The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1896-04-16
THB NATIONAL
CONGRESS.
Some Record Of What the PEG.
pies Representatives Are
Trying to Do.
SUBSIDY GRABBERS WIN

SUBSIDY GRADERS VIM
Discussion On Government
Postal sysssm-It Is useo.ssitssies.i
To Operate II BY Psivsts Corporations
senator Butisr Secures sd. 900 FOR
Free Mail Delivery Experiments In The
Country.
MONDAY, APRIL 6rH SENATE.
Eight pension bills were introduced.
Mr.. PKITCHAgD presented the memo
rial OF Marcus Mason and Sundry 9TH
er citizens of Beaufort, \. c., remon-
strating against the enactment OF leg
islation abolishing compulsory pilot
age; which was referred TO the Com
mittee on Commerce.
This is the day on which the concur
rent resolutions recognizing Cuba
were passed.
Mr.. BUTLER. l ask unanimous con-
sent for the consideration at this time
of the joint resolution donating q
cannon and some shells to
the GuilfOrd Battle Ground Company,
uc0E uIcCucUUEO, N. ~.
The joint resolution was reported to
the Senate without amendment, Or
deFed to be engrOssed for third read
ing, read the third time and passed.
A number of pension bills were
passed.
Fourteen pension bills were intro
duced.
The Cuban resolutions were passed
by a vote of 246 to ~.
At the request of Mr.. Hill the fol-
lowing letter was read:
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF
AGRICULTURE, OFFICE OF
THE SECRETARY,
Washington, ID. C., april 6, '91.
SIR: Complying with your request,
and what seems to be the almost unan-
imousl desire::of the House of Represent
atives, l have telegraphed Landreth &
Sons that their proposition to put the
seeds into packages of 5 instead of Is
packets (making 2,025, 900 packages in
stead of 675,OOO) for $1,000 extra com
pensation has been accepted, and the
seeds will SO be done up.
Respectfully, yours,
J.STKRLING MORTON, Secretary.
Hon. j. w. WADswORTH,
Chairman Committee on Agriculture
House of Representatives..
Mr.. SHUFoRD offered bill to pre-
vent discrimination between various
kinds of legal tender money.
The river and harbor APPROPRIATION
bill was warmly discussed for short
while and passed by vote of 2O6 to 40
Tho hill TO
and appropriations to $62 100000.
Items appropriated to North Caro-
lima are as follows:
600.
Improving inland waterway between
Beaufort Harbor and New River; con.
tinuing improvement, 81, ZOO.
Improving Cape Fear River, above
Wilmington; continuing improve.
ment, 81 900.
Improving Cape Fear River, at and
below Wilmington continuing i'm.
provement, 100000.
| Improving Neuse River; continuing
improvement, $4,000.
| Improving Pamlico and Tar rivers
continuing improvement and main
tanning, $4,000.
| 14CuU h1NcIs
Improvement, $4,000.
Improving Black River; for main.
tenance, 81 600.
The Secretary of War is instructed
to make preliminary examinations Of
the following locations in this State
Cape Lookout harbor or refuge.
For a jetty near Bogue Inlet, to re
move sand bar.
TUESDAY, APRIL 7-sENATE.
| Six pension bills introduced.
| Mr.. PRITCHARD presented the petit
ton of w. II. Chadbourn and Other
members of the Chamber of Commerce,
of Wilmington, N. c., praying for tn,
establishment of an army post ada
cent to that city.
Mr.. BUTLER. Introduce Joint res
OlutiOn and ask that it be read at len gtl
for information.
The resolution was read as follows
ResOlued by the Senate, etc., That thu
following amendment to the COnstitu
ton of the United States be proposed
to the legislatures of the several States
which, when, ratified by three-fourth
OF said legislatures, shall become ant
be a part Of the Constitution, and shall
be known as the sixteenth amend
ment:
That every bill which shall hav,
passed the House of Representative
and the Senate shall, before it become
a law, be presented to the President O
the United States. If he approves, b,
shall sign it but if not he shall return
it with his objection to the House il
which it shall have originated, VIII,
shall enter the objections at large OF
their Journal and proceed to reconside
it. If, after such reconsideration,
ma Ority of that House shall agree t,
pass the bill, it shall be sent togethe
with the objections, to the other House
by which it shall likewise be reconsid
cred, and if approved by majority o
that House it shall become law.
Il Every order, resolution, or vote, t.
which the concurrence of the House O
! Representatives and Senate may b
necessary Except on question of ad
jOurnment) shall be presented to tn
President of the United States, and be
fore the same shall take effect shall b
: approved by him; or being disapprov
I ed by him, may be repassed by a ma
; jority of the Senate and HOnse of Rep
resentatives according to the rules an
Limitations prescribed in the case of
bill.
l Mr.. BUTLER. Mr.. President, 1 shout
like to be permitted to explain tn
ONT resolution in few words.
Thls amendment keeps the WOrdin,
Of the Constitution and the machiner
with reference to the veto power Jus
as it is now. 1t will be noticed Iha
the only change it makes in the Con
stitution is by changing the word
"twO-thirds" to "a majority"
Nearly every evil that this Govern
ment is suffering from to-day ha
come about not from defects in til
Constitution, Mr.. President, but, if
may say it, by disregard or deliber
ate misinterpretation or an interpret
ing awaV of the Constitution no II mo