Connecticut western news., 1892-04-14
THE elFTY-secoNp CONGRESS-
Digest of the Proceedings In the Sem
 ate and House.

\ Digest of the Proceeding gs In the Sem
 ate and House.
 WASHINGTON, April 7.-Mr. Wolcott's orcible anti-administration speech on the diver question and the further discussion of he army clause in the Indian bill occupied he senate all day. In the course of his peech Senator Wolcott said: At the mo | nent it is apparently probable that the party in power will, with negative unanim- Ky, renominate the present magnetic execu- tive not because he is the choice of any con- lderable body of his party, but because, nnce the letter of retirement of the great ,ecretary who holds his party bound by ties of deepest affection and regard, no man of greater stature than the present incumbent s willing to stand"
 WASHINGTON, April s-Mr. Wilson, of West Virginia closed the debate on the free wool bill in the house with masterly speech and the bill was then passed without amend ment by vote of 192 to 6o Spice was added to the routine proceedings of the day by Mir Funston, of Kansas, who produced an article from The Voice, prohibition paper published in New York, containing B statement that certain senators and mem bers were in the habit of drinking intoxi- eating liquors in the house restaurant This brought to their feet the various members mentioned, who either acknowledged or de- nied the charge Mir. Funston said that the publication, so far as he was concerned, was utterly without foundation He denounced the article as a malicious lie as to himself personally.
 The house went into committee of the whole (Mr. Blount in the chair on the bill to admit free of duty bagging for cotton, machinery for manufacturing bagging. cotton ties and cotton gins
 NU The ia rlaQ the District of Columbia appropriation bill, including an appropriation of $l0o,0Oo for sustenance and quarters for the Grand | Army encampment (which was adopted by a vote of fl to l0 and adjourned till Mon day. The money is to be expended for the subsistence and quarters of honorably dis charged soldiers and sailors of the Grand Army of the Republic at their twenty sixth annual encampment at Washington city in September next, and is to be dis bursed by the local committee of arrange ments under the direction of the secretary | of war.
 The senators who voted against the meas ure were Messrs. Bate, Berry, Blackburn, | Coke, Colquitt, Irby, Jones of Arkansas, | Mills, Pugh and Vest.
 | WASHINGTON, April 9.-The house con cluded the general debate on the cotton tie bill Mir. English, of New Jersey, opposed the measure, while Mir. Simpson F. Al, of Kansas, and MT. Hemphill, of South Car olina spoke in it's favor. The bill was re- ported to the house and Mir. Warner gave l notice that a vote would be taken on the bill before the delivery of eulogies upon Hon. M H. Ford.
 WASHINGTON, April 1.-The house passed | the free cotton tie bill
 WASHINGTON, April l2.-Mr. Chandler's proposed argument against the election of United States senators by the people was cut off and postponed for day by an early | call for an executive session on the subject of the leakage of executive session proceed. ] ings. Mr. Stewart introduced some resolu. tions obviously designed to get at the facts upon which Mir Sherman based his recent statement that silver certificates were not ! issued dollar for dollar for silver dollars but that there was dollars worth in gold behind every dollar of silver certificates issued This resolution went over, as alst did resolution of MT. Morgans calling fol information about the German reciprocity treaty A characteristic memorial was re ceived from ex-Senator Blair asking an in vestigation of his rejection as minister tS China, and was referred to the committed on foreign relations.
 In secret session the senate executive clerk, James R. Young was deposed iron office on the charge of betraying to th' press the secrets of the senate's executiv' sessions.