Show 0 the labors of the house and senate I 1 RAILWAY TALK occupies the attention of the solons THE EVILS OF CANADA doing as she pleases in hallay w matters WHILE OUR ROADS are by legislation spoken of remedies Rem edles barlous notes by western As washington senate washington IN farch 15 plumb sent to the clerks desk and had read letter by a washington firm of pena sion claim agents to a baugas ex soldier that som 0 time ago they had written to him askin 0 O be allowed his pension y alm I 1 0 congress and bad not heard from him in reply eliat they were conversant with his claim and believed bei eved that if properly presented congress would not refuse a special I 1 on that their fee was 23 of ell 10 was payable in advance id vance that 80 special pension bills were by the last congress Con giess and a still larger n arber would probably be lapsed by contress Con Fress tha t this m aa tile eat time for presentation of cues to congress as tho country was on the evo af A presidential election and the parties and individuals were on their metal to make a record plumb expressed a belief that large amounts were being obtained through such tion although ii could render no service whatever not only would an attorney not be permitted to a r befaro the pension committee b art he could perform no useful service whatever ia connection with special pension cases etwas an outrage putting it mildly for men to be imposed ile asked lae pension committee take the letter and landmake senate so that such swindling of ex soldiers should not be continued after further discussion in bilitch dolph referred to a claim agents e nt which he had seen to tom 25 per cent odthe of tile direct tax to be refunded to a certain stated the letter was referred to tile committee on pensions the follow ing were among the bills reported and place d on the calendar to ratify and confirm the agreement with Gros ventre and other indians in montana fo r the forma t on and ad mission into the union of the states of washington and north dakota with minority reports the house 1411 for the purchase of certain swords of general james shields passed dolph offered a resolution which was laid over calling on the sec Y of the treasury for information as to the prohibition of the fur seal fisheries in the waters of alaska or the beehring sea beyond a marine league from the shore teller proceeded to address the senate on the subject of the dents message he said lie had no that the senators who had spoken on the presidents side of t he question had shown a dispose tion to avoid the real assue presented by the president and had attempted to ma it appear tha t the messa go was not of a character hichi everybody outside of official circles at home and abroad had declared it to be I 1 would not do for friends of the ad ministration to assert affat this was an attempt on the part of the president and his friends to modify revise or correct tariff no such intent could be gathered from his message mek sage it bad been received every where as an attack not on tha defective tariff pot to remedy inconsistencies but ta de btroy the protective system the president himself bad spoke of that system as vicious ii equitable a and illogical ilia secretary of the treasa had spoken of it as a brutal meth W defenders oi the message had spoken in terms of opprobrium contempt and detestation deto station not of t tariff or of ats inconsistencies or incon rull it le a but of the protective system ft was therefore understood outside of the senate ch limber to bean on a system which protected american labor and american manufacturers against competition with foreign labor and foreign capital it had been stated by the senator from jeorgia colquitt that the democratic par t y had always been a free trade par ty lie denied that gerrge N bad be pa 4 protective tariff man but he knew that his democratic friends did not care much for that because they did not regard george washington as leaving had correct views of fundamental principles of government overn ment franklin hamilton 1 efferson ison and monroe protective tariff men in fact there never had feea a democrat president ant il grover cleveland who had not at some of ilia political history been an 0 p e advocate of a protective tariff fri tl in 0 national democratic platform of 1872 lien the democrats n nominated omina ted the most active progressive protective tariff man on the continent Greeley 4 was stated billat illat a p tariq wap q to be left to the districts without any from the executive in 1870 whon the democrats nominated tilden the party had declared itself for the firs t time in history in favor of a for revenue only which was with frea trade I 1 U impossible for one to say va hat the AN io pta 0 ani intended to say on the subject in nobody aup posed that the party in ila forra intended to announce the diat oc trine of free trade could ss that it attacker attack eI the doctrine of protection prote clion nobody have supposed that the executive elected on that platform would ever have delivered tho measure which clr cleveland sent to congress last december De cembor when 25 years of american history were man was guati flea 8 pea anz a system of political ece nony chith bal an ra iniquitous or brutal rae thad the american people had progressed faster than any op h 0 in the world lot the who talked about free trade point to him any ba tion that had accumulated money as this had in what other country was labor so well paid so much respected what other had en d I 1 such enter moo did the me h tors on the other side want english methods to be adopted in this country ile was not ashamed to point to the at suits of 27 years of experiment under th 0 