Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-04-29
THE WORK OF CONGRESS
PROCEEDINGS IN THE NATIONAL
LEGISLATURE. I
Bills Introduced and the important no.
ings . y Week I'm the pouse and Ser.
ate-A Variety o Topics .. Interest
from Washington
The solons I'D Work.

In the Senate on the 18th Senator Vest
introduced u bill prohibiting contracts by
the Postmaster General with any steamship
company making unjust Determinations
against any part OF the United States as to
imports by vessels carrying foreign mails.
Senator Vest said it was reported that the
United States aud Brazil Steamship Com.
pany, one OF The lines enjoying the mail
subsidy, has refused delivery of coffee from
Brazil at the port OF Newport News. This.
by merchants Of New York City. Several
other members said they had received reso-
buttons setting forth similar facts. The bill
was referred to the Committee on Com.
merce. The resolution of Senator PSeMer
asking the Secretary Of State TO obtain i'm
formation concerning the use of electricity
in the propulsion Of farm machinery and
the propagation of plants in foreign coun-
tries was agreed to. The Senate then took
up the calendar. Subsequently, on motion
OF Senator Sherman, 1t went into executive
session.
In the House on the Goth. after prelim-
mary business. the House resumed consid-
GRAFTON OF the Noyes- Rockwell contested
election. Wheeler OF Alabama. criticised
the majority report. Mr.. Cobb followed,
reviewing the legal aspect of the case.
Magner spoke in favor Of Rockwell, and
pending further decision the House adj
j0urned.
A communication was laid before the
Senate on the 22d by President Pro. TEN.
Henderson from the Secretary of the In
terror recommending the granting Of med.
ais and pensions to Indian Police who sup
pressed the recent ''ghost dance" uprising.
The communication closed with this curi-
GUS sentence: 1.-The killing of Sitting Bull
was neither demanded nor directed by the
department nor under it's direction
Signed. John w. Noble. Secretary. Referred
to the Committee on Indian Affairs. The
army =. nOrnnrfnf fOn hill vrnc n~o,<,1 .-l
placed on the calendar. The urgent def
cheney bill was then taken up. The follow
Ing amendments were agreed to: An ap-
preparation of $4,000 for representation of
the United States aJ Columbian Historical
Exposition ut Madrid, 1892; 500, 900 for
continuing the work of the eleventh CEN
sus, and an appropriation of 1870 to re-
tmburse Montana for the expense of its
constitutional convention The bill as
amended was passed. The bill to amend
Section 7G6 of the Revised Statutes was re-
ported from the Judiciary Committee with
amendments and passed. The calendar
was then taken up and the bill placing the
Secretary of Agriculture in the line of sue
cession after the Secretary of the Interior
was passed. The bill authorizing the Sec
Rotary OF the Interior to increase to sig a
month the pension OF every pansioner who
is now on the rolls mt SIS u month. on ac-
count of service in the Mexican war. and
who is totally disabled for manual labor
and in such destitute circumstances that
the latter pension is insufficient to provide
him with the necessities of life. was passed.
The Chinese exclusion bill was taken up,
and Senator Chandler presented testimony
showing the need of more stringent laws to
prevent an intluX of Chinese. He admitted
that the situation between the American
Government and China was n bad one. He
then commented on the correspondence re-
garding Blair's rejection as Minister. Sem
ator Davis. IL member of the Co mmittee on
Foreign Relations. looked upon the house
bill as IL rank, radical, unblushing, unmiti-
gated reputation OF every treaty obliga-
ton remaining between the United States
and China. Davis took occasion in the
course in his speech to denounce the Ca
hcnsly proposition submitted to the Pope
last year. Without taking action on the
bill. the Senate vent into executive ses-