Birmingham age-herald., 1895-01-18
With the Amended Urgent De-
 fciency Bill.
HOLMAN SPRINGS A NEW ONE
Pugh Introduces Financial Bill-Pension Appropriation
 Bill Passes the Senate.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 17.-The proceedings of the house in the morning hour lacked great interest, aud were besides interrupted to receive a message from the senate an- nouncing the passage, with amendments, of the urgent deficiency appropriation.
 On resolution of MT. Breckinridge the amendments were disagreed to and con . ference ordered, with Messrs. Breckin- . ridge, Savers and Cannon, republican. of Illinois, managers on the part of the house.
 The Indian appropriation bill was then taken up in committee of the whole.
 MT. Cobb of Missouri moved an amend ment appropriating Sl, ,66) ,oOO to pay the first installment, due March 1, 1895, of the money due for the purchase and opening of the Cherokee strip under the act of 1895.
 Mir. Holman made the point of order that the appropriation belonged in the sundry civil bill, and be made it for the express purpose of getting ruling of the chair, for the first time in the history of congress, upon the question of jurisdiction of these matters.
 Chairman O. Neill said that the appropri- ation was different from tn appropriation under the jurisdiction of the committee on rivers and harbors, to which Mir. Holman had referred, in that that committee was authorized to make appropriations for new work only. The Indian appropriation bill was bill appropriating money to carry into effect treaty stipulations with Indian tribes. The amendment was evidently to carry out treaty stipulation, and was therefore in order. The amendment was agreed to.
 MT. Holman said he hoped the commit tee on appropriations would bear in mind the ruling oi the chair when making app propriations for work carried on under contracts made pursuant to river and har- bor bills.
 No other important change was made in the bill, which had not been disposed of when the house at 4:40 adjourned until to- morrow.
 IN THE SENATE.
 Thesfirst business of importance in the senate today was the introduction of two finapc cial bills, one by MT. Pugh, demo- crat, of Alabama, and the other by Mr. Sherman, republican, of Ohio. The title of the first was, '"ro meet deficiencies in tbe revenue of the treasury of the United States; to regulate the redemption of the States; to restore silver to coinage; to amend the national banking and currency laws, and for other purposes |
 That of the second was to ''provide for q temporary deficiency of revenue. i,
 MT. Pugh's bill provides for the issue at once of net exceeding $100, 100000 legal tender notes to meet the deficiencies, and to be redeemable in gold and silver stand ard coins; for the coinage of the silver bull iIon in the treasury, to be used in the pay ment of the public expenditures; for the issue of certificates for silver to be depos- ited to the amount of it's market value, for the reserve of $100, ,000 GOO in equal amounts Of gold and silver, aud for the payment of custom duties, one-half in gold and the other half in currency.
 Starmp n a hill ant hOriZpa the iSgua of per cent bonds for the redemption of United States treasury notes and to pay current expenditures; also the issue of 3 per cent certificates to be sold at public de- posiiories and at postoffices, and allows the issue of national bank currency of the par value of the bonds deposited therefor. Both bills were read in full and were re- ierred to the finance committee.
 MT. Pugh made an impassioned speech when he introduced his bill, in which he alluded to Mir. Vests facetious character iZation of senators yesterday as lot of told Muscovy drskes," and condemned it as ''degrading, mortifying and humili- ating.'
 The pension appropriation bill, which sppropriates $40, 1000, coo for pensions, was passed with one amendment, to abolish S2 and S4 disability pensions and to make the minimum amount s6 per month. The army appropriation bill was then taken up, but got snagged on question of change Of army posts-a question on which Mr. Mitchell, republican, oi Oregon, and MT. Black burn, democrat, of Kentucky, got heated up to point which came danger ously near to personal altercation. fe
 The army approE Eriation bill went oyer without final action, and after short ex- ecutive session the senate at 5:30 adjourned until tomorrow.
 SENATE COMBINATIONS.
 The senate today confirmed the nomina- tions of A. c. Ware, postmaster at West Point, Va., and Thomas P. Smith of New York, to be assistant commissioner of In dian affairs.