The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-04-19
CONGRESS.
oonuensed Proceedings of the Senate and
 House for the Past Week.

Aouso tor tue Faet week.
 FOR the hrst time since the meeting of con. gress the senate held a Saturday session on the uh' but that was of little importance, 1t being mostly In executive session considering the Ch'nese treaty. The senate adjourned without nuai action .., The house met with no quorum and adjourned without doing any brsiness
 AS soon as the journal was read in the sen Ate on the 9th the credentials of Patrick Walsh, appointed senator from Georgia to succeed Mir. Colquitt were presented and he was sworn in MT Wolcotts resolution for a treaty with Mexico 10 coin Mexican silver dollars for ex. port to China was taken up and the Colorado senator spoke in its favor. Senator Sherman saw no objections to coning SlO0, ,D0O 00J of such dollars 1T the proper treaty could be made The resolution went over. Senator Peffers reso- luton directing the finance committee to pre- pare bill repeating all laws permitting the Is. suing or bonds went over and Senator Hnl spoke at length in opposition to the pending tarin bill He opposed the policy of the ad- ministration; severely criticised the appoint ment or republicans to office; denounced the income tax and the presidents foreign policy and protested against the democratic party be- ing made tail to the populist kite. Mir Hill spoke until 4:26 o'clock when the senate ad- lourned .... The attendance in the house was light and District of Columbia business only was considered
 WHEN the senate met on the 10th 1t was with barely quorum present. MT. Kyle reported back adversely Senator Peier's bill for the improvement of public roads Mir Wolcotts resolution for the coinage of Mexican dollars was amended and agreed to. It provides for treaty with Mexico for such coinage for export Senator Lodge then addressed the senate in opposition to the tarif bill After an execu tive session the senate adjourned . The house put in the day in considering the post office ap propriaton bill in committee of the whole.
 SOON after the senate met on the llth Sen ator Morgan took the floor and referred to the manifesto of Minnesota democrats charging @ combine on the part of several democratic sem ators 10 defeat tariI reform legislation in which his name was coupled, and he declared , that the present bill met his approval and he favored tariI reform. Mir. Hale then spoke in opposition to the bill, and Senator Pefrer con. cluded his speech which was begun Thursday. The urgency deficiency bill was then discussed , until adjournment. ... When the house met Mir. Reed commenced flibustering and the demo- crats being unable to secure quorum an ad. lournment was taken
 THE senate on the 18th comple ted the urgency dchcincy bill and it was about to be put on it's final passage when the hour for taking up the tarif bill was reached and the urgency bill went over. M-. PefIer then delivered another installment of his speech and had not concluded at o'clock At o'clock the senate adjourned ... The house did no business. The committee on rules attempted to bring in report for rule to prevent the breaking Of a quorum when Mir. Reed commenced his tillbustering tactics and pending efforts to secure the necessary quorum to adopt tae new rule the house ad' iourned
 | THE senate met on the 18th with no quorum present and considered The deficiency bill for Q time and then went into executive session, at the close of which 1t adjourned. The strug. gle over the adoption Of the new rule in the house was resumed The rule reported was to . head on hlibustering and 10 compel members to vote under penalty of fine of Sl0 for each time a member present refuses to answer to his name Filibustering on the part of repub- Hcaus prevented a quorum and the democrats being unable to muster the requisite number of votes 10 adopt the rule the house adjourned