Birmingham age-herald., 1895-03-03

4AtASA T ~ >s cty. The house almost unanimously IT. fused to ncur.
 The amendment creating retired list for the tfficers of the revenue cutter service met a hk, fa.e.
 The amendme 1t appropriating S125 900 for the heirs of the theater disaster victims was agreed 10.
 The conference report on the District Of Columbia appropriation was agreed to; aiso conference report on the legislative, ex, cuiive and judicial appropriation bill.
 When vote was reached the house
 ceded rom it's disae reement 10 the senate amendment to a the bounty-veas 133,
 nays l24, present and not voting2
 The senate amendment appropriating
 SIPS, GOO for govern ument exhibit at the
 Nashville exposition was next taken up. Mir. Washington moved to concur. The
 vote by tellers resulted yeis 7S, nays 1G2,
 and the amendment was not agreed to. At this point MT. Savers moved that the
 rules be suspended and the house insist ou
 it's disagreement to the remaining amend
 ments. Agreed to. 0
 MT. Cannon moved that the house con-
 ferees be instructed 10 agree to the senate's
 Nicaragua canal amen dnent. The amend
 meni, he said, appropriated S2o ,0O0 to as- certain it's feasibility, permanencv and cost
 Of construction. The motion was agreed to-yeas 103, nays 78.
 |. Mir. Holman presented disagreeingre- port from tI,e conferees on the Indian ap- propria,ion bill, three items being still ia dispute. Two of thesS provided for the purchase of Indian lands in New York and Indiana and one was for the discontinuance of sectarian schools.
 There were loud cries of ''Let's go homeo at this point, but Messrs. Pickler, republican, of South Dakota, and Van Voorhis, republican, of New York, in- sisted on debating the matter. Mir. Hooker, republican, of New York, moved that the house recsde from its disagreement 10 the amendment. This was agreed to- yeas 106, nays 80.
 Mir. Holman demandei tellers and at
 2:a5 a. ID. he long, wearisome calling of
 the roll began.
 IN THE SENATE. When the senate met at Il q. m. today it entered upon the last legislative day Of the Fifty third congress; because, although the congress does not expire till Monday next at noon its existence till then will be
 continued by recesses, not adjournments. Of the eighty eight members of the pres- ent body sixteen will cease 10 be senators
 at that hour, and two others have merely chance of survival. The sixteen are Sena- tors Butler of South Carolina, Camden of West Virginia, Carey of Wyoming, Coke | of Texas, Dixon of Rhode Island, Dolph of Oregon, Hunton of Virginia, McLaurin of Mississippi, McPherson of New Jersey,
 
 Power of Montana, Ransom of North Car | oliua, Walsh of Georgia, Washburne of Minnesota and Wilson of Iowa. The two whose cases are in suSpen SC this morning are Messrs. Higgins of Delaware and Shoup of Idaho. The only real press ing work absolutely necessary to be trans- l acted by the senate before the close of the congress when the senate met today was the passage of the naval appropriation bill and action on conference reports in the af aiol, fa.Y hiila The naval bin was taken up for cousid- | eration without much delay and the dis cussion on various amendments to it as re- ported from the committee on appropria- tions occupied almost all the time until recess was taken at 6 o'clock for two hours. The discussion started on the proposition to reduce the number of additional seamen that the secretary of the navy might enlist in the next fiscal year from 2C00 to 100O. That amendment was vigorously con- nays 20. Other amendments that were contested were those striking out of the bill items for dry docks and buildings at naval stations. When the recess was taken the amendment had not been reached to red uce thn number of new battle ships from three to two. The committee amend- ments striking out the item for guns for auxiliary cruisers was agreed to. An amendment to strike out an item of ESQ ,000 for construction and repair ship
 
 stand over at the request of MT. Butler. | During the day's session conference re- ports on the fortifications bill, the agricnl- tural bill and the Indian bill were presented menls on the Indian bill had not been arranged further conference was ordered upon that bill
 The arrest and Imprisonment of two Cubans, Sanguilli and Aguirre. claiming to be American citizens, for participation n a ravOnfinnarv in (u ba was this morning called to the attention of the senate by Mir. Call, who presented telegram received by him on the subject, and had it referred to the committee on foreign relations, with a request on his part that the committee act promptly in the matter.
 NIGHT SESSION. The night session of the senate began at o'clock. few house bills were taken from the calendar and passed, among them the bill for the restoration to the public domain of lands in Alabama and Missis- sippi not needed for naval purposes. The naval appropriation bill was again taken up. When the paragraph was reached as to the construction of three
 battle ships, the appropriation recommend. for, the debate on that proposition was about sterting, but was interrupted by the conference report on the diplomatic and consular bill, showing continued dis. agref ment on the HaWallau caDie amend msnt. MT. Blackburn who presented the report, moved that the senate recede from the amendment, as there was no proba- bility of the house agreeing to it.. On that long debate sprung up, which Is still (midnight) going on. Mir. PettiRrew, republican, of South Dakota, argued against the amendment,
 while Mir. Lodge, republican, of Messa- chusctts, and Mir. Morgan, democrat, of Alabama, made speeches in support of the amendment and in favor of the annexation