Huntsville gazette., 1894-08-18
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources.
CONGRESSIONAL PRocErD1Ses.

IN the senate, the 8th pending definite
action by the tariff conferees, an utter indiner-
ence to all other matters of legislation was
manifested. Some dozen bills were passed by
unanimous consent and the conference report
on the Indian appropriation bill was presented
and agreed to. Mr.. Allen introduced bill i'm
posing penalty by fine and Imprisonment up
on professional lobbyists. In the house the
resolutions providing for an investigation of
the charges against Judge Kicks. Of having,
when clerk, sequestered fees of the court, was
agreed to. The action of the senate in sub
stituting Mr.. Hills anti-anarchist immigration
bill for Mr.. Stones bill providing for consular
inspection of immigrants non-concurred in
and the latter sent to conference. Joint reSolu-
tion for tr Investigation of the effect of ma
chinery and appropriating $4,000
therefore W. 1assed.
IN the senate, on the 9th, among the private
bills passed in the morning hour was house bill
for the relief of Louis Pelham, who. during war
times, under confScation proceedings, paid
50 600 for 81 900 note OF party in Kentucky
supposed to be disloyal. The confscation pro-
ceedlngs afterward being set aside, Pelham
was out the 50 000he had paid the United States
marshal. The bill passed was to reimburse
him. 49,. In the house Mr. Boutelle criticised
the administrations Ha waiians policy The
bill to increase the efficiency of the militia
was taken up, and gave rise to a discussion in
which the recent riots in Chicago and the en-
ployment of federal troops by the president
were discussed. Six private claims bills were
passed
IN the senate, on the 10th, Mr. Hill caused
lively discussion by Offering a resolution which
was rejected, directing the senate conferees to
report progress on the tariff bill. Mr.. Harris,
one of the democratic conferees on the part of
the senate, made statement of the status of
the bill. Mr.. Chandler offered "a resolution
(Which went over) looking to an investigation
OF the recent election in Alabama, and whether
it resulted in the choice OF Legislature entitled
to choose United States senator $500. In the
house the session almost wholly taken up
with consideration of the first conference re-
port on the sundry-civil appropriations bill.
Discussion of the public land question occupied
the rest of the day.
In the senate, on the 1lth the session was
taken up in debate on the Hill resolution in
structing the senate conferees the tariff
bill to report whether the conferees of the two
houses were likely to agree. and if not to re-
port disagreement, with an additional clause
requiring the bill to be handed to the secretary
of the senate for such action the senate
might desire to take upon it. The vote re-
Sulted-yeaS 35; nays, 35-which the vice.
president turned against the resolution by
promptly voting in the negative. The bill was
placed on the calendar In the house pro-
ceedings were confined to consideration of two
items in the sundry civil appropriations bill,
upon which the conferees had been unable to
agree. A further conference was ordered.
IN the senate, on the 18th, house substitute
for senate amendment to the sundry civil ap-
preparations bill looking to the retention OF the
present government printing office building
and the acquisition of adjoining property on
which to erect additional buildings was disa-
greed to, after which the senate amendment
for the purchase of the Malone site was re-
ceded from. The bill was then remanded for
further conference. ~. In the house, in
cordance with the action of the house demo-
cratic caucus, the tariff bill was recalled from
conference, the conferees discharged, and the
senate amendments concurred in; Yeas. 1872;
nays, los. Separate bills placing coal, sugar
iron ore and barbed wire on the free list were
then passed.