Show ain p ke lort of N 11 legis lature doings I 1 FIT SENATES WORK I 1 farthur discussion of the pension bill WEST GETS ON HIS EAV about insinuations against 1 I 1 prest cleveland HOUSE OF transacted by the reps interest iu inoes from the national capital B r wester a asad press to tir 2 STANDARD washinton wash news sate washington ii G feb 29 the bill to amend tile chinese restrict on act reported favorably by sherman from the committee on foreign relations the bill provides that the 1 or Is chinese nes pa ra shall be held to ilie 0 a rid mean any persons bi tile chinese race m without to tile government to Chines emay I 1 allegiance and without it hout regard to the port place or country from which lie or she may come to the united states the second ejection provides that all chincie Chi laborers woo departed from the united states be the of november 1880 and the ath of june 1882 having at the birne of departure tile right to re the United Stated und erthe of the treaty be terii the united states ind the lim pire of china blaring date ozember 1880 shall avail themselves of such right so secured and return to the united states within six months after the of this act evera chinese laborer so de ing fio fails to return to the states mathin said six months 6 hall be taken and deemed to ba v e wa ived his right to return under tile provisions of the treaty and shall forever thereafter he excluded from the united 8 ates section three reads 1 follows that the certificate provid e I bi y act of may 2 isa 2 to be deli red to Chivi epe departing from the U cited states for the lurix of identification on their return ninety da after t lie passage rit th is bat be bugs 4 tile secretary odthe treasury pha 11 from I 1 ime to time prescribe and the secre tary of the trea ury shall have power to make all needful yules and regulations to tl is entry the prevent states of an y chin 1 did to anjer by any a ct of congress and the acts of congress relating to the entry of chinese into the united are hereby amended so as to con arm with this act then resumed consider ati 0 n of the bill granting pensions to ex soldiers and sailors incapacitated for tile performance of manual labor and providing for pensions to ant I 1 relatives of deceased soldiers Fol diers an d sailors wilson of iowa moved tin amendment to insert tile cords from infirmities of ago so as to all ex soldiers suffering fro ies of age or from mental or physical in the delate del ate lace eloquent eur oxy an tile army velt said t hey heard a good deal about the a I 1 me hoube and veteran soldiers fit the state of missouri there were 10 r ederae soldiers in the alms house and lie was proud to say there were no confederates either the dutli today to day aras covered ith malmed and crippled soldiers who bad been bot s ande belled for their eions and they asked po pension and would not tak it god be blessed if they were not in the alms houses and none of them ever have been se n begging for bie ad whence then came ill c talk of federal sold le re I 1 n the alms houses they were not chete and he was tired and sick of insinuations of robbery and pretense anti hypocrisy in the name of true gallant soldiers of the juniou ile give every disabled or de pendent a aldier of I 1 be federal army and widows and orphans of those h 0 have lost their lives in ser vice and their last acre of land and last dollar lie othild ot ild have done the same for the soldiers if god bad blebel tile crupe why this talk that congress bai not done for the soldiers when the country had paid out since 1665 ei I 1 bundred and eighty three million dol I 1 ars for aen a liberality unbar a in the history of the wo r id gr eat military and political or 10 na and abo grand arpey id the republic had their lance into rebates of congress and sent bills to their accredited senators for the 01 be ing enacted men the purgie vr de nt of tb reunited states has bravely discharged file duty and ed an enactment 1 I ich improper be has been threatened by officers of that aati on with personal insult ir b e dared make his presence pre rence known in the city here it he id its annual meeting there was a linnit to human endur anc e ile vest had vatel for pen afons bills coerce d by ilia because he hail been a con ed federate erate an d because he lad been honestly anxious for the bonor and glory of his countr 1141 voted for them be caul L wanted to evidence to the world that the men with whom had acted in the u unfortunate to repper ted soldiers of the union and were 4 illing biye even more titan they demanded but there im a limit and I 1 have reached it enill d riven no flirt ber by abenti in the garb of soldiers for honest and real soldiery erp I 1 am wil ling to vote ally amount bi pension sherman from the committee on foreign relations reported a resola tio n as an amendment to the one offered by 6 tin g tile president in view of the difficulties embarrassment which havili at of chinese ere under the with china to bleg itlane a the emperor of C hilla g a provision that no chinese laborers elial enter tile united states laid over mitchell offered a resolution which was agreed to instructing the com an public lands to inquire into advisability othart anven or eight of a comak surrounding and in d I 1 mount hoods rt apart as a national biml k th e bill to provide jor compulsory education of indian children as amended by vest was passed it makes it the duty oi the secretary of ile interior to establish an industrial boarding school on indian er upon which acre inay be located adv indian tribe numbering or diore adult indians pupils are to be tau in the branches of useful labor n addition agu it studies in primary schools nothing in tile bill m to prevent the education of indian children in schools outside of reservations without t lie consent of their parents or guardians and no 1 ro visions of the to app ay to tile five civilized tribes nor to the indians of indian territory vet ment on to that of aion three hundred ear inen en frilled as soldiers during tho foury fare odthe war there sicre applications ir one million two hundred thus and for on account of disability such military execution biad never been known in tile history of the world who believed they ere honert applicants