Birmingham age-herald., 1895-01-16
A VERY DULL DAY h Both Branches of the National
 Legislature. A VOTE MAY BE HAD TODAY On the Urgent Deficiency Bill in the Senate-The
 House Does Nothing.
A VOTE MAY BE HAD TODAY

WASHINGTON, Jan. 15.-The presidents veto of the bill authorizing the sale of pub lie lands for reservoirs and gravel pits, aud granting right of ways for railways and canals thereto, was laid before the house and referred to the committee on public lands.
 MT. Cooper of Florida introduced a bill appropriating S1oo 1000 fora public build ing at Jacksonville, Fla
 Most of the session today was occupied in the consideration of the Indian appropria- tioE bill for the year ending June 30, 1896. It carries total appropriation of s6,43l,- SEQ, as against s6, 733 ,OO3 appropriated for the current fiscal year, aud s6, 723, ,S4l, the total Of the estimate submitted by the sec- retary of the interior. General debate was not cl, d when the house adjourned.
 The sundry civil appropriation bill for the year 1885, 96 was reported by Mr. Savers and placed on the calendar.
 Me. Grosvenor, republican. of Ohio, re- Payne and Ex-Judge Stevenson Burke, in- directly involved in the charges made the other day by 5. ]. Ritchie against Judge Kicks, au investigation of them. The de- eision of Judge Lurton in the cases upon which the charges were based was. on his motion, referred to the committee on tho judiciary.
 Adjourned.
 sUNDRY CIVIL APPROPRIATION BILL.
 The eundry civil appropriation bill as re- ported to the house carries a sum of 1884, $40, 721, being S7, ,4S3, 793 less than the esti- mates on which 1t IS based and S4, ,2S6, 2i5 above the amount carried by the year 1895.
 Among the buildings which to be placed in part or in whole under contract within the prescribed limit of cost is the H. fI1o appropriations for public buildings in the south carried in the bill are the following: Clarksvile, Tenn, S15 900; Fort Worth, Tex, $40, ,0C0; Little Rock, Ark, addition 10 court house, S5s, ,0O0; Norfolk, Va., s6o,-
 For additional lights in Mobile ship channel $50 .0J0 is provided.
 River and harbor improvements under the contract system:
 Galveston haroor. Texas, continuing improvement, II ,160, GOO, of which Si00, ,000 may be used for dredging.
 Charleston, $. C., contiu uiug improve ments, $500 ,O00.
 Savannah, Ga., to complete improve ments, SS56, ,250.
 Mobile, Aia. to complete Improvements, s291, 300.
 | Under Mississippi river commissions:
 Mississippi river from the head of the passes to the Ohio river, S2, ,665, ,coo.
 Mississippi river from Ohio river to Missouri river. S75s, ,3S3; from Missouri river to Minneapolis, 1866, 666.
 The bill appropriates S75, ,O00 for the Chickamauga aud Chattanooga National park, st, ,450, ,000 for the life saving service, S2, 900 eco ior the light house establishment and S125 ,000 for the quarantine service.
 No proposition was made to incorporate in the bills the s6, 0c0, ,000 asked for by the Louisiana delegation for the payment of ounty on the crop of 1894. IN THE SENATE.
 
 Mandersop, republican, of Nebraska, and agreed to calling on the secretary of the treasury for in formation as to the quantity of spirits withdrawn from warehouses and the quantity of sugar imported each day during the two m onths prior to August 20, 1894, with the names Of the owGers and importers, and the amount of taxes and duties paid thereon.
 Two bills were passed authorizing the construction of bridges in southwestern states, and then the senate resumed consid- eratoh of the ntideficiency bill.
 Two speeches only were made, one by Mr. Call of Florida and the other by Mr. Allen, populist, of Nebraska.
 MT. Call's speech was directed largely to the unequal distribu ution of wealth in the United states and England, and to the &C., emulation of enormous fortunes by few families, which condition of things he at- tributed 10 legislation that created fran chises and monopOlies.
 
 the populist party from the assumption that it was party of vagaries. He asserted that there was no vagary in the Omaha platform (not even the sub treasury scheme) that could be compared with the democratic vagary of the proposed repeal of the tax on state ban k circulation. He was facetious and amusing in his references to yesterdays "Iove feast' between leading men of the democratic and republican par ties in the senate; to their 'falling on necks and weeping;" to MT. Gorman,s "Macedonian cry.' and to MT. Allison's response with an offer of assistance. He said that it had never dawned on members of these two parties that neither of them was to have charge of the government of the country and that it would be turned over to the populist party in 1896, and he predicted that this was to happen, the other two parties having confessed their inability to manage and control the affairs of the government.
 At the close of Mir. Alen's speech the senate proceeded to the consideration of executive business, Mir. .Cockrell, demo- crat, of Missouri, first announcing his in- tention to bring the bill to final vote to- morrow. The senate at 4:50 adjourned un- til tomorrow.
 SENATE COMBINATIONS.
 The senate today confirmed the nomina- tion of Robert s. Link, to be postmaster at AbbeViile. s. 0.