The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-08-03
CONGRESSIONAL.
The Proceedings of the Week Brieny
Given,

The Proceedings OF the oeeA DfieHS
Given.
liz the senate on the I'D the proceedings
were highly interesting although resulting in
the transaction Of no business. The hal and
galleries were packed to hear the speeches on
the tariff bill conference Mr. German tAo-I
was the leading speaker and for nearly tnree
hours he severely denounced the presidents
action on the tariff bill and gave the reasons
why the senate had amended and finally agreed
to the house bill. and he urged the senate 10 az,
here to the measure as passed He was listened
to with intense interest Mr.. White Cali fol-
lowed. About 8 O'Clock, before voting on the
motion of Mr. Hill to recede from the coal and
iron amendment, the senate went into executive
session and soon adjourned When the mousse
met the in interest in the debate In the senats
oyershadowed everything else and 1t being I'M
possible to hold quorum an adlournment was
taken
THE interest in the senate continued on the
9th The entire session was taken up In de-
bate on the tariff BILL or rather on questlons
growing out of its consideration MI. HlA
On W spoke for over two hours and cham
pioned the position Of the president The gal
leries we're crowded, and Mr.. HIS remarks
we're a continuous stream Of sarcasm poured
forth upon his opponents Mr.. Gallery (La-)
followed Mr. Hill He favored q bounty on
sugar and stated that he would have voted
against the bill IL sugar had been placed on the
| free list Pending Mr.. Catfery's remarks the
| senate adjourned The house passed py
vote Of I4O to 50 Ga party vote) the bill for the
/ reinstatement OF railway mail clerks dismissed
| between March Is and May 1. 1889; also a large
batch Of other bills, most Of them local IN their
/ character and at o'clock adjourned
| THE senate on the 18th agreed TO the confer
| ence report on the legislative bill MI Alien
| offered a resolution calling on the Attorney
| general for all cores poudence, by Telegraph
| or otherwise that passed between the DEPART
ment and the railroads centering In Chicago
/ from June to the present time, which went
| over Mr. Carery resumed his remarks on the
/ tariff bill defending the duty on sugar At 2;5u
/ the senate went into executive session In
! the house after the reading Of communications
! from the French government on the assasslna-
ton of President Carnot. the conference re-
| port on the legislative bill was agreed 70 anu
| at o'clock the house adjourned.
THE tariff was the absorbing topic that accu-
| pied the attention of the senate again on the
| 18th Senator Villas (Wisl made the leading
speech of the day and made a vigorous defense
| of the president At the conclusion OF his
! speech he explained that for reasons stated nc
withdrew his motion TO recede from the one
| eighth diferential on sugar. MI Hill motion
TO recede from the amendment placing duty
| of 40 per cent on coal and iron was defeated
/ Mr. Washburn then revived Mr.. Villas motion
| instructing the eonferees to recede from the
| oue-eighth diferential on sugar and the mo-
ton was under debate at adjournment The
proceedings in the house were Hfeless- The
conference report on the Notifications bill was
agreed to. Several unimportant bills passed
and at 4:5O o'clock the house adjourned
THE senate held an interesting session or
the 2Tth on the question OF agreeing to the re-
quest OF the house for another conference OF
the tariff bill. The chair ruled Mr. Wash
burns motion instructing the conferees 70 re-
cede from the one-eighth diferential on sugar
out of order. An appeal was taken and mo-
ton to lay the appeal on the table was lost ol
z tie vote This brought the senate tOa dlrec
vote on the Washburn motion and the interes
was intense Mr. Washburns motion wa:
lost however on the same vote. the popullst
and Senators Hill and Irby voting with th'
republicans The resolution TO agree to
further conference was then agreed TO and th'
senate adjourned until Monday No quorum
was present in the house and what business
that was transacted was by unanimous con
sent. Pension bills were considered at tn
evening session
THE senate was not in session on the 18th ---
The house held brief session and passed
number of private bills 4 joint resolution
, was adopted extendidg appropriations to Au
gust a. and the heat was so severe that an ad
iourument was soon taken