Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1892-01-15

Hill Took tIEe Oath OF Ofiiee.--New
Mexico Wants Into the Union.

Mexico wants INTO the Chiohs
SENATE. Very little business was trans
acted on the 9TH. David b. Hill, OF New
York, took the oath Of Office and was given
a place on the following committees: Ter,
ritories, interstate commerce and relations
with Canada. An amendment was made
TO the bill for an inquiry into the Nicarar
qua canal company's business. Adjourned.
House. Bills introduced: Pensions to
Indian war soldiers fixing minimum pen
sion at Sc per month; 10 equalize taxation
and impose an income tax; for free coinage
of silver; prevention of trusts; placing bag
ging and cotton ties on the free list; for
reciprocity between the United States and
Mexico; fixing presidential term as six
years; for admission OF New Mexico; TO
regulate immigration; to reduce letter pos
tage; to establish registered parcel postage;
to reduce registration ch arge; to pension
members Of life-saving services TO abolish
tonnage dues on American shipping; TO re-
peal the Mckinley law; TO repeal ocean
mail subsidy act; authorizing the secretary
OF the navy to use sufficient vessels to con-
vey contributions to Russia. Adjourned.
SENATE.-At the session on the L th the
interior department asked for an approia-
! ton of 100000 TO supply subsistence TO
the Sioux Indians; a remonstrance was
received from wooden manufacturers
against the agitation of the question OF
duties on wool. Important bills:-To aid
the States of Colorado and South Dakota
to sustain schools on mines; for the cree
ton of postoffice buildings in towns where
the postofice receipts exceed $1,000 a
year; for public building at
Mammoth Hot Springs and in the
" r;aff ,oo.
$50, 900 for public building at Bradford,
Pa. Mr.. Teller introduced a joint resolu-
ton providing for an international bi-me-
tallic agreement TO adopt common ratio
between gold and silver for the purpose Of
establishing internationally the use of BIZ
metallic money and of securing fxity OF
! relative values between these metals. A
| bill to forfeit TO the u. S. lands claimed
by the Northern Pacific between Bismarck,
N. D., and Walula, Wash. was referred.
| Adjourned. HoUsE.-Bills: For uni
form system Of bankruptcy; providing Tor
an international bi-metallic agreement; APP
| propriating 500, 600 for corn display ut
the worlds Fair; requesting the president
! TO inform the house what negotiations
have been carried en- with foreign govern
ments relative TO the establishment and
use of silver coin as legal tender money;
defining "options" and futures and inn
posing a tax on dealers therein; for the
free coinage of silver; appropriating $780,
! 900 for the relief of the poor OF Russia
Resolutions Of the national legislative ex-
ecutivc committee of the farmers alliance
in relation to the Ocala platform. Ordered
printed on record. A resolution, asking
information of the secretary of the treas
ury regarding unexpended appropriations
of 1891 and the amount OF expenditures
for the first half of the fiscal year 1892,
was referred; providing for special COM
mittee OF five members to inquire into the
workings Of the department and into tho
workings of the agricultural department
and into the truth OF certain allegations.
Ad. ourned.