The Forrest City times., 1894-05-18
CONGRESS SSlONAL
The Proceedings of the Week Briefly
 Given.

SOON after the senate met on the Sth Mir Harris moved tp proceed with the tariff bill. Mir Hoar took the floor in op losition 10 the bill and during his remarks excited the ire of Mir. Gray tDel) who replied 10 him in lively manner. The discussion for the day was closed by Mir. Morrill, and at 4:45 o'clock the senate went into executive session ... The bill for the erection of public printing office in Washing ton occupied the attention of the house and closed by a resolution from Mir Holman to re-. fer the matter of purchasing site to com mission The naval appropriation bill was then taken up and the house adjourned
 IN the senate on the 9th a message was re- cefved from the president transmitting the cor respondence called for relative to Samoa At the conclusion of the morning hour Mir Allen (Neb called up his resolution for a committee to investigate the alleged clubbing of Coxey's m by police and a sharp debate followed participated in by Senators Allen Daniel and Sherman. The tariff bill was then debated un- til adjournment. In the house some talk was had upon the useless expenditure in the print ing of eulogies upon deceased senators and representatives which it was charged were never re Id. Several local bills passed and the naval appropriation bill was taken up and oc. cupied the attention of the house until adjourn ment
 WHEN the senate met on the 10th MT. Pat ton. the newly-appointed senator from Michi. gan. took his seat After routine business the Allen resolution to investigate the alleged club ping of Coxev's men on May came up. and Senators Teller and Stewart spoke in favor of its adoption Mir. Hoar spoke vehemently against it Mir Harris said ke had been op- posed to the resolution. but after hearing MT Teller he would favor it Pending discussion the morning hour expired and debate on the tarif bill was resumed At o'clock resolu- tions on the death of Representative Brattan of Maryland, were adopted and the senate ad- iournad The session of houSp " brief The death of Mir. Brattan, of Maryland, was nnounced. committee app inted to at tend the funeral and the house adjourned
 AFTER Mir Allen had vainly tried to bring up his Coxey resolution in the ssnate on the llth- and after brief discussion of MT. Pefer's in- dustrial depression resolution the tarin debate was resumed and occupied the attentio of the senate until it went into executive session =. The house took ction on some minor bills and then went into committee of the whole on gen. eral appropriation bills and the committee con tinued its session until o'clock At the even ing session pension bills were considered
 WHEN the hour arrive for the meeting of the senate on the l2th. only four senators were in their seats and it was nearly half an hour be- fore quorum was obtained After some rou. tine business the tarin bill was taken up and considered by paragraphs until adjournment. When the house met Mir Ogden. elected from Louisiana to succeed MT Blanchard was sworn in and after routine business the naval appropriation bill was considered in committee of the whole until adjournment
 AFTER one hour devoted to routine and other business of little importance the senate on the l4th entered upon the seventh week of the tarin debate, the sugar schedule being under consider ition most of the day . The house was engaged in District of Columbia business. small sensation brought about by a negro man rising in the gallery and addressing the speaker and declaring that the Lord had directed him to appear and speak in favor of the Coxey bill The negro was elected and con 1. sideration of appropriation bills resumed