The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1891-1893, 1892-06-04
IN CONGRESS.
WHAT is BEING DONE BY OUR
NATIONAL LAW MAKERS.
No Session of the Senate-Ehe House
Continues to Work on the Post
office Appropriation Bill.

WASHINGTON, June 81 House. y
After the transaction of routine busi-
ness the House went into committee of
the whole Mr.. Buchanan democrat of
Virginia in the chair) on the postotfce
appropriation bill, the pending amend
ment being that of Mr.. Blount (dem.
of Georgia reducing the appropriation
for inland transportation by railroad
routes $2,34S,957 and authorizing the
postmaster general to re-adjust the
compensation to be paid to railroads
after July 1898, Sy reducing it ten
per cent per annum from the rate for
the transportation of mails on the basis
of the average weight fixed and al
lowed by the act of June II. 1873.
Mr.. Hatch (dem } Of Missouri opposed
the amendment. Mr.. Holman (dem.)
of Indiana favored the amendment.
Mr.. Eewberry (dem.) of Illinois also
favored the proposition Of Mr.. Blount.
Mr.. Bingham (rep.) of Pennsylvania
opposed the amendment. Mr.. Fellows
(dem.) of Penn, opposed the amend
ment. Mr.. Blount's amendment was
: lost. Mr.. Holman offered an amendment
providing that no part OF the money
appropriated for clerks on ocean steam
: ships shall be expended in carrying out
e contracts hereafter made under the
: provisions of the ocean mail subsidy
: act. Adopted. Mr.. Wise (dem.) Of
Virginia offered an amendment
providing for the repeal of the
/ subsidy act, but Mr.. Loud made
q the point of order against it that
g it repealed the existing law. Mr..
Wise, however, contended that his
L amendment was in order because it
l. reduced expenditures. The chairman
r. held that the amendment was in the
n interest of retrenchment and therefore
of in order. Mr.. Dingley of Maine, how
Z. ever, called attention to the fact that
E. three distinct rulings had been made on
he similar points this session; each chair.
IS man holding that under the proposed
i change, if the existing law, OF itself
II reduced the amount it was not in order
s. AS the chair desired to make some ex
OF animation of the matter he Withdrew
IN bis ruling and the matter was passe'
s' over temporarily. Mr.. Hayes (dem.
u, of Iowa moved to strike out the sec
as ton providing that land-grant raj
or roads shall be paid only on such basi
ms as the postmaster general deems JUS
l. IL fo
Is fifty percentum of the compensate
No. for this transportation paid by privat
he parties to these companies for simila
ats transportation. An amendment b
Mr.. Scott (dem.) of Illinois providin
IN, that no part of the money for stampe
7rs envelopes shall be used in printing Q
zet the envelopes the name of any busine
I'll firm, &c, but the postmaster gener
na- may allow the words ''if not delivere
l. within days return to" to
B printed on the envelope. A point
on order agains. this amendment WI
OF overruled and without action on Il
on, amendment, the committee rose al
ge, the House, at 4:55 p. m. took rece
L. until o'clock this evening.
lct, At the evening session pension m;
nd, ters were discussed, but without acti
8 on any bill the House, at 10 80, q
cess journed.
Does He Speak for North Carolina
Washington Post.
,ate mr., d E,ro, chairman of +
my republican State committee OF Nol
Carolina, was in Washington vest
'Seh day on his way to the Minneapolis &C
o1 vention. He said that he believed
',I"i North Carolina delegation would
~, ma for Harrison as long as he was in
h0 that Harrison would be nominated, 6
gave he believed by acclamation on the f
'lec' ballot. That he should be nominal
''eu' he contended, was evident, as he
;oli- stood squarely in his administration
'oo", republican principles and the repu
o'eu can platform, and his record was
iariA snf which the republican party should
nun dorse by denomination. He not 9
the believed that Mr.. Harrison woulo
'he nominated, but that he would be ell
Ven' ed, and that his election would m
ue- that the democratic party would b
Tue hopeless minority for many year
lohal come. 1t would settle, he said, m
lor things which have been in issue 5
per the war, and would have tendenc
gov break the solid South. He said tn
'eier- the democratic party could not d'
queS- Harrison many men in the South W
give up that party and cultivate
I ior national feeling which the repub
rptta .to party has
The Lan.ston for Temporary Chair
ol,a By Telegraph to the State Chronicle.
1ianC RICHMOND, Va, June "a
MN cial to the Times from Minnea
10 says: The executive or subcor
eh' a. tee of the National convention '
5 ee'',oll M is controlled by Clarkson and Fa
~ =: Wv opponents of Harrison, have decio
''ioii 10 recommend Langston, the colord e
noui gresham from Virginia, as temp
'o' chairman. This means distil
rrb % declaration of aggressive war az
in the Harrison as Langtson has beer