Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-04-08
THE WORK OF CONGRESS
PROCEEDINGS IN THE NATIONAL
LEGISLATURE.
B,lis introduced ana tn. mpor.ans ro-
ings . = Week in tho I ouxe and sem,
ate-A Variety o Topics o lnteresN
from Washington
Tho Scion. Nc Work.

Tho solons ut Work.
The House on the goth proceeded tod
consideration OF the pension bills reported
favorably from the committee OF tho whole.
After passing seventeen, public business
was suspended and the colleagues OF the
late Congressman SpinOla proceeded to pay
tributes of respect to his memory, after
which the House adjourned. =
The Senate and House joint committee o
the Goth heard delegations from lubOr or
ganixations in favor OF Representative
stones bill to restrict Immigration. Mr..
Stone fist addressed the committee. ex-
planning its salient features. Mr.. Ever
hardt, President of the Window Glass
Workers Association of America. urged
upon the committee the necessity OF chang
ing the present law and spoke of the tnade-
quacy OF the present system of inspection,
and thought that it should be made abroad.
q. p. Cochran. President of the United As
ISOLATION Of Merchants. favored the bill.
In the Senate on the 2sth among the bills
reported and placed on the calendar was
ono uppropriating SlOO. QUO for u public
building ut Pierre. S. D.. Senator Morgan
offered u resolution (Which was agreed toy
calling on the President for the correspond
encc with the Argentine Republic on the
subject OF reciprocity, etc. The Senate bill
TO allow thirty days leave of absence to
employees in the Bureau OF Engraving and.
Printing was taken up. The House bill
amending the act OF Aug. 6, 1888, authorize
Ing the construction OF IL bridge across tho
Mississippi at Burlington was passed. Tho
Senate bill to establish IL railway bridge
across the Illinois River ut or near Havana.
ILL.,, was passed.
In the House on the :Sth, on motion OF
Mr.. Dockery, q resolution was adopted CALI
Ing on the Secretary of the Treasury for
us to whether the present ca
pncity of the mints was sufficient to exc
cute the authorized coinage. Mr.. Blount
reported the diplomatic and consular
appropriation bill and it was referred to
the Committee Of the Whole. The
then secured the floor. and after the pass
age of several district bills the House adj
journcd.
In the Senate on the Both Senator-elcc.
Roger @. Mills Of Texas appeared, pre-
scented his credentials, and took the oath Of
Office. He WAS warmly congratulated. Sem
ator Stanford addressed the Senate In sup
port Of his bill to determine the value Of
the legal tender dollar. The Indian approS
priation bill was taken up and the discus
sion begun last week on the subject of army
officers being assigned to duty as Indiam
agents was esuMed. Senator Pettigrew
opposed the proposition, and argued that
army officers did not possess the necessary
qualifications. Senator Proctor replied that
he thought that IL there had been three or
four army officers at Pine Ridge ugency the
late CUB there would not have occurred
and millions of money aud the lives which
were lost would have been saved. Senator
Hawley favored the proposed assignment.
hnd Anderson expressed the belief that
with army officers as Indian agents the era
Of bad blankets. shoddv clothlny. and ram.
cid bacon would be ut IN cud. senator
Hawley moved to amend tho House provi-i
sion by adding to it the proviso that when-
ever the President shali he os the opinion
that the good of the service specially re-,
Quires it he may appoint u civilian. The
discussion was finally closed by Daw in
an argument against the House p~rovisio
ms being too radical - change in the admin
istration of the Indian service. II civil
places were wanted for army officer,
why not put them in the customs SERVICE,
which is rotten, or the land Office SERVICE,
which has been rife with political hunters
in the Western country. Hawley's amends
ment was agreed to, and without reaching
IL vote on the amendment to strike out the
provision. the Senate adjourned. =.
In the Senate on the 3lst. replying to u
direct question proposed to the Committee
on Foreign Relations touching the Nicara-:
qua Canal. Senator Sherman, Chairman OF
the committee. stated that work was rro-
crossing favorably under "a private corpora
lion; that Congress had done nothing what
ever to aid it. The bill is now under ccn-.
Morgan presented resolutions directing the.
Finance Committee to inquire into the
causes OF the depreciation in agriculture
and business and the effect of the silver act
of 1890; announced that he would call them
up for discussion again. regardless of the
feelings of the President or the Democratic
presidential nominee. Morgan's object Isl
to present his views on silver. which he
could not do under the rules when Stewart
calls up the silver bill. After the reading
OF Morgan's resolution and an explanation
by that Senator, Sherman said that II the
silver. question was to be projected upon
the Senate pending the present condition
OF public business 1t should be done on
some business proposition. on some idea
that had been considered and discussed by
the people. not on complex resolutions In
and every subject in the whole range of
financial legislation. He hoped. therefore,;
that the Senator from Alabama would nut
in the form of IL bill. some proposition he
desired the Senate to act upon-something
that would give relief to the people Of the
United States. Morgan replied. and an al,
fusion by him tn the effect that silver Leg
islation was right on democratic aspirants.
for the presidential nomination drew from
Teller the suggestion. And some on our
side." Morgan. after discussing the subject
further, asked that the resolutions should
go over and they were laid on the table ac-.
cordingly. Soon after. Teller and Wolcott
were seen in eager conference with Morgan
as, If to assure him that he would not he
without support when the resolutions came
up. The Senate rejected .9to "a the amend
ment to strike out OF the Indian appropriaJ
ton bill the provision to assign army
officers to the duties of Indian agents.
This vote leaves the provision Incorporated
army officers to Indian agents duties.
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