The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-12-27
CONGRESS-.
Condensed Proceedings of the Senate and
 HOuse.

Condensed Proceedings of the Senate ana
 House.
 WHEN the senate convened on the i7th MT. Hill offered resolution calling upon the secre- tary Of the treasury for copy of the income tax regulations. Several bridge and local bills passed and the senate resumed debate upon the Nicaragua canal bill which continued until the senate went into executive session at 4:55 o'clock. When the house met MT. Herman {Ore.) offered resolution for the abrogation Of the Clayton -Bulwer treaty as it was an ob- stacle to the construction of an oceanic canal The bill to protect public forests passed, and MT Springer, from the banking committee re- ported favorable the new currency bill, which embodies the views of the secretary of the treasury. MT. Walker presented minority report. Both ordered printed. The army bill which carries an appropriation Of s23299,SOS, was then called up and considered. It finally passed. At o'clock the house adjourned.
 THE senate on the 18th passed bill appro- priating Sl0O, 900 for public printing. MT. Dolph reported adversely the general land grant for feiture bill MT. Gallinger presented resolu- tion inviting the annexation of Canada. The resolution, he said, was written by one Of the best known subjects of Great Britain who fa- yored political union Mir Hill spoke in favor Of q change of the rules, in which he favored the counting of quorum. The Nicaragua ca nal bill was then debated until adjournment %. The day in the house was devoted to a cur rency debate the Carlisle bill being under con- Sideration in committee of the whole. The post office appropriation bill was reported, and at 5:l5 o'clock the house adjourned.
 WHEN the senate met on the 18th the report of Adm. Walker on Hawaii was received. A bill extending the act relating to abandoned military reservations was passed; also bill amending the act of May ls 1894 giving per- mission to construct a bridge over the Mis- Souri river near Jefferson City, Mo. After pass ing the bill for a national military park at the battlefield of Shiloh the senate took up the Nicaragua canal bill and debate continued un- til adjournment After routine business in the house the currency debate was resumed in committee of the whole and continued until adjournment at 5:20 o'clock.
 WHES the senate met on the 2Oth it immedi- ately went into executive session to permit MT. Harris to move reconsideration Of the vote confirming Judge Clark as district judge Of the East Tennessee district. The matter was re- ferred and after the usual routine business the special order was taken up. Speeches were made on the unveiling Of the statues of Daniel Webster and Gen. Stark. A number of sem ators spoke When the house met the urgen- cy deficiency bill was taken up and passed: also bill to pension the widow of the late Gen. Banks. The currency bill was then debated in committee of the whole until o'clock, when the special order came up-speeches upon the unveiling of the statues Of Daniel Webster and Gen. Stark, presented by the state of New Hampshire Many members delivered ad- dresses and the statues were formally accepted. Adjourned
 THE senate was not fin session on the 2lst.... When the house met at least twenty members tried to secure the passage of bills of local im- portance but Mir. English (N. J), who has in- augurated a war of retaliation against unani- nous consent to legislation until a measure of his should be passed, objected. He relented in two instances, however. allowing senate bill and joint resolution to go through pro- yiding for the entrance Of foreign exhibits to the Atlanta exposition. Mir. De Armond (Mo) objected to a bill granting a pension to the widow of Maj. j.-Gen. Doubleday. The joint resolution for a holiday recess from the 22d to January 3 was adopted The currency bill was then considered and Mir. Springer announced he would introduce a substitute, and it was or dered printed alongside of Mir. Walkers sub stitute in the Record. After passing bill for the relief of homesteaderS in the north whose property was devasted by fire last year the house adjourned at 5:l0