The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-02-13
N THE SENATE and HOUSE
ihe Latter Passes the Pending
Appropriation Bill.
CLERK QUESTION SETTLED.
Pensions in the Senate. Public
Building for Winston Salem.
Alabama Senator'S Resent
Aliens Charges. Income
Tax Amendments.
BY Southern As8oolutol prosa.

, ~ NNH'N'ION, cHruNrY H.
HOUSE. Tho bill makluE appro
prietlous for the leg slutive, cxecu
tive and judicial departments of tho
Government was passed by the
House. As it passed the total was
$2I GO3, PIG.
Most of to.day's session WIS spent
IN discussing the appropriation for
paying pension Office employees, upon
nn "mendment offered by MIR. Pick
Ier TO mnlntnln the present force of
clerks for next year. This was re-
lected Ca to 132-nnd also the
amendment agreed to i'll committee
OF the whole, to make clerks to
members annual instead OF sess,onnl
employees.
Other business transacted included
the passage OF tho following meas
ures. senate bill setting apGrt Ger
tam lands i'll Mississippi for tho
benefit of the mechnnicn! aud agri
cultural schools OF that Stntu.
House bil.s authorizing the restor
alton to the puulin domain OF certain
Lave Oak reservations IN Misslssippi
aud AiRnamu, contu ming about -, =
Juj acres, winch were originally set
| apart Tor naval purposes.
Speaker Crisp then announced the
| appointment of the following mem
befs to arrange programme OF ex
| erclsos Tor the upeulug OF the Chick
nmauga aud Chattanooga National
Military Pnrk neAt Soptem Der
hligore, Morgan, Wheeler, of Ala
bamn, Cox, OF tennessee, Maddox,
| Grosvenor. klefer, Strong mud
| Avery.
! At 4:35 o'clock the House ad-
iourned
senate. The business record of
the Senate to day comprised the
passage OF all the private peusion
bliIs on the calendar, % III number, =,
ana some half dozen bills OF mis-
| celmucuus character, including
three for public buildings III Win
st0n Salem, y. g., Pottsyille, Pa.
ANA Brockton, Muss. ulso one for
! the appointment OF II commission OF
army engineer officers 10 report ns
to the new bridge over the Della
ware. No progress WAS made on
the Postoilice Appropriation bill.
| Inc question OF election frauds
IN Alabama was discussed by Mr.
| Allen, OF Nebraska. ami wound up
| by the presentation Of protest on
tue part of the two Alabama Seun-
tors, Morgan aud Pugh). And the
| recent bJnd Issue Hrrnngcments
were denounced by MIR. stewart,
Pop.J, ol Nevada, who InduIged III
dlreiul predictions as TO the future
OF the United states under tie
curse of gold pooling.
bill for the Tree coinage of ell
Yer was reported from the Finance
| Committee aud placed on the calen.
dnr, Mr.. Sherman rcuarking thut 1t
had only bare majority in commit
tee.
Mr.. Vest, from the Committee on
| tiuguce. reported back the House
| JOINT resolution to extend the time
| iDr making returns for income tax
for this year tn! tna 10Th OF April,
| leJJ, with important amendments.
GGU the resolution went over until
| TO morrow.
The amendments provide first,
| that, III computing income from
rents for real estate. the amount
paId for fire lnsurnucG OF The prem
ises ani for ordinary repuIrs shall
| be deuuG:ed. Second. tunt, IN com
| putlug income dividends, there snui.
| ue deducted sucn sums as are
received from corporations that pay
> per cent. OH their net prof S
| lwhGther uctUaly paid at the time
| or uOtJ, ana thri, thut no taxpayer
! shall Ne rCuulrel to answer nuy