Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-05-03
THE NATIONS SOLO NO.
SENATE AND HOUSE or REPRE-
SENTATivES.
Or ustloaal Law-laahsrs end What rAsy
Are Doing for the Good Of the Country
varssss Measures Propossa Dissssss4
ana Acted Upon.


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In the senate. Monday. Mr. washburn
spoke three and half hours. and st The
Dolph delivered another inssallment OF
his speech Promptly ~ O'Clock Senator
Quay called attention to the fact that the
hour for closing the tariff debate had Ar
s:o = 20 GrsS
for The Democrats maintaining that IL
was not intended 70 shut on tariff
debate ~ 8 o. clock. but to prevent any
other business from coming In between I
TO 20 on. and nj 500. on motion Of Senator
Harris, the Senate went into executive
session. and 1T $500 the doors were re-
opened and the Senate adjourned The
House devoted the entire day 70 business
from the Committee ON the District of CO.
lumbia. Two bills were acted upon. The
hrst, which was passed. was bill EXTEND
ing the time allowed the Metropolitan
Street Railroad Company. OF Warrington {
to change Its motive power The other
bill was one to permit bookmaklng at the
regular spring and fall meetings OF tho
jockey clubs and driving parks of the Dis
trict of Columbia The bill was defeated
by 81 20 SO. The House then, ut O'Clock,
adjourned
On Tuesday the Senate listened to Mr..
Mills, who spoke az length upon the tarin
The close of Mr. Mills speech was greeted
BY hearty round Of applause. IL had
been expected that the speech would be
much longer. IL consumed just two houre
and fifteen minutes. The Republicans,
who expected the Democrats would con-
sumo the entire day, were not prepared to
go on. Accordingly. on motion OF Mr..
Harris, the Senate went into executive ses-
sion at $3.50 p M, and at 4:lo adjourned.
The House resumed consideration OF the
postofice appropriation bill The pending
amendment to strike out the appropriation
for the fast Southern mail was defeated.
An Amendments providing limitation
of ten years upon the payment OF
money orders. and for the destruction
Of money order fies at the end OF
posed an amendment making all publica-
tions purporting to be issued periodically
and to subscribers subject TO postage at
third class rates when transmitted
Affects Seaside Library publications and
books freprints) given as premiums
with country newspaper subscrip-
tions, etc. Mr.. Pickler. to whom Mr.
Quigg yielded q portion of his time. OPP
posed the amendment in the interest of
cheap literature for the farmers MIR.
Hopkins, Mr. Daniels. Mr. Bingham. and
Mr.. O'Neill also made speeches against the
amendment The amendment. on a vote,
was stricken from the bill-26 to 1s3
The Senate wrangled all day Wednesday
over the tariff bill. Mr. Hepburn. after
the reading OF the journal In the House,.
interposed an objection to It's approval
and forced the yeas and nays on Mr.. Dock
efy's motion for its approval The journal
was approved --243 to 0. The House went
into committee OF the whole. MIR. Bailey, of
Texas, in the chair and resumed the con-
appropriation bill Mr.. Warner moved to
increase the rank of the consul at BARGE
Iona. Spain, 70 that OF consul general and
the salary to q, 500. The motion was agreed
to- Mr. Hepburn offered an amendment.
providing that all fees Of every character.
Official or unofficial collected or received
by the consuls at Liverpool. Hong Kone,.
Annoy, Canton. Tien Tsing, Havre, Callao,.
Prague. Antwerp. Valparaiso. Colon,
Chin Kiang. Fuchan, Hankow. Bordeaux,
Belfast, Bradford. Demarara, Glasgow.
Kingston. Manchester. Vera Cruz. Matan-
zas. Basle and Montevideo should be
turned into the treasury. and their sala-.
ries should be their sole compensation.
The amendment was defeatsd-55 to 12a
At $40 the committee rose and the House
adjourned
In the House Thursday the Speaker APP
pointed the following boards of visitors:
To the Military Academy, Messr4 Black OF
Illinois. Hatch of Missouri and Curtis OF
New York; to the Naval Academy, Messrs.
Meyer of louisiana, Cultivate Of Ohio
House then went into committee OF the.
whole and resumed consideration of the.
diplomatic and consular appropriation
bill Debate proceeded during the after
noon in a desultory manner on small un-
important amendments, none OF which
we're adopted. When the bill was COM
pleted the committee rose. The bill as
passed carried S1.513 53S, n decrease OF
s46, 706 compared with the appropriate ons
for the current year. At o'clock the
House adjourned. The Senate was en-
gagged In its regular pastime discussing
the tariff.
Some routine business was. transacted at
the opening of the session OF the House
Mr. Lockwood IN W reported
back from the Pacific Railroad Commit
tee the resolution calling upon the
General to inform tho
House whether the stockl olders OF
the Central and Western Pacific railroads
were reliable in any manner to the United
States for reimbursement for bonds issued
under the various acts OF Congress au-
the issuing OF bonds In aid OF
said roads The House then went into
committee Of the whole, with Mr. O'Neil.
OF Massachusetts,, In the chair. and
took up the army appropriation bill Tho
bill carries S23. sos, 2sl, 1857. ass less than
the appropriation for the current fiscal
year During the debate on the bill tho
roll was called under the rule and no
quorum being developed. the absenteos
were reported to the House, and then. at
:55 d m, the House adjourned. Tho
Senate proceedings were repetition OF
those of the day before