The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-02-26
BILLS Or APPROPRIATION
The Indian and Deficiency Bills
Passed by the House..
THE CONFERENCES ORDERED
NO Pay for Canadian Beri ng Sea
Fishers. Sundry Civil a ppr-
pr'ations in the Senate.
Night Sessions. Smiths
Point Lighthouse.
BY Southern Associated Press.

WAsHINGToN, February 25.-.
HOUSE. After the disposal of con-
SIDERABLE miscellaneous business.
chiefly OF n local character, the In
dian Appropriation bill as passed by
the Senate was laid before the
House, and the House nonconcurred
In the Senate amencments. and q
conference was ordered, Messrs,
Holman, Allen aud Pickler being
named as managers.
The Deficiency bill vas then
taken mp i'll committee of the whole.
The amendment proposed by Mr..
Livingston to pay the claims of
Charles Morgan, Q. b. Payne and
the Southern Steamship Company
Tor one months extra pay as United
States mail contractor, $3.50 was
ruled out by the chairman on n
poiut or order.
Inns left remaining TO be cons id i.
cred only the amendments relating
to the Bering sea seal controversy.
proposed by Mr.. BreckinridRe IN
pay the British Government Si25.
o0O IN full of all damages claimed by
the Canadian seGlers who were pre-
vented by the United States from
pursuing the seals or seized while
so at work in accordance with the
agreement reached by Secretary
Gresham and Ambassador Pnunco.
fote, reached last August. The de.
bate on the amendment was Ii mited
to two hours.
Upon the rising vote the amend
ment was defeated-ayes, Al: noes.
%. A division was demanded. re
suitlng; Ayes, "a; noes, sc, and the
amendment was adopted. =
AN amendment offered by Mr..
Breckinrldge was adopted, extend
Ing the appropriation for the Mexi-
can boundary Commission. The
committee then rose and the bill was
reported TO the House. 1t was
agreed that all amendments should
De adopted rs whole, except the
extra compensation for the clerks
and the payment of the Berlne Sea
award. Upon this latter the yeas
and nays were demanded aud it was
reJected-yeas, l12; nays, l43; pres.
ent and not voting, 5. The vote was
mainly on party lines, the Repubi.
cans and Populists opposing It and
the Democrats generally favoring it,
A yea and nay vote was demanded
on the amendment to pay employees
OF the House and clerks of members
an extra months salary. 1t result
ed: Yeas, l43; nays, los. The bill
was then pissed, the House dividing
Oh tho motion-lSl to n.
MIR. Henderson, of North Cnro.
lima, presented the report of tho
conference Oh he Postotlice Appro.
priation bill. 1t was q partial agree.
mcnt only aud was agreed to.
Action on the matters arll in dis.
pute was postponed until to NOR.
row. The agreement reached by
the oonferees confirmed the amend
ments put on the bill by the Senate,
with one exception. that railway
postal clerks hereafter appointed
shall reside at some point Oh the
line to which they are assigned. but
that clerks now employed shall not
be compelled to change their resi-
dences. The total amount carried
by tho bill is $50, DO, 993,
The House at $3.50 adjourned I'M.
til to morrow.
SENATE-The Senate began to day,
the last week OF the Fifty third
Congress, with the consideration OF
the great Appropriation bill TO pro.
VIDE for the sundry civil expenses
OF the government for the fiscal year
ending June Both. 1886.
The Sundry Civil bill covers 1876
printed pages aud when the Senate
tooH recess till $ p. N. it had dis.
posed OF about one fourth of the
Dill, or thlrty-two pages,
An amendment was agreed to for
tho purchase of sites for public
buildings at the Capitals of Wyo
ming, North Dakota. South Dakota,
Idaho and Wnshington-ihe cost OF
none of the buildings to exceed. IN.
Guiding site. $l20, 900.
An agreement to hold night ses.
sions wns reached, with understand.
ing that these sessions were to be
for the consideration of appropria
ton bills. a new item was inserted
IN the Sundry Civil bill of $50, 900
for lighthouse at Smiths Point,
Chesapeake bay, Md.
Two amendments providing that
United States notes or treasury
notes of larger denominations than
those cancelled or retired, shall not
DC printed, were agreed to without
question.
Tho Senate went into executive
session and at $50 took lecess un-
til $ p. m.
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