The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-08-16
CONGRESS.
Sondensed Report of the Weeks Proceed.
 ings of the House and Senate

Sondensed Report of the Weeks Proceed. ihgs or the House and Senate THE senate held a very short session or ,bc sun which was devoted chiefly to the consider ation Of pension bills, thirty-seven of which passed. number of other bills but of no general importance, passed .. The house was not in session
 IN the senate on the 9th a resolution was in-
 troduced by Mir, Mills making certain declara- tlons In levying tarifi duties, which was or oereo to temporarily lie on the table. Mr. Chandler's resolution providing for m inyesti- gation or the Dominion Coal Co. of Nova Scotia ana Mr. Mills substitute inQuiring whether any member Of congress was interested in tho company was debated but not acted on The
 oill Tor the deportation of anarchists was taken up and explained by Mir Hill. After the aooptlon of several amendments the bill passed ana u conference ordered The house trans acted unimportant routine work and spent most or the session debating senate amend- mehtS to the Indian appropriation bill. Mir. JohnSon (O) presented the memorial Of Cleve- land Central Labor union asking the impeach- ment of Judge Kicks, It was referred. A bill
 was passed granting to the Kansas City, Okla homa & Pacific Railway Co. a right-cf-way
 through the Indian territory and the house ad- iourned
 THE senate held n short and uuinteresting session on the 7th. The most important buSi- ness was the passage of n resolution directing the president to take steps for the release of American citizens confined in the island Of Cuba for participation in the late rcbellions
 ,..The house held brief session transacting no business of interest. Adjournment was had at 2:4S
 THE senate on the Sth passed the house bill 10 reimburse the late Treasurer Nebecker foi S,OOO paid by him to make good a shortage iu his accounts when his office was turned over tc his successor Mir. Allen introduced bill tc prevent professional lobbying A number oi | bills of local character passed, also the sen. ate bill admitting free certain exhibits to the Atlanta exposition in 1895 O.. In the house Mir. Bailey (TeX), from the judiciary committee, presented resolution providing for an invest. gatton by that committee of the charges against Judge Kicks, which was agreed to- The house then considered public buildings bills in com mittee of the whole. Then the question of q quorum was sprung and without completing the work before it the house adjourned. THE senate held a very brief session on the Eth and transacted no business of general pub. lie interest. In the house Mir. Boutelle, upon question of personal privilege denied the published imputation that he had introduced the resolution recognizing the Hawaiian re- public for political purposes and proceeded to speak in severe terms of several members Of the administration when the speaker decided that he had gone outside the question of privilege, and when he insisted on speaking the chair required him to take his seat. The militia bill was then debated for a time in very lively manner. calling forth much talk on the subject of sending troops into a state with out call from the governor Six relief bills were then passed and the house adjourned.
 THE senate had lively time when the ses- sion commenced on the 10th. Mir Hills reso- lution directing the tarih conferees to report the difficulties and causes of failure to agree was a sensation, and came near being adopted before it's importance was discovered. Mir. Vest favored it's adoption so that the calcium light of truth might be turned on." After lively
 time, however, vote was stayed of for the present and the resolution went over. The re-
 mainder of the day was devoted to considering the Chinese treaty in executive session. Tho house had under consideration the projects of a government exhibit at Atlanta to cost SsO0.0)0, and to give ,000OO1 acres of land to certain
 states to encourage the reclamation Of deserts.
 At the evening session pension bills were con sidered.