Show FORTYEIGHTH CONGRESS SENATE Washington 2SThe House bill was reported favoraoly granting a pension to the Widow of jJentia J as tJ Sreadmao calendar The general deficiency bill w8 then taken up The proviso that BO part of the money appropriated for diarlet at torneya and ther issietant should be paid On motion of Sherman an item of 66950 was added to enable the Sic retary cf the Treasury to reimburse reim-burse amount pvd for expenses of the commis ion appointed to Louisiana Louis-iana in 1877 An item was added authorizing the AttorneyGeneral to pay Charles H Reed fcr services as CDunsel for the late Charles J Gui teau such sum as ce may deem Just The bill tben passed and the river and harbor bill was taken up On reaching the Senate the com mitte proposed an amendment appropriating ap-propriating S25 000 for the improvement improve-ment 01 Coos River Oregon Slater aided by Dolph succeeded in getting the Senate to add 65000 to the amount allowed by the committee com-mittee After executive session the Senate Sen-ate adjourned HOUSE Washington 28The Senate amendments tc the legislative bIll were nonconcurred in The speake stated that the regular regu-lar order was the question of privilege privi-lege coming over from yesterday and presented by the resolution offered of-fered by Cannon that the record be so amended aa to sho that the spetco purporting to have been delivered de-livered by McAdoo in which allu eion is msde to Senator Lojjan was not actually delivered by him Cox of New York al ter deprecating depre-cating the practice of printing long esaays in the Record says the present pre-sent dispute arose from the publication publi-cation in the Record of a newspaper article stating that Senator Logan owned 80000 acres of lands It has not been charged that he came by them wrongfully He COg did not know that Logan was a dishonest dis-honest man what was the object of this discussion today except to prevent an adjournment In oder to put an end to the discussion he moved to lay the whole matter on I the table Cries of good and vote The motion was agreed to without discussion Horr from the committee on ap propriations reported the fortification fortifica-tion appropriation bill Committee of the H hole Randall on behalf of the minority of the committee submitted a substitute sub-stitute therefor Same reference The House then went into committee com-mittee of the whole Springer in the chair on business reported from the committee on labor Tbe first bill considered was one providing for the adjustment of the accounts cf Gcvernment laborers workmen and mechanics arising under the eight hour law Leviberg in supporting the bill said Every man who had been forced to work for government ten hours for a days wages since the passage of the eight hour law had been defrauded of his legal rights Tillmsn S C opposed the bill He characterzEd it as a claim agents bill and declaring it would permit another raid of 30000000 upon the Treasury and not only permit a raid but create an aristocracy aris-tocracy of labor Had not government govern-ment enough patronage already It had caused the murder of one Pres ident and unless civil service reform were carried out it might cause the murder of another The bill would demoralize all private labor in the neighborhood where government had any work going on The great mass of peope dlu not want this law It was only wanted by some claim agents and docrrJnaires who were too lazy to work and thought the world owed them a living The first flection of fbp hill rc A amended fco as to read as follows That whoever rss a laborer vrotk man or mechanic Is hereafter employed em-ployed by or in behalf of the government gov-ernment of the United States he shall be paid for each eight hours he has been employed as for a full days work The second section was amended to correspond with the sec ton so as to apply merely to the future I The committee rose and the House i adjourned |