The Russellville Democrat., 1888-09-20
NEWS IN BRIEF.
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CoNGRrssroNAL PRocEEDrNas.

IN the Senate, on the 10th, discussion of the Chinese Exclusion bill occupied most Of the time, and led to pass age Of bitter personal ities between Senators Morgan and Mitchell. The Senate adjourned without action on the bill, leaving 1t just where it was at the time of adjournment on the 7th-passed, but with motion pending to reconsider the vote by which it was passed..... In the House the con ference reports on the Fertilization and Army Appropriation bills were adopted, and consid- eration of the conference report on the Sundry Civil bill was resumed, the pending Senate amendment being the appropriation of tsooooo for the purpose of Investigating the extent to which the arid regions of the United States can be redeemed by irrigation.
 IN the Senate, on the 1ith, the proceedings were marked by the passage of the House bill known as the Fourth of July Claims" bill Intended to reimburse those who suffered dam age in small amounts during tho war The bill covers 6s6 claims, aggregating an amount of siso,00o Consideration of the Chinese Exclusion bill was resumed, but no action thereon resulted. d.............In the House, the Sundry Civil Appropriations bill was taken up and several hours of unirn- portant debate was had upon the pending amendment relating to the reclamation of arid lands. The amount of the proposed appropria- ton was reduced from s250.ooo to soo,ooo. The vote on subsequent motions showed no quorum present. and the House adjourned.
 IN the Senate, on the 18th, MT. George offered an amendment to the Sherman bill prohibiting trusts, the most important point of which was making 1t the duty of the President in his discretion, to issue Q proclamation suspending the import duties on articles raised in price in consequence of combinations. Mir Hoar spoke 10 the amendment, charging Democrats and the Democratic party with responsibility for existing trusts. Mr. Payne denied all con rection with the Standard Oil Company. The amendment was ordered to be printed .... In the House, consideration of the Sundry Civil Appropriations bill was resumed. The Senate amendments were concurred in, with an amendment The Senate bill was passed gro iding that appointments to the Marine Hos pital service shall be made by the President
 IN the Senate, on the 18th, the feature of the rroceedings was Senator Jones' speech on the Chinese Exclusion bill Mir Allison announced the receipt of letter from Mir. Beck, saying that he was improving slowly. MT. Platt in troduced resolution of inquiry as to whether foreign syndicate was controlling the price of copper in this country. In the House, the event of the day was the passage of the Senate bill amending the Interstate Commerce law. joint resolution was passed extending the existing appropriations for the sundry civil ex- penses of the Government until October l.
 IN the Senate, on the 14th, the features of the work were An animated discussion on the delay of the report of the Senate Tarin bill; bitter personal debate between Senator Hoar and Senator Payne and the vote on the mo- ton to reconsider the passage of the Chinese Expulsion bill, the motion being again post poned for want of quorum votiDg...-..1n the House, telegram from the Surgeon General to Mir. Dougherty (Flal on the yellow fever situation was read, and the Senate joint reso- luton appropriating oo,ooo to suppress infec ton in the interstate commerce of the United States, was taken up and passed.