The Dickinson press., 1894-03-24

Transactions Of Our National Law.
makers-The Work Done In 10th
Branches.
Washington, March 1.-THE proceed.
ings in the senate yesterday were of an
extremely unintere. ting character. With
cut the intervention of any morning b, si-
ness, except the presentation of few
petitions and the introduction of some
Inimpol tant bills, the sene te took UP the
consideration IF the 81 tiyniorage bill. SEN
ators Stewart and Lindsay spoke in favor
and Mr.. Dolph spoke in opposition to it,
holding that its passage would destroy
the existing equality between gold and
McLaurin of Mississippi and Mr.. Blancll-
r1d of Louisiana received their committee
appointments. Mr.. Stewart of Nevada
I. ok the floor in support of the Bland
i'll.
The house yesterday began the consitl-
Grafton Of she bill making appropriations
for tic sundry civil expenses of the gov
ernment, and fair progress was made
Only three amendments of any import
ancc We're adopted-onc ,.pplopriating
$43,!5N for lighting Hay lake channel,
another of $4,000 for the public build
ing ut Buffalo and aLcthcr of $9O,OOO
for repairing the Iostothce al New York.
Washington, March 15.-The test vote
which was to be taken to-day on the
seignioragc bill-the vote on Mr.. ALI
sens motion to reconsider the vote by
which the bill passed the third reading
had the effect of attracting q large at
tendance TO the gallery. The senate early
took up the consideration of the bill,
and Mr.. Teller of Colorado and Mr..
tseorg: of Mississippi spoke in favor of
its ptssage, the former criticising severe
ly some statements made by Senator
Sherman in his recent speech against the
l,ill. Before Mr.. George had concluded
his remarks the hour for vote arrived
end Mr.. Harris insisted upon the vote
being then taken on Mr.. Allison's motion,
with the result that it .y,.s defeated by
2S to IS. 1t is expected that the bill
will pass by about the same vote to-
morrow. Mr.. Manderson moved then to
commit the bill to the finance committee.
and this motion was ,lso detected by q
vote of q to A. The vote in detail is
as follows on Mr.. All:son's motion:
Ayes-Aldrich, Allison, Brice, Caffery.
Carey, Chcndler, Cullc.n, Davis. Frye,
Gallinger, Hale, Hawky, Hoar, Lodge.
Mcmillan. MCPHERSON, Manderson
Mitchell (Wis.), Morrill,. p, liner, Proctor,
Quay, Smith, Stockbridge, Villas, Wilson.
Washburn-2S.
Nays-Allen. Bate, Berry, Blackburn,
Blanchard, Butler, Call. Camden, Cock.
1ell. Coke, ColIritt, Daniel, Dubois,
Faulkner, Gibson, Gordon, Han ,Lrough,
Harris, Hill. Irby, Jones (Ark.), Kyle.
Lindsay, Martin, Mills. Mitchell (Or.),
Morgan, Murphy, Pasco, PETER, Perkins.
pcttigrcw, Power, Plgh. Ransom, Roach,
Shoup. Squire, Stewart. Teller, Turpie.
Vest Voorhees,, White, Wolcott-45.
Tie house is making wonderful prog
ress with the sundry civil bill. To-day
forty pages of the bill were disposed of
making in all eighty-thrce in two days,
and leaving sixteen pages more exclusive
Of two paragraphs, those relating to thu.
co; st and geodetic surveys and the Mis-
souri, FLYER commission. which were passcd
over temporarily. No lm .ndments of i'm
pnrtance were adopted to-day ,lthourh
the Northwestern members made a Wig
orOus effort to in Tease the amount for
the survey of public lends. The sppro-
prlation for the geological survey which
usually encounters bitter opposition, to-
,.ay passed unchallcnged, the amount ap-
propriated being s414.OOO.
Washington, March 1G.-rhe seignicrage
bill has passed the senatc-.44 to 81. Tie
following is the detailed vote:
Yeas-Allen, Bate, Berry Blackburn,
Blanchard, Butler, Call, Cockrell, Coke.
Colquitt, Daniel, Dubois, Faulkner.
George, Gordon, Hansbrough, Harris,
Hunton, lrby. Jones (Ark.). Kyle, Lind
sny, McLaurin, Martin, Mills, Mitchell
Orr, Morgan, Pascoe, PETER, Perkins,
Pettigrew, Power, Pugh, Quay, Turpie,
Vest, Voorhees,. White, Wolcott-H.
Nays-Aldrich, Allison, Brice, Caffery,
Carey. Chandler. Cullom, Davis, Dolpl,.
Frye, Gallingcr, Gibson, German, Hale.
Hawlcy, Higgins, Lodge, Mcmillan, Nc
Pherson, Henderson, Mitchell (Wis.),
Morrill,, Murphy. Palmer, Platt, Proctor,
Smith. Stockbridge, Villas, Washburn.
Wilson-31.
Friends of the bill say President Cleve-
lind viii sign it, while others Slain that
it will be VETOED
The senate also passed the bill to amend
an act autllt rizing the construction Of a
high wagon bridge over the Missouri river
at Sioux City. The amendment extends
the time for the construction OF the
bridge until March .. 1856. A charter
was also greAted the Iowa & Nebraska
Pentoon Bridge company, authorizing i,
to lalild a bridge across the Missouri
river near Sioux City, Iowa, and then
0ftnF oc A.: a.
minutes the doors were rcopened and tn
senate took frm the calendar and passed
bill granting tu the Duluth & Winnipeg
Railroad company right of way through,
tie Chippewa and White Earth Indian
reservations in Minnesota. Bills to tx.
ten'l the time for completing bridge
across the Missouri ris err hctween Kansas
City and the town of Sibley, Mo, and
granting right of WY to tho Duluth 4
Manitoba Railroad company across the
Fort Pembina reservation in North Da.
k"ta were passed, nd the senate al.
jeurnel until Monday
| The house put in the day DISCUSSING
and amending the sundry civil bill.
Washington, March 17-Senators rep.
tes, nting both the Democratic and Re.
pl llican SIDES of the senate committee
on finance expressed the opinion ut the
close of the committee meeting to-day
that the tal;ff bill would be reported te
tie senate on Tuesday. They stated
| however, that no agreement to this effect
had been entered into, but that the opin'
ion was the result of knowledge ol
The progress that had been made upon
the bill since the full committee has been
i'll possession of it The entire time 81
the meeting was devoted to the point re-
lating to collecting the revenue in both the
riff and the internal revenue reports
but it was announced at the close thai
this part of the work had been practical
ly completed. Assistant Secretary of the
Treasury Hamblin was again with the
committee for the purpose of making
! suggestions and answering questions as
TO the operation of various provisions oi
the bill bearing upon its administration
by the department. The appearances now
are that the bill will have quite q large
number of changes which they will agree
upon. These changes will include the
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