The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1892-05-14
FIFTY-SECOND CONGRESS-.



HoUsE-The following were among the private
bills introduced into the house today by Mr..
Pattson, OF Ohio, to remove the charge of de-
sertion from naval record OF VIM. d. Bangs, la'e
n seaman on the gunboat Tyler, Mississippi
squadron; to authorize the commissioner OF the
general land office to issue patent for s. Mace
Clements survey, numbered $3.50 in the Virginia
military district Of Ohio; by Mr.. Wheeler, OF
West Virginia, TO grant pension to DIR. David
S. PinDcl for disabilities incurred while serving
in the Tenth West Virginia V. l. The free
twinc bill was passed. The house committee
on appropriations took final action on the forti-
iication appropriation bill to-day. The bill, as
reported, carries an appropriation Of S2,4l2,376,
being B,W4,43l less than the estimates, and
362 427 less than the appropriation for the cur
rent fiscal year.
WASHINGTON, May 3.-SENATE.- confer.
enco report on the Chinese exclusion bill was
laid before the senate to-day and agreed to,
Yeas 30, nays 10. As agreed upon the bill Ia
practically q rc-enactment for ten years of the
existing law, with the additional provision that
no Chinese person is to be released upon bail
pending hnbeas corpus proceedings; Chinese
laborers now in this country are compelled TO
procure registration certificates. Forging GER
tifcates will be punished by five years impris-
onment.
HoUsE-Bills introduced; For the relief of
Della and Emma Miller, dependent daughters of
Samuel Miller, deceased, late private In com.
pany X, forty.siXth o. " l., continuing to
them their fathers pension: granting the right
OF way to the Kentucky and Indiana Bridge Co,
on and across the grounds Of the Louisville ana
Portland canal, the property of the United
States. The bill passed by the senate for the
relief OF Joseph johnson, late Of company /,
l5Oth Indiana volunteers, was fayorably report.
ed to-day.
WAsHINGToN, May 4-Senate-The presi-
dent to-day sent to the senate the following
nominations: Richard Lambert, of California,
u s. consul a. Mazatlan; F. b. Earhart U. S.
attorney for the eastern district of Louisiana.
Senator Mcpherson reported an amendment
from the naval affairs committee to the naval
appropriation bill, which proposes to increase
the number of harbor defense vessels from one
TO three; torpedo boats from six to ten, and
also provides for torpedoes, submarine and
otherwise for which latter purpose H0OO,OOO
is appropriated.
HOUsE-The house to-day adopted the confer
ence report on the Chinese exclusion bill, which
now goes to the president. The vote was
Yeas 1856, nays 2s. The following private bills
were introduced by Mr.. Copehnrt, of West Vir-
ginia: To pay f. +. Morris $3.50 for cattle taken
from him by sand used for the subsistence of
the federal troops in the late war, and to pay
David =. Roush Sl25 for one horse taken during
the war Mr.. Goodnight, of Kentucky, from the
COMMITTEES on judiciary reported to the house
the resolution calling on the attorney general
for Information as to whether the sugar trust
has violated the antitrust law and if SO wheth-
er prosecutions had been instituted for such
violations.
WASHINGTON, May 5-SENArE-Senator Sher-
mans bill for the relief Of Jacob Barr, late Of
Company d, Nineteenth o. V. l., was adversely
reported. Barr paid II 100 for q substitute. and
was later compelled to serve, his substitute also
serving. The letter Of the postmaster-gcneral
urging the extension of fre6 delivery eXper-
iments TO villages and farming districts, which
has just been sent to the senate committee on
post offices and post roads was accompanied by
batch OF 472 newspaper opinions taken from
326 different papers, in favor of the proposed
rural free delivery extension, and eight against
it-all that could be found. The senate COM
mittee on commerce ordered q favorable report
on the bill authorizing the secretary of war to
have y survey made for a ship canal connecting
Lake Erie and the Ohio river, for which pur-
pose $4,000 was appropriated.
HoUsE-Mr. Outhwaite of Ohio, chairman of
the committee on military affairs, introduced
bill to-day providing thatno offlcer on the active
list shall be entitled to wear while on duty any
uniform other than that of his actual rank on
account of having been breveted, nor shall he
be addressed in orders or official communica-
tions by any other title than that OF his official
rank.
" NohlNbION. MAY u,-SENAIE-Int Seuhlc
talked awhile to-day, but adjourned early with
out doing anything that would be interesting to
the most assduous newspaper reader. 1t will
not convene again until Monday.
House-The following were among the pr!-
vato bills introduced to-day: BY Mr.. Haynes,
of Ohio-Granting a pension to Frances B. Will
son, widow OF Ross Wilson, late of Company f,
Forty-ninth O. vi BY Mr.. Cooper, of Indiana
To pension Jos HUFF, late of Company L, First
West Virginia cavalry at $50 per month. BY
Mr.. DiclSerson, of Kentucky-To correct the
rating of pension of Henry Shovert, late OF
Company G, Fiftieth Indiana cavalry, and TO
pension Lucy B. Bryson, widow OF w. A. Bry-
son, late first lieutenant Company c, Eighteenth
V. 1. The bill of M, Brookshire of Indiana,
to pension Mary V. Ward, an army nurse, at
Sl2 per month, was :avorably reported.
WAsHIHeToN May 7.-SENATE.-Not in ses-
sion.
HoUsE-Nir. Cooper, of Indiana, introduced
bill to-day to renew the pension of Elizabeth
Folt, formerly Elizabeth Lyons, widow OF Elijah
Lyons, late private in Company j, Twenty-scc-
ond Indiana V. l. The silver question threat
ems to come up again rs a subject of present
legislative interest. The silver men are not
disposed TO accept their defeat, and they are
again circulating petitions urging the rules
committee TO bring in n special order to fix
time for vote on n free coinage bill. Gen.
Enochs secured an amendment to the river ana
harbor bill to-day, for preliminary survey of
Raccoon river, Gallia county, O., from its
mouth