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SUMMARY OF CONGRESS
Senate Sessions.


18TH DAY.-The Consular and Diplomatic
Appropriation bill was taken up: A
general debate ensued on the general sub
ject of the consular service anu ITS
anomalies The Chinee Indemnity bill
was placed before the Senate. Mr.. Cock
rell (Mo.) argued against the bill,
which was then passed-yeas, 3o; nays, H.
the exact losses sustained by Cinnamon by
the riot at Rock Springs, Wyoming, in Sep
tember 1885, and to pay such losses. The
amount appropriated for tn. purpose is Sl30.-
600. :. Consideration of the Consular and
Diplomatic Appropriation bill was re-
sumad.
Il4TH DAY.-Mr. Sherman reported favor
ably from the Committee on Foreign Re.a,
tions an amendment intended to be proposed
to the Sundry Civil Appropriation bill ap-
propriating Sl06, 100 ito defray the expenses
incident to the landing, housing, protecting.
and inaugurating upon Bedloes Island OF
Bartholdi's statue, Liberty. Enlightening the
World.'". Mr.. Ingallss resolution
was laid before The. Senate, calling
on the Secretary Of the Interior
for information as to authority for the issu-
ance of the recent order of the Commissioner
of the General Land Office suspeuding the re-
ceipt Of applications for public lands under
the Pre-emption, Timber Culture, and Desert
Land acts. Agreed to after an acrimonious
passage between Messrs ingalls, and Cock
rell =. About 200 pension bills were passed.
115TH DAY.-Mr. Miller moved the refer
ence of tho Oleoma:garine bill passed by the
House to the Committee on Agriculture.
After considerable debate, in which
it was charged by Messrs. Miller
and Van Wyck that the imitation but
ter interests were seeking to send the
bill to the Committee on Finance that
nothing might be done on it, a vote was
reached, giving twenty-five for Mr.. Mlllers
motion and twenty-one against: SO the
measure was referred to the CommltTee b.
on Agriculture . The Consular and d.
plomatic Appropriation bill was then
taken up and passed. Executive session.
10TH DAY-Mr. Morrill,, from the Com
mittee on Finance, reported bill creating
an additional Secretary of the Treasury.
He asked immediate consideration of the
bill in view. he said, OF the emergency
known to all Senator'S. On objection
by Mr. Hoar, the bill went on the calen-
dar, Mr.. Hoar saying it was bill of too
much consequence to consider on the instant
"A bill was passed ro,iling for com.
mission of three persons TO be appointed by
the President, by and with the advice and con.
sent of the Senate, to inve;tg gate the truth OF
alleged discoveries of the specific cause OF
yellow fever The Senate refused to pass n
bill authorizing Lieute lant D. Pratt Mannix,
a decoration rendered him by the Emperor
of China
11>TH DAY.-A number of bills wee
passed, among them being the following: To
authorize the employment of law clerks for
the Justices of the Supreme Court; to give
Mrs. Phelps, widow of the late United States
Minister to Peru, sum equal to one years
salary OF the office held by her husband
at the time of his death; providing
for the purchase of the portrait Of
General George H. Thomas, painted
by General S. W. Prize; to legalize the
incorporation of national trades unions; au
thorizing the retirement on their own appli-
cation, after forty years service, OF Vice
Admiral Stephen c. Rowan and Rear-Ad.
miral John L. Worden, with the highest pay
of the grade to which they belong.
1lSTH DAY-Mr. Beck called up his bill to
prohibit members of Congress from accept
ing retainers or employment from railroad
companies which have received land grants or
pecuniary aid from Congress. Mr.. Edmunds
moved its reference to thu Committee on the
Judiciary The motion was lost-2l 10 n.
The Bill was then paSSed-yeaS 81, nays H..
The Agricultural Appropriation bill was
passed. The Senate refused, 6y yeas
to S2 nays, to take up Mr.. Rid
dleberger's motion providing for open
executive sessions. The Northern Pacific
Forfeiture bill was dii;u u'sed Upon Mr..
Hawley's motion the Senate reconsidered the
bill passed earlier in the day prohibiting
members of Congrers from accepting re-
tainers, etc.