The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1892-05-11
DOINGS OF CONGRESS.
MEASURES CONSIDERED AND
ACTED UPON.
at tho Nations Capital-What Is Being
Done by the Senate and Household
Matters Disposed or and New Ones Con-
sIdered.
The Senate and House.

On the I'd. the House passed the bill put
ting binding Irvine on the free list. Nu-
merous petitions were presented In the
Senate against legislation for the clos
ing OF the Worlds Fair on Sunday; also
a petition from Methodist Church in New
Hampshire urgently protesting against fur
ther adverse legislation against the Chinese.
The House also passed the free ship bill.
This bill admits only two existing ships 70
American registry, the City OF New York
and the City of Paris. But 1t provides that
the company at once build two similar
vessels In this country to sail under the
American flag.
In the Senate the 3D., Mr. Morgan called
up the message on the subject of an inter
national conference as To silver coinage
Mr.. Kyle then proceeded to address the Sem
ate In favor of the free coinage OF silver. At
the close of his speech the message was
again laid on the table, Mr.. Morgan giving
notice that he desired to speak upon It,
The conference report on the exclusion bill
was then laid before the Senate and agreed
to- The House bill placing binding Irvine
on the free list was laid before the Senate
and referred e. the Finance Committee But
little routine business was done in the
House In tho morning, and shortly after the
reading Of the journal the House went into
committee OF the whole, with Mr. Oates, OF
Alabama, in the chair, on the diplomatic
and consular appropriation bill. Mr..
Blount, OF Georgia, In charge Of the bill,
moved to strike out the appropriation Of
S65,000 10 continue the preliminary survey
for an intercontinental railway; agreed
to- Mr. Hooker, OF Mississippi, demanded
a separate vote on the amendment striking
out the S65.000 appropriation for the Inter-
continental Railway Commission. 1t was
agreed to. The bill then passed The
Senate amendments to the army appropria-
tion bill were nom concurred in, and a con-
ference was ordered.
ha IN
State OF Kansas p rtion of the Fort
Hayes military reservation (about 1920
acres) for homes for old soldiers and their
families, and to open the rest OF the reser-
walton 10 homestead settlement was
amended to make the whole reservation
open only to soldiers, and passed.
The following bills were passed:
Creating two additional land dis
tricts In the State OF Montana;
House bill to authorize the construction OF
bridge across the Usage River between
Warsaw and the mouth of Turkey Creek,
Mo- Senate bill TO authorize the construc-
OF n bridge across the Red River OF the
North at Quincy, n. ID. House bill tor the
disposition and sale of the lands OF the
klamath River Indian Reservation, Cali
fornia- The House passed its time consid-
ering the Chinese and river and harbor
appropriation bills
The House spent the 5th discussing the
river and harbor appropriation bill A
letter was also received from the Postmas-
ter General, urging the extension Of the
free delivery experiments to villages and
farming districts. 1t was accompanied by
a batch of 472 newspaper opinions, taken
from 326 different papers, all In favor Of
the proposed rural free delivery extension
and eight against 1t. all that could be
found. These have been sent in from all
the States and Territories except
Alaska. Indian Territory. New Mexi-
co, and North Carolina Senator
Mitchell, of Oregon. who has re-
ported from the Senate committee an
amendment to the postoffice appropriation
bill, appropriating 5000. 900 to continue the
Postmaster Generals free delivery expert
ments, said that he had every reason to
believe that so far as the Senate was con-
cerned, at least, the amendment would be
adopted. The Canadian Pacific Railway
has sent an agent here to ascertain whether
the administration is I'm earnest in the mat
ter of retaliation as to the canal tolls.
After disposing of some business OF no
general interest. the Senate. on the 9Th
took up the resolution heretofore offered
by Mr.. Jones, Of Arkansas, for pay ment to
the Choctaw and Chickasaw nations for
their interests in the Cheyenne and Arapa-
hoe Reservation (about SO, 900, 000) as the
unfinished business. and Mr.. Dawes, Chair
man OF the Committee on Indian Affairs
addressed the Senate In advocacy of the
resolution, but without finishing his adj
dress. Then Mr.. German offered res
olutions, which were agreed to, ex-
pressing regret at the death. in February,
1891, OF the late Senator Wilson Of Mary
land. and suspending the business of the
Senate to enable his associates to pay
proper tribute of regard to his character
and distinguished public services. There
was large attendance OF members In the
House. The first business in order was
the Sibley bill, but the House refused to
consider it and went into committee OF the
whole (Mr Hatch Of Missouri in the chair
on the river and harbor bill