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SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPR .%SENTATIVEs
n Synopsis of Proceedings IN the SENATE and
House of Representatives.
HoUsE.-ln the house on the I'd the
senate amendments to the experiment
ment agricultural station bill were con
Cured in and the house then went into
committee of the whole on the agricul-
tural appropriation bill. General debate
was dispensed will and the bill was
read by sections for amendments. The
committee, then, after the reading OF
the bill, passed it. The regular order
was demanded, being Mills motion tc
limit debate on the pending paragraph
of the tariff bill to ten minutes, which
prevailed. The amendment which was
under consideration was to strike from
the free list timber, hewn and sawed,
and timber used for spars and warves:
it was rejected. Randall moved to strike
cut the paragraph and insert climber
not further manufactured than hewn,
squared and sawed" but this amend.
ment was rejected without division and
the second paragraph of the bill, ''tim-
Der squared and sawed" was read.
Taulbee moved to strike this out. After
some debate the amendment was re-
jected. During the debate a motion
was made to limit debate to ten minutes.
A compromise was finally made on forty
minutes and the house again went into
committee of the whole. The third
paragraph of the bill, wood manufac-
tured, not specially enumerated OF pro-
vided for" was then read and consid-
cred. Bayne moved to strike it out.
SENATE. Among the amendments re.
ported by the committee on appropria,
tons, and agreed to by the senate on
the 5th, were the following: Transfer.
ring to the grade of ENJOYS extraordina.
ry and ministers plenipotentiary "the
lands, Sweden and Norway and Venezu.
inserting the item minister resident
and consul general in Corea, 81, 500:
transferring to the grade of minister
resident and consul general the charge
a affairs to Paraguay and Uruguay
without change of salary (S5, 0G0), in
serting the provision requiring all con,
sulates and commercial agencies whose
fees are collected or compensation al
lowed for the fiscal year of 1888 exceeds
81, 600 to be estimated for specifically
under classified consulates.
HOUSE. After routine business the
house went into committee of the whole
on the tariff bill on the pending clause,
(wood manufactures not specially en-
couraged OF provided for) being limited
to thirty minutes. Mills called atten-
ton to the fact that Canada imposed 6
tariff on sawed lumber and asked why it
was if the tariff meant high wages that
it did not bring high wages in Canada
as well as here. Hermann, of Oregon,
presented to the democrats the compli-
ments of Oregon and a message from
her people saying Oregon had voted for
protection by 800 majority. Moffatt
moved to strike out the paragraph. The
motion was rejected, Sowden, of Penn
sylvania, and Tarsney, of Michigan,
voting with the republicans III favor Of
the motion. Fuller, of Iowa, voted with
the democrats against it. The speaker
pro tenn. laid before the house a mes
sage from the president returning with
out his approval bills for the erection of
a public building at Bar Harbor, Me-,
and for the purchase of additional
ground for the building at Council
Bluffs, Ia. The announcement of the
veto of the first named bill was received
with laughter by the republicans.
SENATE.-In the senate on the 9Th con-
sideration was resumed of the diplomatic
and consular apportionment bill. After
amendment the bill passed. On motion
of Morrill, the senate bill authorizing a
purchase of a site for the supreme court
of the United States passed. On mo-
ton of Cameron the senate bill in rela-
ton to cadets at the naval academy
passed. The bill providing for two add
tional associate Justices of the supreme
court of Dakota was taken from the
calendar and passed. Also the house
bill authorizing the construction of a
bridge across the Missouri river at Oma-
ha, with amendment.
HOUSE. AFTER the transaction of some
unimportant business, the house went
into committee Of the whole on the tariff
bill. the paragraph being pickets and
palings, which Mckinley moved to
strike out. After some debate the mo-
ton was rejected and the paragraph
passed over, as we'll as the next. Buch-
anan moved to strike out the nineteenth
line, shingles" and insert 'shingle
bolts" Rejected. With little delay
the remaining paragraphs, "clap-
boards" "pine or spruce" and logs
were passed over down to the provision
that the existing duties shall be levied
upon the articles on the lumber sched-
ules where export duties are imposed by
the country from which they are i'm
rDrfol Dinr1,- &c AT,,,o ,,o,1,ol
an amendment continuing the existing
duties on lumber schedules wherever
the exporting country denied our YES
sells the right to touch, to trade or to
take bait,
SENATE.-In the senate on the 4th the
bill to repeal all presumption and timber
culture laws was reported from the
committee and placed on the calendar.
The senate then proceeded to the con-
sideration of bills on the calendar, and
passed, among others, the following:
The senate bill creating an additional
retired list of the army for eighty Off
GERS nov on the active list, but %incapaci-
tated for active service; the house bill
authorizing the president to appoint and
retire Alfred Pleasanton with the rank
and grade of colonel, with an amend
ment reducing the grade to that of ma
ior; the senate bill authorizing the
president to place on the retired list,
with grade of major, Major General W.
W. Averill. The house bill to enlarge the
powers and duties of the department of
agriculture and to make it an executive
department having been taken up, ar
guments were made by Senators Nor
gan and Plumb against the amendment
reported by the committee on agricul-
ture to strike ont the fifth section of the
bill, which transfers the weather service
of the signal service bureau to the de-
! partment of agriculture.