The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1895-03-07
ALL BUSINESS FINISHED.

WASHINGTON, March 4-4:15 a. m.-
has suspended the rules and agreed to
the senate amendments to the naval
appropriation bill. The senate at 3:15
entered upon the consideration of un.
objected bills on the calendar, and at
the conclusion of these will take re-
cess until Monday at $3.50 a. m.
WASHINGTON, March 4.-Congress
was in session until after midnight
Saturday night. BY vote of % to 80
the senate refused to recede from it's
appropriation of S5OO,OOO for the Ha.
waiian cable. This means that the
contest will be prolonged. and the
cable may fail.
The total of the appropriations of
this congress was increased by over
$l50.000 at o'clock Sunday morning
by the passage of Senator Faulkner's
request of the house bill repaying West
Virginia her direct war tax.
The Indian bill is still in conference
The others are shaping themselves
very WELL and with continuous ses-
sion from Sunday afternoon, It is prob
able that everything will have been
completed. 1t is expected that the
senate will shortly recess until 2 o clock
on Sunday afternoon. That is the
agreement reached after 2:3O a. m.
The house having completed its con-
sideration of the sundry civil bill at
o'clocl- Sunday morning, which in
cluded agreement to the sugar bounty
and the Nicaragua survey, and disa-
greements to appropriation for the
Tennessee exposition and monetary
conference, the senate will thereafter
consider the parts on which the house
agreed, and probably ask for further
conference on the disputed points,
though it may recede from it's stand
on the disputed point.
Congress Sunday and Sunday night,
both houses concurring, passed the
sundry civil bill with the sugar bounty
claim and an appropriation to send
commissioners to the monetary confer
ence left in it; the Indian appropria-
tion bill; the naval appropriation bill,
with Hawaiian cable clause stricken
out, and the number of battle ships to
be reduced from three to two, and the
general deficiency bill.
At o'clock Monday morning all of
the appropriation bills save five, name
ly, sundry, naval, general deficiency,
consular and diplomatic, had been sent
to the president. The sundry civil and
the consular and diplomatic were be-
ing compared and will be in the hands
of the president by daylight. The In
dian bill will be the next after these to
reach him.
Both branches of Congress having
agreed to the bill raising commission
to represent the United States in the
proposed monetary conference, the
senate late Sunday night in execctive
session chose Senators Teller, Jones
(Ark.) and Daniel as delegates to rep
resent the senate.
The sundry civil bill, appropriating
SAT, 1873, 3O6, which is S12,ss4, ,5s4 more
than the similar appropriation for the
current year, went through congress
with surprising alacrity. just before
the recess at o'clock the conferees re-
ported an agreement on all disputed
items. The Cameron job for the pur-
chase of the Blaine site was the first
to go. The house forced the senate to
yield.
The only exciting incident of the SEN
ate's Sunday night session was the
abandonment of the Hawaiian cable
amendment to the diplomatic appro-
priation bill.
The senate, by feeble yea and nay
vote, without a division, withdrew
from its insistence to the Hawaiian
cable provision, and thus completed
the consideration of the diplomatic
and consular bill.
The rest of the session was spent in
executive session.