Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1892-02-10
CONGRESSIONAL RECORD
Senate,


sas City. KaS, was passed The Mexican
award bill Gas to the La Abra ciaIm) was
taken up, and after the various amend
mentS had been disposed OF. was passed.
A like bill in relation to the Benjamin
We'll claim was then taken Up and passed.
WASHINGTON, Feb. Mr.. Palmer in
troGuced joint resolution to amend the
constitution SO as to have United States
senators elected by popular vote and gave
notice that he would on some convenient
occasion address the Senate on the
subject. The following bills were
passed: Appropriating 100000 for q
public building in Grand Forks s.
d.; to increase the endowment of
the Louisiana State University and Agri-
cultural and Mechanical College, and the
Southern University of Louisiana; grant
ing 92 100 acres Of the public lands IN
Louisiana. The printing bill was dis
cuSsed for over two and one-half hours
was amended IN some particulars and went
over without final action. On motion
Of Mr.. Teller, the House bill to define
and punish Matchmaking, which was
reported from the judiciary committee last
week and placed on the calendar, was
taken from the calendar and rccOmmitted
to the judiciary committee Mr.. Teller
making remark to the effect that it had
been reported through mistake. The Sen
ate then went into executive session, in
which some nominations were referred to
morrow.
WASHINGTON, Feb. BIN the Senate
the usual batch of petitions was presented
and referred. Mr.. DOlph, from the COM
mittee on foreign relations, reported back
adversely various anti-ChineSe bills intro
duced and referred at the present
session and reported in lieu of
them bill continuing in force
for ten years all laws now in force pro-
hibiting and regulating the coming into
this country of Chinese persons and
persons of Chinese descent The
ment to the constitution of the United
States relating to marriage and divorce
heretofore introduced by Mr.. Kyle was
taken up and Mr.. Kyle addressed the
Senate In support Of it. The amendment
proposes that Congress shall have eXclu-
sive power to regulate marriage and di-
vOrce in the several states and territories
and the District of Columbia. On motion
of Mr.. Wilson the Senate bill for the crea-
ton OF a fourth judicial district in the ter
rltOry of Utah was passed. The Senate
then passed the bill apprOpriating $3.50, 900
for an extension Of the public building
at Los Angeles, Cal. The bill to pay the
state of West Virginia the SUM die to it
under the direct tax law was passed. The
bill for pOSt-Office buildings in towns where
pOSt-Otfice receipts are SO, 600 a year was
discussed and went over without action
was amended by adding the words ''but
the provisions of the eight-hOur law shall
apply" Without diSpOSing Of the bill the
Senate adjourned.
WASHINGTON, Feb. An the absence of
Vice President Morton, who has gone TO
New \ DIRK for few days. the chair of the
Senate was occupied by Mr.. Henderson,
president pro TEN. The report Of the COM
mittee on privileges and elections in the
case OF the Florlda senatorShip, declaring
Mr.. Call entitled to the seat, was taken
up for action and the report was read.
closing with the sentence: ''The appoint
ment of Mr.. Davidson was an act Of mere
irrelevancy which it is not necessary
further to notice" After a long debate
the resolution was aGle2d to without
division. MI. MandeEson, from the
committee on military affairs, re-
ported bill granting 10 the state
of Wyoming certain lands IN the Fort Rus
sell military reservation as grounds for
agricultural exhibitions, and one for the
improvement of the military reservation at
Walla Walla, Wash. Both were placed on
the calendar. The Senate then adjourned
till Monday.
WAsHINGToN, Feb. 5.-The House went
into committee of the whole Mr.. Richard
son, of Tennessee, in the chair on the
census deficiency bill. Mr.. Savers (TeX.)
offered an amendment appropriatlng SLIP
514 for the subsistence OF the
Sioux Indians, and calling upon the
secretary Of the interior to report TO the
House the names of all employees under
the direction and supervision of the In
dian bureau. The latter clause of this
amendment was the first general legIs-
latisn to be Incorporated upon an
appropriation bill, out no objection
being made the amendment was
adopted. The committee having risen, the
b II was passed. The private calen ar was
Ine1 taken UP for consideration, but no
progress was made. and the House adj
journed until 12:45 tomorrow. when eulo-
ges will be delivered upon the late Repre-
sentative Lee, OF Virginia.
The House.
WASHINGTON, Feb 1.-Representative
Simpson, of Kansas, introduced q bill to
promote and encourage agriculture by au-