The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1892-07-30
FIFTY-SECOND CONGRESS-.


First Session,
WASHINGTON July is.--SENATE. The senate
disposed OF the general deficiency bill and sent
IL to the conference committee. One OF tho
amendments put on the bill by the senate com
mittce on nppropriu tions was one allowing the
widow OF the late Senator Preston p. Plumb
one years salary. Senator Perkins, who
succeeded Mr.. Plumb asked unanimous consent
that the item be stricken out. He explained
that the amendment was n customary one and
was inserted nt his instance on the suggestion OF
the private secretary Of the deceased senator
He'sent TO the clerks desk and had read n COM
municatlon from Mr.. Plumb's son, which stated
that his mother was too i'll TO write, but that
the amendment should not be passed.
HoUsE-The Mccarthy claim pending for
twenty-seven years, with which all the ex-mem-
bors OF congress are more or less familiar, but
which is not OF much interest to the younger
genera tion, passed the house to-day, and goes
TO tho court of private land claims, The ways
and means committee today resolved TO pre-.
sent resolution for the adjournment Of con-
gress on Monday next.
WASHINGTON, July 19.-SENATE-No business
OF Importance. There is almost q certainty that
congress will adjourn next Monday There are
complications, however formidable they
may appear now, that can not be adjusted this
week.
HoUsE--The house passed the sundry civil
appropriation bill without giving anything to
the Worlds fair beyond the comparatively
small sum for government exhibits and admin
istrntive purposes. The senate amended the
bill so as 10 give the fair s., 600 900 in silver
half dollars to be specially coined for the pur-
pose and $4,000 for diplomas and medals,
and made the proposed gift conditioned on
the closing OF the fair on Sundays. The house
considered the senate amendment in committee
of the whole to-day, with Mr.. Lester, OF
Georgia, in the chair. The bill was reported to
the house and separate votes were taken on
several of the amendments. The amendment
giving t5,0OO,00O was non-concurred In by vote
of 122 to 40. A conference was then ordered
and Messrs. Holman, Sayers and Bingham were
appointed conferees. In the matter of the
diplomas and medals the work OF the committee
of the whole was reversed and the $4,000
amendment was non-concurred in.
WASHINGTON, July aO-No business Of i'm.
portance was transacted in either branch Of
congress- to-day. 1t does not now look as il
congress would get away by July 2o as IL was
thought 1t would few days ago. or for that
matter for quite number OF days as yet. APP
preparation bills may be out OF the road this
week. but the antioption bill, which is now in
the senate, is the sticking point. Mr. Wash
burn, said to-day that the bill would pass the
senate by handsome majority, although 1t
would, of course, be amended. Already quite
number of these amendments have been
put on the bill, and as it will pass the
senate 1t will be a different bill which passed
the house some weeks ago. The question is,
what will the house do about 1t? VIII congress
remain and dispose Of this measure before the
adjournment of the session? Mr.. Hatch, who
won the fight for the bill in the house, said to-
day that he intended that the anti-option bill
should become law before this congress ad-
journeu, and there iS a very determined feel
ing on the part Of the friends of this measure
that congress shall not leave until the senate
disposes Of the bill, and the house takes final
action.
WASHINGTON, July 21.-SENATE-The senate
this afternoon passed the house bill to correct
the military record of Joseph WaclIerly, late of
Company X, Twenty-fourth Ohio infantry, re-
moving there from the charge of desertion. The
president sent to the senate to-day the follow
ing nominations Andrew D. White, of New
York, TO be envoy extraordinary and minister
plcnipotentlary of the United States to Russia;
A. Loudon Snowden, of Pennsylvania, now en-.
voy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary
OF the United States to Greece, Roumana and
Servia, to be envoy extraordinary and minister
plenipotentiary 10 Spain; Truxton Beale, of
California now minister resident and consul
general of the United States to Persia, to be
envoy extraordinary and minister plenipoten-
tiary to Greece, Roumania and Servia.
HoUsE-The pieces on the legislative chess
board are rapidly being removed, and were it
not for the complicated position in which the
anti-option and sundry civil bills are placed,
the congressional game would soon be at an
end. The house made q number of moves to-
ward that result to-day, which tended to show
the dispositions of members to clear the board
for the final fight over the two great measures
The most important of these was the passage
of the bill to enforce reciprocal commercial re-
lations between the United States and Canada.
A number of measures pertaining to military
and naval matters were passed, but postal
affairs were not so successful-the only meas
ure of general Importance called up, for the
issuing of postal fractional notes, not reaching
favorable conclusion.
WASHINGTON, July q. 2.-SENATE-Mr. PETER
in his address on the relations of employers
and employees, referred to the troubles at Home
stead, and said the employers at that place
were protected by the power of the state in
keeping their old workmen out and in bringing
new men. The troops surrounded theiI
mills. Their proprietors were protected, while
the workmen were sent to jail. In calling at
tention to these facts he represented, and
spoke in the name of at least two of the largest
organizations OF workmen and women in the
country. The country was face to face with one
Of the gravest phases of the labor problem;
and there were but three peaceful ways out Of
IT. The first was for the government to Reer
its hands OFF both parties and let the employers
and the employed settle the matter between
themselves. And they would do it, and do Il
without resort to arms
HoUsE-Mr. White, in three hours speech
against the anti-option bill, said of its passage
1t would strike blow at the commerce O
the country, the length and breadth and widtl
and depth of which no human mind could com
pass until its results OF disaster were worked
out. There was consensus OF opinion on the
part of the great commercial bodies of the
country against the measure. In proof of thi.
Ae sent to the clerks desk and had read resolu
tions OF the chamber of commerce of the state
of New York, protesting against it as injurious
to the best interests of the community. Tha
great body, he said, was not trade body. L
was not the chamber of commerce of New
York city, but of the state OF New York,
Another Week of Congress at Least.
WASHINGTON, July 25.-Congress has