Birmingham age-herald., 1894-08-03
Presented by MT. Pefer on Behalf
 of Coxeyites.
CHANDLER DOWNS HILL
On a Motion to Table ReSo- lution-Perdido Bridge Or
 dered-Listless House.

presented by MT. Peffer, representative of the "United States industrial army,o now encamped near Washington, asking Sor ''immediate employment on public works at fair wages, or else for national assistance to supply their own wants by cooperative industry;' and for forward ing the draft O. a bill to carry out their ideas. This bill requires the secretary Of war to inaugurate a system of public inn provemepts, at which employment shall be furnished to all citizens applying, at the minimum rate ot $2 a day. The secre- tary of the treasury is to issue legal tender treasury notes to the amount of $25 ,000 900 and is to issue annually sufficient amount to meet the requirements of the bill. The petition and bill were referred to the com mittee on education and labor.
 The conference report on the District of Columbia appropriation was presented and agreed to.
 The house anti option bill was reported by MT. Wash burn from the committee on agriculture, and placed on the calendar MT. George of Mississippi dissenting from the report solely on what he regarded as the inadequacy of the measure to affect the intended reform.
 MT. Gray, chairman of the select com mittee on sugar investigation, presented 'unanimous report,' with all the evil dence taken, and asked that the committee be discharged from further action under the resolution appointing it. To this re- quest MT. Chandler objected, and 1t went over for the present. Additional reports were made by MT. Allen aud by MT. Lodge for himself and Davis.
 The house bill to change the lines be- tween the eastern and western judicial dls- tricts of North Carolina and fixing time for holding courts in the eastern district was taken from the calendar and passed.
 MT. Hill. from the committee on immi- grafton, reported back the house bill for the inspection of immigrants by United States consuls with substitute, aimed at the exclusion of anarchists. The bill goes to the calendar.
 The vice. president laid before the senate the resolution offered yesterday by Mir. Chandler for an investigation of the or ganization and history of the Dominion Coal company of Nova Scotia, in connec- tion with the tariff legislation, and MT. Chandler addressed the senate, giving the circumstances which he thought justified him, in offering the resolution. At the clos SQ5f MT. Chandler's speech there was no ication of desire on the part of any send to reply to him, aud MT. Hill mos 10 lay the resolution on the table.
 In making the motion, MT. Hill said: "Nothing definite has beeu stated here that would justify the senate in entering seriously on the proposed investigation. There is no charge of any kind made against any official of the government, any member of congress or anybody else, and think we have got enough on our hands on this, the second day of August, without entering on such an investigation"
 MT. Chandler modified his resolution so as to have the investigation made, not by Mir. Gray's special committee, but by an- other special committee of five senators. The vice-presdent put the question and announced that the motion to lay on the table was agreed to, and that a call for the yeas and nays had not been seconded.
 Soon afterward, however, the vote was lay MT. Chandler's resolution on the table was rejected-yeas Is, nays 30, as follows:
 Yeas-Messrs. Berry, Black burn, Brice, Call, Gray, Hill, Hunion, Mills, Mitch ell of Wisconsin, Palmer, Pasco, Roach, Vest, Villas, Walsh and White-16.
 Nays-Messrs. Allen, Allison, Bate, Carey, Chandler, Cockrell, Coke, Cullom, Frye, Gallinger, German. Hansbrough, Harris, Hoar, jones of Nevada, Kyle, Lodge, Manderson, Martin, Mitchell of Pugh, sherman, shoupe, Stewart, Teller and Washburn-30.
 Under the rules of the senate the resolu- tion, having been considered during the morning hour, has gone to the calendar and can only come up again by vote of the senate.
 m The consideration of the sundry civil ap- propriation bill was resumed, and the fol- lowing among other amendments were agreed to: To pay $5000 each to the widows of the late Senators Stockbridge of Mich igan and Vance of North Carolina; allow ing one months extra pay to ithe officers and employees of congress-; appropriating s3G0, coo for the recoinage of the uncurrent fractional silver coin in the treasury; ap- propriating $S76, ,000 additional to be used by the president in case of emergency against the spread of epidemic diseases. The bill was then passed.
 MT. Gray, chairman of the select conn., mittee on alleged charges of bribery. etc., made report as to the recurrency of a witness before that committee by Allen Seymour, to be transmitted by the vice. president to the United States district at- torney for the District of Columbia, and he renewed his re quest that the committee be discharged. Mr. Chandler withdrew the rejection which he had made to like re- quest earlier in the day, and the committee was discharged.
 The house bill was passed authorizing a bridge across the Perdido river, between Florida and Alabama.
 The senate then, al 6:15, after short executive session, adjourned until tomor- TOW.
 IN THE HOUSE.
 A spirit of indolence manifested itself in the house today, the result of combined hot weather and lack of necessity to do any. thing, and at o'clock adjournment was effected without anything of importance having been accomplished.
 The most interesting incident of the ses- sion was MT. Grosvenor's, republican, oi Ohio, attack upon the conditions in the army, the existence of which made possl- ble the rscens conviction of Private Cedar