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FROM WASHINGTON.
The Senate Makes a Squirt and
Passes the Mexican Pension
and Other Bills,
The House Passes the Bill in Re-
gard to Presidential Controversies.
The senate Passes the Mexican Pension

The senate Passes the Mexican Pension
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WASHINGTON D. c., June Ex-senator
sherman offered a resolution, which was
agreed to, providing that the hour Tor COM
menciug daily sessions OF the Senate during
the remainder of the session shall be IL
o'clock. The consideration of the Mexican
pension bill was then resumed. Senator
Williams stigmatizedt the bill, as it now stood,
as an insult to Mexican veterans. He had
supposed that If brave ard honest men ever
existed on the face of the earth-a man not
afraid of man or dewitt was the Senator
from Illinois, the nominee Of the Republican
party for the vice-presidency but even that
Senator had shrunk back and been driven
from his sense of duty.
Senator Morgan characterized the present
object as a political one to press the Demo
Gratis to the wall, to attempt to prove that
they were opposed to pensioning Union SOL
diers. In the course of his remarks, Sena-
tor Morgan said "Take your candidate for
the Presidency. He was valiant taker in
the war, but he never went to the war. lie
remained at home and accumulated his mil
lion dollars, and his substitute went TO the
war;" The debate then closed.
After further amendments the bill was
reported to the Senate and when the Chair
had put the question whether the amend.
ments should be agreed to Senator Mitchell
said in answer to an inquiry from Senator
Hawlcy that an estimate had been made on
the bill by the commissioner OF pensions
substantially as it now stood, as to the
amount OF expenditures the bill would add
to the government and the figure was about
S12, 800, 900 annually. The bill was then
passed SO to 81. The legislative, executive
and judicial appropriation bill was taken up
and its consideration proceeded with till
d 45 p. m, when the Senate adjourned.
The House.
WASHINGTON, D. e., June 24.-Mr. Foran
of Ohio submitted the conference report
on the bill establishing bureau of labor
statistics which was agreed to. The House
then proceeded to the consideration of the
business on the Speakers table and concur
rcd in the Senate amendments to a number
Of House bills of private character. Mr..
Cox of New York asked unanimous consent
for the passage Of the Senate bill granting
letter carriers fifteen days leave of absence
each year.
Mr.. Cosgrove Of Missouri objected but
subsequently withdrew his objection and
offered an amendment providing that no
leave of absence be granted between the 18th
of October and the LIST of April in any year.
The amendment was lost.
The bill was then passed. The conference
report on the District of Columbia appropri-
alton bill was presented and agreed to. The
amount appropriated is 1,6S6,743 The
House then resumed the consideration of
the bill repeating the preemption, timber
culture, and desert land laws and amending
the homestead law, which after various
amendments was passed.
Mr.. Herbert Of Alabama foresaw a very
exciting political campaign and feared if
Congress did not at this session pass some
law to regulate the counting Of votes the
country would find itself in a deadlock next
year. which could not be broken by an cleo
toral commission. He was in favor Of the
Senate bill and against the substitute report
ed by the House committee.
MIR. Eaton of Connecticut supported the
bill as reported by the House committee,
though he expressed the belief that tie con.
stitution vested in the House alone the
power to declare who was elected Prcsi-
dent.
Mr.. Herbert of Alabama offered an amend
ment to that section of the Senate bill which
provides that each State may determine all
controversies concerning the appointment of
electors by providing that such determine
ton may be overruled hy the concurrent
notion of the House and Senate. Adopted.
The House bill was then adopted as a sub
hlltnte for the Senate bill and the Senate
bill as amended by the substitute was then
passed. The House then took q recess until
: O'clock