Congress Adjourns

Washington, Oct 18. - In the Senatfl yesterday Senator Teller (Col.) spoke in favor of the Tariff bill and Senator Morgan (Ala.) spoke against it. Seuator Allison (Ia.) offered a resolution providing for a reces9 of Congress from Saturday, the 20th inst, to November 19, but no action was taken. Washington, Oct. 19. - A resolution was adopted in the Senate yesterday for final adjournment on the 20th. A reaolution was offered Vj inquire into the report that the Secretary of the Interior h,.ct purchased wagons for the Indian service that were manufactured with püison labor, aud that the Secretary of War had bought English blanketa at a savingof thirty cents apiece. The tariff bill was further discussed. i Washington, Oct. 20.- In the Senate yesterday the resolution in relat;on to the purchase by the Government of prisonmade goods was withdrawn. The resolution authorizing the Fmanee Committee to continue its hearings on the Tariff bill was adopted. The Committee on Indian Affairs was authorized to continue during the recess. Washington, Oct. 33.- The first session of the Fiftieth Congress, the longest in almost a hundred years, carne to an end at 1 o'clock on Saturday. In the Senate the last bill of the session to be introduced was one by Mr. Mitchell proposing an amend ment to the constitution providing for the election of United States Senators by the people. Referred. A resolution tendering the thanks of the Senate to Mr. Ingalls for the " uniformly able, cour. teous and impartial manner in which he had presided," was offered by Mr. Saulsbury and adopted unanimously. Mr. Ingalls then made a few farewell remarks, af ter which he declared the Senate adjourned fine die. THB HOUSB. Washington, Oct. 18. - In the House yesterday thirteen pension veto messages were received from the President. A resolution was offered and referred to the Ways and Means Committee providing for final adjournment on October 30. Washington, Oct. 19.- In the Houso yesterday the Senate resolution for final adjournment on the 20th was adopted. The Senate and House Tariff bilis were discussed. Washington, Oct. 20.- In the House yesterday nothing of importance was done. Washington, Oct. 32.- In the House Saturday a resolution was adopted thanking Speaker Carlisle lor the uniform courtesy, ability and lairness with which. he has presided over the deliberations of the first session of the Fiftieth Congress, after which the Speaker declared the House adjourned ine die. OTHKB NOTES. Washington, Oct. 22.- The President has approved the acts changing ttie time for the meeting of the eleetors of Presiient and Vice-President, and the act making an appropriation for the enforcement of the Chinese Kxclusion law. Washington, Oct 22.- The Sioux In dians left Saturday for home, having failed to agree upon a treaty with the Government. Washington, Oct. 22.- General Greely, Chief Signal Officer, in his annual report, says the percentage of successful weather prediction8 for the year were: For weather, 78.4; wind, 75.5; temperature, 74.2; a general average of 7Ö.7. The number of cold-wave signáis displayed was 1,743, of which 1,240, or71.5 per cent., were verified. Washington, Oct. 33. - The annual report of W. L. Bancroft, General Superintendent of the railway mail service, shows that on June 30, 18S8, the service was in operation on 143,713 miles of railroad, and on forty-one inland steamboat lines, aggregating 5,971 miles. During the year 12,764 miles of new railroad service have been added. The total number of clerks in the service was 5,094. During the year 6,545,876,303 pieces of all classes of mail matter were handled and 1,657,781 errors checked. The casual - ties during the year included 248 accidents to trains upon which postal clerks were employed. In these wrecks four clerks were killed, sixty-three seriously and forty-five slightly injured. Washington, Oct 23.- Surgeon-General Moore, in his annual report for the last fiscal year, says the mean strength of the army for the year, including offlcers and both white and colored enlisted men, was 23,841, of which 21,601 were white and 2,240 colored. Washington, Oct. 23.- The Acting Secretary of the Treasury in answer to a telegram from the collector at S.in Francisco decides that "Chinese laborers can not land on United States territory, whether for transit to foreign countries or otherwise." Washington, Oct. 24.- The annual report of the Quartermaster-General has been subinitted to the Secretary of War. It shows that the total receipts were $11,465,519.46, and the total disbursements amounted to $10,148,016, leaving a balance June 30, 1888 of $1,317,503. Washington, Oct 34.- The annaal report of tho Commissioner of Labor, Colonel Carroll D. Wright, has been issued. It is devoted mainly to statistics in regard to the social, sanitary and economie condition of women emoloyed in shops and faetones. These statistics were collected by women. Over 17,000 women were interviewed and the results are being tabulated. Washington, Oct. 34.- Petitions have begun to come in since the adjournment of Congress from persons interested in the manufacture of silk, praying for a legislativo remedy for the condition of things which is threatened as a result of a recent decisión by the courts in Pennsylvania with respect to the duty on silk ribbons. The opinión is expresse! by high official and expert authority that unless an appeal be taken and this decisión be reversed by a higher court, it will cause the refunding of between Ï7,000,000 and $10,000,000, not to consumere but to importers, and that it will close every silk factory i n the country.