Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1892-05-25
CONGRESSIONAL.
Tuesday.

1uebuNy.
WASHINGTON. May 1.-THE naval ap-
preparation bill was taken up In the senate
Mr.. McPherson's amendment to reduce
the number of vessels provided for was
defeated after lengthy debate by vote
of IS to 80.
The house spent the entire day In an
uninteresting debate on the sundry civil
Dill. A motion by Mr. Picker, of South
Dakota, to increase tho appropriation to
meet the expenses of protecting timber on
public lands was lost. Pending action on
the bill the house adjourned.
Wednesday.
WASHINGTON. May 18.-After some min.
or business the house went into commit
tee on the whole on the sundry appropria.
ton bill. On motion of Mr.. Holman the
appropriation for public land surveys was
increased from 100000 to 100000. Mr.
Dickinson moved to strike out the entire
appropriation of S240, 900 for Typographical
surveys. Pendingsa vote the committee
rose and the house adjourned.
The senate resumed consideration of the
naval appropriation bill. After some de-
bate Mr.. Gray moved to strike out from
the amended bill the double turreted
monitor, the light draft cruisers and the
torpedo boats, This was voted down with
out division and the senate adopted the
amendment providing, in addition to the
5000 ton cruiser authorized by the house,
one sea going battle ship of 5000 tons,
one harbor defense monitor of 1850 tons
four light draft cruisers and six torpedo
boats. The bill as amended was then
passed.
Thursday.
aorT ,.s,v
and harbor appropriation bill was taken
up in the senate Mr.. Mcpherson moved to
recommit the bill with instructions to re-
duce the amount so per cent. Mr.. Dolph
moved to lay the motion on the table;
agreed to, yeas AZ, nays g. (Messrs. Harris,
Kyle, Mcpherson, Paddock, Palmer and
Vilas.) Amendments reported from the
committee ON commerce were then
taken UP separately a1d all agreed to.
immediately after the house went into
committee of the whole on the sundry
civil bill the chair delivered his decision
on the point of order against the amend
ment offered by Mr.. Bland for the coinage
of all silver bullion purchased and now in
the treasury into standard silver dollars,
tie cost ] coinage TO be paid out of the
seigniora, c.: gain to the government,
the rera n,i-r CT the seigniorage to be
covered lite the treasury The chair held
the amendment changed existing law and
was not gtrmane to the matter under con-
sideraticn.
Friday.
WASHINGTON, May 20-There was con-
siderable excitement and some i'll feeling
among the Republicans in the house to-
day when Representative Kilgore, of
Texas, raised a point of order, which was
sustained by the chair (Mr. Herbert, OF
Alabama), against the cause in the sun
dry civil bill appropriating $4,000 for the
erection in the city of Washington of a
statue to the late General w. T. Sher-
man. The matter will be called up in the
house tomorrow in the shape of separate
bill. The discussion of the bill occupied
the entire day.
In the senate after little routine bust
ness consideration of the river and harbor
bill was resumed All the amendments
agreed to in committee were concurred in
and the bill was passed without division.
A conference was asked, and Messrs,
Frye, Dolph and Ransom were appointed
conferees on the part of the senate.
Saturday.
WASHINGTON, May q The house spent
the day discussing the sundry civil appro,
priation bill and pension measures A
resolution that the hour of meeting shall
be II o'clock was adopted.
The senate was not in session,
.. Monday.
WASHINGTON, May 23-Mr. Mander-
son, president pro tenn, having obtained
leave of absence for week and the vice
president being still absent from the city.
Mr.. Cullom presided over the senate.
Senator Vest, of Missouri, introduced q
resolution discharging the committee on
finance from the consideration of the
house free wool bill and directing them to
report the bill back to the senate. Mr..
Vest asked that this resolution be laid on
the table for the present and it was so Or
dered. Several bills of minor Importance
on the calendar were passed and the act
to provide for punishment of crimes
against aliens was taken up and discussed
until adjournment,
In the house Mr.. Butler, of Iowa, sue
ceeded in having a pension bill passed in
the interest of ex-senator George M.
Jones, of Dubuque, and Mr.. Watson's
resolution requesting the committee on
ways and means to report the subj treasury
bill was adopted without objection A
number of bills Of q local character were
passed and the house adjourned "a
Earthquake in Indiana.
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, May 24,-Indian-
apolis felt distinct shock of earthquake
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