pr 0 te avei system to show that it n I 1 her vicious illogical or iniquitous but that it had baroug h to the people of this country a a content and a viory which no other system bad rought upon any othe A axt refer the message went 0 ver w phout action the of the house on the of the death of representative were presented to the senate palmer offered resolutions expressive of the deep sensibility felt by the ben ate in the announcement of the death of mr and tendering to the family and re atiles of the deceased assurance ass of its sympathy eulogies on the character of sir Sl wore delivered by senators palmer paddock and stockbridge tito reso lucions mero and the senate adjourned ROME march 14 thomas of rising to a question of e sent to the clerks desk and gravile ad re gd an article I 1 n tile new york sun relative rela tire to the pending railroad legislation the article states while doubt nj the krutil of the claim that a major beddington ington proprietor of a bucket shop ain washington claimed hat be controlled such anti konopol members as weaver of ioa io A ra allen of anderson of indiana and thomas of thomas declared lie did riot know reddington and had be ver had any communication alth him be was not interested in stoka and the vt hole matter so far as lie was concerned was an abao bitite falsehood false hoo and ile ile ad the men who were pro 7 ling arlund corridors interested in land grant legislation as hobbyists lobbyists hadla t alred tile article on these land grant grabbers these pacific railroad inert mho had taken from the treasury under false pretenses pretences and acres of land m ere see king now to slander and besmear the char acter of every man who stands up for tile of the people allen of mississippi remarked that the only time lie had heard of reddington was gome two years afo ben lie learned that some pacific railroad people were interested id gettin samo man out of the of commissioner of railroads ile had afterwards met a man who talked flippantly about pacific railroads and w biorn to presume to reddington h ro gramme seemed toma koa disreputable character of this man lie ington and then to associate ith him everybody who ed any sort of oi position to such legislation as might be desired by tile pacific railroad nies the er that ed or in that lie allen had ever bad any connection with bucket abols or stock jobbers in any way was well if ever the idea should prevail i ring newspapers to publish the truth and only the truth that news paper would have to 90 out of busi bess white of new york offered a resolution requesting the poat mabler general to inform the house what in if any by circular letter or otherwise have ben given to dubor donates with regard to mail mat ter rei calved from canada n bach Is in t ended to prohibit american citizens from using tile united states mail on the same terms aith citizens of the 10 minion of canada living in the same vicinity and competing in the same branches of business referred the bouso then went into committee 0 f the nicole for the consideration of tile senata amendments amend menti to the urgency deficiency bill the amendment appropriating from the pay 0 assistant ati and janitors of public buildings and for the of its many persons dis cliar sred since february rebr uary lat as may be emary was agreed to rho amendment striking out the clause di erecting the public printer to rigidly enforce the eight hour law was non concurred in and the committee rose and chii lien adjourned commercial washington llarch 15 representative hitts bill to promote commercial union with canada which was unanimously ordered to be reported favorably today to day provides that whenever canada declares a desire to establish a commercial union bavi g a uniform revenue system like intern I 1 taxes to be collected and like import upon articles from other na tion no duties upon trade between tile united states and canada the president shall appoint three comar missioners ners to meet a aemil como mission from calad and lepare a plan for the laef on of import and in revenue taxes of two countries and an equitable di valon of receipts in a commercial 11 al the supervising architect of the treasury suggests Fugg ests that congress appropriate tion and repair af public buildings at san RAILWAY ANTS I 1 alarca 15 although the committee on public lands directed the preparation of the general bill forfeiting railroad land grants the whole subject was open e d up freall today to day by the action of the bill ifor com plate forfeiture of grant to the alast inge dakota railroad company tile tation of bhoge reports occa discussion from in bich it ap feared that there was a banding on the part of members of gilb pur poBo of ilia rego lulion adopted at the last Aie eting of the committee with A view to clearing this and re flollie the sentiment of the committe stone of offered the fol loing resolutions that the committee adopt a declaring a forfeiture of the entire grant where the I 1 were not completed in cont a ct time herman moved ra an it that the northern pacific be excepted from I 1 lie operation of tho rule and at gued that tile committee should report ohp hills forfeiting the granted lands parts of the roads titus we subject was car raud back to the pos which it oo 00 copied before the pre coiling meeting and an attempt was enado to vote an it the motion went over till the next meeting alaska and canada ottaway bearch 15 sir john macdonald stated in the house of commons today to day ill at negotiations are in progress between tile of the united States Great britain and securing bya joint action an early location and do lineation linia tion of tile boundary between alaska and canada i I 1 I 1 |