Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1886-07-01
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
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CONGRESSIONAL.

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| "HE Senate on the 2lst amended its rules
30 Ms to permit debate OF a ilotion to recon
slider. resolution Of Senator Plumb was
agreed to calling on the Secretary Of the IN
tercr Tor informal on as tic The number OF
iant entries Cancelled FOR fraud from and
during loS3 TO the present time. The Senate
ms sted ON iis amendments to the Army Ar-
! preparation bill. and a committee of tonfer-
| ence was appointed; The saline action was
taken in regard to the Consular and Diplo-
matte bill. Pending consideration of the bill
repeating the Pre- empt on and Timber Cul.
tnrc acts. the Senate went into executive ses-
SION and then adjourned -. IN the House the
| senate amendments to The Pension Appro-
conference Committee appo nted. The Naval
Appropriation bill was further debated and
passed The House then went into Com
mittee OF the Whole on the Sundry Ciyii bill.
Inc cons derat'On of this bill brought on n
sI,ycr debate. Pending scusson the House
adjourned.
In the Senate on the 22d. after routine
business. the bill to repeal the Presumption
and Timber Culture laws was taken up, but
without reaching final act on the Senate ad-
tourned. In the House a long debate fol-
lowed the calling up Of the proposi ton to
amend the rules so rs to permit the amend
ment or any appropriat on bill by inserting
taxing clause. The debate took Il very
wide range, and the House adjourned with
out action.
amending the laws relating TO the inspect on
OF steam vessels. The question of reconsid-
ering the vote by which the hill passed sew
erai DAYS ago prohibiting members Of Con-
Rress from acting as ATTORNEYS OF certain
railroads then came up and the motion TO
reconsider was carried. The bill was then
referred. Debate on the repeal OF the Pre-
emption and Timber culture acts was then
resumed and continued until ad iournment
-. The House put i'm The whole dav nliibns-
tering upon the motion to consider the report
OF tue tOmmf tee on Rules amending tho
rules OF the House. At five O'Clock the
House ad journed.
IN the Senate on the oath after further
debate the bill repeating the Presumption and
Timber Culture laws came TO a vote and was
passed: yeas. 81: nays, 20. The FitZ John
Porter bill was then lad before the Senate
senator Sewell spoke in favor OF the bill and
Senator Logan obtained the floor in opposi-
ton when the Senate went into executive
session and then ad iOurned . After prelim-
mary business in the House the Sundry
UIyil bill was taken up in Committee of the
whole, the consideration Of which Occupcd
the session. When the committee rose the
House adjourned.
AFTER routine business in the Senate on
the 18th the F,tz John Porter bill came ND for
maj action. Senators Logan, Teller and
Plumb spoke against the bill Efforts were
then made to Kill the bill bv weighing it down
with amendments, hut every amendment
was voted down and the b II passed ms il
come from the House: yeas. 70: nays l.. The
senate then adjourned unit Monday Tn
the House the several veto messages of the
PRESIDENT were appropriately referred. At
Ter me usnal business OF the morning hour
The House went into Committee Of the
Whole on the Sundry Civil bill. The debate
on THIS bill was continued until recess when
inc committee rose. An evening session
was held for the d scuss on Of pension mat
tiers.