Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1894-03-15
WASHINGTON NOTES.
six,y-Ninth DAY

SENATE.-Mr. Hill offered resOlu.
ton instructing the finance committee
to frame amendments to the tariff bill
emitting the internal and direct taxes
now in it and instead thereof providing
for sufficient revenue by taxing for
eign imports and otherwise reyisin.
the tariff without creating deficiency.
Laid Oh the table for the present.
motion to rake up the seignioraae
Dill for second reading. Its consid-
Grafton was suspended for some length
of time BY remarks of several senator's
on question of personal privilege.
relating to certain newspaper reports
as to their attitude OH the tariff bill.
The seigniorage bill was resumed and
discussed until 2 O'Clock. At that
hour it was laid aside to be again
brought up for second reading to-
morrow. "A conference on the urgent
deficiency bill was ordered, Two
private pension bills were passed. and
at $500, after brief executive ses-
sion, the senate adjourned.
A resolution was offered in the
house by Mr.. Money of Mississippi
authorizing the secretary of the navy
to appoint cadet from the fifth dis.
trlct of South Carolina. This grew
out of case of failure on the part of
the representative of that district to
make an appointment, and the appoint
inent, by the secretary of the navy,
OF a cadet from Alabama for this va
cancy. After some coloquv the reso-
luton was Withdrawn The resolu-
ton authorizing an investigation Of
the famous order issued by Judge
jenkins in the Northern Pacific re.
ownership case, was called up and
passed.-Mr. Strait of the fifth South
Carolina district offered resolution
declaring the appointment made By
the secretary of the navy of a cadet
from Alabama, who was accredited to
said district, unauthorized and void
Agreed to.-The house went into COM
mittee of the whole OH the pension
appropriation under an agreement to
close general debate at 8 O'Clock to-
morrow. The subject was discussed
until $3.50. when the committee rose
and the house adjourned.
SEVENTEEN Day.
SENArE.-A bill was passed appro-
priating SIS, 900 for raising the wreck
of the Kearsage aud her equipments,
provided that not more than $40, 900
should be expended if the attempt
should fail.-Mr. Morgan, from the
committee on foreign relations, re.
ported resolution requesting the
president to inform the senate, if not
Inconsistent, whether the government
of Great Britain had occupied B.ue.
fields or any other place in the mus.
quito region i'll Nicaragua; to state
the character and strength Of such
force and the claims Of authority on
the part of that government so to
occupy that country. Agreed to-,
The seigniorage bill was read second
time. "A proposition by Mr.. Harris to
take up the bill, consider and dispose
of it, was discussed until p. M,
when the subject gave place to the
unfinished business.-A bill for the
purchase Of site for the government
printing Office. A motion to lay that
bill aside and take up the bill to
change the limits of the judicial dis
tricts of Florida, was defeated. Mr..
Harris then moved to proceed to the
consideration of the seigniorage bill
Agreed to, and the bill was before the
senate as a committee of the whole.
The proceedings on the bill we're inter-
rupted to have the conference on the
deficiency bill presented aud CONQUERED
in. "A motion to refer the bill to the
finance committee had been made. A
vote was now taken ami the motion
defeated. The bill was read in full,
and the chair said the bill was open
to amendment; no amendment being
offered, the bill passed the third read
ing; now came the question, "Shall
the bill pass?" Mr.. Allison moved to
reconsider the vote by which the third
reading was passed; pending this
motion, the bill was laid over until
Tomorrow, and, after an executive
session, the senate adjourned.
HoUsE.-A resolution was passed
asking the secretary of the treasury to
Inform the house by what authority
the bureau of engraving aud printing
submitted bid for engraving postage
stanps.-A resolution was also passed
asking the postmaster general for all
the information in his department
respecting the bids for printing post
age stamps and the award of the con-
tract. The pension appropriation bill
after the limit of debate under the
five minutes rule had been reached, |
was passed and at 4:10, the house ad.
iourned.
seventy-arst Day.
SENATE bills were briefly
discussed and laid over. Numerous
pension bills we're passed, including
one giving $50 a month to the widow