The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1892-02-03
DOINGS OF CONGRESS.
MEASURES CONSIDERED AND
ACTED UPON.
At the Nations Capitai-What Is Being
Done by the Senate and Household
Matters Disposed or and Now Ones Con-
sidcrcd.
The senate and House.

On the Goth but little business vas done
In either house The entire mass OF corre-
spondence with Chill In relation TO the
Valparaiso incident, was laid before both
Senate and House In joint assembly, to-
gether with a message from President IIar-
rison This action virtually placed the
next steps of settlement of the question in
the hands OF Congress. Rarely has the
Capitol building been the scene OF such In
tense. though suppressed, excitement as
when the mass OF spectators and Legislators
were waiting for the long promised message.
To add TO tho interest in the House. alsJ,
Speaker Crisp occupied the chair for the
first time in six weeks. The message was
loudly applauded by Congressman and
spectators alike. Adjournment was taken
Immediately after its reading
The proceedings in the Senate the Goth
were dull and uninteresting. Mr.. Morrill,.
from the Finance Committee. reported back
with substitute, the joint resolution 10
provide for an international bimetallic
agreement Placed on the calendar.
The House bill for the completion
Of the allotment OF lands to tho
Cheyenne and Arapahoe Indians was
passed and now goes to the President. The
House bill to amend the act granting right
Of way to the Hutchinson and Southern
Railway Company through the indian Ter
ritory was taken from the table and passed.
The Senate bill appropriating $4,000 for u
from the calendar and passed The La
Abra bill was ia ken up and discussed until
adjournment. The House has entered
upon the consideration of the rules. and
the time was wholly passed In debate. with
out action.
The farmers and the lawyers met face TO
face in the House OF Representatives on
;he eth. and the result Of the legislative
ikirmish was decisive victory for the
lgriculturists. This contest for preroga-
i've was revived by the introduction
If bill by Mr.. Hatch, OF Missouri.
20 amend the present oleomargarine law.
The members from agricultural districts
generally rallied around Mr. Hatch, and
he bill vas finally referred to the Agri-
cultural Committee by vote OF 12S years
30 is nays Debate was resumed upon the
.eport of the Committee on Rules. In the
senate no decisive action was taken. Dis
,ussion was. largely upon the Mexican
award (the La Abra) measure.
In the House. the 2Sth, debate on the
'eport OF the Committee on Rules was re-
iumed, only 10 be interrupted 10y the de-
livery of President Harrisons supple
nentary massage on CHILEAN affairs.
This message announced that Chili's latest
communication proposed entirely satisfac-
iory action by that country, that only few
minor details remained yet to be arrange q,
hat there was no longer reasonable pos
ability of war, and that our future relations
With the south American rcpublic DaCe fair
% be not only peaceful but cordial After
everal hours spent in debate upon the
ve-mentiCHed report, the rules were
'ead by paragraphs for amendment On
notion Of Mr.. Catchings, an amendment
was adopted increasing from sixteen u
seventeen the membership of the COMMITTEES
IN Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
Mr. Hemphill, OF South Carolina, offered an
amendment giving TO the Committee on II o
District OF Columbia Jurisdiction over the
appropriations for he support # the district.
Pending action, Mr. Cochran, Of New York,
announced the death OF Representative L. Il.
;pinola of New York, and the Hou.e. rs u
mark OF respect to the memory Of the de-
ceased adjourned. In the Senate. the
went Of the day was the receipt of
he Presidents message. The feeling
IF satisfaction was espresso in words
oy Mr.. Sherman, who, i'm moving the
'eference OF the message and accompany
ne documents to the Committee on Foreign
Relations, said that he supposed that every
member Of the Senate heartily joined in
generalization at the hopeful and honora
dc settlement honorable to both Sides OF
inc unpleasant incident