Birmingham age-herald., 1894-12-25
 AT TIE NATIONAL CAPITOL. All Is Quiet and Deserted App
 pearance Prevails. HOLMAN REMAINS AT WORK On His Indian Appropriations and CockreIi Busy With His
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HOLMAN REMAINS AT WORK

WASHINGTON, Dec. z4.-The house end of the capitol wore deserted look today. At noon scarcely a dezen representatives had made their appearance on the floor. Speaker Crisp came up little before that hour and spent some time in his committee room reading his mail. The only repre- sentatives in evidence to date, excepting Mir. Russell of Connecticut, were from the extreme west and northwest. Col. Isaac Hill, the assistant sergeant -at-arms, said that all the represe entatives with few excep- tions had gone home.
 Mir. Holman of Indiana, will remain during the recess and work on the In- dian appropriation bill.
 This bill, Mir. Holman explained, will carry no specific appropriation for contract Indian schools. The appropriation for Indian schools this year is Sl ,040, ,0OO. The next year the appropriation will be S1 ,2O0,- coo, an increase Of Si60 900. The secretary of the interior will have the entire control of the disbursement of the appropriation. and the intention, 1t IS understood, will be in the future to substitute govern ment schools for those now controlled by the secretary and influences. There will be no change, however, in the appropriation for the schools at Hampton and Carlisle and the Lincoln school at Philadelphia.
 The senate end of the capitol was abso- lutely deserted today, the chamber itself being locked, while the private corridor was closed 10 the few strangers who hap pened to drift into the building. During the morning some few senators spent an hour or .5o answering their mail, but by noon not senator was to be found ia the building. Those who showed their pres ence were Messrs. Black burn, Voorhees,, Pettigrew, Blanchard, Lodge, Dolph, Teller and Cockrell.
 The latter put in some time on appropri- ation bills, it being his intention as soon as the senate reconvenes to report the ur- gent deficiency bill, which carries the of the income tax. The pension and mili- tary academy bills have been reported and are on he calendar. Mir. Cockrell has on his desk tue army and fertilization bills, but does not expect to get them before the sub committee during the recess.
 The treasury's statement balance today at tEe close of busin.ss stood at S153, 756,- 99S, of which sS) ,06l ,227 is in gold. ] he figures represent al reported currency and gold withdrawals at tine several ub-treasu- ries. sss
 The United States court officials claim they handed down decisions in favor of forty letter carriers for overdue time under the eight hour law. The claimants were located in Baltimore, Bay City, Mich ;, and Terre Haute, Huntington and Jefferson- vile, Ind. The amounts varied from u lew dollars to several hundred.
 Secretary Carlisle today issued an order recognizing the suvervising architects of- flee tor the treasury department. This ao- tion Is taken to separate the tech nical work of the office from the executive branch as much as possible, and is the direct out come of the con f1icb between Secretary Car O Rouke, which led to the retirement of the latter