The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1892-05-07
FIFTY-SECOND CONGRESS-.


First SeAAlOns
wAsHiNGroN, April % SENATE. The sub |
stitutC reported from the committee on foreign |
relations for the house bill ITO absolutely pro.
hibit the coming Of Chinese persons Into tho |
United States was agreed 10 by the senate |
yeas ~, nays IL The substitute extends the |
present laws for ten years. A joint resolution |
introduced by Mr.. Sherman, authorizing the |
president TO request the governments Of Mexico, |
Of Central and South America, OF Hnyti, Santo |
Domingo and the Kingdom Of Hawaii 10 send |
oflcial delegates to The pan.Amer.cun medical |
congress, which meets in this city September b, |
0, Z and &, 1893
HousE-Mr Plntt moved to amend the sub |
stitute so as 20 exclude from the ant.Chinese !
laws to be extended for ten years the Scott ex-
Clusion net OF 1893. The amendment was re- |
jected. Yeas &, nays ib. Personal matters oc- |
cupied the attention Of the house again to-day. |
Should or should not Mr.. Walkers unspoken |
remarks derding his colleagues, Messrs Will |
Jams and Hoar, as "Mugwumps," appear p the
Record? During the fllbustoring on the cues
tion Mr. Richardson (Tenn), moved q call Of
the house. A call OF the house was ordered and
20 members responding, further proceedings
were dispensed with, and the vote recurred on |
the motion foE a recess. This was lost, but, as
no quorum voted the house adjourned
WASHINGTON, April 26--SENATE-The sen.
ate committe on military affairs, in reporting
adversely 10 day through Senator Manderson
upon the bill proposing to give Sergeant Thos.
u OhuftGr, oil Company j, flfSt Indiana ChNdlfy,
$4,000 and II gold medal for scout and spy scrv-
ices under G en- Franz Sgel, says: "Your com
mittee has reached the conclusion that Harter
should have made application at the time to
those who had personal knowledge Of all the
facts, and not left it to congress to vote lump
sum quarter of n century or more after the
war had ended. There was, during the war. al
ways at the disposal of the quurtermaster.gcn-
cral fund available TO pay and liQuidate per
sons who performed services as spies and
scouts and it rested with those who we're per
sonully cogniZant of this fact and OF the petit
toner's work to compensate him therefor
HoUsE-Thc deadlock which has existed
| since last week over the resolution to cXpunge
| from the Congressional Record Congressman
| Walkers mugwump speech was temporarily
| broken to-day the republicans permitting the
| resolution to be laid aside and consenting TO
the consideration of the diplomatic appropria
| tion bill. The issue has not been dropped, how
| ever as the republicans intend TO renew 1t
whenever the resolution is again taken up.
| WASHINGTON, April G7-sENATE.-- Senator
Voorhees, introduced bill for the relief of
! David h. Moore, late captain Company d, Six.
| teenth Iowa V. l., and late first sergeant Troop
! r, Seventh U. $. cavalry, and acting SER
/ geant-major Seventh U. S cavalry, paying him
| fifty dollars per mouth Senator Pefer's bill,
| granting Sergeant r. o. Hinton, Company I,
| First Indiana cavalry $4,000 and gold medal,
| for losses and services which, in July and Au-
| gust, lsd2 saved Pope's army and the National
| capital from capture by Lees army, was ad.
Versely reported.
| HOUSE Bills introduced: Appropriatng $685.
| 900 for the erection of q monument TO William
| Henry Harrison, the grandfather OF President
| Harrison, vt North Bend, o.; appropriuting
| 5000 for the erection Of a monument ut Putin
| Bay, o., commemorative of Com. Oliver HaZ-
zard Perry, and those who were with him in the
| battle of Lake Erie: correcting the naval record
| Of w. y. Fox, late landsman on the U. S steam
p,N,.a tho nf Int
| Mrs Anna KeYstne, of Cleveland for u patent
| granted in 1873, to Harry c. kerstine, on sin i'm
provement on CRATE bars: TO remove the charge
of deseriion from the military record of James
zimmerman, deceased, late u private in Com
pany y, Eighty-second o. "
WAsHINGToN, April 2s.-SENATE-Nothing OF
general interest was transacted in the senate
| to-day.
| HoUsE-Representa Stone, OF Kentucky
reported favorably to-day his bill for the relief
OF J. c. Shelby, of Carlisle, KY, paying him
S440 for stores taken during the war, The
house committee on banking and currency be-
| gan the investigation ordered by the Mutchler
resolution into the failure of the Keystone and
| Spring Garden national banks OF Philadelphia
| The house committee on railways and canals
authorized n favorable report on the bill appro-
priating $4,000 to pay the expenses OF survey
of route for n snip canal to connect the waters
of Lake Erie from point at or near Erie Pa,
with the Ohio river at or near Pittsburgh. The
house committee on public buildings and
grounds ordered favorable reports OF tho follow
ing public building bills: Henderson, Ky SGO,-
COO; Logansport, Ind, 100000; Mansfield, O.,
$4,000
| WASHINGTON, April 20-SENATE-Not thing
of Importance transacted.
| HoUsE--Warrants were issued Thursday for
sixteen abscntces at Thursdays session.
Twelve OF them were served and the delnqucnts
were cited to appear to-day TO answer. The re-
calctrants Messrs Bowers (Cal), Demp-
sey IN. ", Ellis u&y.), Hartcr (O), Hcmphill,
Mcdonald Meredith (Va), Piclslcr, Randall,
Stacliover Tracy and Warwick. Each gave an
excuse which was accepted. Representative
Bailey (TcX) has prepared and introduced in
the house an amendment to the rules, which, if
adopted, will assure n large attendance OF mem
bers Mt The daily sessions of the house and re-
ieve that body from the embarrassment from
which II has suffered lately. The amendment
directs the scrgeant-at-arms to withhold at tho
end OF each month, the pay Of member until
he files with the sergeantatnrms written
statement that he has not been unncct ssarily
absent from the house during the preceding
, | month
WASHINGTON, April 3O.--SENATE.- Senator
Brice reported favorably to bill to increase
the pension of James Deyo, late II private in
Company G., 18th o. V. l. No business OF gen
eral Importance transacted
HoUsE-Mr Breckenridge. of Kentucky, anG
Mr.. McMtllin criticised the president for com
milting the government to the doctrine that fol-
5 riot in state the United States was respon
( sible, and for paying indemnity out Of II func
never intended for the purpose. Mr.. Hit
defended the president, Mr.. Chipman
of Michigan, offered proviso that nc
, part OF the sum appropriated ar
; emergency fund shall be paid 10 any power il
settlement OF any claim against the United
States. No acton was taken on Mr.. Chipman'
proviso Bills introduced: BY Mr.. BreclIen
ridge (Kv.)-To grant n pension to Henry Cohen
1 of Lexington, Ky., Mt s2) per month, for servc,
a in the Seminole war, when he served MS pri
vnte in the company OF Capt Moses Curry. l3l
Mr. Bynum Qnd.) To pay $500 to james Me
Cabe who contested the seat OF Godlove $
= Orth, of The Ninth district OF Indiana, for his
: expenses in said contest for the seat in the For
ty-siXth CONGRESS. Mr. McCabe was defeated
>; and Mr.. Orth seated, and Mr.. Orth received S5O
for his q XnnnSes. and SO Mr.. BYnum thinks Mr.