The Forrest City times., 1894-07-27
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources.
CONGRESSIONAL PRocEEDINos.

IN the senate. on the 10th. the Indian appro- priation bill was finally passed The confer ence report on the diplomatic and consular bill was agreed to. At 3 p. m. message from the house asking further conference on the tarir bill was laid before the senate. followed by an oral report from MT. Voorhees,, chairman of the finance committee. to the effect that the con- ferees had been unable to agree. In the house, Mir. Wilson. chairman of the committee on ways and means, reported the failure of the conferees on the tarir bill to agree and moved that the house insist upon it's disagreement to the senate amendments. The conference reports on the naval and diplomatic and con- sular appropriation bills were reported and agreed to.
 IN the senate. on the goth, the entire days session was taken up by speeches provoked by the presentation of a message from the house asking for further conference on the tarin bill Mr. EiD. who was the leading speaker. declared that democratic senators would have to rally around the president or else they would go to the wall. No vote was taken on any of the propositions submitted. In the house eight bills from the committed on the judiciary were passed. one of them providing for the in- spection of immigrants coming to the United States at the port of departure. and one to pre- vent the interference by United States courts with the collection of state taxes levied against railroad corporations, notwithstanding their being operated by receivers appointed by United States courts.
 THE senate was not in session on the 2lst. ...... In the house, for the second time. joint resolution providing for the election of United States senators by the people was passed by vote of more than two-thirds Of the members present. The rest of the session was occupied in discussing the bill directing the restoration, as fast as vacancies occur, of railway postal clerks who were dismissed from the service be- tween March "a and May l. 1889. No conclusive action was taken on the bill.
 IN the senate. on the 23d. the event of prin- cipal interest was MT. German speech. talk ing up the gauntlet thrown down by the presi dent in his letter to Chairman Wilson of the house ways and means committee. He spoke three hours in advocacy of the senate bill, and declared that both the secretary of the treas ury and the president had given their assent to the conference bill as prepared by Senators Jones and Vest In this he was corroborated by both the senators named. Senator White favored the motion to insist the senate amendments and to agree to further confer ence. No action was taken on any of the pend ing motions In the house, IL being impos- sibie 10 secure quorum on account of the at- traction in the senate chamber no business was transacted.
 IN the senate on the a4tb Mir. Hill spoke two hours in defense of President Cleveland and his letter to Chairman Wilson, and in denun- citation Of the senators who had spoken against thc pfte4otAt. Af.NaHefS tucLl. 'i-d Dsupiiltteud motion for the restoration of sugar bounty for ls9i, and declared explicitly for himself and his colleague that they would not vote for the tarin bill if il put sugar on the free list. In the house fourteen bills reported from the commit tee on public lands were passed. The bill re- instating discharged postal clerks as fast as vacancies occur was passed An unavailing effort was made to consider the bill for the re- payment Of the direct tax collected from West Virginia. irrespective of claims of the govern fnent against that state.