The Forrest City times., 1893-11-10
CONGRESSIONAL.
Proceedings of the Extra Session. m, Roth Houses Are Doing-The hePe"i "'' p...ed and styned-Adjourned.


 proccedings of the Extra scssion-What Roth Houses Are Doing-The kePeai D'' Passed and dsigned-Adjourned.
 TIE senate on the 30th finally ended the .,rugcle on the silver bill At II o'clock the bill came up in regular order ana many sena
 ters took part in the closing depate Messrs' Hunton tva), Cameron Pa), Morgan tAia Vest and Cockrell (Mol, and other senators oe- tended their position on the silver quesuon' and Messrs Wolcott (Coll and Jones tNevl made urgent appeals for silver. Messrs- feher fKan and Harris (Tenn), protested againet the bill and Mir Stewart (Neyl oeciareu'
 "The die is cast and the gold kings are VIC. torious- At7:2) the final vote was taken ana the bill passed by 43 yeas to 32 nays. with ten senators paired. At 7:3 the session whien commenced the i4th adjourned .. In the house a resolution on the death of Mayor Harrison, of Chicago was adopted The resolution oi
 MT. weadock (Mich) relating to the A. r. A. in the Eighth Michigan district was reierreo 'o
 the elections committed At the exprauon oi the morning hour debate on the panKruptey
 bin was resumed and continued until ad- journment
 THE senate opened with prayer on the 5ist for the first time since the iIth The mousse bill passed providing for the time and place oi holding district and circuit courts Tn South
 Dakota: also the bill extending the time TOT
 pavment on desert land entries MT Black h,rn,s resolution was agreed to instructing the committee on rules to inquire and report what revision of the rules, if any, should De adopted The rest of the session was taken up fin discussing the New York and New jersey
 bridge bill - When the house met the senate joint resolution transferring the model of the pattleship Illinois" at the worlds fair 70 the
 city of Chicago was agreed to The re-
 peal bill was then reported from the senate Al the expiration of the morning hour MT.
 Livingston tGa) attempted to secure unani .
 nous consent for consideration Of the repeal bf,i but Mir Bland (Mol protested yehemently
 and the effort failed Debate on the nank,
 ruptcy bill was then resumed and continued until adjournment
 WORK in the senate on November 1 was
 purely of a routine character Mir Hill offered q resolut to amend the rules so as to provide
 against filibustering which was referred MT
 Hoar offered bill making an appropriation of e,o 0JO for the relief of sufferers by the late storm oil the coast of Charlesto which went over Mr Tellers resolution of inquiry for information concerning the silver bullion pur- chased under the Sherman act was agreed to- The bill amending the Chinese exclusion act
 was taken up and debated until adjournment
 .... Soon after the house met the speaker laid before it the senate substitute for the house re
 peal bill trepealing the purchasing clause of the sherman act) and Mir Wilson demanded
 the previous question. This brought on Q feeble attempt at flibus tering, which the
 speaker suppressed by decisive action Debate
 was limited At 9 50 o'clock a vote was taken
 and the substitute (the Voorhees, senate bilD
 was agreed to by a vote of i93 yeas 10 94 nays
 The conference report on the bill suspending for one year the statute requiring work to the
 amount of sl.O on all mining claims was then
 agreed to and at 4:J the house adjourned THE senate on the 2d passed the bill relating 10 the admission of articles to the rld's fair
 Among the bills passed was ne granting the r1,hA (~nv fral & Southwest rail ay throug the Oklahoma and Indian territories Mir Stewart intro. duced Dill for the free and unlimited coinage of silver. which was referred At2 o'clo the house Chinese exclusion bill was taken up and
 after debate was passed without amendment .... Soon after the house met the committee on rules reported joint resolution for adjourn ment Friday o'clock and the resolr ton was adopted A number of local bills passed A bill for the admission of U Utah was repor ted. A resolution by Mir. Wilson permitting he ways and means committee to sit during re-
 cess (having special reference to the considera-
 tion of the tariff bilD occssioned Ii ely oppo sition. during which there was lack of quorum
 The resolution was finally modified and the
 matter settled The house refused to agree to the conference on the deficiency bill and ad.
 journed.
 THERE was a small attendance when the sen ate met on the Sd Mir Cockrell called up the
 house resolution for adjournment at o'clock
 MT Coke (Tex opposed the resolution so did MT Dolph and MT. Harris After some talk
 the resolution was finally agreed to House
 bill in aid of the worlds fair prize winners ex-
 hibition, to be held in New York city. passed.
 After appointing a committee to wait on the
 president and brief executive session the
 vice president at o'clock declared the extra
 session adjourned sine die .... The house reced-
 ed from its amendments 10 the worlds fair bill,
 permitting the sale of exhibits in this country
 at a reduction of duties The house got into
 wrangle and attempted to extend the time of
 adjournment, but pending the attempt the hour
 of o'clock arrived and the speaker summarily
 declared the house adjourned and all conference
 reports failed