Connecticut western news., 1892-02-04
THE FIFTY-sEcoNp CONGRESS.
A Digest of the Proceedings in the Senate
 .s5frQ and House.

Digest Of the Proceedings in the Senate
 ossg and House.
 WASHINGTON, Jan. 26.-In the senate and house little business was done apart from the reception and reading of the presidents message. In the senate the late Justice Bradley was eulogized and in the house a few bills were introduced
 WASHINGTON, Jan. 27.-The reaction from the excitement of Monday was very marked Tuesday. Beyond the introduction of a resolution by Mir. George, of Mississippi, to investigate the causes of existing agriculture depression in the cotton states and the re- porting of a bill by Mir. Merrill, of the finance committee, to provide for an inter national bi-metallic agreement, there was no business of interest.
 The session of the house was devoted to the consideration of resolution introduced by Mir. Breckenridge, of Kentucky, calling upon the president for additional informa- tlon concerning the Chilian correspondence.
 WASHINGTON, Jan. 28.-Ex-Senator Blair's rejection as United States minister to China by the Chinese goverfment was brought up 1n the senate as an incident having some bearing upon the recent action of Chili in regard to Minister Egan. MT. Morgan called for the correspondence with China, stating that he did so to ascertain what line of procedure had been adopted by the United States in the case, in order that he might have the facts before him in consid- ering the Chilia ncase.
 The wide latitude allowed in the debate on the proposed house rules was taken ad- vantage of by Mr. Watson, of Georgia, to lay down the principles of the Farmers Ali ance. He created much amusement by re- ferrlng to the ''Czarism of MT. Reed in the lnnf
 posed rules conferred too much power upon the speaker. No such power should be con- ferred upon any speaker, whether his name began with a "C' and he came from Geor- gia, or began with an "R" and he came from Maine.
 WASHINGTON, Jan. 29-The first indicar tion during the present session of the senate of possible political and partisan discussion on tariff matters cropped out in the senate in Mir. Hale's aggressive speech on reciproci- ty. MT. Hale's statement that his original reciprocity resolution, out of which the Aldrich amendment to the Mckinley bill grew, was prepared in the state department, and his known close relations with Secre- tary Blaine caused his speech to be regarded by senators as in some degree campaign pronunciamento on the part of the friends of the secretary of state.
 The house employed its time in the read ing of the presidents message and in a dis cussion of the rules, the session being with out special incident.
 WASHINGTON, Jan. 30 The house spent all of the session discussing the report of the committee on rules.
 MT. Springer got together the Democratic members of the ways and means committee and by vote of to resolution offered by Mir. Bryan was adopted, that in the sense of the committee separate bills should be reported to the house instead of a general bill for the revision of the tariff,
 WASHINGTON, Feb 2.-The senate dis posed of the long discussed La Abra and Well claims by referring the question of their fraudulent character to the court of claims, and reached the Paddock pure food bill on the calendar. Active opposition to the measure was developed from the states interested in the production of cotton seed oil, and the session hour expired while the question of fixing day to take up the bill was still pending. Mir. Manderson's print ing bill obtained the floor for tomorrow.
 The house engaged in discussion of the rules which assumed wider range and allowed the members to make political speeches and personal remarks not pertinent to the subject under discussion. It was 8 day for personalities. Mir Hoar and Mir Morse engaging in verbal encounter, while the speaker was compelled to dispatch the sergeant-at-arms to Mir. Picker, of South Dakota, to take his seat. Altogether, the rules seem to provoke considerable feeling, and the temper of the house is not at all placid upon the subject. MT. Cochran, of New York, made an effective argument in favor of compelling the attendance of a quorum. The house then adjourned.