Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1894-04-26
IN CONGRESS.
The Senate.

E,,a,.;ra post he was an obstructionist ana
not in Harmony with his party. Heshoula,
he said, actively support and vote i ioi .io
tariff bill as amended by the senate llnaHCo
committee. The bill authorizing Ile tle pi,@er
of a stone bridge across the 81 LOUIS hlNel
between Minnesota and Wisconsin was
nassed Commander f. w. Dickens, Y. ..
8 Who attended the Duke of Neragua as
the representative of this nation when tna'
nobleman visited the Worlds falr laSt yeal'
grafton of the Cross of Naval Merit Oh NJ Nc
third class from the King or Spain; MI
Morrill,, of Vermont, then spoke on the tar-
if bill
WAsH1SGroS, D. c., April 19.-The day,
in the Senate was almost entirely consullleaui
bv a speech against the pending tarlH OIL
bv Senator Perkins, OF California; Inc
speech was mainly devoted to a discussion
of the articles which directly affected Call-
fornia wool, fruits QUICKSILVER Deet susal,
etc, although he considered other FEATURES
in the bill, in which his state was not N
terested. but which were opposed to Repub-
lican principles and which he accord
ingly arraigned, the agreement OF the
Senate to the report OF the confer
ence committee on the urgent de1 nc
ency bill being the most important. Inc
PETER resolution for the appointment OF
committee on communications for the pur-
! pose Of hearing the grievances OF Co1eys
| army was debated by Senator PETER and Al
| len. both of whom favored it, but it Went
| over without action by the expiration OF
| the morning hour. AT O'CLOCK eulosies
were prom ounced on the late Representative
w. II. Enochs, OF Ohio, after which the
Senate at 5:l5 adjourned.
| WASHINGTON D. c., April 2O.-When the
| Senate was called to order to-day, Mi. Sher-
| man, from the committee on foreign rela-
tions, reported bill for the correction OF an
error in the Behring Sea bill recently
| ,ocCaI Rx, tho Substitution OF the WOrO
| s.exclusive" for ''inclusive" the intention OF
| the act he said, had been entirely changed
| The bill was passed. The resolution
| introduced recently by Senator Al
treasury for the amount of appro-
| priations made and expended Tor the I'M
provements of rivers and harbors from
| March 3, 1887, to date, was passed. Inc
PETER resolution for the appointment OF
| reception committee for CoNey's army OF
| the commonweal to be known IN the sen
| ate parlance as 'the common communl-
cations" came up a few minutes before L
O clock but went over after brief discus
| sion. MT. Gallinger rep, n. Ill., then
+ spoke against the tariff bill and was fol-
| lowed i'm the same line by Senator Mcmillan
| (Rep., Mich.)
| Dolph concluded his speech on the tariff
| bill Resolutions against the Wilson bill,
| from the representative wage-wOrkers OF
the United States, the Philadelphia dele
| CATION now at the capital were read. "A
| message from the President accompanying
| some Hawaiian correspondence was read.
| WAsHINGToN, d. c., a pril 23.-During the
morning session of the Senate bill was in
troduced, by request, by Senator PETER, TO
dispose Of idle labor and discourage idle
wealth in the District OF Columbia, y which
trict of Columbia. He also sought to
take up from the calendar his reso-
| luton for the appointment of COM
mittee on commandments 'CoXey
| committee the motion was lost, II to
o. The House bill for the protection OF
birds and animals in the 1ello ystone Ma
: tional Park was called up by Senator Carey,
| and after some amendments had been made
! the bill was passed Senator Washburn
| (Rep, Minn.), then addressed the Senate in
opposition to the tariff bill.
| The House.
WASHINGTON, d. c., April 1S.--In the
House to-day Mr.. Burrows (Rep., Mich. J
called attention to the fact that Mr..
Wheeler Dem. Ala had spoken one
minute on the rule question aud that his
speech occupied four columns i'll the Con-
gressional Record. Mr.. Wheeler being alb
sent the matter went over for the day. The
consular and diplomatic preparation bill
was then taken up. The discussion follow
ing touched the Hawaiian question. The
|
going over until tomorrow.
WASHINGTON, d. c., April 1G.-At the
opening Of the House to-day on motion of
| Mr.. Reilly DEM, chairman of the commit
tee on Pacific railroads, the following resO-
luton was adopted: THAT the secretary of
the interior be directed to communicate to
the louise all information lie has in his pos
session as to what provision (other than the
| sinking fund now maintained in the treas
ury under the act of 1879 the railroad cor
! porations to whom bonds were issued by the
! United States under the acts of 1S626 60 to
aid in the construction ofrailroad and tele-
! graph lines from the Missouri River to the
| Pacific coast, have made or proposed to
make for the payment at maturity of the
bonds issued by said corporations respect
| lively, which are a prior lien to the bonds
issued by the United States under the acts
aforesaid, and whether any of such bonds
are held or owned by either Of said compa-
MES" The House then went into commit
| tee Of the whole and the consideration of
| the diplomatic and consular appropriation
| bill was resumed.
WASHINGTON, D. c., April 2o.-There was
a passage at arms in the House to-day be-
| tween Representatives Burrows and Wheel
| err Mr.. Wheeler was tainted with talking
| four columns Of the Congressional Record
| In precisely one minute, and retorted that
whose hands were, red with parlia-
| mentary murder" Mr.. Burrows re-
called a previous example of Mr.
Wheeler's fuency, a speech that occu-
| pied five minutes in the delivery having
| taken up fourteen columns of the Record
a motion was made to refer the subject to
| the committee on printing, but Mr. Wheel
ercried quits by asking leave to withdraw
his remarks. Practically no business was
transacted. Under the rules, it being Fri
day, the day was devoted to the business on
the private calendar.
WASHINGTON, d. c., April 21.-In the
House to-day Representative Hepburn
rep, la announced that he would here
after object to the consideration of bills bv
mutual consent in retaliation for Democratic
opposition to action on pension bills. The
diplomatic and consular appropriation bill
was farther considered and at 2 O'Clock the
House devoted itself to eulogies of the late
Senator Gibson, of louisiana
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