Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-01-25
Routine Proceedings.

attention.
Routine Proceedings.
A number of amendment Is were offered in
the House Saturday, but only one sue
ceeded In running the gantlet of the Ways
and Means Committees disn pproval.
This was offered by Mr. Bynum.
and simply defined more explicitly
the classes of iron taxable under
the Wilson bill Two events OF interest
which lighted up day otherwise some
what dull were the Presidents veto of the
New York and New Jersey bridge bill and
his message transmitting the latest CORE
spondence from Hawaii 1t was agreed
that debate on the pending amendment.
substituting the agricultural section Of
the Mckinley law for the corresponding
section of the Wilson bill. should
close. 1t was also agreed that
Tuesday. after the House goes into com :
mittee OF the whole three hours should be
given to consideration of the coal sched-
ule and three hours to the Iron ore sched-
ule Then the House went into com mittee
of the whole. with Mr. Richardson In the
chair. Brief speeches were made by Mr..
Grosvenor. Mr. Coombs, Mr. Meyer and
Mr.. Simpson
Wednesday morning the House went into
committee of the whole to consider the
Wilson bill, and the debate was character
ICED by sharp repartee. Several amend
ments were rejected, and others offered.
The Senate In executive session re-
jected the nomination of J. Scott
Harrison. OF Kansas City, to be Sur
veyor of Customs at that port Mr..
Harrison is n brother of eX-President Har-
rison. The fight in the Senate against his
confirmation has been led by Senators
Vest and Cockrell After an interesting
discussion of civil service reform the Sem
ate resumed as "the unfinished business
the House bill to repeal the Federal cleo
ton laws and the debate on that subject
continued. The bill went over without
action, but with pending amendment to
give to Congressional candidates the right
to have watchers at the polls
In the Senate Thursday PETER and Allen,
Populists, introduced resolutions attack
ing the proposed issue of bonds BY a
strict party vote In tho House It was de-
cided not to substitute the Mckinley wool
schedule. The aunfnished businessn- the
House bill to repeal the federal election
laws--was then taken up by the Senate
and Mr.. Vest addressed the Senate in sup
port OF the bill. A lot OF minor nominal
tions we're con firmed. Both houses adj
journed until Monday.
( Friday was q day Of amusing incidents
and exciting debates In the House. MIR.
Dalzell continued his remarks specifying
certain discre pancies between the theory
and practice of Mr.. Johnson. MIR. Johnson
briefly replied. denying the allegations
In detail and deprecating the policy
OF dragging personalities into a
tariff debate. He closed by making
another plea TO place steel rails
ON the free list Mr.. Wilson. of West vir-
ginia, made the principal speech in oppo-
sition. He pleaded earnestly that the
work of the Committee on Ways and Means
should not be altered without due consid-
GRAFTON. The amendment placing steel
rails on the free list was defeated by vote
of 20 to 100 Mr.. Henderson offered as an
amendment 10 the agricultural sched-
uie of the Wilson bill the cor
responding clause in the McKin-
lev law. This gave rise 10 some exciting
colloauies, but no action was taken. Unim-
portant speeches we're made at the evening
session, There was larger number OF
members present than for some time past
An agreement was then entered into
whereby three hours. Immediately after
the House goes into committee Of the whole
Monday, will be given 70 debate on the
sugar schedule, and the vote will then be
taken on any amendments which may be