The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1894-07-05
THE NATDN'S SOLONS
SENATE AND HOSE OF REPRE-.
SENTATWES.
Our National Law Makerss ana whas Tb.v
Are Doing For the Goos of the, Loun-
trv-Various Measures Psoposed Oh.
cussed and Acted UpGu.
OOings of CONFESS.

In the Senate on the 22d the allowing bills
passed: The House bill TO incorporate thu
Supreme Lodge Of K. OF p the Senate. bill.
timber by the Agricultural DepartmVVt; the
Senate bill making the first Monday n Sep
TENDER OF each year Labor Day. a legahQli.
day. When consideration OF the tarii Hill
Was resumed. Senator Kyle took the foolshd
made a speech in favor OF the income tax. At
its conclusion Senator Vest. from the fnaAe
committee, offered an amendment to redJb,
the point OF exemption from the tax FrA
Senator Hariss reconsldered his threats
hold the Senate in continuous session on tbI
22d till consideration of the tariff was cob
pleted in Committee OF the Whole. He WIS
OF the sunocating and almost unbearable hest
in the chamber. which kept the tbarmOmete'
at 50 all day, and in view OF the fast that the
funeral of Senator Perkins of Kansas was to
be held. not to prolOng the session. Reluct-
antly he yielded and the Senate adjourned
shortly after 4 O'Clock. After routine business
mittee to investigate the election and control
OF Senators and Representatives by corpora
lions. Laid over.
The House held a short session on the IN
and after considering the deficiency apps not
alton bill until 3:l5 O'Clock 1t went over =.
the 18th. and the House adjourned. 'gelere
was a very small attendance on the floor and
a manifest lack of interest in the proceedings.
The only break in the monOtony was a brief
but lively debate on pensions. in which the
Commissioners Of Pensions and the Committee
on Appropriations were severely criticised.
The Speaker was in the chair after an illness
OF ABOUT a week.
IN the Senate on ssembling on the 25th and
after prayer by the chaplain, marked BY deep
Foreign Relations Committee, offered resolu.
lions rendering an expression OF sorrow and
sympathy with France on account OF the as
sassination OF President Carnot, requesting
President Cleveland to communicate an ex-
preston OF national sorrow to France and
Nine. Carnot. and after a brief speech by Sena-
tor Morgan. touching nDOn the PATRIOTISM or
the French people and OF the cordial relations
between the two great Republics. the Senate.
''aS a mark Of respect due to the memory OF
the wise, virtuous and patriotic President of
the Republic of France" adjourned.
After the reading of the Presidents message
on the 25th announcing the assassination OF
President CarnOt the House passed resolutions
OF coincidence, and adjourned.
lin the Senate on the 26th Senator Allen
made an inefectual attempt to secure cOnstd-
Grafton Of his resolution directing the Score.
tary OF the Treasury to inform the Senate OF
the total number OF persons engaged in pre-
tected Industries whose wages were likely to
De anected Dy tarln legislation, ana gave no
tice that so long as it was not acted on he
would object to legislation by unanimous con-
sent. Consideration OF the income tay pro@
visions Of the tariff bill were then resumed.
The Senate at 8: 70 went into executive ses-
sion and five minutes later adjourned.
The House on the Goth passed a bill making
Labor Day a legal holiday. The House Went
into Committee of the Whole on the deficiency
bill. COnsiderab e discussion was precipitated
by amendments offered to the paragraph to
pay Indian depreciation claims. AS the bill
finally came out of the COmr@ttee of the
Whole this paragraph carried an appropriation
of SlO0.O0J for the payment OF certain Indian
depreciation claims, in lieu Of 5000 for The ex-
animation of those cases by the Attorney Gen
eral. as origin lily provided in the bill. The
House retained the amendment and as amend
ed it was passed. Adjourned.
In the Senate on the 9Th, after minor bust
ness, consideration OF the income tax was re-
sumed. the pending question being Senator
Allison's amendment to exempt corporations,
companies or associations with less than $780,
900 capital. Senator Hill spoke in opposition
to the general theory of an income tax, and
was followed by Senator Vest in reply.
The House on the 9th got into "a series OF
deadlock over the New Mexico statehood bill.
The bone of contention was an amendment re-
curing the public schools to teach the English
language. Consideration of the bill was not
concluded at the hour of adjournment. A
cablegram from the French government
acknowledging the action of Congress relative
to the death or President Carnot was laid be-
fore the House; also a message from the
President transmitting the latest Hawaiian
correspondence. A resolution was adopted ex-
tending the appropriations for che current
fiscal year for thirty days from the 30th inst.
as the Senate will not be able to act on any OF
the appropriation bills before the expiration
OF the fiscal year. The bill authorizing the
construction of a foot and wagon bridge over
the st. CrOix River between Wisconsin and
Minnesota, was passed and The House ad.
inI1rnol