Huntsville gazette., 1894-06-16
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources.
CONGRESSIONAL pnocEEptses.

CONGRESSIONAL PHoCEEDfNGs.
| In the senate. the 9Th, consideration of
| schedule F-the tobacco schedule-was taken
up and its various provisions were amended
and passed, and schedule G-agricultural prod
| ucts and provisions-was taken up, the first
| paragraph being 189, 40 per cent. ad valorem
on live animals not specially provided for To
| this Mr. Hale offered as an amendment para
graph 2i7 Of the existing law, making the duty
| on horses and mules $50 per head, horses
valued at $3.50 and over to pay duty OF 30 per
cent ad valorem, which, after long political
| discussion, was rejected. In the house,
| after the morning hour, the bill to repeal the
| state bank tax was taken up, and after further
discussion the vote was taken, resulting in the
! defeat of the measurc-102 to 172. The house
| then took up, in committee of the whole the
Indian appropriation BILL
IN the senate on the 7th, Mr.. Hoar offered
resolution instructing the judiciary committee
| to inquire and report whether the attempt of
the government to enforce the Sl5, 900 900 liza
bl1ty of the Leland Stanford estate for the debt
OF the Central Pacific Railroad Co. to the gov.
eminent should not forthwith be relinquished
and put at rest, which went over without ac-
| tion Practically no progress was made with
the tariff bill 49,. In the house, nearly the en-
tire day was given up to the consideration, in
priation bill for the year ending June 30. 1895.
A resolution was agreed to authorizing the
committee on immigration to ascertain and re-
port to the house what has been done toward
enforcing the immigration and contract labor
laws.
IN the senate, on the 8th Mr.. Hoar modified
his resolution in reference to relinquishing the
claim Of the United States against the estate
of Leland Stanford, of California. After some
debate loi6 tba tnIl y
the tariff bill was taken up, several paragraphs
of the agricultural schedule being disposed Of
In the house, consideration of the Indian
appropriation bill was resumed with no partic-
ularly interesting feature. An evening session
was held for consideration OF private pension
and relief bills,
IN the senate, on the 9th, after much prelim-
mary sparring, the members settled down to
work on the tariff biii.and accomplished more
than on any former day of the seven weeks
consideration of the bill, eight pages, compris-
Ing 80 paragraphs being disposed of 80. In the
house three hours were spent, under the five-
minute rule, onthe Indian appropriation bill
seven pages being passed over. Most of the
session was occupied In the discussion OF una
vailtng motions to amend.
IN the senate, on the 1lth after a personal
explanation by Mr. Quay, the tariff bill was
taken up, the question being on the first para
graph of the spirits and wine schedule CID
which, together with schedules Cotton manu-
factures) and (fax, hemp and jute and their
iLanufacturesf--tnreo schedules consisting of
nineteen paragraphs-were disposed OF. After
short executive session the senate adjourned.
.....1n the house almost the entire day was
devoted TO consideration of bills relating to the
interests of the District of Columbia, no conclu-
| sion being reached with respect to any of them.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
Or the Sth the mayor of Limerick
conferred the freedom of the city upon
the countess of Aberdeen
THE condition of William Walter
Phelps, who is i'll at Hackensack, N
j., was very much improved on the sth,
his high fever having been successfully
broken.
On the Sth Mrs. Cleveland arrived at
Gray Gables, Buzzard's Bay, Mass,
after an exceedingly pleasant and com
Portable sail on f. c. Benedict's steam
yacht Oneida
EMIN PAsHA's affairs are becoming
entangled beyond hope of extrication.
The guardians of his little daughter
Ferida and Emin's first wife, Emile
Leidschaft, have not reached an un-
derstanding, and the widow is about to
move in Prussian court to set aside
Emin's formal adoption of Ferida for
the reason that it is void before the
Prussian law
DISCIPLES of the Norwegian school of
literature in Berlin are preparing an
enthusiastic welcome of Bjoernstjerne
Bjornsen and Ibsen's publisher. Jacob
Hegel, who are about to visit Berlin.
MULEY HAssAN, sultan of Morocco,
died on the 7th, and the army pro-
claimed his son, Mulai Abdul, his sue
cessor Private advices say that the
sultan was murdered.
RETURNS show that the Oregon legis-
lature on joint ballot will have II re-
publicans, 10 populists and democrats.
The entire vote of the state foots up
Sc, 900. The republican plurality on the
state ticket, over the democrats, is 2S,-
900; over the populists, $1,000.
On the 11th Robert E. Mercer, presi-
dent of the board of commissioners OF
Allegheny county, Pa, died in Pitts
burgh, aged so. He was one of the best
KIN own citizens of western Pennsylva-
MIA.
On the 18th Mrs. Jacob Gaudaur, wife
of the champion oarsman, died in Drill
liza, Ont.
AT a conference held at Columbus.
o., on the 9th and 11th, between repre-
sentatives of the striking coal miners
and of the operators OF Ohio, Pennsyl-
vania, Indiana and northern Illinois,
terms of settlement were adopted and
signed, by which it was agreed to end
the great coal miners strike on June 49,
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
News was received on the 7th that
the United States revenue cutter Bear
went on the rocks at the entrance to
the harbor of Sitka, Alaska, on the
night Of May IS, and will probably be a
total wreck.
AN inspection of the Mortgage bank
of the province of Buenos Ayres is said
to show an embezzlement of several
millions of dollars in currency by de-
posed governor.
On the sth DR.. Meyer. convicted in