Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-05-31

Dolngs q Congress.
The Senate on Monday combined slug
gish investis alton Of bribery charges with
its tariff talk, and no work was done or
much Importance Almost Immediately
upon assembling the House went into COM
mittee Of the whole on the legislative ap-
Precipitation bill Nh Hayes offered an
tion which allowed the docking of Nom =
bers' salary had bean heretofore repealed.
Mr. Dearmond. of Missouri. made . point
OF order against the amendments The
chairman one Richardson) sustained
pesled from the decision Of the
Chair and tho chairman declared
the nays had It. Only bare quorum voted.
ROLL call was demanded, and the decision
of the Chair was overruled by 80 70 1o2
amendment declaring the statute repealed
which authorized the sergeant at arms TO
deduct from the salary of members for
abseuce It was agreed tolls to "a
Mr. Dockery gave notice that O. yea ana
nay vote would be demanded on the
amendment when the bill was reported to
the House The House adjourned.
The eenate disposed of seven para
graphs of the metal schedule Tuesday. at
marked by quite number OF IN
teresting clashes between the hepuo-
licans and Democrats The question or
civil service reform was given full sway
In the House, the occasion being the
amendment 10 strike out the paragraph In
the Legislative appropriation bill providing
for the civil service commission 1t gave
opportunity for some stirring and not few
amusing speeches Tho amendment was
adopted by vote of 100 to II amid great
Democratic applause and Republican cries
of 1Spoilan No other amendments OF any
Importance were made In the BILL the only
ones adopted being to correct the totals or
q few amendments In the earlier pro-
ceedings the resolution providing Tor an
investigation Of the alleged armor plate
frauds was adopted
A test vote was taken ir the senate
Wednesday, and TO the surprise or many
the tafin was not tabled. In the house
was resumed. and several times during
the day the question was disposed
OF only to break out moment iater
in another place The approprission
for commissioners and clerks OF the C'vi'
Service Bureau having been stricken OUT
the next paragraph. providing Tor the
transfer to the Civil Service Commission
of clerks from the departments was
also stricken from the Dill Inc
House refused TO strike out. however me
lars for travelling expenses OF civil
service examiners Another amendment
made TO the bill gives the Secretary OF
the Treasury discretion In the tenn.
porary appointment OF clerks 70 vino
posed TO be abolished. instead Of taking
them from the classified service.
Prior to going into committee OF the
whole the House passed the senate Dill
amending an act to provide for the sale OF
lnA~ NJ N
confederated Otoe and Missouri Indians In
the States of Nebraska and Kansas The
House ad journed at sos o'clock after get
ting half way through the legislative Dill.
The Senate on Thursday interviewed E
]. Edwards, OF the Philadelphia Times.
author of the GHolland" letter. In which
bribery anent the sugar tarin was charged.
The exaninatio was secret. Inc House
went into committee Of the whole TO con-
slider the legislative appropriation bill,
and Mr.. Richardson was called to
the chair. There was an unsuccess-
full effort to amend the pension
paragraph 30 as 70 strike OUT inc
CATION of alleged frauds Mr. Anderson
tried to have struck out the provision for
contingent expenses OF the Civil Service
Commission. but was voted down Mr..
Stone offered an amendment striking out
the provision for assistant attorneys
"a defend the Government against
war claims, and IL was defeated Finally
the bill was reported to the House Sep
arate votes we're demanded on Mr.. Hayes
resolution declaring the laws repealed az
thorizing the docking of members SAL
aries for absence. and on the amendment
striking out the appropriations for the
civil service The Hayes anti docking
amend ment was defeated-yeas, 104; nays.
1871 The amendment OF Mr. Enloe
striking out the APPROPRIATION TOT sne
to 1853 nays-amid Republican applause.
The legislative bill was then passed The
House bill IN incorporate the Supreme
Lodge of Knights OF Pythias was passed.
A resolution was aoopteo setane asIoo
Represe ntative Houk. OF Ohio. The House
then, at q few minutes past o'clock. adj
journed
Senator Kyle's Hawaiian resolution and
the tariff were tangled up Friday. and the
tariff came out = little ahead The sched-
nile on several articles was changed, and
the Senate bill 10 several pages nearer
com pletion than before At the conclu-
sion of the morning hour In the House the
House went into committee of the whole
for consideration of private BILLS me-
Springer gave notice that the 6rst thing
Saturday he would call up the Brawley
bfll for repeal of the State bank tax law.
discussion OF an omnibus RESOLUTION from
the Committee on War Claims. group
ing together thirty-seven claims for
cotton. etc. aggregating $1,000, 600.
Half the time was taken up In
q discussion on point OF order against the
grou ming of so many bills In one resolution.
The only business transacted during tho
dav was the passage of a bill for the relief
~ Thomas b. Reed At S o'clock the COM
mittee rose and the House took recess
The evening session was devoted TO the
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