Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1894-04-19
AT THE CAPITOL.
4 Synopsis # What i ssIng Said md
Osns at Warrington from Day \ Day.
Ninetr-Ninth Day.

and labor, for the Improvement OF
high roads, was reported back by Mr.,
Kyle, populist, of South Dakotah,
adversely. Mr.. Quay offered reso.
luton providing for a Saturday after.
noon session TO hear from the com.
mittee of organizations of working
men in opposition TO the tariff bill
The resolution went over.-The reso.
luton authorizing the president tc
enter into negotiations with the Next
can government looking to the coinage
by the United States minis Of Mexican
dollars, with view to extending Dom.
mercial relations with China and Other
Asiatic countries, was agreed to.-A
proposition was agreed TO, to hold fol-
one week, to meet at IL o'clock,
take up the tariff bill at l and con-
slider il untiII5, 10 dilatory:or other mo-
tons to intervene, limiting executive
business to the hour before and after
o'clock. The resolution by Mr. Allen
OF Nebraska that debate On the tariff bill
close on June and the final vote be
taken June Z, was taken up and
amended by changing the dates to
April 30th and May 14th and referred
to the committee on rules.--Mr.
Lodge, Republican, of Massachusetts, al
dressed the senate in opposition to the
tariff bill.-The further urgency de.
ficiency bill was reported, the senate
proceed to executive business and
at 6:1O adjourned.
HoUsE.-The senate amendment to
the house bill authorizing the St. Louis
IL Birmingham Railroad company to
bridge the Tennessee river was con-
CURED in.-In committee of the
whole on The postoffice appropriation
bill, the amendment reducing the ap.
preparation for printing stamps from
$243,000 to $1G3, 900 was agreed to.
An additional section was added to the
bill providing that books published in
serial, novels issued periodically, ETC.,
bound or not bound be rated as third
class matter. After some discussion
on the item of $4,000 a year for
special mail facilities OH the lines from
Spring field, Mass, to Atlanta, Ga.
and Aew Orleans, the committee rose
and, at 5 O'Clock, the house ad
iourned.
One Hundredth Day.
SENATE. The urgent deficiency bill
was considered until l p. M, when
the tariff was taken up and discussed
until 5 O'Clock. -Consideration of the
deficiency bill was resumed. Without
disposing of it, short executive
session was held and the senate adj.
journed.
HoUsE.-In the house an effort to
dispose of the motion to discharge the
order of arrest failed to secure the
vote of quorum and none but routine
business was transacted.
One Hundred nua First Day.
SENATE. -Committe reports and
deficiency bills occupied the senate
until l O'Clock, when Mr.. PETER re-
sumed his speech on the tariff, and
continued it until the hour of o.
Consideration of the deficiency bill
was resumed, and, at O'Clock, the
senate adjourned until tomorrow.
HOUSE. -The committee on rules
reported. the following resolution:
Rescind clause l of rule 8, and in
sert in lieu thereof the following;
l. Every member of the house shall
be present during its session, unless
excused or necessarily prevented, and
shall vote Oh each question unless hi
has direct or pecuniary interest il
the event of such question. When
ever, in pursuance of section 5, ar
ticle l of the constitution of tn,
United States, The house of represen
tatives, at the request of one fifth the
members present, shall order the yeas
and nays of its members on any
question to be entered on it
journal. and upon the call O.
its members for that purpose quo.
rum thereof shall fail to vote, each
member within the hall of the house
who shall fail TO vote when his name
is called, unless he has direct per
sonal or pecuniary interest in til,
event of such question, and ever,
member who shall be absent from
the hall of the house when his name
is called, unless be has been excused
or is necessarily prevented from be-
ing present, shall be fined the sum o.
$40, and the speaker shall cause an
entry of such fine to he made against
such member on the journal of the
house and the same shall be collected
and paid into the treasury of tn,
house.
The form of entering fines is stated
and the resolution concludes: 1t shall
be the duty of the clerk of the house
to certify to the sergeant-at-arms OF
the house the names of ali member.
against whom fines are entered, and
unless they shall be voluntarily paiG
to him he shall deduct the amount OF
said fines from the compensation OF
said members, and all sums that may
be paid or so deducted by him shall be
paid by HIM into the treasury of the
United States. A call Of the roll oil
members of the house shall not be
deemed TO have been completed until
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