Birmingham age-herald., 1894-08-04
APPROPRIATIONS AT LAST Disposed of by the Senate and
 Awaiting Signature. NEW MEXICO AND ARIZONA Now Awaiting the Senate'S Pleasure to Become
 States.
NEW MEXICO AND ARIZONA

WASHINGTON, Aug. 3.-rhe last of the appropriation bills-the general de- iciency bill-passed the senate today, and will now go to conference, in which the disagreeing votes of the two houses will be reconcied and adjusted.
 Seven out of the fourteen appropriation bills have alreedy become law through the signature of the president. These are: Qualifications, pensions, military, acad- emy, naval academy, postofiice, dplo- matic and legislative.
 The other seven are now in the presi- dent's hands awaiting approval and the rest iD conference.
 The house bill to subject nominal bank notes and United States treasury notes to state taxation was allowed to be taken up in the senate today on the assurance by Mr George of Mississippi, who had reported it from the judiciary committee, that it would not occupy more than fifteen minutes. After twice that length of time had been spent upon it, attention was called by Mr. Hale Of Maine to the fact that the silver populist senator from Nevada, MT. Stewart was about to make speech upon it, and probably to offer his free coinage bill as an amendment to it, and MT. Hale remarked that the bill could be disposed of in fifteen hours or in fifteen days.
 ObcWdIt lduBulURlY duIU1lb6Q LQ6 correctness of MT. Hale's guess, and the effort to pass the bill was given up for the day, the deficiency bill taking its place and going through to it's final passage about 6:20 p. m.
 The house bills for the admission of the territories of New Mexico and Arizona as states were reported from the commit tee on territories and are now on the calen- dar, from which they may be taken at any time and passed.
 The conference report on the river and harbor bill was presented and went oyer until tomorrow.
 After short executive session the sen ate adjourned until tomorrow at noon.
 IN THE HOUSE.
 The house was in session five hours this evening, and the net result was the pas sage of bill directing the payment of $1O, GOO to Representative Heard of Missouri for legal services to the old settlers or western Cherokee Indians out of their funds in the treasury, and of a bill providing for the payment of about $40, 000 oI 8 per cent Dis triet of Columbia green back certificates.
 The conference report on the river and harbor bill was agreed to, and a conference was ordered on the sundry civil appropria- tion bill, also upon the bill regulating The printing and publication ,oi public docu- ments. '.''@
 MT. Blair, republican,, of New Hamp- shire, introduced joint resolution direct Ing an lnVeeligatlon Dy the department oi labor into the lynchings of the past ten years, the cause thereof, etc., which was referred to the committee on labor.
 The last two hours of the afternoon ses- sion were devoted to the consideration of bills to Ieclassify and regulate the salaries in first and second class postotfices, but no action was taken on either of them. The house voted to adjourn over from today until Monday.
 At 'clock, under the rules, the house took recess until 8 o'clock, the evening session to be devoted to the consideration of private bills.
 EVENING SESSION.
 At the evening session nine private pen sion bills were reported with favorable re- commendation, and at 10 D. m. the house adjourned until noon Monday.