The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-12-24
A CALL TO THE coNGRESSMEN.
ALL THE ABsENTEEs URGED TO ma
on HAND THURSDAY.

Their Presence Necessary to Con-
slider a Financial Measure 10 ne
Presented on That Dny-The EIec-
ton Contests AppOrtiOned Among
the Three Committees ny the
sDealSer--A Resolution Introduced
tO Have the Rejected Ram Ac-
cepted.
Washington. Dec. 23.-There was a fair
attendance OF members when the speak,
er's gavel fell In the House at noon to-day.
Mr.. Tracy, rep, Of Missouri was appoint-
Ell TO the committee on naval affairs m
place OF Mr. Hart. DEM. Of Pennsylvania.
Mr.. Daniels. rep. OF New York. chairs
man Of the committee of elections, offer-
cd a resolution authorizing the payment of
a clerk for each Of the three branches of
the committee and authorizing the COM
mittee to sit during the sessions OF the
House, which was agreed to. A section
OF the resolution authorizing the chairman
OF the committee to apportion the contest
ed cases among the three committees was
objected to by Mr. Crisp and the cases
were. under the rules, distributed by the
speaker, the first nine going to COMMITTEES
No. 1. the next eleven to committee No. a
and the rest 10 committee No. 3.
Mr.. Dingey. chairman Of the ways and
means committee, stated that the con-
current resolution providing for a holiday
adjournment with the Senate amendments
had been considered by the ways and
means committee at their meeting tiiiz
morning. They had unanimously decided
that in view of the request contained in
the Presidents message and under the
other circumstances IL would not be
appropriate to take holiday recess until
some measure OF relief had been consider
ed by the House. The committee had now
such measure under consideration and
he hoped by Thursday next to report it
TO the House. All the absent members had
been telegraphed for and he hoped they
would all be present on that day.
On motion Of Mr.. Aldrich, rep. OF Ili-
nois, chairman of the committee on ac~
counts, a resolution was agreed to diect-
ing that committee TO designate what
committees should be allowed clerks.
On motion of M. Dingley, the House. ak
1880 p. m, adjourned until Tomorrow
Chairman Dingley of the committee on
ways and means requested the sergeant-
alarms 70 telegraph the absent members
OF the House that their presence in the
House on Thursday was necessary to con-
slider "a financial measure which would
be reported on that day. Acting upoR
that suggestion kilograms We're sent 10
l20 members.
A resolution was offered in the House
by MIR Henderson. rep, Of Iowa, a mem-
purpose the clearing of the way in the
House for any financial bill which may
be reported by the ways and meana
committee. The resolution provides that
when the ways and means COMMITTEES
shall report upon the question Of raising
revenues now before it, It shall be In or
der, on motion Of the chairman of that
committee, to take up and dispose OF the
same IN the House.
Among the bills introduced in the House
to-day was the following:
BY Mr.. Brewster, rep, OF New York. to
relieve the United States treasury by pro,
yidlng that hereafter no gold coin OF a
less denomination than ten dollars shall be
coined, nor shall there be issued any legal
tender notes or paper currency OF any
kind OF less denomination than SO
Mr.. Cummings, dem, OF New York, Of.
fered IN the House to-day n Joint resolla-
tion, directing the Secretary OF the Navy
to accept the ram Kathadin, and to maka
her part Of the navy.
Mr.. Dalzell, rep, Of Pennsylvania, of
fered in the House to-day a Joint resoiu-
ton appropIiating $l.500,OO0 TO enable tho
Secretary OF the Navy to contract for 4
reserve supply of projectiles for the use
of the navy. A preamble to the resolution
calls attention TO the section Of the an
nual report Of the Secretary Of the Navy.
which states that the naval service has
no reserve supply Of projectiles for itself
or Tor auxiliary cruisers which would ba
fitted out In time of war;