The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-02-22
CONGRESSIONAL
The Proceedings of the Week Briefly
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 NEITHER house of congress transacted any business on the 10th. The senate was not Tn session and the sudden death of Representative Houk. of Ohio, cut on all proceedings of the house, which appointed a committee to arrange the funeral and adjourned until Monday.
 THE senate on the l2th had the Hawaiian natter again under discussion. Senator Gray spoke at length on the subject, sustaining the administration. Senator Pettigrew presented a resolution directing the secretary or agrl- culture to report to the senate the amount or wheat in the country March 30 last, the total yield of the past year and the amount now In the country It was adop ed Senator Gal leneer presented a substitute for the Wilson tariff bill , and after receiving notice from the house of the death of Representative Houk the senate adjourned. ... The house considered Dis trict of Columbia business and the remainder Of the session was consumed in paving appro- prate tribute to the memory Of the late Sen ator Stanford, of California
 THE senate on the 18th again had the Ha- waiian question under discussion Senator Gray resumed his speech in defense of the posi- tion of the administration. At the conclusion of his speech the bill compelling the Rock Island railroad to stop at certain towns in Okla homa was taken up, but the senate soon went into executive session. ... MT Bland's seignior" age coinage silver bill occupied the attention hSAoS being in committee Of the whole.
 THE entire time of the senate on the i4th was taken up in discussing the house bill compelling the Rock Island railroad to stop its trains at the new towns of Enid and Rou,d d Pond in the Indian territory. Senator Martin tksn op- posed the bill He said the legislature of Okla homa had ample power to deal with the matter and congress should not interfere. Senator Pef- fer favored the bill, properly amended The bill 1t.,s. ls... INa ahah hANn Aal efforts to limit debate on the Bland seigniorage bill failed and the debate proceeded without limit The resignation of Mir Brawler. of South Carolina, who has been appointed a United States district judge was read and the two new members from New York city, Messrs Quigg and Strauss, were sworn in Mir. Bland's bill was under discussion at adjournment
 Is the senate on the 18th the credentials of Mir McLaurin, as senator from Mississippi to succeed Mir. Walthsll, were presented and the ca Of office administered to the new senator. The house bill to compel the Rock Island road to stop trains at Enid and Round Pond Ok, was then further discussed, and upon vote on its passage there was tie-H to ? The vice president voted in the affirmative and the bill passed The senate then went into ex ccutive session. In the house debate on the Bland seigniorage silver bill was continued and all efforts of Mir Bland to secure A limit to de- bate failed. The debate was quite lively at times, but the house adjourned pending ton
 THE senate proceedings were brief and Of DO general interest on the 18th. A resolution of fered by Mir Hoar was adopted asking the president for all records and dispatches from Minister Willis not heretofore presented on Hawaiian matters. The senate then went into executive session for the consideration of the nomination Of W. H. Peckham for associate justice of the supreme court The nomination was finally rejected by 32 yeas to q nays. Mir Bland's seigniorage bill again occupied the at tention of the house, but all work was blocked by the tilibustering Of itS opponents At the evenin session for the consideration of pen sions there was no quorum and the house ad. inI..rpd