Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1892-01-20
motion Of Mr.. Springer adjourned until

motion Of Mr.. Springer, adjourned until
tomorrow.
WAsIfFNGToN. Jan. 13-AIr Stone, of
X snfticEV. offered Il resolution. which was
agreed 10, calling on the secretary OF the
treasury tor 4 tabular statement Of all
Goods imported into Porto Rico and the
Dominion Republic since the reciprocal
agreement went into effect Also r1S0lu-
lion. agrced To- calling on the secretary Of
state Tor copies Of ali communications be-
tween the United states and those coun-
tres. Cuba. Salvador and Brazil, on the
subject ot reciprocity, On motion OF Nj.
Bland. Gf Missouri, Il resolution WaSau0pt-
cd, callag Oh the secretary o. the treasury
tUr Information Is 10 whether at any
time since the A. bonds became due There
has been sufficient funds in the treasury TO
pay thp same. and II 50, by what authority
he has assumed To continue such DonGS aG
2 per cent, and why the same were rot
paid at the time they were due. The fol-
lowing bIllS were introduced ana refG-":ad
l}y Nj. Lewis, OF Alabama, to repeat
the law creating sinking fund;
by MI. Wilson, Mo. J, for the ClGSSi-
1icatOn Of clerks III first and Sec0nd-claSs
p0st-0liice8; by SIR. Cutting tCal.) J, Tor the
construction of a revenue cutter for San
Francisco: by Mr.. Watson lGa. J. to con
vert INTO the treasury the 500 00J.C 70 Of
gold reserve now held for the redeml. tlOn
Of United States notes. Bills were intro
duced for public buildings at Lincoln and
South Omaha, Neb.
WASHINGTON. Jan. IA red hot de-
haze took place for four hours over Mr..
Holman resolution declaring that the APP
preparations OF the present session shall be
strictly limited 10 the moneys necessary TO
carry on the several departments OF the
government. No other business was trans
acted, AL at the close Of the discussion Mr..
Holman"lsked that the call OF the previous
question be reconSidered, III order that he
might consider several radical amend
mentS to his resolution. This was done,
and the House adjourned till tomorrow
WASHINGTON, Jan. 15.-Ihc Holman
resolution in its entirety declaring against
subsidies, bGuntle6 and land grants and in
favor Of rigid retrenchment in appropria-
tons was to-day finally adopted by the
House. but not until after its au
thor had consented that it should
be interpreted in a sense 'br0ad enough
10 permit any ana all appropriate and
legitimate legislation After the adOp-
ton of these resolutions the House took up
for consideration the reports Of the COM
mlttee on accounts, assigning clerks
to various committees of the House,
and Il discussion cnSued as TO whether
there was not extravaganza III these as
slgnments. The minority substitute pro-
viding for tWenty-fOur clerks was defeat
ed-veas 81 NAYS 164-antl the majority re-
port which provides for thirty-seVen
clerks was agreed TO- Mr.. Fyan
MOI, who has been absent on ac-
count of sickness, was then sworn i'll, but
his health was SO feeble that he was
Obliged TO take oath OF Office from his seat
Mr.. Hatch Mo-, introduced bill amend
ing the presidential succession act SO as to
add the Office OF secretary OF agriculture
after that OF secretary OF the iDterIor. Re-
ferred. Then. on motion of Air. Catchings
Miss. J, the House adjourned until Mon
day.