The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1896-05-27

Doings I'm the Senate and House Of Repre-
seutatiVea.

sentatives-
WASHINGTON, May 2l.-The senate
passed the Notifications bill yesterday,
after defeating a proposition by German
20 authorize the president and secretary OF
the treasury 70 issue 500. OOO,OOO per cent.
certificates 70 make up for any deficiency
~ too. A bill was passed providing
that ex-Confederates who entered the
Union service later and served ninety
DAYS therein shall not be debarred from
pensions because of their service with the
rebels.
The house passed the Bartholdi- Mccall
Immigration bill-lg5 TO 26-made more
stringent by the addition of the Corliss
bill. which latter puts head tax on Cana
dams coming here TO work awhile still Nv
ling In Canada. The whole measure also
requires European immigrants TO be able
TO read and write some language. An or
der was passed giving tomorrow TO the
committee on labor
WASHINGTON, May 22.-There was an
acrimonious discussion in the senate be-
tween Hill and Allen in which Hill
charged Allen with falsehood, over the
taking up of the Butler bill prohibiting
furt her issues of bonds, which was defeat
ed by filibustering. Previous to this the
time was taken up with conference reports,
but little was accomplished.
The house passed over the presidents
veto the bill giving pension to r. +.
Hoover-l96 to 47-and put in some time
on conference reports. The bill to author
ize the president to appoint labor coma
mission of four, equally divided between
labor, capital and agriculture, to consider
tah or rob
eral debate closed.
WASHINGTON, May 23.-The bill to pro-
hibit the issue of bonds is now before the
senate, with the prospect of a final vote on
it next Monday. The obstruction to the
measure was withdrawn yesterday, and by
the decisive vote of 81 to 20 the senate
adopted the motion of Butler, author of
the bill, TO proceed with it. The debate
on this took up nearly the whole session,
and no other business except conference
reports was attended to.
The house got into a hot debate over a
conference report on the river and harbor
bill, which was vigorously denounced by
Hepburn and Dockery. The labor COM
mission bill was forgotten and goes over
TO next week. At the night session twelve
private pension bills were favorably acted
upon.
Both houses accepted partial reports on
the river and harbor bill and other bills in
conference, the reports showing that the
conferences are gradually coming to-
gether.
WASHINGTON, May 25.-The day in the
senate was consumed by the filled cheese
bill and the second installment Of the
speech by Allen on the Butler bill to pro-
hibt the issue of bonds without the au-
thority of congress. Amendments to the
''filled cheese" bill to raise revenue were
offered, but all failed by votes that were in
no case strictly partisan. One by Mills to
impose per cent internal revenue tax
on all products in excess of $4,000 per an
mum from establishments manufacturing
iron, steel, copper. nickel, brass, lead,
zinc, cotton, wool, hemp silk or flax was
laid on the table by vote of AZ to 10
Amendments by Allen for an additional
internal revenue tax of 81 a barrel on beer
ale and porter, and by Gray for an import
duty of 10 cents pound on tea were lost
by votes of 80 to % and 81 TO ~ respective
ly. The filled cheese bill was then
obliged to give way to the bond bill, and
Allen made silver speech. Because Sec
rotary Carlisles speech at Chicago had
been printed as a public document author
ity was given to print Governor Altgeld's
reply to the same.
The house and senate both agreed ON
the river and harbor and executive, legis-
lative and judicial bills. The house in
sisted on cutting off appropriations for sec
tartan schools in the Indian bill-l54 TO %.
Howard pop of Alabama offered a reso-
luton impeaching President Cleveland
on eleven counts, and it was voted down
almost unanimously.