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The HOuS6.

GOTH DAY.-The House passed the, Post
Office Appropriation bill. The conference
report on the Legislative, Executive and
Judicial Appropriation bill was agreed to.
80. Mr.. Randall introduced a resolution to
amend the rules so as to provide that on
blank date the House shall proceed in Com.
mittee Of the Whole to the consideration OF
the, Randall -Cowles bill. and that at P. N.
on that day the bill and its amendments shall
be reported to the House and the previous
question ordered upon its passage. This was
discussed at great length. .......s..
6lsr DAY.-Mr. Mills's resolution regard
ing the Senate's tariff action was defeated,
143 to 49,. The bill to retire General Rose
Grams was passed. -. The bill to pension Mrs.
Sheridan was passed. -r'.-,s.g.. -.
62D DAY-The House went into Commit
tee of the Whole on appropriation bills. Mr.
Dockery, of Missouri, was called to the chair
The Dehci, ncy bill came up as unfinished
business. Forty seven OF the sixty-three
pages of the Deficiency bill were passed. An
amendment reimbursing the widow OF Gem
eral Hancock for money expended by her
other visitors at the Yorktown centennial
celebration was passed. IA message from
the President was presented as
soon as the journal was approved
... On motion Of Mr.. Cox, the Senate
amendments were concurred in to the House
bill for the taking Of the eleventh census. 80.
The House passed the Senate bill to ratify
and confirm the agreement with the Creek
Nation of Indians for the purpose OF opening
to settlement the unassigned lands in the In
dian Territory celed by the Creeks to the
United States. :. 1t was now two o'clock,
the hour set apart for tributes to the memory
of General Burnes of Missouri. Mr..
Hatch, in feeling speech, offered the usual
resolutions of respect Speeches were then
made by Messrs. Dockery, Randall, Hender-
son, Breckenridge. Long. Sayers. Butter
worth, Ryan, Holman. Mansur, Nc Adoo,
Glover, and Morrill, of Kansas. The House
then adjourned out of respect to the memory
of General Burnes.
63D DAY.-The Senate amendments to the
Agricultural Appropriation bill were nom
concurred in. The last week OF the tlftleth
Congress was ushered in by filibustering, set
in motion by Mr.. Bland, who raised the point
OF no quorum upon the approval OF the
journal. After delay of a few minutes MIR.
to enable c. F. Booher to qualify as the sue
cessor of the late James y. Burnes, Of Mis-
souri, -. Mr.. Crisp then called up the con-
tested election case, and Mr.. Sayers, in the
interest of the Deficiency Appropriation bill,
raised the question of consideration. The
House decided-yeas lis, nays lO2-to con-
slider the election case, but Mr.. Mckenna,
who had voted in the affirmative for this
purpose, moved reconsideration. All efforts
to get a quorum to vote failed.
9TH DAY.-The Speakers table having
been cleared of business, the SPEAKER, acting
in conformity with the special order, recog-
nizel Mr.. Abbott, who called up bill for
the erection of public building at Fort
Worth, Texas Mr.. Randall asked unanl-
nous consent to report from the Committee
of Appropriations the Sundry Civil bill with
Senate amendments. The recommended
tions Of the Senate were agreed to. con-
ference was ordered, and Messrs Randall,
Forney and Ryan were appointed con-
ferees No effort was made to call up the
contested election case, and the House went
into Committee of the Whole Mr.. Dockery
in the Chair on the Deficiency Appropria-
tion Bill. After a brief concluding debate,
the Deficiency bill was passed.
G5TH DAY. The conference report on the
District Of Columbia Appropriation bill was
debated. &. :. The Indian Appropriations bill
was passed :. Obstruction tactics were used
to delay action on the Cowles bill, and this
consumed the rest of the days session.