Birmingham age-herald., 1894-07-07
SHORT SENATE SESSION. Bill Introluced for Settlement of
 ssroversy Between RAJ cG.0ADS AND EMPLOYES. ( g Attacko Newspaper Corre- HTpondentS-Amended Tariff 6
 e Bill Non-Concurred In.
A c<.OADs AND EMPLoYEs.

l WASHINGTON, July 6.-As a sort of com pensatory move for it's long daily sessions during the three months that the tariff bill was being considered the senate, after
 two days recess, spent only an hour and a
 half in session today and then adjourned
 until Monday at noon, having first made an order that its daily meeting shall here. after be at noon instead of two hours earlier
 Several bills were passed during the short
 time that the session lasted, including the joint resolution continuing the employ
 ment of mechanics and laborers at tue several navy yards. The great railroad strike had three separate and distinct propositions directed to it. One was in the shape of resolution offered by the popu-
 list senator from Nebraska, Mr. Allen.
 looking to the acquisition and operation
 by the government of all the railroads.
 telephone and telegraph companies of the
 United States.
 The second was bill introduced by MT.
 Davls, republican,, Of Minnesota, by re-
 quest, for the settlement of controversies
 between railroad companies and their em-
 ployes, and third bill was introduced by
 Mr. George of Mississippi, defining the duties of United States courts and of rail- road receivers appointed by United States courts in cases of railroad strikes or lock-
 outs, and providing that Instructions of
 United States mails shall be considered such only when the trains do not contain cars Tor the transportation of passengers or freight.
 The bills were referred to the judiciary committee, and the resolution went over until Monday next, when it will be enti- tied to consideration in the morning hour.
 An attack upon the newspaper correspon- dents in the senate gallery in general and upon one In particular, was made by Senator Call of Florida in connection with story sent to Florida news- paper and extensively published in the press representing him as com ing to the senate chamber one morn ing some two weeks ago, deliberately re- moving his shoes and placing his feet, en- cased in stockings, on a chair.
 He denounced the correspondent (of whoss identity he knew nothing) as a liar and a hired slanderer, although he admit ted haSiSStialcy noe oS acsra4t but carefully removed I wounded aud Iaeerated foot. tssa.n from | resolution for the ascertainment ana ek = | pulsion of the offender, which resolution
 was referred to the committee on>Tules.
 The agricultural and navy appropriation | bills were reported from the committee and
 placed on the calendar along with fourteen
 other appropriation bills.
 l At 1:45 the senate adjourned until Mon l day at noon.
 l IN THE HOUSE. 1 With the utmost information and with not even word of comment the tariff bill | was today laid before the house by Speaker Crisp, ordered printed and referred to the | committee on ways and means. It came | about in the regular order of business, and l was disposed of only in so many words as | were necessary to state it's title and dest- | nation. The committee at once began an | examination of changes by the senate, and | will report the bill back tomorrow with 6
 recommendation that the house non-co | cur in the amendments and agree to a | conference.
 l A communication was received from the secretary of the treasury recommending a1< | appropriation for additional aids to navig1- tion.in Tampa bay, Florida. -~- l Among the reports from the committees l was one from the committee on elections in favor of the contestee in the case of Will
 Hams vs. Settle, from the Fifth North Car l olina district.
 1 The bill allowing states to tax green backs
 was taken up. MT. Cooper, the author of | the measure, read prepared speech in l favor of the object of the bill. and at it's
 close presented ths following as a substi- tute for the amendments presented by the l committee in lieu of his original bill to 1 meet suggested amendments: ssThat all l circulating notes of national banking asso- | citations, and all United States legal tender | notes and all other notes and certificates of the United States payable on demand and l circulating as currency, shall be subject to l taxation under the laws of any state or ter l ritory, provided that any such taxation l shall be exercised in the same manner and | at the same rate that any such state or ter- ritory shall tax other money or currency circulating as money within it's jurisdic- ton.
 The substitute was passed by vote of 173 to fl.
 The house then took recess until 8 o'clock.