The sun., 1894-03-22
WORK OF CONGRESS-.
RESUME OF PRoSEEDINGS OF TIIR
SENATE AND HOUSE.
Condensed Record of the Important
transactions OF Our National Law
mnIcrs-Thc Work Done in Both
Branches.

Washington, March 13.-Mr. Rlanch-
ard. the newly appointed senator from
Louisiana, was presented to the senate
at the opening of that body to-day, and
took the oath of Office. The resolution OF
Senator PETER calling for an investiga-
ton as TO senators specializing i'll Wall
street was. un motion of Mr.. German.
laid on the table by vote of 33 to ~.
The seigniorage hill was then taken Up
and Mr.. Villas resumed his speech iii op-
position to the measure. Mr.. Allison OF
Iowa made 'he speech which he was not
we'll enough to deliver last Friday.
The day in the house was devoted EN-
tnely to the consideration of bill re-
lating 10 the extension of the time for
allowing StI Aet railroad company in
this city TO change its system of motive
power.
Washington, March 1.-THE proceed
ings in the senate yesterday were of an
extremely unintprCs ting character. With
cut the intervention of any morning bI 81
ness. except the presentation of few
petitions and the introduction of some
LEimpoI tant bills, the sen9 te took Mp the
consideration If the ST tignioragc bill. Sen
atOrs Stewart and Lindsay spoke in favor
and Mr.. Dolph spoke i'll opposition to it,
holding that its passage would destroy
the existing equality between gold and
silver, and the two new senators, Mr..
McLaurin of Mississippi and Mr.. Blanch-
C1d of Louisiana received their committee
appointments. Mr.. Stewart of Nevada
t, ok the floor in support of the Bland
In.
The house yesterday began the consid-
GRAFTON of The bill making appropriations
for tie sundry civil expenses of the gov
ernmtnt, and fair progress was made.
Only three amendments of any import
ancc were aIOpt2d-onc ,.ppIopriating
$43.5O0 for lighting Hay lake channel,
another of $64.OO0 for the public build
ing at Buffalo and aIHther Of $4,000
for repairing the Ostoftice at New York.
Washington, March 15.-Fhe test vote
which was to be taken to-day on the
segniorage bill-the vote on Mr.. ALI
sens motion to ecCnsider the vote by
which the bill passed the third readi1g-
had the effect of attracting a large At
tendance TO the gallery. The senate early
took up the consideration of the BILL
and Mr.. Teller of Colorado and Mr.
iscorga of Mississippi spoke in favor Of
its pi ssag9, the former criticising severe
ly some statements made by Senator
Sherman in his recent speech against the
hill. Before Mr.. George had concluded
his remarks the hour for a vote arrived
End Mr.. Harris insisted upon the vote
being then taken on Mr.. Allison's motion,
with the result that it vas defeated by
% to 45. 1t is expected that the bill
h.. -,
nCrrow. Mr.. Manderson moved then to
commit the bill to the fin lnce committee,
and this motion was llSO detected by a
vote of y to A. The vote in detail is
as follows OH Mr.. Al.son's motion:
Ayes-Aldrich. Allison, Brice. Caffery,
Carey, Che ndler, Cullo.n, Davis. Frye,
Gallinger, Hale, Hawley. Hoar. Ledge.
Mcmillan, Mcpherson, Mandcrson
Mitchell (Wis.), Morrill,. Fl liner, Proctor,
Quay, Smith. Stockbridge, Villas, Wilson,
Washburn-2S
Nays-Allen, Bate, Berry, Blackburn,
Blanchard, Butler, Cali, Camden, Cocl,
rell, Coke, ColqIitt, Daniel, Dubois,
Faulkner, Gibson, Gordon. Han E,rough.
Harris, Hill. Irby. Jones (Ark), Kyle.
Lindsay, Martin, Mills, Mitchell orr.
Morgan Murphy, PascO, P4ffar, Perkins,
Pettigrew, Power, Pugh. Ransom, Roach,
ShOup, Squire Stewart, Teller, Tnrpie,
Vest Voorhees,, White, Wolcott+5.
TIE house is making wonderful prog
ross with the sun1ry civil bill. To-day
forty pages of the bill were disposed of
making in all eighty-three in two days,
and leaving sixteen pages more exclusive
cf two paragraphs, those relating to thu,
cOs st and geodetic surveys and the Mis-
souri, river commission. whith were passed
over temporarily, No I'm 4ndmentS of i'm
p0rtance were adopted to-day although
the Northwestern members made 4 Wig
OrouS effort to i'll Tease the amount for
the survey of public lands. The GpprO-
priatiOn for the geological survey which
usually encounters bitter opposition, to-
| lay passed unchallenged, the amount ap.
propriated being S414,OOO.
Washington, March 16-'The seignorage
| bill has passed the senate--44 to 81. The
| following is the detailed vote:
Ieas--Allen, Bate, Berry Blackburn
Blanchard, Butler, Call, Cockrell, Coke
Colquitt, Daniel, Dubois, Faulkner
| George, Gordon, Hansb1ough, Harris
Hunton, Irby, Jones (Ark,), Kyle. Lind
say, McLauri4, Martin, Mills, Mitchell
| (Or), Morgan, Pascoe, Peffer, Perkins
Pettigrew, Power, Pugh, Quay, Turpie
Vest, VOORHEES,, White, Wolcott-44.
Nays-Aldrich, Allison, Brice, Caffery
Carey. Chaudler, Cullom, Davis, Dolph
Frye, Gallnger, Gibson, German, Hale
nawley, Higgins, Lodge, Mcmillan, Nc
Pherson, Manderson, Mitchell wis.,
Morrill,, Murphy, Palmer, Platt. Proctor
Smith, Stockbridge, Villas, Washburn
Wilson-31.
Friends of the bill say President Cleve
lend VIII sign it, while others claim thai
ii Will be vetoed.
The senate also passed the bill to amAnl
an act authC riZing the construction of &
high wagon bridge over the Missouri river
at Sioux City. The amendment extend.
the time for the construction OF tn,
bridge until March 2, 1856. A chartel
was also grented tile Iowa & Nebraska
PCbtOon Bridge company, authorizing j
to build bridge across the Nlissour
river near Sioux City, Iowa, and tk.I
after an executive session Of thirty-iivt
minutes the doors were reopened and tt
seEhte took from the calendar and pas ses
bill granting to the Duluth & Wiunipe,
| RailrC ad company a right of way through
the Chippewa and White Earth Indian
reservations in Minnesota. Bills to rx
ten'l the time for comple ting 4 bridg
RGrQss the Missouri ri' er between Kansas
City and the town Of aiblsy, Mo, ant
granting right of wiz TO the Duluth
Manitoba Railroad company across tn
Fort Pembina reservation in North Da
k"ta were passed, nd the senate ad
jCurned until MOndly
The house put in. the day discussin,
and amending the sundry civil BILL
Washington, March 17,-Senators rep
Test nting both the Democratic and lie
pu llcan SIDES of the senate condh1tue
on finance expressed the opinion at iii
close Of the committee meeting to-da
that the tal;f bill would lie reported t
tie senate on Tuesday. They stated
icw ever, that no ngreeInent to ths efice
had been entered into, but that the opin
ion was the result of knowledge O
the progress that had been made upol