The Red Cloud chief., 1892-05-06
CONGRESS.
The Weeks Proceedings Condemned foe
Convenience OF h Reader.

The Weeks Proceedings Condemned Fer
C~onvenience OF the Reader.
AFTER routine business in the senate On the
22d Mr.. Hoar introduced a bill from the judiciary
committee to amend the revised statutes au-
thorizing the appeal to circuit courts In cases
where persons convicted claimed to have acted
under authority OF any United States statute or
Of any foreign power. The urgency deficiency
bill was further debated and passed. The
Chinese bill was then considered until the close
OF the session. 80. The house further debated the
report Of the elections committee on the Noyes-
Rockwell contested case from New York. the
report being almost unanimous in favor OF un'
seating Rockwell dem and awarding the seat
TO Noyes, contesting republican. A vote was
finally reached and the majority report was re-
jected and Rockwell declared entitled to retain
his seat by l2S yeas to 106 nays. At the evening
session pension bills were considered
In the senate on the ed Mr.. Teller offered q
resolution requesting the president to inform
the senate what steps, IL any, have been taken
toward securing an international conference on
free coinage Of silver. The resolution was
adopted, and the Chinese bill taken up and Mr..
Teller addressed the senate in support Oft
Pending further debate the senate adjourned
I'm the house q conference was ordered on
the District Of Columbia bill and q motion 10
expunge from the Record certain unparliament-
airy remarks OF Mr.. Walker Mass developed
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THE senate on the 18th resumed consideration
OF the Chinese exclusion bill and the debate
continued until 4 O'Clock, when q vote was taken
on the substitute to the house bill reported by
the foreign relations committee and it was
adopted by q vote Of 4S to IL and the bill as
amended passed and a conference asked. b
bill continues ten years all laws prohibiting
Chinese coming to this country. All Chinese or
descendants Of Chinese illegally found in this
country are to be returned to China or TO the
countries OF which they are citizens. ... When
the house met the resolution (pending at ad-
TORMENT Saturday, expunging certain re-
marks Of Mr.. Walker (Mass) from the record
was taken up, the pending question being the
motion Of Mr.. Reed (Me.) to table the resolu-
ton No quorum appeared, as the republicans
refrained from voting. The motion to table
was finally rejected and in attempting to pass
the resolution the quorum again disappearedby
members declining to vote and the house ad-
journed.
AFTER routine business in the senate on the
10Th Mr.. Coke spoke in favor Of free coinage.
Mr.. Morsan's resolution being before the SEN
ate. Mr.. Daniel also spoke in favor Of free sill
yer. The army appropriation bill was then dis
cuSSed. No action was reached. A
cation was received from the president in
response to Mr.. Teller's resolution as to an in
ternational silver conference. The president
stated that it would be Incompatible with the
public interest to furnish the information at
present 1t was ordered printed and laid on the
table for debate. After the passage Of several
private bills the house took up the regular Or
der. the eXpunging from the Record of remarks
not uttered but printed by Mr.. Walker (Mass),
but the house went into committee on the con-
sular and diplomatic bill. After consideration
some time the rose, q conference
was appointed on the Chinese bill and the house
adjourned
TIE army appropriation bill was further con-
sidered in the senate on the eth. and after a
long speech by Senator Morgan the house pro-
viso which profits payment for the Transports
ton Of troops over any OF the unbonded lines
ownedor controlled by the Union Pacific rail-
way was stricken out. The bill was then passed.
Adjourned -. When the house met the Walker
expunging resolution still had the right of way.
but by unanimous consent the house went
into committee OF the whole on the diplomatic
bill. but the absence OF Q quorum soon became
apparent and the house adjourned.
IN the senate on the 2sth the resolution to
pay the Choctaw and Chickasaw Indians their
interest on the lands in the Indian territory
(the Cheyenne and Arapahoe reservation) was
taken up and Mr.. Allison spoke against it. He
wanted the whole matter recommitted. After
considerable debate the matter went over and
the senate adjourned until Monday. The
house, after doing nothing for awhile, went into
committee OF the whole on the diplomatic bill
but upon the first vote no quorum appeared and
the house soon adjourned