The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-07-31
ANTI-oPTIoN BILL GOES OVER
No Adjournment and tho Vice-Prcsident
Telegraphs for Senators.

No Adjournment and tho vice-Prcsident
Telegraphs for Senators.
WASHINGTON, July 30.-The Senate was
in session to-day for only three hours. but
within that time it accomplished some i'm
portant results The two principal events
were the postponement of the anti-option
bill till next session and the passage of q
joint resolution extending the appropria-
tions for the branches of public service in
cluded In the sundry civil appropriation
bill, still hanging fire in the House,
mp to and including Wednesday next.
Aug. 3. The action of the Senate
in originating O measure of this kind. which
has been always regarded as within the
exclusive domain of TIE House of Repre-
sentaslves. may be resented by that body
when it meets at IL o'clock on Monday,
but Senator Allison. chairman Of the COM
mittee on appropriations, preferred to run
that risk rather than the moro serious risk
of having the business of the government
come to O stand-still in the Government
Printing Office, the lighthouse service the
life-saving service. the Bureau of Engrav-
ing and Printing. the coast survey. and all
the other branches inclnded in the provis-
ions of the sundry civil bill. as 1t would
at 12 o'clock tonight.
AS to the anti-option bill Mr.. Wash burn,
recognizing the imDossibility OF having q
final vote upon it at the present. session,
submitted gracefully to the inevitable and
had the bill postponed till next session,
when il will come up again In the ad-
vantageous position which it had occupied
for the last two or three weeks as un-
finished business"
Some casual remarks having been drop
ped In discussions about the exodus OF
Senators from the capital and as to the
probability of there not being quorum
present next week. q series of rem0n-
strances against such state OF things were
made by Se nator Allison and sherman
both joining i'll the declaration that Con-
gress would not adjourn until the sundry
OWL appropriation bill was disposed of
and that there could not be q final adjourn
ment without quorum IN each body. The
Senate adopted a resolution on Mr.. Sher-
mans motion instructing the Vice.Dresi-
dent TO telegraph to absent Senators TO re-
turn to the city and also To notify those IN
the city to remain until the final adj djOurn-
ment of Congress.
encc 10 the Canadian Pacific Railway Com
pany it's large subventions from the Ca
madam and British governments and It's
determinations against American railroads
anu american commerce, ana dlrectlng Tn Q
lnterstate-c0mmerce Commission to in
sions of the Canadian Pacific railway and its
affiliated Pacific ocean steamer line on
American commerce, and TO report on the
proprlety of suspending the privileges OF
the transit trade on the west side of the
continent, and TO recommend such other
legislation as may appear necessary In or
der to protect her internal and foreign
commerce of the United States agaInst Ca
madam aggression. The resolution W as re-
ferrrd TO the committee on interstate com
merce.
The House bill as to automatic couplers
on railroad cars and driving wheel brakes
on locomotives was the su biect of a discus
sion as TO what action should be taken with
1t. Mr.. Cullum said that he intended 60
press It TO conclusion at the next session
IL it should have TO 60 over now. and IL
seemed TO him that no more important leg.
islation would be accomplished at this ses-
sion. No definite conclusion W as reached,
and the bill remains on the calendar.
The resolution for select committee ne
| to the em Dloyment of Pinkcrton dotectiv es
| at Homestead was referred to the commit
tee on education and labor.
Mr.. Perkins called attention to letter
published In the Congressional Record as
to 'Doap" made for the protection Of cat
tie on the Cherokee Strip. and as
| so payments TO one Guthrie fol-
| that purpose. The letter was written
from Medicine Lodge. Kan. and wss