Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-05-23
IN CONGRESS TODAY
Routine Matters Occupy the Atten-
ton of the Senate.
1AHY BILLS ACTED UPON.
Several District Measures Were
Among Them.
OBJECTIONS IN THE HOUSE.
TINE WASTED BEFORE THE DISTRICT CON.
hIrTEE GOT THE FLOOR
IANY BILLS ACTED UPON
OBJECTIONS IN THE HOUSE.
THE SENATE.

In the absence Of both Vice President Nor
ton and President pro tenn. Henderson the
chair was occupied today by Senator McCullom
Mr.. Vest offered a resolution. which was laid
on the table for the present, discharging the
committee on finance from the further consid-
GRAFTON of the House bill 10 put wool on the
free list and to reduce duties ON wooden goods
and directing the committee TO report the bill
pack 10 the Senate for its action thereon.
AsrAruE OF GEN. MARION.
Senate bill appropriating $50. 900 for an eaues-
trian statue OF Gen. Francis Marion at Column
bia, s. C., was taken from the calendar and
passed.
MEDALS FOR HEROES.
Also Senate bill authorizing the Secretary of
war to procure and present suitable medals TO
the survivors Of the ''forlorn hope storming
party" Of Port Hudson on June is, 1868. Can
amendment offered by Mr. Warren TO extend
the act to the survivors of the storming party
OF May "a, 1868. led to pretty long discussion
and was rejected.)
The bill for the allotment of lands among the
several Indian tribes in the Quapaw agency in
the Indian territory was made the special order
for June Is.
BILLS FROM TIE CALENDAR.
The calendar was taken up and bills were
acted upon as follows:
To allow 81 ,705 TO W. A. Walker, postmaster
OF Albuquerque, Nm, for stamps and money
stolen from the Office on January "a, 1880.
Passed.
For the promotion of anatomical science and
to prevent the dissertation of graves in the Dis
trict OF Columbia following the bodies Of those
who die IN hospital prison, Jail morgue or idiot
or insane asylum in the District TO be delivered
to medical colleges). Passed.
Appropriating 5000 for the Introduction OF
a fad rain flxar int.
Referring to the Court of Claims the claim Of
the Citizens Bank of Louisiana for specie taken
from the bank by Mai Gen. Butler. Passed with
an amendment excluding allowance of interest
For commission of three TO examine and re-
port relative to the employment of the pneu-
matte tube system other process for the
rapid dispatch of mails in large cities (appro-
priating $40, 000). Passed.
For the appointment of official indexer Of
public documents at a salary of 5000 year.
Laid aside without action.
For the purchase of Townsend's library Of
national, state and individual records. Laid
aside without action.
Appropriating $4,000 for the purchase of
Travis oil painting of Abraham Lincoln TO be
hung in the Capitol Passed. For the pur-
chase OF historical manuscripts relating to the
District of Columbia Laid aside without ac-
ton.
Appropriating $40, 600 for statue Of the late
Robert Dale Owen of Indiana to be placed in
grounds of the Smithsonian Institution (Nr
Owen having introduced in the House the bill
for the establishment of the institution and
having been the chairman of its first board of
regents.) Passed
TO PUNISH VIOLATIONS OF TREATY RIGHTS.
At O'Clock the calendar was laid aside, and
the unfinished business" taken up, being the
Senate bill to provide for the punishment Of
violations Of treaty rights Of aliens
MIR. DOlph, who introduced the hill apd uho
afterward reported it from the COMMITTEE on
foreign relations, made explanation of it
as being very simple in Its provisions,
merely making an act which consti-
tutes crime under state statutes a
crime when committed against the subject Of
foreign country and making il punishable in the
United States courts. Mr.. Palmer suggested as
an objection to the bill that Congress had no
power to pass a law which would operate diff
ferently in forty-four different districts Of the
same country.
Mr.. Gray, taking the same view. remarked
that it was absurd to suppose that Congress
should pass a criminal code that could be re-
pealed or modified by forty-four different sover-
eighties.
Mr.. Dolph replied to this objection and argued
that Congress did legislate for different forms
OF procedure in the various territories.
THE HOVSE