The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1894-05-24
WORK OF CONGRESS-
RESUME OF PROCEEDINGS OF The
SENATE AND HOUSE.
condensed Record of the Important
Transactions of Our National Law
mnkcrs-The Work Done in Both
Branches.

Washington. ~ 19.-White winged
teace lowered over the senate to-day. AS
l result Of the compromise reached yes
Eerday the resolution to inaugurute 'ong-
Ell hours, beginnil 6 next Monday, COM
menCiDg at 10 a. IN, was agreed to, and
then the senate for the first time since
the, tariff debate began, settled down to |
teal earnest work On the schedules of -he |
t; riff. For five hours the consideration |
was steadily pushed the result being that
eleven pages of the bill were disposed of.
Mere progress than has been made in the
entire three weeks during which the oil
has been considered by paragraphs. The
chemical schedule, excepting items 81 to
90, Inclusive, which w ~ passed owe: by
agreement was finished Schedule &,
metals and manufactures of iron and
steel had been reached when the senate
went into executive session. The Repub
leans won their first victory to-day i'll
tEeir efforts to secure higher rates than
tlose granted by the majority. They
irduced the Democrats to take rough
building and monumental stone, lime
store, free stone, granite, sandstone, etc,
f1t m the free list and place them OH the
dutiable list at &c per cubic foot, and to
irCrease the duty on this class of dressed
stone from 20 to 80 per cent ad vulorem.
The feature of the day was the denial
Of half dozen Republican senators that
ony agreement had been reached to al
low the bill to ultimately come to a vote,
and the bold announcement of Messrs.
Frye Of Maine and DolIh of Oregon
tLat they stood ready to go any length
and use any parliamentary methods to
defeat the bill.
The legisla tive, exc :utive and judicial
appropriation bill was taken up i'll the
house to-day The discussion of the bill
pened up several interesting and i'm
pOrtrnt questions, among them being the
sugar bounty, the pension frauds investi-
CATION and the reduction of the members
pay for absence.
Washington, May 21.-The senate be-
gan the seventh week of the discussion of
the tariff bill to-day at 10 o'clock by TAX
ing up the metal schedule, and the pros
pect is now that the entire week will be
devoted to the tariff without attempting
any other business than that which can
be done in the first half-hour of the
daily sessions and possibly an occasional
brief executive session after 6 o'clock for
the disposition of unContested nominal
tons. Senator Harris to-day reaffirmed
as rapidly as it may be possible to do
so, but he said he had no idea Of an
attempt to extend the daily sessions be-
yond O'Clock so long as the work
should go on as satisfactorily as it is
going at present. He expressed the
opinion that the Republican senators who
have been opposing the bill, and appa--
emily seeking to delay its passage had
decided to charge their policy and to lei
the bill proceed upon its passage after
giving the various items of difference the
attention demanded by their merits, an(
i1:tanced the fact noticeable Oh Frida!
and Saturday that there had been a de
cided cessation of long speeches and OF
roll calls as well. This change in the
cou, Sc of those of the opponents of thu
bill who have sought to put obstacles il
the way of its progress, the Democrat
attribute to the two facts that their op
ponents have discovered that they meal
to pass the bill, and that the Republican
conferences of the past week have de
veloped decided sentiment in the Re
publican party on the question of delay
with, as they think, a majority opposed
to all dilatory tactics.
The state bank issue which has bee
gathering strength at caucuses and con
was taken up to-day in the house an
promises to be fought to a finish thi
week 1t will bring out a sharp contes
on party as well as economic lines, as tn
state bank plank of the Democratic na
tional platform has advanced the que:
ton to place of Importance second onl
to those of the tariff and silver.
Washington, May 22.-Almost immed
ately upon assembling the house wei
into committee of the whole on the lie.
islative appropriation bill. Then Nj
Hayes Dem, Iowa. offered an amen'
ment which declared that the sectio
which allowed the docking of member
salaries had been heretofore repeale
1t was agreed-11S to 81. Republca
applause) The speaker and the tW
Democratic members of the rules cor
mittee voted in the negative. Mr.. Doc
cry gave notice that an aye and Ia
vote would b, demanded on the amen
ment when the bill was reported to Il
house.
In the senate MI PETER Pop, Kan
offered an amendment to transfer ire
ore to .the free list. Mr.. Brice den
Ohio, during the course of the deba
that followed. became involved for
brief space and immediately became Il
target for his political antagonists. NJ
Brice denied that there was any d
sension on his side or that the propos
duty of 4Oc on iron ore was a protecti'
duty. AS he understood it, he said,
was purely revenue duty. Mr.. PETER
amendment was lost to As. The ay
. were Allen, Hill Oem., N. ", Kyle al
PETER.
Washington, May 23.-The senate d
posed of several paragraphs of t
schedule to-day after eight hours of c
bate The debate was marked by qu
number of interesting clashes betwe
the Republicans and Democrats. 7
sensational feature of the day was caus
by the unexpected presentation by
Jones of an amendment substituting
Mckinley law classification and speci
rates on round iron in coils, blooms a
charcoal iron, somewhat higher tn
those already proposed. This amendme
was surprise to some senator's on be
sides, although evidently anticipated
Mr.. Quay and few other of his c