The Russellville Democrat., 1891-01-15
THE WORLD AT LARGE.
Summary of the Daily News.
CONGRESS.


 THE Senate met at noon on inc Kin Mfr Hale reported the HoYse apportionment blll without amendment Mir Mcconnell 4eta tor-elect from Io,aho. was sworn in fNr. shoup, hls colleague, having hlreaav taken ms seatl' An executive session was then had, hen fhe doors were reopcned the elections l,DA came up and Mir George nro- ceedcd t9 speak age.Iass t but yielded to Mr. stewar@ Ney.5 who moved to take up the fhahce bill This was . su rprise to sehhtof fIoar and the friends Of th'S election bill Put vote was taken which .eSalted in favor of the motion by s4 to 29, eight her6sicans. Stanford, Jones tNev.), stewart, ReConnell, shoup. Teller Wolcott and HsShburn, voting with the Democrats. This sSrprise in side tracking the elections biii caused some talk and the Senate soon adjourned. No business Of general iIn- ? ortance was transacted In the House.
 WHEN the Senate met on the 9th the at. tendance was very slim At the expiration of the morning hour the finance bill came mp, the question pending being the amend. mcnt offered by Mir Stewart tNev.) by add. ing his free coinage provision Mir. Teller spoke at length in favor of the bill. He declared that when he voted to lay aside the elections bill for the financial btil he q i'd so believing that the latter was of more impor- tance to the people than the former and he had no apologies to make He criticised the position of Senator sherman and refutcd his argument against free silver coinage. Mir. Sherman said he would reply al some future time 10 Mr. Teller. Mr Nor Till spoke against lrec coinage and Mir. Vest favored t. The House passed the bill re- pealing the law authorlzing the President to suspend tonnage dues. By vote of i0l yeas to s5 nays the Fouse decided to take up the shipping bill and pending debate on the game adjourned
 AITAB agreeing to theconference report on the public printing deficiency bill the Senate on the 7th took up the financial bill Mir. Daniel (va,) spoke in favor of the bill and the absolute free and unlimited coinage of silver At the close of his speech Mir. Plumb followed n an argument in favor Of free coinage. He did not claim that free coinage was panacea for Fl evils, but con tended 1t was long, a wig and important step in the right direction. Mir. Hiscoek spoke against the pending amendment tfree coinage). After an executive session the Senate adjourned. After the morning hour the House, in Committee of the Whole re- spnlcd consideration of tho shipping bill siF, Herbert tAla.) opposed the bill and Mir. Dmgley Caie.) spoke in favor. Mir. Dockery tAiol spoke against 1t. Pending debate the Honse adjourned.
 SOON after the Senate met on the sth Mir Platt gave notice that at the earliest possible moment he would call up the copyright bill and Mir. Allison gave notice Of his intention 70 call up the Gengef lard bill. After passing number of minor bills the financial blll was taken up and Mir. Stewart asked unanimous consent for taking a vote on the bill Satur- day at o'clock Mir. German ex- pressed his surprise at the pro position as the Senator from Ohio (shermanl had declared the free coinage amendment revolutionary. He thought there should be more time given for careful con sideration of the bill It was finally agreed to take vote on the bill Wednesday. Ad iourned. The House further considered the shipping bill and Mir Grosvenor [O) ad- dressed the House in favor of the bill Be fore he concluded the House adjourned.
 AFTER the presentation of petitions in the Senate on the 9th the financial bill again came up and Mir Blackburn spoke in favor of Mir Stewards free coinage amendment. Mir. Morgan followed in a speech favoring the bin, but pending his remarks the bill was in formally laid aside several minor bills passed and the Senate adjourned. But little was done in the House. The bill referring to the court Of claims the claim of the Citizens Bank of Louisiana growing out of the seizure and covering into the United States Treasury S2l5.000 by General Butler during the war was debated until o'clock and went over. At the evening session sixty private pension bills passed.