Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1894-03-22
WORK OF CONGRESS.
Condensed Record OF the Imporfsns
Transaction of Our National Law.
m~aker-The Work Done In both
branches

ard the newly appointed senator RON
I Louisiana. was presented 20 the senate
1t the opening Of that body to-day, and
| took the oath of Office. The resolution or
| Senator PETER calling for an investisa-
| ton as 70 senator's Specializing III Wal
street was. IN motion of Mr.. German.
| laid On che table by q vote IF 80 10 q.
| The seigniorage bill W. then taken Up
| and Mr.. Villas resumed his speech Ii OPP
position 10 the measure. Mr.. Allison OF
Iona made he speech wh.ch be was not
well enoa-k 70 deliver last Friday.
The day in the house was oevctad en-
| III ely 10 the consideration Of a hAl re-
| lstius 70 the extension nf the tine for
allowing = stl ss railroad company in
this city TO change its system Of motive
power.
Washington. March 1.-THE proceed
ings in the senate yesterday were OF an
extremely uninterss ting character. With
| cut the intervention Of any morning bts-
ness, excerpt the presentation OF g few
petitions and the introduction Of some
LrirrpoTtsnt bills. ths senfte o n2 the
| consideration RI the signiorage bill SEN
ators Stewart and Lindsay spoke in favor
and Mr.. Dolph spoke in opposition 10 il,
| holding that it's passage would destroy
the existing equality between sAd and
silver. and the two new senator's. Mr..
| McLaurin Of Mississippi and Mr.. Bianch-
rid Of Louisiana received their committee
| appointments. Mr.. Stewart Of Nevada
t ok the foor in support OF the Bland
t:l
| The house yesterday began the consia-
grafton of The bin making appropriations
for tie sundry civil expenses of the gnv-
e-nussnt, and fair progress was made.
Only three amendments Of any import
ance Were adopted-onc Lppropriatng
$4,000 for lighting Hay lake channel,
another of SG40G0 for the public build
ing al Buffalo and aA~thcr of 10000
for repairing the rostot5ce al New YOrk.
Washington. March I5-The test vote
which was 10 be taken to-day on The
seigniora-e bil-the vote On Mr.. Ali
scn's motion 10 recC nsideT the vote by
which the bin passed the third readiag-
had the eaect Of attracting 4 large at
tendance 20 the gallery. The senate early
took up tho consideration OF the bill,
and Mr.. Teller Of Colorado and Mr..
Seorg. Of Mississippi SPOKE in favor Of
its paksage, the former criticising severe
ly some stGteEnen-s made by Senator
Sherman in his recent speech against the
hIL Before Mr.. George had concluded
his remarks the hour for 4 vote arrived
and Mr.. Harris insisted upon the vote
being then taken on Nr. Anison's motion.
with the result that it Sss defeated by
- to 10. II is expected that the bill
viii pass by about TIE same vote to-
DcrrOw. Mr.. Henderson moved then 10
commit the bill 10 the finance committee.
and this motion was Is6 detected by q
| vote Of p TO A-Tha rot. IN detail 3
as follows OF Mr.. Ali.son's notion:
Ayes-Aldrich. Allison. Brioe. Cafery.
Carey, Grinder. Cullen, Davis. Frye.
tIa!linger, Hale. Hswiry. Hoar, Lodge,
McMillan. Mcpherson. Henderson
Mitchell (Wis.I Morrill,. T; liner. Proctor,
onay, Smith. Stockbridge, Villas, Wilson,
Wsshburn-2S.
Nays-Anen. Bate. Berry. Blackburn,
blanchard. Butler, Call. Camden. CoeE
rel. Coke, CclqTitt. Daniel. Dubois,
Faulkner. Gibson, Gordon, Han :trough,
Harris, Hill. Irby, Jones (Arkl, Kyle,
Lindsay, Martin, Mills, Mitchell orr,
Morgan, Murphy, Paseo, Psfar. Perkins.
PettiSrew, Power, Ptgh. Ransom. Roach.
Snoup. Squire, Stewart, Teller, Turpie,
Vest voorhees,, White. Woleott-45.
Tte house is makirg wonderful prog
ress with the sun3ry 'ivl bill. Today
forty pages of the bill we're disposed of
making in all eighty-three in two days.
and leaving sixteen pages more exclusive
OF two paragraphs, those relating 10 the
Coz 81 and gnodetic surveys and the Mis-
sour river commission. which were passed
over temporarily. No I'm .ndments of i'm
pnrtance were adopted to-day although
the Northwestern members made 3 Wig
oroas effort to in Tease the amount for
the survey of public lrnds. The rppro-
pfiation for the geological survey which
usually encounters bitter opposition, to-
DAY passed unehallenged, the amount ap-
propriated being siii.Gs0.
Washington. March 16.-Tbe sej-niora-e
bill has passed the senate-4i TO 81. the
following is the detailed vote:
Ieas-Allen. Bate. Berry Blackburn.
Blanchard, Butler. Call. CockreII. Coke.
Colquitt, Daniel, Dubois, Faulkner,
George, Gordon, Harsbrough. Harris,
Hunton, Irby, Jones ark. Kyle. Lind
say. McLaurin. Martin. Mills, Mitchell
OR, Morgan, Pascoe. PETER, Perkins.
Pettigrew, Power. Push, Quay. Turpie,
Vest, Voorhees,, White, Wolcou-A.
Nays-Aldrich, Allison. Brice. Csffery.
Carey. Chandler. CuIlom, Davis. Dolph.
Frye. Gallinger. Gibson. German. Hale.
Hawley. Higgins, Lodge, Mcmillan, Nc
Pherson, Henderson, Mitchell wis.l.
Morrill,. Murphy. Palmer, Piatt. Proctor.
Smith, S~tockbridge, Villas, Washburn,
Wilson-3l.
Friends of the bin ssy President Cere-
lTnd VII sign il. while others c,a;m that
it VIII be Tetued.
The senate also passed the bill To amend
an act authorizing the construction of a
high wagon bridge over the Missouri river
at Sioux City. The amendment extends
the time for the construction az che
bridge Until March 2. 1856. A charter
WAS also grented the Iowa & Nebraska
ffntoon Bridge company. authorizing /,
to hiild a bridge across the Missouri
river near Sioux City. Iowa. and ,l.n
after an executive session OF ,hirty-Sva
minutes the doors we're reopened and ~,
seLrte took from the ealaniar and ssa3
a bill granting 20 the Duluth. & Wiun;pey
halirtad company 4 rifhi of way through
Tie Chippewa and White Earth InJ;au
reservations in Minnesota. Bills 10 OK
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