The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-01-31
CONGRESS-.
Condensed Proceedings Of the Senate and
 House.

Condensed Proceedings of the Senate and House.
 IN the senate on the 10th Senator Cockrell nresented the conference report on the urgency deficiency bill and stated that an agreement had been reached on all the amendments except two The report finally went over. senator
 Frye offered resolution expressing the pro- found indignation with which the senate heard of the effort to restore the dethroncd queen In
 Hawaii The debate that the resolution might
 provoke gave evidence of partisan turn when Senator George objected to the immediate con- sideration of the resolution and 1t went over. During the time, however, MT. Lodge succeeded in making a severe speech. EuloSies were then delivered upon the late Senator vance
 and the senate adjourned. MT. Boutelle brought up the Hawaiian matter in tEe house
 and was making bitter speech when the time for the special order arrived and objection was
 made to his continuing, MT. Boutelle persisted until requested by the speaker to take his seat. Eulogies were then delivered upon the late Representative Kyle and the house adjourned THE Hawaiian affair was again the subject Of some discussion in the senate on the 2lst MT. Hill then spoke in opposition to the conference report on the deficiency bill which provides for collecting the income tax. The senate finally receded from it's amendments, including MT. Hill's and the Nicaragua canal bill was laid before the senate and an understanding reached as to when q final vote should be taken. The Notifications bill was then passed. It carries an appropriation of Sl ,g31 ,5T. The house passed several public building bills and on mot ion of
 Mir. McRae (Ark.) resolution was adopt cd to
 direct the secretary of the interior to furnish
 an estimate of the cost of surveying the lands
 of the Cherokee, Creek and Seminole Ind ians in the Indian territory.
 ON the 22d the pooling bill was favoraby re- ported to the senate from the committee.
 Then the Hawaiian matter came up on MT. Kyle's resolution expressing the disapproval of the senate with the action of the adminis-
 tration in withdrawing warships from Hawaii. Senators George and Gray defended the admin istration and Senator Lodge spoke yehemently In opposition. At the close of the Hawaiian debate the Nicaragua canal bill was further considered %. The house finally passed the Indian appropriation bill which carried S,- 8i0,920 as reported, but was increased before final passage, one amendment adding Sl666,OO)
 to pay the first installment for payment for the Cherokee outlet. The house adjourned at o'clock.
 THE senate on the 23d discussed at some length the treasury emergency. Several plans to relieve the treasury were discussed, notably
 one by Mir. Smith (N J.) providing for tenn porary bond issue pending investigation by
 monetary commission, and another by MT. Jones (Arli) providing for a bond issue and conditional restoration Of silver MT Burrows
 was sworn in as senator from Michigan and
 Mir. Turpie continued his remarks in opposi- tion to the Nicaraguan canal scheme, which he denounced in severe terms. At the close of his remarks the senate adjourned. When the house met Mir. Dingley (Me) called attention to what he termed the utter failure Of the Paris tribunals regulations for the protection of the Alaskan seal herd and to the probable
 complete extinction of the herd unless steps Nl, operation of Great Britain for the protection of the seals. Debate on the sundry civil bill occupied the remainder Of the session.
 WHEN the senate met on the 24th MT. Chan
 ller introduced a bill to prevent the tapping
 of telegraph wires used by news associations.
 Mir. Allen (Neb) introduced a resolution for. the annexation Of the Hawaiian islands to the
 United States. ani that pending such proceed
 lngs this government should station the neces-
 sary war vessels near to protect the interests Of
 Americans. The resolution went over. MT
 Lodges Hawaiian resolution then came up and
 Senator George spoke in defense Of the action
 of the administration. At the conclusion of
 MT. Georges speech the Nicaragua canal bill was further discussed. Mr. Pritchard, elected from North Carolina to succeed the late Sem ator Vance, was sworn in and the senate soon
 adjourned The whole day in the house was devoted to consideration of the sundry civil bill long discussion followed in connection with an appropriation of s665,OO0 for the Mississippi river commission. The bill was nearly completed when the house adjourned at
 i:i0 o'clock.
 IN the senate on the 18th the resolution of
 Mir. Mitchell calling for detailed information as to the amount of sugar bounty claims was agreed to and the Hawaiian question came up.
 MT. Allen (Neb) addressed the senate. Mir. Mills tTex,) also spoke on the question. He arraigned the sugar interest as the cause of all the trouble and defended the course Of the ad
 ministration in the matter. He characterized the sugar trust as more powerful than the Rov- ernment of the islands. The Nicaragua canal bill was further discussed and about o'clock passed by the decisive vote Of 3l yeas to 2i nays. It guarantees the bonds Of the company to the amount of s7O.O00, ,0O0 the government of the United States taking first lien on all the property of the company as security .... The house, after further debate, passed the sundry civil bill. It carries s3si?5,72l. Two proposi- tions were offered respectively by Mir. Savers and Mir. COombS, the former to give the secre- tary of the treasury power to issue bonds Of such dimensions as he should see fit instead Of. as now, and the latter's, to retire and cancel the gold certificates and make them non-re- ceiyable for customs dues after July next, furnished the principal theme of discussion.
 MT. Sayers proposition was defeated, while that of Mir. Coombs was carried without divis- ion. The majority report in the Judge Kicks case. refusing to prefer charges, was presented, and MT Bailey (Tex) received permission to
 present a minority report