Show LATEST TELEGRAMS FORTYSEVESTfl CONGRESS REGULAR SESSION T EN ATE i Washington 16Vest presented a petition tor the establishment of competitive examinations for all subordinate offices under government govern-ment Logan introduced a bill to pay Mrs Lincoln arrears of pension for five years from the death of her hus band and the passage of the act granting her a pension He estimated esti-mated the amount at 15000 and asked immediate consideration If Blair said the pension committee was perfecting a more comprehensive comprehen-sive bill which would include this case and that of Mrs Garfield On his suggestion the bill was referred to that committee Beck asked whether a single sena tor who voted for it believed the law would cost onetenth what it had cost IngallsI would have voted for it if it had cost 6500000000 I will today to-day vote to allow any claim of a soldier that is established to runback run-back to the time his disability was incurred whether it costs 500000 000 or a billion dollars The discussion dis-cussion closed for the present rue bill introduced by Cockrell to amend the homestead and preemp tion laws by requiring claimants for agricultural entries before final proof is issued to submit and file with a register of the land office notices of intention to make nroof and directing such notices to be posted in the registers office thirty days Cameron of Pennsylvania delivered deliv-ered a twenty minutes speech upon the general subject of taxation internal in-ternal and external He opposed material changes in the tariff As to the pension arrears act he believed be-lieved it ought never to be repealed and never could be Its effect was simply to prevent government pleading the statute of limitations I against its former defenders The House census deficiency bill making appropriations of 540000 passed Applications for increased compensation by superintendents are not coverer by the bill The Sherman funding bill after statements will not be voted until tomorrow and Plumb > and others desiring to offer amendments were absent it was laid over informally The Senate then took up Ingalls resolution declaring that the arrears of pension act ought not to be repealed re-pealed Yooihees in SUPOIt of the resolution reso-lution said denunciations of the act by the press of the country and particularly by prominent organs of all kinds of corporations of wealth were made without the slightest basis for their support or j ustific tion A repetition of these denunciations denuncia-tions by a member of the Senate has filled him with amazement and pain If Beck should make good his allegations against the pension arrears act its supporters would have cause to hang their heads in shame but he Voorheos claimed that it was the work of justice on the part of government dictated by duty and patriotism He then read the terms of the act to show that its meaning was not obscure or liable to misconstruction and that its designJ was simply to remove that mean defense to the payment of the honest debt namely i the bar or statute of limitation as to pensions allowed under the carefully care-fully prepared provisions of the pensiQn act It merely said that if a soldier broken with disease and wounds had been slow in presenting his claim and had allowed the five years limit to pass without doing so he would still be permitted to prove his injuries in-juries and receive his pension from the time hefwas discharged from the army on that account He made along a-long and strong argument for the act its wisdom and justice Beck said both houses in passing outhad been imposed on by claimants Had the scope of the bill been known it would have received no support It was believed that it would cost only 81000000J or 20000000 the highest high-est estimate had been 630000000 and it was rushed through and passed under a suspension of rules while members were going home on the evening of the 11th Nobody No-body understood it Ingalls sarcastically objected to Becks st itement and logic HOUSE e Washington 16Robeson immediately im-mediately after the reading of the journal called up as a privileged question the report from the committee com-mittee on rules submitted by him on Thursday increasing the membership mem-bership of various commit tees A point of order was raised by Townsend and Burrows that the call of states for bills could not be interfered with The Speaker overruled the point of order holding that a privileged question took precedence of the call of states Burrows raised the question of consideration and the House decided de-cided not to consider the question of privilege Under the call of states the following fol-lowing bills were introduced and referred I By Wheeler Alabama to prevent the introduction of infectious and contagious diseases also to aid in the establishment of support sup-port of common schools By Tarwell of Illinois to repeal the law imposing a tax on bank cap ital and deposits and also repealing the tax en bank stamps and matches By Payson to define the crime of bigamy and punish offenders By Rosecrans to extend the time for making payment and proof on desert land entries By Belford restoring to the public I pub-lic domain and opening to settlement settle-ment lands in Colorado lately occupied occu-pied by the Uncomphagre tribe of Vhite Rive Utes By Hazleton directing the secretary secre-tary to issue fractional currency in sums of ten twentyfive and fifty cents sixty millions of each to be exchangeable in lots of 10 or upwards up-wards for coin and legal tenders This currency shall not be designated desig-nated as notes or promises to pay By Calkins to provide for the registration of electors Utah By McLain for a judicial com mittee for the ascertainment of claims against the United States also for making the terms of oboe of Presidential electors four years and giving them power to act incase in-case of death or disability of the President or VicePresident By Thompson providing that the tax on distilled spirits shall hereafter here-after be only due and payable on the withdrawal of such spirits from bond By Hoar to provide for a postal card with a flexible cover to conceal the message By Willets to make the wife a competent witness in trials for bigamy i big-amy in the territories By Burrows to retire national bank notes By Ford for the payment of bounties boun-ties to the heirs of colored troops serving in the late war also to establish es-tablish postal telegraph lines in the United States By Houk granting pensions to civil officers injured in the service of the United States or to their widows and children By Upson providing for a treaty with Mexico By Hazelton to declare certain lands heretofore granted the Pacific Railway Company forfeited to the United States and to restore the same to the public domain Referred Re-ferred Garrison on behalf of the committee com-mittee on the District of Columbia moved to pass the bill incorporating the Garfield Memorial Hospital Half an hours debate disclosed some objection 10 the measure on the ground that there were already enough hospitals in the district for all practical purposes and that the incorporation of another would have the effect of bringing to the district 1 ersons from adjacent states who should be taken care of in various vari-ous state institutions and that there was nothing in the bill which would prevent the incorporators from applying ap-plying to government for assistance The motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill was defeated yeas 140 nays S6not the necessary two thirds affirmative |