Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1892-06-04
FIFTY-SECOND CONGRESS

| The senate commenced the consideration Of
the bill to provide for the punishment OF viola
tons OF the treaty rights OF a t, tne me1oore
jurisdiction in such cases as the New Orleans
massacre of Italians
| up the Sherman statue bill: but Klgore OF
| Texas, was watchful, and objected to giving
unanimous consent for its consideration. 1t VIII
aga,n pc tired to . PHI =, snd tSe Ies
| and take it up.
| In the senate a bill intended to abolish post
Of rf the war department and General scho6eld,
was reported fayorably from the military affairs
committee by Senator Proctor. /,
| The following appointments were received
from the president by the senate: Admiral
missioner general. and Prof G. Brown Goode as
JamesC. Yelling president Of Columbian uni
versity, to be assistant commissioner, to repre-
sent the United States at the Columbian Histor-
| ical exposition to be held in Madrid. Spain, in
commemoration of the four hundredth anniver-
sary of the discovery of America.
Senator Morgan spoke on the bill to provide
aliens He said Secretary Blaine had been COM
PEELED facting exactly right to use the secret
service fund to pay SIS 900 to families of the men
n the pn,sd as new %
bic situation when the secretary OF state was
compelled to resort to the secret service fund to
keep peace with foreign governments
At the close of his argument Senator Morgan
moved, with the assent of the committee on for
eien relations, that the bill should go over
until next December. The matter went over
without action.
The house adopted more amendments to the
sundry civil appropriation bill, including one
M by IN op IL
Office whose services can be discontinued small
be vacated.
DocLery, of Missouri, offered resolution d.
he
whether. under the specie resumption act, any
bonds were sold for redemption purposes. Re-
Representative Houk, of Chic, offered an
amendment to the appropriation for govern
ment exhibit at Chicago, to add 100000 to pay
the expense of collecting. preparing and pub
fishing facts and statistics pertaining to the In.
dustrial advance of United States citizens OF
African descent from January. 1853, to January,
1893, to constitute part of the government ex-
hibit.
Henderson, of Iowa, said that the colored poo
pie of this country numbered about one-eighth
of the entire population, and yet the evidence
closed the wonderful and amazing fact that
neither the president of the United States Che
said it with modification and shame). nor the
governor of single state. nor the government
commission, nor local corporation, nor the
woman's commission, not one OF these had
given representation to those 5000 OOO OF people.
Houls amendment. which was sustained by the
chair.
johnson. of Indiana, replied to Henderson in
defense of the president In the matter OF ap-
pointing co.ored men. The president had been
foremost in acts favoring colored cltlzens. 1t
ought not to be forgotten" he said, that the
national relief, whereby the colored people OF
the south would have right to cast their votes
and have them counted"
hall dozens of members were on their feet, rals-
ing their voices and crowding into the aisles,
while johnson proceeded in vehement language
democratic party of the southern states and as
he was as yehementy contradicted by a number
of members from the south, the house became a
perfect bedlam, the chair being utterly unable
to secure semblance of order
Dockery offered an amendment reducing the
salary of the director general of the Worlds Col
umbian commission to SSOOQ. and or the secre-
tary to $1,000. Agreed to.
Propositions were agreed to as amendments to
a pending question to the effect that no money
should be paid until it was made certain that the
exposition should be closed on Sunday and that
no liquors should be sold on the grounds; but
the committee of the whole ose before dispos-
By sh hspS MoFf shs free silver senator's So
cured position unfinished business for the
Stewart free silver BILL and it will take vote to
Jump it and pass it by when reached on the cal
endar.
The motion which gave this position to the
bill was carred-yeas Is, nays 70. PETER voted
aye; Hill did not vote, though present
In his speech en- the subject Senator Teller
contra1icted the statement quoted by Sherman
to the effect that If silver went up to 81 90 per
ounce the pI oduct of silver this country would
be quintuplcd. The United States delegates to
the international bimetallic conference would
be met with that statement at the first meeting
of was that the action of 1873, in the demoneti-
cation of silver, had appreciated gold at least
40 per cent. 1t had reduced the price of asri-
cultural products and the value of farm houses
and lands; and it had reduced the wages of the
people of the country.
When the worlds fair appropriation was
again reached in the house the amendments con-
corning Sunday opening and liquor selling were
defeated and substitute adopted providing
that the government exhibit shall not be open
to the public on Sunday.
The item of the sundry civil bill for the en-
forcement of the Chinese exclusion act, as left
by the house. gives S56o,OOO for that purpose.
The senate in executive session took action on
q case of long standing, being the claim OF
William Webster against the British govern
ment for compensation for land acquired by
him from native chiefs of New Zealand, and
afterwards seized bv the British government, by
adopting a resolution declaring that the senate
considers that the claim is founded in Justice
and deserves the support of the United States,
and requesting the president to submit it to ar
bitration.
Debate on the silver bill was opened in the
senate by Sherman, Stewart and Teller. and
Sherman, who was having information COM
piled at the II easury, and PETER, who desired to
speak on the bill.
Mr.. Hatch was beaten by tie vote in the
uOuSc III uls HOtiOu W ILLS outi-OpIlOu
bill. However, whenever the house proceeds to |
the consideration of revenue bills this bill will
first be taken up. it holds irst position on the
calendar among that class of bills.
The house passed several bills. among them
the bill to classify and prescribe the salaries of
railway postal clerks, and the senate bill re- |
lating to the Topeka dam on the Kansas river.
In further consideration of the sundry civil |
bill an amendment was ag, eed to limiting the |
number Of copies of public documents which |
may be printed by the heads of bureaus, without |
express authority of congress, the department Of |
agriculture being expressly excepted from this |
limitation.
This concluded the work of the committee of |
tie whole house on the sundry civil appIopIia- |