Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-05-12
CONGRESS-.


SENATE.-Mr Vest handed in to the
senate position against opening the
worlds fair on Sunday, and made some
characteristic remarks on the subject. Mr..
Call # red resolution to consider and
report legislation to relieve the scarcity
of money among farmers. The resolution
was laid on the table subject to call. In
executive session the Russion and French
extradition treaty was considered on mo-
tion of Mr.. Sherman. The following bills
passed: Fixing the price of lands under
the desert land laws at 81 Is per acre; for
the issue OF ordnance stores and supplies
to the state of Nebraska
HoUsE.-The following bills were pass
ed by the house: Encouraging American
ship building; appropriating $3.50 900 to
pay the expenses Of the arbitration in the
BehriEg sea matter; to pension the survi-
vors of the Black Hawk, Cherokee and
Seminole wars. Mr.. Bryan moved to sus-
pend The rules and pass the free binding
irvine bill. A brief debate followed the
motion, when the bill passed-yeas 1873,
nays AZ.
TUESDAY, May 3.
SENATE.-A lengthy speech was made
in favor of free silver by Mr.. Kyle, of South
Dakota. A lively little collcquy took
place between two of the conferees of the
Chinese exclusion bill, as the bill was
laid before the senate. Several senators
opposed the BILL maintaining that it
violates existing treaties. Mr.. olph. of
Oregon, defended the report. A vote was
taken On the conference report, which was
agreed to, yeas 80; nays Is.
HoUsE.-The diplomic and consular APP
preparation ill, was taken up in COM
mittee of the whole. Mr.. Chapmans
amendment that no portion Of the emery
ency tuna should be paid to any foreign
nation in settlement Of any claim against
the United States, which was agreed to.
Mr.. Blount then moved to strike out the
appra priation of S65 900 for the contin
entail railway commission. The motion
caused some debate, but was agreed to
113 to II. The committee rose and re-
ported che bill, which was then passed.
WEDNESDAY, May d.
SENATE.-The senate bill conveying TO
the state of Kansas portion of the Fort
Hayes military reservation, about 5000
acres. for homes for old soldiers and their
families, was passed. The bill authoriz-
ing the construction of d bridge across the
Red River of the North, at Quincy, North
Dakota, was also passed, and the senate
adjourned.
HOUSE. = The conferee report on the
Chinese exclusion bill was presented by
Mr.. Geary, of California, who demanded
the previous question. The report was
strongly opposed by Messrs. Hit and
Hooker, as a violation Of faith. and de-
nying the writ of habeas corpus Mr.
Geary maintained there was nothing in
the bill which would suspend the writ of
habeas corpus. The conference report was
then agreed to-yeas 1856. nays %. The
house then passed a few bills of minor
Importance and adjourned.
THURSDAY, May 5.
SENATE. - Mr.. Morrill,, Of Vermont,
gives his reasons for the opening of the
worlds fair on Sunday, favorlng the
woking classes The Choctaw Indian and
Chickasaw Indian appropriation of 81
99l 600, made in 1891 and held up by the
president, was taken up, and Mr.. Platt adj
dressed the senate in opposition to the
views of the majority of the committee on
Indian affairs, who reported that there
was no good reason why the appropriation
shou d be longer withheld.
HoUsE-The house went into a com
mite If the whole on the river and harbor
bill: The bill was opposed by Mr., Holman
He favored the reduction of expenditures
proposed in This bill land claimed it was the
only one which he did not propose reduc-
tons. The provision appropriating 3d.,
800 600 for twenty-one foot channel from
Duluth and Chicago to Buffalo connecting
the great lakes, was opposed by Mr..
Whitney, as premature and ill-advised.
A deep water way channel was advocated
by Messrs. Lockwood and Chatchings, but
the committee rose without disposing of
the bill.
FRIDAY, May 6.
SENATE.-Bids for the construction of
war ships were considered. The bid Of
T. W. Wheeler & Co., of West Bay City,
Mich, was rejected, because existing
treaty stipulations did not permit the con-
struction of war vessel on the great
lakes, and the contract was awarded to