Huntsville gazette., 1894-07-28
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources.
CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS.

IN the senate, on the 18th, the Indian appro-
priation bin occupied almost the entire session,
going over finally without action. The confer
ence report on the naval appropriation bill was
agreed to. Several bills were passed, includ-
ing one to encourage the reclamation of arid
lands and their cultivation and sale in small
tracts to actual settlers 49,. In the house. after
an animated colloquy between Messrs Reed.
Terry and Richardson and Speaker Crisp as to
the different methods in vogue for counting
quorum In this and the Fifty-frst congress,
several bills of no general interest were passed,
and the agricultural appropriation bill was
sent to conference
In the senate, on the 10Th. the Indian appro-
priation bill was finally passed. The confer
ence report on the diplomatic and consular bill
was agreed to. At p. m. message from the
house asking further conference on the tariff
bill was laid before the senate, followed by an
oral report from Mr.. Voorhees,, chairman of the
hnance committee, to the effect that the con-
fereeS had been unable to agree -. In the
house, Mr.. Wilson, chairman of the committee
on ways and means, reported the failure of the
conferees on the tariff bill to agree and moved
that the house insist upon it's disagreement
to the senate amendments. The conference
reports on the naval and diplomatic and con-
sular appropriation bills were reported and
agreed to.
In the senate, on the Goth, the entire days
session was taken up by speeches provoked by
the presentation of message from the house
asking for a further conference on the tariff
bill. Mr.. Hill, who was the leading speaker,
declared that democratic senators would have
to rally around the president or else they would
go to the wall. No vote was taken on any of
the propositions submitted. 49,. In the house
eight bills from the committee on the Judiciary
were passed, one of them providing for the in
spection of immigrants coming to the United
vent the interference by United States courts
with the collection of state taxes levied against
railroad corporations. Notwithstanding their
being operated by receivers appointed by United
States courts.
THE senate was not in session the 21st.
In the house, for the second time "a joint
resolution providing for the election Of United
States senators by the people was passed by a
vote of more than two-thirds of the members
present. The rest of the session occupied
in discussing the bill directing the restoration,
as fast as vacancies occur, of railway postal
clerks who were dismissed from the service be-
tween March Is and May l, 1899. No conclusive
action was taken on the bill.
IN the senate, on the 23d, the event Of prin-
cipai interest was Mr.. Gormans speech, talk
ing up the gauntlet thrown down by the presi-
dent in his letter to Chairman Wilson of the
house ways and means committee. He spoke
three hours in advocacy of the senate bill, and
declared that both the secretary of the treas
ury and the president had given their assent
to the conference bill prepared by Senators
Jones and Vest. In this he was corroborated
by both the senators named. Senator White
favored the motion to insist on the senate
amendments and to agree to further confer
ence. No action was taken on any Of the pend
ing motions. In the house. it being impos-
sible to secure quorum on account of the at
traction in the senate chamber no business
was transacted.