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CONGRESSIONAL WORK.
4 Record OF Proceedings in the
Senate and House.

4 Record OF Proceedings in the
senate and House.
In the senate on the 18th among the
bills reported from co mmittees and
placed on the calendar were the fol-
lowing: TO establish first order
lighthouse at North Head, Cape Dis
appointment, Wash. Appropriating
$3.50, 900 for a public building at Chey.
enne Wyo. A bill to prevent the adul-
teration OF food and drugs and for
other purposes was reported and placed
on the calendar. This is the pure food
bill. Among the bills introduced and
referred was one by Mr.. Kyle propos-
ing an amendment to the constitution,
so as to regulate marriages and
divorces in several states The follow
ing bills passed: 10 provide for the
disposal of the Fort fEartsuff, Fort
Sheridan and Fort Mcpherson military
reservations in Nebraska to actual
settlers under the homestead law.
To authorize the secretary OF the in
terror to convey certain lands to the
state OF Kansas. In the house Mr..
Bland offered q resolution directing
the secretary OF the treas ury to inform
the house if any time sin be the Al per
cent bonds became due there has been
money enough on haLd to pay them.
and if there has been money on hand
why he has assumed to continue them
at 2 per cent. Agreed to. Saturday
the S0th, was fixed as day for euio-
gies upon the late Mr.. Houk. Janu-
airy 16 was set for the consideration OF
the printing bill. Mr. Wilson OF
Georgia introduced bill to cover into
the treasury the 500, 000 900 gold re-
serve.
In the senate on the 18th among
bills passed were the following: Au-
thorizing the construction OF a bridge
across the Missouri river between
Chamberlain, in Brule county, and Ly-
man county, South Dakota. APP
propriating SS00,00 for the pur-
chase of ground and the erection there
on in the city OF Washington, of q
building 20 be used as d hall OF rec
ords. Mr.. Wilson introduced a bill
providing for two additional associate
justices OF the supreme court in Utah.
The senate took UP the calendar, the
first bill on it being one to aid the
state OF Colorado to support q school
of mines. 1t appropriatds % per cent
OF all the moneys paid 10 the United
States for mineral lands in Colorado
for the maintenance OF the school OF
mines established at Golden, in Jeffer-
son county. Mr.. Teller moved TO
amend the bill, by making the percent
age 80. instead OF % per cent. The
amendment was agreed to and the bill
was passed. In the house. after the
journal OF yesterdays proceedings had
been read and approved, the Holman
resolution was presented Tor considera-
ton. Mr.. Holman, in opening the
debate, said that similar resolution
had heretofore been introduced in the
house and never aroused much oppo-
sition. The objection OF the gentle
man to the resolution, the speaker
said, was doubtless against the first
resolution declaring against subsidies,
and he was glad that the question
should be squarely met ana the posi-
ton of the two parties thereon made
apparent before the country. AS to the
Limitation OF expenditures. proposed in
the second resolution Mr.. Holman said
any more comprehensive term than
department could not DC used. 1t in
cluded river and harbbr bill, which
was part OF the expenditure properly
included within the scope OF the war
department just as the pension bureau
was included in the interior depart
ment. and the expenses OF that depart
ment no one questions. After discus
sion Mr.. Holman announced that to-
morrow he would move d reconsidera-
ton of the vote by which the previous
question was ordered, and suggested
that the house adjourn. II it did ad-
journ. he would in the meantime de-
eide whether or not to press the mo-
tion when the house reassem bles.
Adjourned.
The house on the 10Th declared an
emphatic hostility to subsidies, boun-
ties and land grants, and pronounced
in favor of the rigid rettenchment in
appropriations. Holman1s resolution
in its entirety was adopted 10y the
house, but not until after its author
consented that it should be interpreted
in sense broad enough to permit all
appropriate and Legitimate legislation. +"
Advocates OF the World 8 fair appro-
priatlon tonight are finding great COM
fort in this Interpretation, and even the
friends of the mail steamship subsidies
and sugar bounty maintain that the
pledge of the government having
once passed appropriations to fulfill
these obligations are but appropriate
and legitimate legislation" When
the resolutions were reached in tho
order OF unfinished business it was
generally expected that Holman would
consent to an amendment modifying
the sweeping character OF the second
resolution. But he surprised all but
a few confidants by refusing to 90 any
thing of the kind. BY I'm animous con-
sent he withdrew his motion OF
last evening to reconsider the
vote by which the previous
question was ordered and
said he had come to the
conclusion that the resolution was
broad enough to permit any ana all ap-
preparation legislation. The resolu-
tons were divided and d vote on the
first which puts the house on record
against subsidies and oounties in aid
OF special private industries or enter
prises resulted as follows Yeas, 125:
nays, Al. The second resolution.