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body may either concur In the amendment or
Il may abstain from any action until within
u day or two of June 10. when 1t will be able
to Judge whether, either frompublic or party
considerations. IL will be necessary to extend
tho time or to adjourn ON that day. The Con-
ference report TO the Consular and Diplomat
ic Appropriation bill was concnrred In. There
was an evening session Ter debate only......
Both houses adjourned over till Friday, on
account OF Decoration Day.
In the Senate, on the Slst, the President
pro TEN. laid before that body the concurrent
resolution of the Senate, providing for final
adjournment of Congress on the 10th OF June,
together with the amendment OF the House
of Representatives. fixing June II rs the date.
Laid over till ia. morrow.. Mr.. Davis called
up the bill providing for the appointment of
additional Circuit Judges In the seventh Ju-
dicial Circuit. composed OF the States OF In
diana and Illinois. which led to a lengthy
political discussion participated In by Messrs
passed. Mr.. Thurman, from the Committee
on Judiciary, reported substitute for the
Senate bill to alter ana amend the law In re:
lation to filing Pacific Railroad reports, and
also to amend the title OF the bill SO as to
read: "a bill to create an Auditor of Rail.
road Accounts and for other purposes"
of the morning business consideration was
resumed of the Legislative, Judicial and Elk.
ecutiye Appropriation bill....., In the House,
Mr.. 0'Neii presented n memorial of the Cen.
Referred. On motion of Mr.: Atkins, the bill
penses Of the Potter Investigating Com.
and 'o sass sas wishoat Division e Mr. s%pp
from the Committee on Public Lands,
reported back the Senate bill for
the relief of settlers on public lands
to computation of time for perfecting title,
and 1t passed. Soon afterwards the House
went into Committee OF the Whole on the
private calendar. Tho Speaker laid be.
Mr.. Cobb resigning his position as member
of the Special Investigating Committee on &C.
count OF i'll health, and appointed Mr.. Spring,
Nessfs. Blount, Manning and Fort, as the
Board of Visitors to West Point on the part of
the House. Adjourned.
In the Senate, on the list, the House
amendment to the concurrent resolution, fix
ing June II as the day of final adjournment,
was concurred in-3l to II. Consideration
was then resumed of the concurrent resolu-
ton approving the views of the Committee
on Foreign Relations in regard to the fishery
award, and it was finally agreed to-.
In the House, bills providing for holding
United States District and Circuit Courts at
Kansas City, dividing Colorado into three ju..
dicial districts, and reorganizing the judicial
districts of Michigan, passed. Five sections
of the bill amending the revenue laws were
considered when the House adjourned.
In the Senate, on the Sd, Mr.. Dorsey, from
the Committee on Railroads, reported with
an amendment in the nature of substitute
to the Johnston bill, supplementary to the
act to incorporate the Texas Pacific Railroad
Company. Placed on the calendar. Mr.
Spencer submitted an amendment to the
Army Appropriation bill, appropri,aating
post near the Black Hills Referred.
ton providing for the issue of arms to Terri
tories. Passed. At the conclusion of the
morning business the Senate took up the bill
establishing post routes. Mr.. Haml1n sub
mitted an Amendment restoring the franking
privilege. Rejected-yeas 49, nays 20, MS fol-
lows:
Yeas-Messrs. Allison, Anthony, Blaine,
Burnside, Butler, Conkling, Conover, Dorsey,
E fnpal1s .jo Sa1 1Fia1 Keoae RirkWoos,
Lamar, Mcdonald, Matthews, Mitchell, Pad
dock, Patterson, Saunders, Spencer, Teller,
Window, Withers-29.
Nays-Messrs. Armstrong Bailey, Barnum,
Coke, Eaton, Eustis Ferry Hereford Johnston
Herman, McCreery, Mcmillan, MCPHERSON,
Maxey, Merrimon, Morrill, Oglesby, Plumb,
Randolph, Ransom, Sargent, Salisbury, Voor'
I'm the House, number OF bills were In
troduced and referred, among them the fol-
lowing: BY Mr.. Bland-Authorizing the issue
of $4,000, O0O in United States Treasury notes
for the improvement of the Mississippi Riv-
err, from st. Louis to the Gulf of Mexico; by
Mr.. Culberson-To restrain the Secretary of
she tE9m paying Bonds the exe Sa
IN iegal tender Treasury y0 Notes; BY
Mr.. Wright, of Pennsylvania: Authoriz-
ing the issue of $i0O,OOOOOO United States
Treasury notes, to be known as national
money; by MI. Ellis: Levying tax Of 10 cents eIt
per pound on tea. On motion of Mr.. Gid
dings, the bill was passed appropriating So
OOJ for continuing the improvement OF Gal