The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1892-03-03
FIFTY SECOND CONGRESS.
A SPECIAL ORDER FIXED FOR THE
SILVER BILL.
The Indian Appropriation Bill Still Under
Discussion in the House-some Very
Important Decisions Made by the
Supreme Court.
THE HOUSE.

4 THE HOUSE.
+ WASHINGTON, Feb. 20.-On mo
8 ton of Mr.. Stump of Maryland
: Joint resolution was agreed to, author
izing the House and Senate to ap
point committees ON immigration
jointly, to investigate the working 0
the emigration laws and importation
OF contract labor.
Mr.. Catchings from the committed
on rules reported resolution pro
viding that on Tuesday, March %
Immediately after the morning ses
sion, the House shall proceed to con
slider the action OF the silver bill, ano
should said bill not be sooner dis posed
of the House shall continue the hear
ing during Wednesday, 23d, and
Thursday, oath.
The, resolution was ordered printed
and Catchings gave notice he would
ask the house to consider 1t on Mon
day next.
The house then went into )mmittee
of the whole, Bynum of Indiana in
the chair, on the Indian appropria-
tions.
Holman OF Indiana moved all
amendment, making the appropria-
tions for the Carlse school applicable
to pupils now in attendance.
Holman's amendment was rejected.
Pending the action the committee
rose and the house adjourned.
SPEAKER REED SUSTAINED.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 29.-The "no
quorum" case in which the legality
of the Dingley worsted act was at
tackled by Balm, Joseph d Co., i'm
porters, was today decided by the
| United States supreme court. The
Dingley act was passed through the
action of Speaker Reed in counting a
quorum when there was a quorum OF
members present but not voting. The
importers maintained that Speaker
Reeds action was in violation of the
constitution and an act passed in this
manner was void. The United States
circuit court for the southern dis
trlct of New York decided
against the United States
and in favor of the importers
on this ground, so that case came be
fore the United States supreme court
adverse to the constitutionality of the
'no quorum" method of parliament
airy procedure. The court, in its de-
cision by Justice Brewster, held that
the "no quorum" rule was val d, and
that the house of representatives had
the right to make such a rule.
THE ACT CONSTITUTIONAL.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 20.-Three cases
in which importers sought to contest
the constitutionality of the Mckinley
tariff act we've today decided by the
United States supreme court. The
title of these three are: Boyd Sutton
" Co., and Herman s'teinback & Co.,
each void as to the United States, and |
Joel b. Erhardt, collector of the port of
New York, and Marshall, Field d Co.,
VS.. Clark, collector of the port of
Chicago. The grounds on which it
was maintained that the tariff was in
consistent was that the tobacco re-
bate section of the bill was omitted in |
its enrolment after the passage by |
congress, and therefore that the bill |
signed by the president was not the
bill passed by the legislative depart
ment of the government; that the
reciprocity feature was transmission
to the executive of the law making
power and therefore void, vitiating
the whole act, and lastly that the act
was void because of the sugar bounty
provision. The court affirmed the
judgments of the New York and Hi.
nois courts of the United States in
favor of the constitutionality of the
act.
SUBMITTED TO ARBITRATION.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 2J-NegOtia-
ions between the United States and
Great Britain looking tOa submission
o arbitration of the long pending 90 IL
,roversy between the two countries in
'egard to the Behring sea fisheries
received q favorable conclusion today.
Sir Julian Pauncefoie, British minis
er, met Secretary Blaine at the state
department. today and signed a
jreaty Of arbitration on behalfot Great ;
Britain. Blaine signed the document
III behalf of this government and the
matter was cOnsummated, so far as
he diplomatic business il concerned.
The treaty is still subject, however,
10 the action of the British parlia.
nent and the United States senate.
THE SENTENCE AFFIRMED.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 20.-The SUI
preme court of the United States to-
day eXtinguished the last hope OF the
two imprisoned anarchists bv affirm
ing the decision of the supreme court
IF Illinois. and the circuit court of the
United Staes in the cases of Samuel
Fielding al d Michal Schwab vs. the
Warden of the Joliet penitentiary
The application for writs of habeas
corpus on the ground that their SEN
tence was unconstitutional was de-
MED.
THE DEFENDANT WON.
WASHINGTON, Feb, 20-The United
States supreme court has decided in
favor of the United states in the Hay
ward Behring sea case. The applica-
ton for the writ of prohibition against
the Alaska court was denied.