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Show NKA'ATE. The Tariff IJIU-A Quesilou ori'rlv llre !, The Jlortsr. WAsinscrroN, July 31. In lbs Senate Frje staled that the River and Harbor bill would be taken up next Friday. The .conference report on the District cf Columbia bill was agreed to. Teller repotted a bill authorizing the Court of Claims to take jurisdiction juris-diction of the. William McGarrahan claim to the ranch l'enoche, California, Cali-fornia, riaced ou the Calendar. The Tariff bill was. then taken uji. and Mcl'hersou fso-cd to tnake tho rate on extracts of licorice four nts a jiound, tho amendment of the Finance Committee being to resluce it from six to five cents. Tlie usual jolitlcal discussion followed, in tho course of which Aldrich said the Mills bill originally proposed a duty of four cents on licorice paste, but when it was found the men engaged in that business were democrats, the rate was li.-cre-ascd to five cents. Vest denied this statement. Mcl'herson's motion was finally rejected by the usual party vote, and the committee amendment was azeed to. Mcl'henon wanted the duty on 1 ca-tur oil red uced from 50 to C5 cents jier gallon, but Plumb, asked that it Lei increased to SO cents ,llu present duty, aud this was agreed to. The juragrajili relating to opium ' was amended a-, recommended by the II nance committee, to make it read $13, Instead of $12 juriouud. Md'heram continued to ofTer amendments to several other r-sgrapli;, r-sgrapli;, but all w eto voted down. Some other committee amendments w t re agreed to, and four joges of the bill b iving been disposed of, the Senate adjourned. House. VasiiintuN, July 31. Dates of Alabama, rising to a point cf riv-liege, riv-liege, otic-red a resolution for an Investigation In-vestigation of the charges or cor-rui'titm cor-rui'titm pralntt mt'tbers of the House contaitied lu the IVaUona! AcuNomis. After some discussion, the Sjieak-er Sjieak-er ruled the re-oltition not a jiriv-ileged jiriv-ileged one. I ii doing fa ho said the editorial was of the vaguest character. charac-ter. It inado no assertion excejit by reference. It made no statement ujwn which anjliody could lie ex-jiecteil ex-jiecteil to predicate a belief or a conviction. It was within the knowledge of every member that paragraphs of this character were Hating around in tho newspapers f the lountry. The Hou;e can see the inconvenience which would result to the lajslness of the House if any mi ruber l:-d 3 ight on the 1-rcnluetion of a jiarsgraj-li !M tin", to demand an iuvesligatiu't. The ilou-e s-istalueJ the dec-siull of the chair, sn m.;al havlnc lieen taken by Oetes yeas J II iys 7"i. '1 he HoUic then went into com-iniUee com-iniUee of the whole on the rseiiate amviMlnie-nt to the siindrv civil bill. The Senate irrigation amendment was finally r.on-coucurred in. The committee then rose, and the House adjourned without dlrjwsingof the bill. |
