Connecticut western news., 1890-07-02
FIFTY-FIRsT CONGRESS.
Condensed Report of Proceedings h tn
 Senate and HOuse.

Condensed Report of Proceedings ia the
 Senate and House.
 WASHINGTON, June A.-The house com mittee on coinage, weights and measures, by vote of 6 to 5, reported the silver bill back to the house, with 8 recommendation that the senate amendments be non-con- cured in and conference to be asked.
 WASHINGTON, June M.-In the senate the conference report on the naval appropria- tion bill was agreed to. The postoffice ap- propriation bill was then taken up and considered. The following are the amend ments recommended by the committee on appropriations: Increasing the item for mail depredations, postoffice inspectors fees and expenses from $25O, 900 to $500 900; increasing the item for clerks from S, ,2OO,- 900 to g, ,59O 300; reducing the item for mail locks and keys from $50, 900 to $35 900; in- creasing the item for transportation of foreign mails from s664, 900 to s712, 900.
 The senate bills to adopt regulations pre- venting and in relation to collisions at sea were passed. These bills embody the rules agreed to by the International Maritime conference. The conference report on the pensions appropriation bill having been presented the senate receded from the amendment for the appointment of two ad- dltlonal pension agents, and the pension sPRASPAAooASAA dent.
 WASHINGTON, June 25.-The members of the United States senate were surprised on picking up The Congressional Record to find nearly twenty-eight columns of 8 speech supposed to have been delivered by Senator Call before the senate on June 3, on question of privilege, in reply to cer- tain charges against him contained in . of h" I'll fn oh senator. The remarks actually delivered by MT. Call on that occasion would have occupied less than column of The Record MT. Call had obtained from the senate, however, permission to print some papers with his remarks, and these remarks had been withheld for revision that the papers referred to might be incorporated with them.
 MT. Call was interrupted in an address upon his Cuban annexation scheme by 8 motion from MT. Sherman that the senate go into executive session. This was car ried. Senator Ingalls, offered resolution fnstructing the committee on privileges and elections to inquire as to what right MT. Call had to insert his defense in The Congressional Record.
 This precipitated fierce debate Mr. Call justified his action on the ground that he had asked leave of the senate to print extracts in vindication of his career. Sen ator Ingalls, exclaimed: "The senator from Florida has, in my judgment, not only grossly violated and abused the privileges of the senate, but he has deliberately falsi- l fled the records as to what occurred on the day that the transaction took place." | WASHINGTON, June 26.-In the house the national election bill was debated, Repre- | sentative Lodge made long and eloquent speech in it's favor. esziE
 Mir. Hemphil (S. O. made an argument to prove the bill unconstitutional, reading from legislative declarations by New York, Ohio and New Jersey agalnst congressional usurpation of the right to conduct elections. He said that the cQnfession thet there