Birmingham age-herald., 1894-08-01
THAT PRINTING OFFICE 7 q Continpss to Make It's Periodical
 Appearance.
 T TTS TIME IT IS SETTLED  10 House Gets Through With Considerable Amount
 of Business.
TIME IT IS SETTLED

WASHINGTON, July 3l.-The stupeiying dullness of the senate proceedings today was interrupted, but not enlivened, by repetition of the discussion which comes up every year on the sui ject of a site for a new building for the government print ing office. For several years past there have been three rival propositions pressed with about equal pertinacity. The one which had heretofore the most numerous partisans, including Messrs. sherman and Teller, is the acquisition of the square known as the Malone lot, not far from the present building. The next in point of number of supporters, including the chairman of the committee on printing in the last congress, Mir. Manderson, is the purchase of the square known as the base- ball lot, and the third, of which the present chairman of the committee on printing, MT. German, is the chief advo- cate, is the retention of the present build ing and the acquisition of adjoining prop erty sufficient to erect an addition that will meet all the requirements of the gov eroment in the way of public printing and binding.
 In the sundry civil appropriation bill, which came before the senate today, an the purchase of tho "Mahoue lot,D al- though the chairman of the committee, MT. Cockrell, declared himself opposed to it and in favor of MT. Gorman's plan. A mo- ton to substitute the 'baseball lot'' was made by MT. Manderson, and was rejected yeas IS, nays 34. motion to acquire an addition to the site of the existing building was also rejected and the amendment re- ported by the committee on appro priations for the purchase of the 'ssMahone lot" was agreed to without division. The bill went over without final action.
 The conference report on the Indian aD- propriation bill, showing agreements on some amendments and disagreements on others, was presented and adopted and further conference was ordered.
 The general deficiency bill was reported and placed on the calendar, and so was the house bankruptcy bill which is to be taken up for consideration on Monday next.
 Some half dozen bills were taken from the calendar and passed. The house bill to prevent interference in the collection of state, county and municipal taxes assessed against corporations and corporate prop erty was taken up and explained by Mir. Coke. He said that it was intended to ap- ply to railroads which were in the hands of receivers, it having been held that all power on the part of the states to collect taxes from such railroads was withdrawn. The passage of the bill, he said, was abso- luteiy necessary in order that state reve- nnes might suffer no diminution. The bill had been reported unanimously by the ju- dietary committee. On objection by Mir. Mitchell of Oregon the bill went over until tomorrow.
 Adjourned.
 IN THE HOUSE.
 The house transacted considerab ble busi- ness in the three and half hours that it was in session today, but little of it was important. Most of the bills passed were reported from the committee on naval af- fairs, and one only was of general interest. It authorized the secretary of the navy, under proper regulations, to loan to the states applying for them such ships as can be spared for that purpose to be used for the instruction and improvement of the naval military of the states.
 MT. Hatch reported the result of the con- ference on the agricultural appropriation bill--an agreement on all items except the one appropriating $1 1000, ,000 Tor the extir- patton of the Russian thistle in the north- west, put on the bill in the senate. After discussing the conference report for an hour the house voted 176 to 52 to insist upon its disagreement to the senate amend ment and to agree to the con ference asked by the senate. Messrs. Hatch, Forman and Waugh were namsd as managers in the present house.
 MT. Outhwaite asked unanimous consent to withdraw the order from the committee on rules for the consideration of the bill to protect forest~ reservations, which was pending when the house adjourned yester- day, and it was agreed to.
 At 5:20 the house adjourned until tomor- row.