Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1894-07-05
THE NATIONS SOLONS
SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRE-.
SENTATlvES.
Our National Law Makers and Whist They
Are Doing For the Good Of the Coun.
t~rv-various Measures Proposed, Die
cussed and Acted Upon.


In the Senate ON assembling on the 25th and
after prayer by the chaplain, marked by deep
feeling, Senator Morgan. Chairman OF the
Foreign Relations Committee. offered resoln..
tions rendering an expression OF sorrow and
sympathy with France OF account OF the as
sassination OF President Carnot, requesting
President Cleveland to communicate an eX-
preston OF national sorrow to France and
Nine. Carnot, and after y brief speech by Sena.
tor Morgan touching upon the patriotism 10 o,
between the W great Republics. the Senate,
"as a mark Of respect due to the memory. OF
the the K Kiss; Hirt q; Fsa ana ]pa aajoarne president OF
After the reading OF the Presidents message
on the a5th announcing the assassination OF
President Garnet the House passed resolutions
of coincidence, and adjourned
In the Senate on the 26th Senator Allen
made an Intellectual attempt TO secure consld-
GRAFTON OF his resolution directing the Score
tary OF the Treasury to inform the senate or
the total number OF persons engaged IN pro
tected industries whose wages were likely to
be affected by tariff legislation, and gave no
ttce that so long as 1t was not acted on ne
would object to legislation by unanimous con-
sent. Consideration of the income tax pro
visions of the tarin bin were then resumed,
The Senate at 6:lO went into executive ses-
sion and five minutes later adjourned.
The House on the 25th passed a bill making
Labor Day a legal holiday, The House Went
into Committee of the Whole on the deficiency
bill. Considerab g discussion was precipitatsd
by amendments offered to the paragraph to
pay Indian depreciation claims. AS the bill
finally came out OF the Committee OF the
Whole this paragraph carried an appropriation
OF sloO coo for the payment OF certain Indian
depreciation claims. In lieu OF 5000 for the ex-
animation OF those cases by the Attorney Gen
eral, as origin lily provided IN the bin. The
House retained the amendment and as amend
ed it was passed. Adjourned.
In the Senate on the 9th, after minor bust
ness, consideration OF the income tax was re-
sumed. the pending question being Senator
Allison's amendment to Xempt corporations,
companies or associations with less than tiCo,
w capital. Senator Hill spoke IN opposition
to the general theory OF an income tax, and
was followed by Senator Vest in reply.
The House on the 27th got into a series OF
deadlock over the New Mexico statehood bill.
quiring the public schools to teach the English
language. Consideration of the bill was not
concluded at the hour OF Adjournment A
cablegram from the French government
acknowledging the action of Congress relative
to the death OF President Carnot was laid be,
fore thu House; also a message from the
President transmitting the latest Hawaiian
correspondence. A resolution was adopted ex.
tending the appropriations for the current
fiscal year for thirty days from the Dth inst:
as the Senate will not be able to act on any of
the appropriation bills before the expiration
of the fiscal year. The bill authorizing the
construction of a foot and wagon bridge over
the st. Croix River between Wisconsin and
Minnesota, was passed and the House ad-
%journed.
In the Senate on the 2sth Hoar blocked bus
ness by tilibustering until the hour when the
tariff bill became the order of business. The
pending amendment on the tariff bill was that
OF Senator Hill to limit the time when the
books OF a corporation should be opened to IN
spection. A protracted discussion followed.
Among the bills that passed the House on
the 2'th was one for the relief OF the trustees
of the Presbyterian Church at Bethel Springs.
Tenn, on account of the occupancy of the
church by troops in the civil war. A bill was
also passed to amend the Judiciary act OF
August IL. 1883. 1t provides that receivers or
managers appointed by United States Courts
may be sued without the permission OF the ap-
pointing court Just as the original corporation
might have been sued. Ehe bill for the adj
mission of New Mexico was taken up and
passed without division. At AIS the quorum
disappeared and the House adjourned.
At the opening of the Senate on the 18th q
Joint resolution appointing Charles NJ. Ander-
son OF Greenville, Ohio, sidney q. Cooke OF
Harrington, Kan, and A. l., Pearson of Pitts
burg, members of the Board of Managers OF
the National Home for Disabled Volunteers,
was passed. Senator Sherman's resolution
directing the Committee on Interstate Com
merce to inquire into the ACCESSIBILITY of regu-
lating by law the use of sleeping and parior
cars was also adopted. The Senate adopted
the joint resolution extending the present APP
preparations until the new appropriation bills
are passed. The tariff bill was taken up and
Senator Vest moved an amendment to the
clause repeating the reciprocity feature of the
Mckinley bill. The tariff bnl was reported to
the Senate at 5:4a. Senator Henderson moved
to adjourn until July =. Lost-25 to 80; but in
ton was agreed to. and at $40 the Senate adj
turned until July 2,
With the exception OF a sh ort time the day
in the House on the 10Th was consumed by fill
Watson against Black of the Tenth Georgia
District. The taugle was finally Strengthened
out. and the resolution of the on
Elections declaring Black elected was agreed
to. only the Populists dissenting. The House
took a recess, the evening session being de-
voted to private pension bills.