The Washington times., 1894-03-30
NOTES FROM THE SENATE AND HOUSE.

The Senate went into executive session at
Sis o'clock yesterday, after which it ad-
journed until Monday. when Senator Harris
intimated the tariff bill would be taken up.
Yesterdays meeting of the House Commit
tee on Pacific Railroads was consumed in a
further discussion of the Brown-Frye refund
ing bill, but without any substantial results.
Representative Morse, of Massachusetts,
presented to the House Yesterday a resolu-
ton from the Methodist ministers Of Boston,
indorsing his bill Furnishing seduction in the
District of Columbia.
The House Committee on Public Buildings
and Grounds yesterday agreed to bill pro-
viding for the erection of hall of records in
Washington on a site on a square adjoining
the Capitol grounds cn the southwest.
Senator Harris yesterday introduced bill
in the Senate authorizing the court of claims
to determine the status as to citizenship Of
white men who have married Cherokee Indian
women and white women who have married
Cherokees.
Representative Crawford. of North Carolina,
yesterday introduced a joint resolution di-
recting the Secretary of the Treasury TO with
hold 11s6, 900 of the sum to be paid the
Cherokee nation for the Cherokee outlet, as q
fund to pay Cherokees living east of the Mis-
sissippi river.
The Senate took up and passed yesterday
completion of title to certain lands disposed
of under the act of Congress commonly known
as the donation act, and for the protection
of purchasers and occupants of the lands,
which are situated in the states of Washing
ton, Oregon. and Idaho.
The House indian Affairs Committee yes
terday ordered favorable report on reso-
luton providing for the restoration to the
public domain of portions of the Ulntah and
Uncompaghre Indian reservation not availa-
| BILE for the use of the Indians. The commit
tee amended the resolution by making the
price of the asphalt lands disposed o. at $50
| per acre.
| Secretary Herbert was before the Joint Com
| mittee on Naval Personnel yesterday long
enough to state that he had found some flaws
| in the calculations upon which his bill to re-
| lieve stagnation was based, and that he would
| submit at an early day modified draft of the
| measure governed by the same general prin-
ciples, but differing more or less in details
| Senator Morgan, Chairman OF the Com
| mittee on Foreign Relations. said after the
close of the executive session yesterday that
| he would move early next week to take the
| Chinese treaty up for action next Thursday
or Friday, as he was OF the opinion tina. there
would be sufficient lull in the tariff debate
| by that time to admit of this change in the
proceedings, but that the debate on it would
not be in open Senate.
| Senator Lodge. of Massachusetts, intro
| duced the following resolution, which was
| agreed to, into the Senate yesterday: "Re-
solved, that the Secretary of tine Treasury be
directed to furnish the Senate with states
ment OF the cash value, determined by the
average price of the New York and London
markets. of all imports, classified under diff
ierent heads, from all countries having de-
| preciated paper currency since June 80. 1898.
and also table showing by months the rate
of exchange with those countries.