wisconsin. The House then
went into committee of the whole on the
Indian appropriation bill