The Forrest City times., 1894-02-23
CONGRESSIONAL
The Proceedings of the Week Briefly


 TIE senate on the lsth had the Hawaiian matter again under discussion Senator Gray spoke at length on the subject sus taining the admins tration- Senator Pettigrew presented a resolution directing the secretary of agrl- culture 10 report to the senate the amount Of wheat in the country March 9 last the total yield of the past year and the amount now Tn the country. It was adopted Senator Gal ienger presented substitute for the Wilson tariff bil and after receiving n notice from the house of the death of Representative Houk the senate adjourned @ The house considered Dis trct of Columbia business and the remainder of the session was consumed in payIng app-o- priate 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- ton of ihe administration. At the conclusion of his speech the bill compelling the Rock Island rsilro to stop at certain towns in Okla hona vas taken up. but the senate soon went into executive session. Mir Blands seignior- age coinage silver bill occupied the attention of the house during the entire day, the house being in committee of the whole
 THE entire time of the senate on the 18th was taken up in discussing the house bill compelling the Rock Island railroad to stop iis trains at the new towns of Enid and Rouad Pond in the Indian territory Senator Martin tkan.) op- posed the bill He said the legislature of Okla uOma Dau diU plt power tO dcoi Nltu tue hdttci and congress should not interfere. Senator Pef fer favored the bill. properly amended The bill was pending at adjournment. In the house all efforts 10 limit debate on the Bland seigniorage hill failed and the debate proceeded without MEs.. The resignation of Mir brawlev, Of South Carolina. who has been appointed 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
 IN the senate on the 18th the credentials of Mir McLaurin. senator from Mississippi to succeed Mir. Walthall, were presented and the ca b Of office administered 10 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 8 vote on it's passage there was fie-G to H The vice president voted in the affirmative and the bill passed The senate then went into ex- ecutive session. ... In the house debate on the Bland seigniorage silver bill was continued and oil efforts of Mir. Bland 10 secure limit to de- bate failed The debate was quite lively at times but the house adjourned pending action
 THE senate proceedings were brief and of no general interest on the i6th A resolution of- fered by MT Hoar was adopted asking the president for all records and dispatches from Minister Willis nos 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 a2 yeas to q nays. Mir. Bland's seigniorage bill again occupied the at tention of the house. but all work was blocked by the hlibustering of it's opponents At the eveniny session for the consideration of pen sions there was no quorum and the house ad- journed
 HE senate transacted no business on the l7th. .... The house refused to concur in the senate amendment to the bill requiring Rock Island trains 10 stop at certain towns in Okla homa and after a futile attempt to consider MT. Bland's seianiorage bill euloRies were delivered upon the death of Representative Lilley, of Pennsylvania. and the house adjourned