The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-08-15
Congressional Proceedings.

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST SIN the senate
Mr.. Allen of Nebraska introduced bill 60
prevent professional lobbying. 1t defines
lobbyist to be person who habitually at
tempts to influence the legislative action of
congress by soliciting members to support
or defeat a measure, and it declares lobby
ing in the capitol or in the District OF Co
lumbia an offence against the United
States, to be punished by fine of not less
than 81 600 nor more than S. 900, and by i'm
prisonment in the common Jail of the Dis
trict of Columbia for not less than one nor
more than FIVE years. The following :bills
were passed: Senate bill granting pension
of $50 month to Harrison G. Hobart, late
brevet brigadier general Of volunteers
house bill to provide for the opening of
certain abandoned military reservations,
with amendments; house bill appropriat-
ing $50, 1000 for a new revenue cutter for the
harbor of San Francisco. The conference
report on the Indian appropriation bill was
presented and agreed to. A bill was passed
to further encourage the holding OF
Worlds Exposition in 1895 at Atlanta, Ga.
The house refused to agree to the senate
amendment to the Stone consular immigra-
ton inspection bill, and voted to send it to
a conference. In committee OF the whole
the house took favorable action upon bills
providing for buildings at the following
named: Newport, KY, $4,000; Brockton,
South Omaha, Neb., 100000; Pottsville,
100000; Cumberland Md, $4,000. The
bill to erect a post-office at Chicago at q
cost of 81, 900, 900 provoked lively discus
sion which was in progress when the hour
for adjournment arrived.
THuRsDAY.--In the senate the bill to re-
peal the section of the revised statutes
under which bounty land warrants are re-
fused to ex.soldiers of the Mexican war who
afterwards served in the Confederate army
was advocated by Mr.. George of Mississippi.
Mr.. Platt of Connecticut, replying, said that
the bill would apply not to a few but to
thousands of such old Mexican soldiers and
their heirs. Moreover, he then confessed
his surprise that there should be an at
tempt made to take up measures and rush
them through in what all hoped would be
the closing hours of the session Those old
Mexican soldiers had been treated gener-
ously. They had been given pensions even
though they had not been sixty days in the
service and had never seen the enemy. This
bill was simply to give them. in addition,
land warrants which would be worth $500
in cash. He moved to postpone the bill
until the first Monday in December next.
- The Hawaiian question was injected
into the house proceedings by Mr.. Boutelle
of Maine. He denounced the action of the
administration in recognizing Hawaii and
failing to report the fact to congress. He
also criticised the committee on foreign af-
of July 30 to recognize the Hawaiian re-
public. He proceeded to arraign the admin
istration for it's Hawaiian policy and was
called to order. He tried then to get unan-
imous consent for the consideration Of the
resolutions he had introduced, thus taking
them from the committee on foreign affairs,
but demand for the regular order cut him
off.
FRDAY.-The senate passed the house
joint resolution appropriating $40, 900 for an
investigation by the commissioner of labor
as to the effect of the use of machinery on
| labor. A resolution was offered by Mr.
| Chandler Of New Hampshire, and went over
until tomorrow, proposing an investiga
| ton by the committee on privileges and
| elections of the recent election in Alabama
| as to whether 1t was full, free, fair and hon
est, and whether 1t resulted in tho choice OF
legislature entitled to elect United
States senator, with power to send for per
sons and papers. - The first conference
report on the sundry civil appropriation
was presented to the house. The conferreei
| agreed to recommend that the senate recedt
from the amendments carrying $780, $40
that the house agreed to amendments car
| rying 81 Ale, 492; on amendments carrying
| 1921 081, the conferres could not agree
Mr.. Cogswell Of Massachusetts spoke il
words Of warm approval OF the enterprise
| of the people OF Atlanta, Ga, in projecting
an exposition and urged that the sppropria
ton be granted
SATURDAY.-The resolution OF Senator
Hill was called up in the senate, and |