Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1892-08-04

very bulky, Delng composer OF oJ,UDO
printed pages, being the longest of the
kind on record The recommendation of
the committee in the contest of Noyes VS..
Beckwell was rejected by the house. the
com mttee reporting in favor OF Mr. Noycs.
Ways and Means.
Bills to the number of ESQ were referred
TO the ways and means committee. They
included propositions to amend the Nc
Kinley tariff law generally proposing re.
duCtiOns of duty, creating an income tax
and the sub treasury schemes. The com
mttee took final action on about dozen
measures only, the most important OF
which were to place wool on the free list
and to reduce the duty on wooden goods;
to admit, free of duty, bagging for cotton,
and machinery for manufacturing bag
cling, cotton and cotton gins; placing
binding Irvine and tin plate on the free
list and changing the classification of lead
ores. Bills for free lumber, free salt, free
sugar, reducing the duty on iron and
Farmers Alliance sub-treasury bill were
discussed, but not reported to the house
On the House Calendar.
OF twenty-four bills referred to the
house committee on public buildings
eighty-four were reported to the house. but
Among the important bills and resolu
tons on the house calendar, which will re-
tain their place in the second session, are
the following; For the establishment of
military post between burlington aud
Higheate, Vt; to reclassfy and fix the
salaries of railway postal clerks; to pro
mote the efficiency of the militia; author
ling the secretary of war to obtain lands
for harbor defenses; preventing the adul.
teratiou and the misbrandng of food and
drugs authorizing the postmaster general
TO make experiments in free delivery of
mail matter in rural districts; regulating
the appointment of fourth-class postmas
ters; to increase the number of enlisted
men in the navy; to increase and cqualiZe
the pay of letter arricrs; providing for the
election of senators by the direct vote OF
the people; providing for the sale of stone
and timber lands unfit tor cultivation;
proposing amendments to the COuStitu-
ton substituting Dec 81 for March as the
commencement and termination Of the
official terms of members Of the house Of
representatives and Of United States
senators; and providing that congress
shall hold its annual meeting on
the second Monday in January,
substituting April 30 for March
I as the date Of the commence.
meut and the Limitation of the terms OF
president and vice president; amending
the naturalization laws; repeating the
mail subsidy act; excluding political in.
luence from the employment of laborers;
for the free admission to American regis
ter of certain ships built in foreign couE-
tries; to promote greater reciprocity in
the commercial relations between the
United States and Mexico; expressing
sympathy with the Russian Hebrews; tC
fix uniform standard of classification
and grading of wheat, corn, oats, barley
and rye amending the constitution 50 as
to provide for uniform laws on the sub
ject of marriage and divorce; prohibiting
employment of convict labor or the
product of convict labor upon public
works ofshe United States; for the exam
ination and protection of enlisted men in
the army; to facilitate the enforcement
of the immigration and contract Labor
laws; for the collection of statistics relat.
ing to the effects of machinery on labor;
for the collection of statistics relating to
the slums of cities; to repeal the national
bank act in providing for the redemption
of national bank notes, stolen from or lost
by banks, of issue issue.
The calendar also contains fifty public
building bills, while those for pensions
and private claims number about lOOG.
Among the important bills and resolu-
lions which will retain their places
On the senate Calendar
are the following: The ant-option bill OF
Senator Washburn, which was so zeal
ouSly pushed 10y that gentleman but
which was compelled TO 20 over on
If E,rbt :
coming to a vote; to provide for furtifca-
tons and other sea coast defenses; to
amend the laws in regard to national
banking associations, to retire their cir
culations and for other purposes; to sub
iect to state taxation national bank notes
and United States treasury notes; to pro.
vide for an international bimetallic con-
ference; for the erection OF u statue Of
General L. :. Grant at Washington. a
number of bills reported adversely from
the committee on finance provide for in
creasing the circulating medium and TO
amend the coinage laws and other matters
relating thereto.
A bill to consolidate third and fourth
| class mail mat ter; to encourage silk cul'
ture in the United States to promote the
efficiency OF the enlisted force of the navy:
| amending the constitution concerning the
| eligibility TO the office Of the president; to
| transfer to the department OF agriculture
the United States geological survey and
| fish commissions to pay the French spoia-
| ton claims; to establish and protect forest
reservations; to admit the territory of
| New Mexico into the Union rs state; to
ratify An appropriation for the same pro
vding tor the appointment OF a select
| committee to investigate and report the
facts in relation To the employment of
| Iinkerton detectives IN connection with
the recent differences between workmen
and employers at Homestead
Among the bills and resolutions ordered
TO Lie Upon the Table
are the following: To establish postal say
ings banks, bill TO develope and facili.
| tate the interstate commerce of the whole
| country, and more especially that of the
twenty-five states and territories drained
by the Mississippi river and its tributa.
ries; to change the day of meeting of con
| gress to Jan. |; to amend the constitution
so that the president shall hold his Office
for six years and be ineligible for re-elec-
! tiou.