ajio believed I 1 hese jenwon bills had not degenero t ed into political cal alcuse chih cried aloud for redress he had great regard for many of his friends on tle side of the chamber and in osite I 1 words which be alad b had i hed to give an unit I 1 to some of them who had barked baick in the contest on the bill to throw his chini tig lance among the erate bi ballerd arid try it the republican nomination for president oell ir c u ed political candidates to become as thick as leaves in Val lambrosa the dwors of the republican party were now open and presidential candidates were timing to the front without limit as to quantity or licali the senate has been engaged ty to tame days past in a auction for 6 idlers votes I 1 ra cam his friend from nebraska mandeson Mand e backed by the G A it and lie vest had listened mith real gratification even that the senators s i t the ar aident of the united sta tes had not detracted from the gener at inerio of ilia bid for the soldier vote and A received a floral tribute as a token of regard from his admiring constituents lie had but ozie single suggestion to make and that was that lilies should hive been era broidered broi dered avor ahe portals of the white house when the senator fromi nebraska took bia seat he vest bad thought zi a bid was in his favor but the senator from maine frye had caught the eye of auctioneer a A R and bad gone one better that senator was prepared to vote a pension to evera mail ho had a day ili the army lie vest was about to knock down fryett bid to the senator from main ilia friend froin kansas plumb came to the front and frye by an amend aich bould increase the ex or seventy five million dollars e vest was then strong 1 of the that the prize shou 1 be glien tho senator from bafit then the senator from illino ls bad COMO to the fro nt and made a bid m aich had st his convictions ai to the p r 0 e I 1 of closing the eale since t ar t no lie had been in a condition of anxiety waiting to bear from other bidders in the great national alle rbell ate had not yet heard from his in leet tongued friend from iowa allison nor had the senate heard from the distinguished senator from ohio S e a n atio in such a contest M ht co I 1 yi come to the front and b d mellin for the vote hiah the dida thigh t was to deter mine the contest lN either had the senate yet heard from tho presiding officer I malls ito had been nomi bated by tile di brict of every one knew that the of columbia wily acted from tile m oat unselfish motives ile vest would rather have tile nomination from the district of columbia titan from adv state in the union emery on ei knew it tainie from the heart and never from the no man woman eket or in it le itrice had any other object than tile promotion of national lionor and prosperity so when he read in a democratic paper last suit day that the breading preA ding officer of the senate was the not ninee of the dle brict he said eureka I 1 re have the man 41 tart and tile question quee tion is finally settled in conclusion vest said partisan or nonpartisan non partisan my convictions me to vote against the bill and lepire ay here now that I 1 hope 1 it may to death in the other b r anch of the national con greas and if not here at the hand of the executive if that be make the moat of it teller replied to vet that if there was some little diversity of opinion among the republicans as to who was to be their standard bearers his demo cratic friends were not in that tion the republicans m ere not die by conflicting oplin tons and interests even if they had a large number of prominent men ho would anake good presidents but the demo cratic party was compol leil to admit that it had b ut one man was a suitable and available candidate platt here read an from Clev elands letter of acceptance acCe stance against the policy of a seco n I 1 erin anti intimated it must be a mistake to consider cleveland i candidate for no teller thap in g stat t e great party 1 ad lio other man abom it would dare tp put aiji nomination ile replied to some of debts regarding pensions and said it ra 1318 ith bad grace from the senator to at to castigate the republican side of tile chamber for its votes on ibis or an other bill also replied to vest the senator from missouri had nothing but molds af contempt and ridicule for the soldiers of the V tag senator was w to lie bad assumed ile had g I 1 arged the scotti of the debate not f or the specia purpose of ridiculing senators gup poseA to be candi dates but for the purpose of arguing against t the whole union soldiers whether disabled or after furtner debate the senate ad journea action 11 rob 29 iti com of the hole the bill authorize ing the secretary sere tary of the treasury to purchase bonds with burp I 1 us reveau 0 was considered 1 of asand A of ohio carried on the first of the do bate mckinley mak I 1 ng a ion g op e ech attacking president CI eve I 1 anti tu pal to apply the to the of bonds of iowa followed with an attack u the national banking tem h put in certain ba in ease sums of money and du 1 he present administration had been pro sided over bye of the tress I 1 udd jt ram of nt Z BarI barida dg of bif vif ond of vania participated in the debandt after which mccreary of kentucky offered tho following amendment wiloh wai accepted by If fills provided that the bonds so pur or redeemed shall constitute fund buttshall but shall be cancelled by the secretary of the treasury tile co mm attee then rose and the bill was passed the bill relating to postal crimean parsed the bill was passed dividing the state of minnesota into two collection districts and making st paul a port of enar y and st cincent n a sab port ea 0 lea of the I 1 ate congressman 3 t of chi ow ere then de ered Z n the nomination of major rathbone to be consul general at paris was today re committed to the committee on commerce chairman mille authorizes the statement that tile tariff bill will be laid before the full committee of w ay a and paeans at its session to morro ME delegation DF LEGATION NOTON feb 29 the delegation appointed by the cansas city oklahoma had a confer euc c 0 o day with the president upon tit ne io a involved in the spring bill ato pro ide a territorial government for and the public land strip |