The Forrest City times., 1894-08-03
CONGRESSIONAL.
The Proceedings of the Week Briefly

Given.
 THE interest n .he senate continued on the l 24th- The enti-e session was taken up in de- bate on the tariff bill, or rather on questions growing out of its consideration. Mir. Hill | (N. Y.) ST kc for ora- two hours and cham | pioned the position of the president. The gal- l leries were crowded and Mir Hills remarks | were a continuous stream of sarcasm poured | forth upon his opponents Mir. Gallery Ua.) | followed MT. Hill He favored a bounty on sugar and stated that he would have voted against the bill if sugar had been placed on the | free.list Pending MT. Canery's remarks the senate adjourned .. The house. passed by a vote of 140 to 5 Ca party yote) the bill for the reinstatement of railway mail clerks dismissed
 between March l5 and May l, 1889: also large
 batch of other bills, most of them local in their character, and at o'clock adjourned.
 THE senate on the 18th agreed to the confer
 once report on the legislative bill Mir Allen offered a resolution calling on Che attorney general for all correspondence, by telegraph or otherwise, that passet between the depart
 ment and the railroads centering in Chicago | from June to the present time, which went over Mir. Caffery resumed his remarks on the tariff bill. defending the duty on sugar At 230 the senate went into executive session .. In the house. after the reading of communications from the French government on the assass1na- tion of President Carnot, the. conference re- port on the legislative bill was agreed to and at o'clock the house adjourned.
 THE tariff was the absorbing topic that accu- pied the attention of the senate again on the 26th. Senator Villas (Wis.) made the leading speech of the day and made vigorous defense of the president At the conclusion of his speech he explained that for reasons stated he withdrew his motion to recede from the one- eighth differential on sugar. Mir. Hills motion to recedc from the amendment placing a duty of 10 per cent. on coal and iron was defeated.
 +fx-AI Mr n-f fv1nf instructing the conferees to recede from the one-eighth differential sugar and the mo- tion was under debate at adjournment. The proceedings in the house were lifeless. The conference report on the Qualifications bill was agreed to- Several unimportant bills passed and at 4:5o o'clock the house adjourned.
 THE senate held an interesting session on the 27th on the question of agreeing to the re- quest of the house for another conference on the tariff bill The chair ruled MT. Wash burns motion instructing the confereeS to re- cede from the one-eighth differential on sugar out of order An appeal was taken and a mo- tion to lay the appeal on the table was lost by tie vote This brought the senate to q direct vote on the Washburn motion and the interes5 was intense. MT. Washburn's motion was lost, however. the same vote, the populistS and Senators Hill and Irby voting with the republicans. The resolution to agree to a further conference was then agreed to and the senate adjourned until Monday ..-. NO quorum was present in the house and what business that was transacted by unanimous con- sent. Pension bills were considered at the evening session.
 THE senate was not in session on the 2Sth .... The house held brief session and passed a number of private bills joint resolution was adopted extendidg appropriations to Au- gust if. and the heat was so severe that an ad- journment was soon taken
 THE senate on the Both passed the bill pro viding for additional court facilities for the Indian territory. Mir. Allen (Neb) introduced bill to provide for the issuing of S50,0OO 600 in treasury notes to be distributed pro rata among the states flor the relief of the worthy poor" The conference report on the agri- cultural bin was received. There was disa- greement on the sl.O00OOo Russian thistle ap- propriation. The senate insisted on the amendment and sent the bill back to the house. The house resolution extending the appropria tions tos August IA adopted .. But little was done in the house. MT. Boutelle offered a resolution recognizing, the new Hawaiian re- public, which went over. While trying to se- cure consideration of MT. Mo Raes bill to pro tect forests, the quorum disappeared and the house adjourned. sa