The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-06-07
CONGRESSIONAL.
The Proceedings of the Week Briefly
 Given.

Given.
 THE senate on the 26th further considered
 the tarir bill, Mir. Hill CN. Y) making speech
 fin opposition to the lead schedule and favoring the placing of lead ore on the free list. His amendment was rejected The senate after brief session adjourned. The bill to remit the 10 per cent tax on state banks occupied the attention of the house in committee of the whole. Pending consideration the house ad- journed
 THE senate spent eight hours on the 28th dis- cussing the lumber schedule of the tartn bill MT. Walsh, the new senator from Georgia, spoke at length on the tariff and at 5:45 o'clock the senate went into executive session SC. The proceedings of the house were of no general in- terest, it being District of Columbia day. The senate bill fixing the northern boundary line of the Warm Springs Indian reservation in Ore gon was passed and at o'clock the house ad- journed
 TIE right of newspaper correspondents to refuse to give the sugar bribery Investigating committee the sources of their information was brought before the senate on the 29th in the shape of a report from that committee which brought out a long debate. Two correspondents had declined to answer questions and they were reported to be in contempt. The Hawai- ian resolution was then talked on for short time and then the tarif debate was continued until 6:20 o'clock when the senate adjourned until Thursday. Wednesday being Decoration day ... The house debated the bill to repeal the state bank tax until o'clock and then ad- iourned until Thursday.
 WHEN the senate met on the 3lst Senator Turpie presented a set Of resolutions adopted by the Ohio legislature protesting against the Russian extraditon treaty, and he offered joint resolution giving Russia notice of the in- tention of this country to abrogate the treaty. Senator Turpie also reported from the foreign affairs committee a resolution declaring it right belonging to the people of Hawaii to establish and maintain their own form of gov ornment, 1t being substitute for other resolu- tions offered. The resolution was unanimously adopted. Senator Peffer offered resolution instructing the judiciary committee to inquire whether the government could constitutionally take possession of the coal beds of the country, which went over. The tarin bill was then con- sidered until adjournment. .... The house passed q bill for an additional judge for the northern district of Illinois and Gen. Sickles introduced a resolution, which was adopted, instructing the secretary of war to do what is necessary for the preservation of the Gettysburg battlefield. The state bank tax bill was then discussed un- til the house adjourned.
 IN the senate on June Mir. Hill attempted to bring up his resolution for open sessions Of the bribery committee, but it went over, as did Senator Dolphs resolution to bring the con- tumaciouS witness, Edwards. before the senate. The senate then tackled the sugar schedule of the tarin bill and sugar talk consumed the re- mainder Of the session, during which Senators Peffcr and Manderson strongly favored a bounty. The house continued it's labors on the state bank tax bill, the whole day being devoted to its discussion. In the evening pen sion bills were considered.