The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1894-06-07
FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS-.


ate Monday Mr.. Voorhees, gave notice that he
would Tuesday move to adjourn over till
THURSDAY, so as to observe decoration day as
holiday. The senate confirmed the following
nominations: Charles d. Wolcott, of New
York to be director Of the geological survey.
Postmaster: Ohio--A NJ Jones. Manchester.
HoUsE-Monday being district day in the
house, the Crawley bill for the repeal of the
ten per cent tax on state bank issues was side
tracked temporarily, and the few members
present gave partial attention to District of
Columbia bills. An interesting event Of the
day was the reading Of the letter from the sons
of Louis Kossuth in reply to the letter recent
ly sent by Speaker Crisp under direction of the
house. The senate bill to fix the northern
boundary line Of the Warm Springs Indian res
ervation, in Oregon, was passed, as were SUM-
dry house bills.
WASHINGTON. June e1.-SENATE-Lumber was
placed on the free list by the senate Thursday.
This was done by strict party vote, Messrs
PETER and Allen (populists) voting for free
lumber. This places upon the free list of the
pending tariff bill not only logs, which are
already free, but lumber of any sort, planed,
finished tongued and grooved-that Is to say,
all kinds OF manufactured lumber entering into
the construction of houses and buildings of
every description are made free of duty. Sem
ator Sherman spoke for two hours upon the
general subject of the tariff. Mr.. Dolph rep,
Ore) made a long speech advocating furnishing
newspaper correspondents for refusing to an
SWeT CeTldiI questions aSReu Dy IHe seHdue
sugar scandal committee. and gave notice that
he would make motion to postpone the con-
sideration OF the sugar schedule until the COM
mittee made it's final report
HoUsE-The house Thursday passed a reso-
luton instructing the secretary Of war to do
what is necessary, under the act of March 3,
1898, for the preservation Of the Gettysburg
battlefield. The bill for an additional judge
for the Northern District of Illinois passed.
after which the bill to repeal the tax on state
bank circulation was taken up, Mr. Black, of
Georgia, resuming his speech in favor of re-
peal. Mr. Black was followed by Mr.. Walker
| (rep., Mass) The other speakers were Messrs.
| McLaurin, of South Carolina. and Mr.. Wheeler,
| of Alabama who favored the repeal of the
| state bank tax.
| WASHINGTON, June 2.-SENATE-The con-
sideration Of the tariff bill Friday, was con-
| fined to two long speeches on the question of
| repeating the bounty on sugar The first of
| them was by Mr. Henderson rep, Neb.), and
| the second by Mr. PETER pop. Kan) Mr.
| Manderson spoke for three hours and q half,
the core Of his argument being that there
was moral obligation on congress TO main
| tain the bounty system. Mr.. PETER spoke for
| over three hours in opposition to the duty on
sugar and in favor of the continuance of the
| bounty. After he closed his speech he got into
| an amusing controversy with Mr.. Hoar (rep.,
| Mass.) over some OF the theories which he had
| brought forward.
| HoUsE-Mr. Enloe (dem., TENN, endeavored
to sidetrack the bank tax bill by moving to
| consider bills on the private calendar, but this
| was defeated-yeas a. nays l29 Thereupon
| the debate upon the measure was resumed.
| Speeches were made by Messrs. Brosius Tep.,
Pa.) and Henderson rep Ill) against the re-
| peal of the 10 per cent. tax law, and by Messrs.
Samson dem, Va), Tucker (dem., Va) and
Izler (dem., S. C.) in favor of repeal. An even
ing session was held under the rules to con-
slider private pension and relief bills.
| WASHINGTON, June 4-SENATE.-Senator
| Hill spoke Saturday on his resolution to make
the sessions of the investigating committee
| open affairs Hills speech was peculiarly
forcible He advocated open sessions of the
committee, as we'll as open sessions Of the SEN
ate. 1t resulted in q lengthy debate, much to
the distress of Senator Harris and others who
are anxious for progress on the tariff. Hill s
speech compelled Senator Gray to admit he
would consent to open sessions of the commit
tee, and he added that his wish was for the sue
cess Of the investigation, and Senator Lodge
followed him in the same strain.
HOUsE--Two private bills were passed-one
to pension Mary Levans and another for the
relief Of Thomas b. Reed. The house then
went into committee of the whole, and Mr..
1zlar, Of South Carolina resumed his speech
in favor of the Brawley bill. At the conclusion
of Mr.. Izlar's speech Mr. Enloe dem, Tenn
explained that he had offered Friday the mo-
ton to go into committee Of the whole to con-
slider the Brawley bill, not because he was an
tagonistic to that bill, but because he believed
there were some bills on the private calendar
which should be passed. Mr. Meyer (dem.,
La) occupied the last half hour of the day IS
session with defense of the state bank SyS-
tem and announced that he proposed to vote
for the repeal of the ten per cent. tax. When
Mr.. Meyer finished his speech the house ad-