Show I t I I LATES3P TIRifs I I XLYII CONGRESS REGULAR SESSION SENATE Washington 6Slater introduced a bill prohibiting and making a misdemeanor solicitation by any executive officer clerk or employee of the United States not the head I of a department of money property or other thing of value and giving or receiving the same for political purposes or party interests The penalty imposed is a line of SSOo and the loss of office Referred to the civil service committee Senator Grover favorably resented re-sented a bill from the committee on military affairs to turn over to the interior department certain parts of Camp Douglas military reservation in Utah Placed on the calendar By Rollins a joint resolution for a commission on the revival of international in-ternational commerce in the United States in steamships suitable for naval purposes The ships must be built in the United States of iron and steel and owned by American citizens The commissioners will also inquire into the subject of compensation I com-pensation for carrying malls Re ferred Davis of West Virginia offered a I resolution and it was adopted requesting re-questing committee on postoffices to report upon the propriety of reducing re-ducing the rate of postage on letters to two cents and on newspapers and other printed matter to half the present rates also increasing the rate on merchandise authorized to be sent through the mail The army appropriation bill was again considered the question being be-ing upon the compulsory feature of the retirement clause Williams opposed compulsory retirement re-tirement except for cause A motion by Maxey to except Gen Sherman from the operations of the clause was amended on motion mo-tion of Hall by adding thereto Gen Sheridan 29 to 34 The motion as amended was negatived to 33 The clause was agreed to without a formal vote The remaining committee com-mittee amendments were agreed to except the one striking out the ap Dropriation for ammunition tools etc tor target practice The total of the item as passed by the House was 8100000 Hawley moved to allot 10000 for that Purpose Agreed to Logan moved the insertion of an itemappropriating 15000 forthe erection of an army and navy hospital hos-pital on the government reservation at Hot Springs Ark Adopted Plumb offered ani advocated an amendment authorizing the enlistment enlist-ment of 1000 men for frontier service ser-vice in emergency Ruled out as involving in-volving general legislation on an appropriation bill The previous discussion upon excepting ex-cepting General Sherman from compulsory retirement flrasjreviYed on the renewal of the former motion mo-tion by Davis of West Virginia and by Hale to except General Sheridanthe latter motion prevailed yeas 29 nays 22 party vote except that Fair Cockerell and Butler voted aye with the republicans The whole subject was then tabled yeas 34 nays 18 and the bill passed 42 to 11 I 11Hale Hale submitted an amendment intended to by inserted in the proI posed bill for the admission of Dakota Da-kota It provides for the speedy and efficient collection of all municipal muni-cipal debts or liabilities within the limits of the proposed state Referred Re-ferred Adjourned HOUSE Washington 6The report of the committee on ways and means was submitted on the resolution offered by White in relation to the passage of the bill extending the bonded period for distilled spirits Ordered printed White rising to a question of privilege again attacked the committee com-mittee of ways and means for their i action on the bonded spirits bill He claimed that they had whitewashed themselves and an official of the treasury He particularly attacked Kelly who responded goodna turedlv and the matter was dropped when the Speaker called them to order I At 1240 the House went into a committee of the whole Updegraff of Iowa in the chair on the general deficiency bill which was read by sections for amendment A report was submitted upon the contested election case of Wether spoon vs Davidson of Florida Granting the contestant leave to withdraw thecontest Tabled A bill was reported to suspexd the issue of silver certificates and limit the coinage of silver dollars to the requirements re-quirements of the people Calendar Page reported back the river and harbor appropriation bill Committee Com-mittee of whole A reportwas submitted upon the North Pacific Railroad land grants I Tabled The report states that the committee can conceive of no legislation legis-lation which would hasten the completion of the road and therefore there-fore the bill reported compelling the Kfiesas Pacific Railroad i Rail-road Company to pay the cost of surveying selecting and conveying 0 I i 4 m J I 2 T 1 tu > certain lands granted to 4t and r I creating a sinking fund for athe t J Kansas Pacific7 Sioux City and j I Pacific and Central branch oJheP Union Pacific railroads House 4 calender Ii Mr McCook of New York called i 4f attention to the clause appropriate I ing 832328 to meet the liabilities incurred in-curred by the Yorktown centennial 1 Commission lIe said he would likes I 1 to have some explanation of the cause of so large a deficiency I t Holman Indiana raised a Bpintr i of order against the clause Overruled Over-ruled by the Chair I Cobb of Indiana ODnosed the ariP 1 propriation and sent to the clerks J desk to have read a bill for wine T Ii I tit etc used in entertaining French guests The total amount of the j bill is Su j9 including an item of t 1 130 cases of champagne 3900 one L of sixtyeight gallons of whisky one of twentytwo dozen sherry fifteen I u 1 gallons of brandy 1830 and 260 I 1 worth of cigars fc Itll I Dingley of Maine read a dispatch 1 I charging that on the boat upon which the guests had been taken to I Yorktown the bar had been kep mt I f running free to air j I II Tucker of VirginiaIf we let the I p I Frenchman drink alone without ffF I drinking his health we would be I blackgnards and not gentlemen I I Laughter and applause Iii Robinson of New YorkThe celebration 1 cel-ebration was turned into a British f 1 f j saturnalia and the flag we thought buried from memory in the time of 1 Cornwallis was dug up and put in1 the place in which the Americau H flag ought to have waived and to do that government was run in debt v II I S33000 f J After some further debate in which it was disclosed the bill had I 1 In i I already been paid Cobb moved to f I strike out tile clause Rejected After considering four of the i t I sixtythree pages of the bill the f committee rose f Kasson of Iowa offered resolutions h Ii resolu-tions declaring that Congress in i i i i connection with the people of the I r i i United States have received with I U profound grief the tidings of the I j recent death of the Italian patriot I General Garibaldi expressing high I I I I appreciation of his loyalty and unselfish un-selfish patriotism his love of human Ii 1 I right and his devotion to principles and avowing the sympathy of the it I United States with the theJ nation which has been thus bereaved r if f I be-reaved and requesting the President to cause a copy of these resolutionsu I I to be communicated to the government I J Ii govern-ment of Italy were adopted unanimously I 1 I unani-mously r The committee on territories reported r i re-ported back without recommendation I t recommenda-tion the petition of M D Ball 1 I f asking admission as delegate frdm Alaska Laid on the table for il future action I J i j f J |