The Princeton union., 1894-03-22
WORK OF CONGRESS-.
RESUME OF PROSEEDINGS OF TIIE,
\, SENATE AND HOUSE.
Condensed Record OF the Important
transactions of Our National Lnvv-
makers-The Work Done In Both
branches.


sens motion to reconsider the vote by
which the bill passed the third reading
mad the effect of attracting Il large at
tendance to the gallery. The senate early
took up tho consideration of the bill,
and Mr.. Teller of Colorado and Mr.
,'eorg: of Mississippi spoke in favor of
its ptssagn, the former criticising severe
ly some sta tements made by Senator
Sherman in his recent speech against the
hill. Before Mr. George had concluded
his remarks the hour for vote arrived
:hd Mr. Harris insisted upon the vote
being then taken On Mr.. Alison's motion,
with the result that it vas defeated by
2S to 45. 1t is expected that the bill
will pass by about the same vote to-
mcrrow Mr.. Manderson moved then to
commit the bill to the finance committee,
and this motion was ,lso defea ted by 4
vote of - to A. The vote in detail is
ats follows on Mr.. All.sons motion: y
Ayes-Aldrich, Allison, Brice. Caffery.
Carey, Che cndler, Cullen, Davis. Frye
Gallinger, Hale, Hawlty. Hoar, Ledge
Mcmillan, Mcpherson, Mandcrson
Mitchell (Wis.), Morrill,. =. lmer Proctor,
Quay, Smith, Stockbridge, Villas, Wilson,
Washburn-2S.
Nays-Allen. Bate, Berry, Blackburn,
Blanchard, Butler, Call Camden, Coc,
rell, Coke, Colqritt, Daniel. Dubois,
Faulkner, Gibson, Gordon, Han ,brough,
Harris, Hill, Irhy, Jones (Ark), Kyle.
Morgan, Murphy, <Pasco, PETER. Perkins,
Pettigrew, Power, Pugh RANSOM Roach,
Shoup, Squire, Stewart, Teller, Tnrpie,
Vest voorhees,. White, Wolcott-45
lie house is making wonderful prog
ress with the sunlry civil bill. To-day
forty pages of the bill were disposed of
making in all eightythree in two days,
ana leaving sixteen pages more exclusive
ct two paragraphs, those relating to the
coz st and geodetic surveys and the Mis-
souri, river commission. whit h were passed
over temporarily. No I'M .ndments of inn
portance were adopted to-day Though
the Northwestern members made 4 Wig
orous effort to in TEASE the amount for
the survey of public lands. The ;ppro-
prlation for the geological survey which
usually encounters bitter opposition, to-
,ay passed unchallenged. the amount ap-
propriated being S414,OOO.
Washington, March 1G.--'rhe seigniorase
bill has passed the senate-44 to 81 The
following is the detailed vote:
Yeas-Allen. Bate, Berry Blackburn,
Blanchard, Butler, Call, Cockrell, Coke,
Colquitt, Daniel Dubois, Faulkner,
George, Gordon, Hansbrough, Harris,
Hunton, Irby, Jones jArk.). Kyle, Lind
say, McLaurin, Martin, Mills, Mitchell
Orr, Morgan, Pascoe, PETER, Perkins,
Pettigrew, Power, Pugh. Quay, Turpic
Vest, Voorhees,, White, Wolcott-44
Nays-Aldrich, Allison, Brice, Caffery
Carey, Chandler. Cullom, Davis, Dolph
Frye, Gallinger, Gibson, German, Hale
Hawley, Higgins, Lodge, Mcmillan, Nc,
PhersOn, Henderson, Mitchell (Wis)
Morrill,, Murphy, Palmer, Platt, Proctor
Smith, Stockbridge, Villas, WashburIl
Wilson--31.
Friends Of the bill say President Cleve
lend v Ill sigh it, while others claim tina
it will be vetoed.
The senate also passed the bill to ama1lt
An act autho rizing the construction of {
high wagon bridge over the Missouri rive
at Sioux City. The amendment extends
the time for the construction OF tn,
bridge until March 2, 1885, A charte:
w;,s also granted the Iowa & Ncbrask;
PCntoon Bridge company, authorizing i
to build bridge across the Missouri
river near Sioux City, Iowa, and the,
after an executive session of thirty-fiy
minutes the doors were reOpened and th
seEate took from the ,al lonlar and pas Sc.
bill granting to the Duluth & Winnpe
Railroad company a right of way through
tie Chippewa and White Earth Indiul
reservations in Minnesota. Bills to cx
ten'l the time for compile ting bridg
across the Missouri ri, er between Kansa
City and the town of Sitley, Mo-, AM
granting right Of WAY to the Duluth 1
Manitoba Railroad company across tn
Fort Pembina reservation in North Da
k"ta were passed, nd the senate ad
jcurned until Monday.
Washington, March 19.-Thc house tc
day resumed consideration Of the SIR
dry civil BILL When this is disposed Of
which will probably be done tonight, tn
house will rake up the four contestc
election cases which are pending til
O'Neil-Joy :lse from the Tenth Mis-
souri, district; the Williams-Settlc case
from the Fifth North Carolna; rh
English Hilborn tase from the Thir
Il" California, and the Whatley Cobb cas-
5 from the Fifth Alabama. The O'Nei
Joy end EEglish-Hilborn cases. wIlic
were both decided against the slttin
members Republicans) by strict part
vote in the committee on elections, az
the most important and will require tn
lnajo portion of the time.
The senate devoted itself to routine bu
mess of no general interest. It is prol
able that the Notifications appropri;
tion bill will be reported from the con
mittee, and if it should be, it will prol
ably be taken up fer discussion and pr
.npcn its passage. For the rest, thel
will be an effort to dispose of the go,
ernment printing site, the Russian thist
appropriation and the McGarrahan bill
and of large number of special bill
On the calendar.
Washington, March 21.-The sundr
civil appropriation bill was passed by til
house without division. The amendment
to the appropriation for the general Ian
office, amending the provision of the a,
Of 1891 repeating the timber culture an
pre-emption act, which was adopted
the committee at the suggestion Of NJ
Holman, and which was bitterly oppose
by the Western members, was defeate
in the house. The clauses which sougl
to require an accounting by the disbur