The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-08-02
CONGRESSIONAL.
The Proceedings of the Week Briefly
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 TIE senate was not in session on the 21st. ... The house passed by vote of 137 to 49 the | Tucker resolution proposing an amendment to the constitution providing that senators
 shall be elected by direct vote of the peo-
 ple The senate amendments to the Indian
 appropriation bill were disagreed to and cons ference committee appointed
 IN the senate on the 23d the proceedings
 were highly interesting although resulting in the transaction of no business. The hall and galleries were packed to hear the speeches on
 the tariff bill conference. Mir. German (Md) )
 was the leading speaker and for nearly three
 hours he severely denounced the president s
 action on the tarin bill and gave the reasons
 why the senate had amended and finally agreed to the house bill, and he urged the senate to ad- here to the measure as passed. He was listened 70 with intense interest. MT. White (Cal) fol- lowed. About o'clock, before voting on the motion of Mir Hill to recede from the coal and iron amendment, the senate went into executive
 session and soon adjourned ... When the house met the in interest in the debate in the senate overshadowed everything else and it being im- possible to hold quorum an adjournment was taken.
 | THE interest in the senate continued on the Ath The entire session was taken up in de- bate on the tari1 bill, or rather on questions | growing out of its consideration Mir Hill | (N. Y.) spoke for over two hours and cham pioned the position of the president. The gall | leries were crowded, and Mir. Hills remarks were continuous stream of sarcasm poured forth upon his opponents. Mir. Caffery Ua.) followed Mir Hill. He favored bounty on sugar and stated that he would have voted against the bill If sugar had been placed on the free list Pending MT Cafferys remarks the senate adjourned ... The house passed by a vote of l40 to 53 Ca party vote) the bill for the reinstatement of railway mail clerks dismissed between March l5 and May 1, 1889; also a large batch of other bills, most of them local in their character, and at o'clock adjourned.
 THE senate on the 18th agreed to the confer- ence report on the legislative bill Mir Allen offered resolution calling on the attorney general for all correspondence, by telegraph or otherwise, that passed between the depart ment and the railroads centering in Chicago from June to the present time, which went over. Mir. Gallery resumed his remarks on the tariff bill, defending the duty on sugar. At 2:3O the senate went into executive session %. In the house, after the reading of communications from the French government on the assassina- tion of President Carnot the conference re- port on the legislative bill was agreed to and at o'clock tho house adjourned.
 THE tari1 was the absorbing topic that accu- pied the attention of the senate again on the 26th. Senator Villas (Wis.) made the leading speech Of the day and made a vigorous defense of the president At the conclusion of his speech he explained that for reasons stated he withdrew his motion to recede from the one eighth differential on sugar. Mir. Hills motion to recede from the amendment placing duty of 40 per cent on coal and iron was defeated. Mir. Washburn then revived MT. Villas motion instructing the conferees to recede from the one-eighth diferential on sugar and the mo- tion was under debate at adjournment .... The proceedings in the house were lifeless. The conference report on the Notifications bill was agreed to. Several unimportant bills passed and at 4:50 o'clock the house adjourned
 THE senate held an interesting session on the 27th on the question of agreeing to the re- quest of the house for another conference on the tariff bill. The chair ruled MT. Wash burns motion instructing the conferees to re- cede from the one-eighth diferential on sugar out of order. An appeal was taken and mo- tion to lay the appeal on the table was lost by a tie vote. This brought the senate to a direct vote on the Washburn motion and the interest was intense Mir. Washburn's motion was lost, however on the same vote, the populiSts and Senators Hill and Irby voting with the republicans. The resolution to agree to a further conference was then agreed to and the senate adjourned until Monday ....N No quorum was present in the house and what business that was transacted was by unanimous con- sent Pension bills were considered at the evening session.