The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1893-02-08
THE FIFTy.SECOND CONGRESS.
Proceedings of the Senate and the House
Tersely Told.
THIRTY sIxTH nay.

been instructed by roth houses To enter into
negotiations with the representatives
of the provisional government of the late
Kingdom of Hawaii and to submit the con.
vention to congress for ratification by legis.
lntion. But his way was blocked by Mr..
White, democrat Louisiana. y who objected
to immediate action and Mr.. Chandler's
resolution was laid over. The antioptions
bill was taken up and wns under consdera.
ton until adjournment.
HousE-The brief session of the House to.
day was an unintefesting one. The Sundry
civil appropriation bill was further consid.
cred, but was not disposed of. The speaker
announced the appointment of the follow.
ing committee to investigate the Panama
canal scandal; Messrs. Fellows Geary, Pat.
terson, Powers and Storer and the House
then adjourned
TnrRTY-srvENTH DAY.
SrNATE.-The senate passed the Anti
Option bill, after defeating various amend
ments offered to 1t by q vote of 40 to 20.
The bill is the one passed by the House of
Representatives on June o, 1892 with vari-
Gus Sena'e amendments thereto, The first
section defines the word options TO mean
contract or agreement for the right or privi-
lege to deliver ut future time or within q
| u designated period, any of the articles
mentioned in section 3. The second defines
Futures" to mean a contract or agreement
to sell and deliver, ut a future time or with
in designated period, any such articles,
when the party so contracting was not the
owner of such articles or had not agreed for
o right to their future purchase. This act,
however, not to apply to anv contract TO
supply National, State or municipal govern
ments with any of such articles; nor to con-
tracts by farmers or planters for future de-
livery, to agreements to pay or deliver
part of the product of the land as compen-
sation for work or labor done or to be done
on the same, nor to agreements with farm
ers or planters TO furnish such articles for
10 a pn n an y, nj ny mt
contracts or agreements shall not be made
or settled for on any board of trade or ex-
change.
The third section specifics the articles to
which the bill Is to apply as cotton raw or
manufactured, hops, wheat corn, oats, rye,
barley, pork lard and bacon.
The fourth section imposes special taxes,
as follows Dealers in options o: futures at
$1,000 year license fee, and cents apound
on cotton, hops pork, lard or bacon, and 20
| cents a bushe on grain Section 10 provides
that the act shall take effect on July /. 1893.
The motion for a conference went over.
After short executive session the senate
adjourned.
HousH-The house resumed in commit
tee of the whole, the consideration of the
sundry civil appropriation bill but no act
ion was taken when the house adjourned
THIRrY.EiGHTH DAY.
SENATE.-The fortiiication bill was the
first of the general bills to come before the
senate, and it was passed after a rather in
teresiing though not novel discussion. The
army appropria ion bill was taken up, and
was passed with but single amendment, in
creasing the monthly pay of sergeants. The
District of Columbia bill came next in or
der. All the committee amendments were
ngreed to excep, one, that was reserved for
action tomorrow, looking to the erection of
a $500, 600 municipal building in Washing.
ton City, and the bill went over.
HoUsE.-The attention of the house was
concentrated upon one item of the sundry
civil appropriation bill, appropriating Sl6,-
900. 600 for carrying on contracts entered in
to for the improvement of rivers and har'
bors. Without finally acting on the bill the
house adjourned.
THIRTY.YISTH DAY.
SENATE With the exception of one hour in
the early part of the day and little longer
time in the evening. to.day's session OF ,he
senate was held behind closed doors nd was
spent in the consideration of the French and
Swedish oxtradtion treaties and incidentally
of the Hawaiian question, In the open
session the Chandler Hawaiian resolution
Offered some days ago. was referred to the
committee on foreign relations; Messrs.
Hale and Blackburn were appointed tellers
to assist in counting the presidential votes
and Mr.. Carlisles resignation AS Senator
from Kentucky was presen nted. The dis.
trict appropriation bill was taken up, con
sidered and passed. A concurrent resolu-
ton from the legislature of Oregon reques.
ting the senators from that state to use all
honorable means to secure the annexation
OF the Hawaiian islands to the United States
was presented and referred and the Senate
then adjourned
Hous.-The session of the House to-day
was interesting, Mr. Catchiugs rom the
rules committee reported special order for
the silver repeal bill, and gave notice he
woulG call IL up February 8. In the morn
ing the nnti-option bill was the center of in
terest.
John ]. Davenport and the federal elec.
ton laws then occupied the attention OF
the house. They were brought toward by an
amendment offered by Mr.. Fitch of New
York to the sundry civil bill providing thu
hereafter no part of any money approprla'
ed to pay any fees to the United States CON.
missioners, marsbals or clerks, shall be used
for any warrant issued or arrest made under
the laws relating to the election OF members
ofcongress unless the prosecution has been
commenced upon sworn complaint setting
forth the facts constituting the offense and
alleging them to be within the personal
knowledge of the afiiant, The Republicans,
whose spokesman was Mr. Boutele of
Maine, saw the entering wedge Of repeal
OF all the laws relating to federal superVls-
ors. Mr.. Fitch replied in a moderate tone,
but stated that the Democratic party made
nosecret of its purpose to repeal the federal
election laws. Several slightly personal pas
| sages ensued but the amendment was hn-
| ally agreed to-l72 to Al. The committee
| then rose and reported the bill to the house.
| The Fitch amendment was agreed to-yeas,
| ISL; nays so. The bill was then passed and
| the house adjourned.
FORTiETlI DAY.
SENATF.-The business OF the Senate was
suspended in order that fitting tributes
! might be made to the memory of the late
Senator Barbour of Virginia. Eulogies of
the dead Senator were pronounced by
Messrs. Daniel, Manderson, Faulkner, Gal
lintSr, Platt Hill, His,o ock and Hunton-
the last being Mr.. Barbours successor III
the Senate. The usual resolutions were
agreed to and the Senate las further mark
| OF respect. TO the memory Of Mr.. Barbour)
| adjourned.
HousE.-The speaker laid before the house
the anti-option bill with senate amendments
thereto and after lengthy debate the bill
was referred TO the com mittte on agricu-
ture, The speaker then laid before the
house the presidents message relative to
the bond transit over Canadian roads. Re-
ferred. The deficiency appropriation bill
I