The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1895-12-25
CONGRESSIONAL.
Summary Of Important Measures Before
Both Houses.

TENTH DAY.
The proceedings OF the House were enllv-
ened to-day by MIR. Flynn, the delegate from
Oklahoma, who offered the following rcso-
lution
"Whereas, BY act OF Congress, approved
March 2. 1893, an agreement between the
Wichita and affiliated bands of Indians in
Oklahoma and United States commissioners
were duly ratified and provision made for
the allotment OF lands therein to the Wichita
Indians, and providing for the opening of
surplus lands after allotment to homestead
settlement; and,
"whereas, the secretary OF the interior has
wholly failed to appoint agents TO allot
said lands. rs provided In said act, therefore
be II
"Resolved, that the secretary Of the In
terror is hereby directed, IL not incompat-
iblc with the public interest, TO report to the
house:
"First the reasons and causes operating
II any, to delay the appointment of allot-
ing agents and the allotment of said lands.
"Second-Whether any OF his connections
or relatives by blood or marriage are acting
as attorneys for said Indians or any party or
parties interested in delaying the opening Of
the reservation to settlement"
The senate was In session about two hours
to-day, half of that time being given 10 Mr.
Stewart, of Nevada, In q vigorous assault on
the gold "combine." Senator Carter, of
Montana, introduced bill authorizing the
Pacific Gable Company TO build a submarine
cable from some point on tho Paci1c coast to
the Hawaiian islands and Japan.
ELEVENTH DAY
senate-The presidents message on the
Venezuelan question occupied the main at
tention of the senate during its brief session.
Secretary Cox read the document amid i'm
pressive silence the senators following every
word with intense interest The concluding
sentence of the message was no sooner read
| than demonstration occurred, almost un.
| paralleled in the history of the upper branch
| chamber Joining in their expressions of ap.
proyal by long-continued handclapping.
House.-while the time of the house was
mainly absorbed to-day In a debate ON the
plan to create three committees of nine
| members each to deal with the election con-
| tests. its interests were centered upon the
| presidents message The debate on the
| election committee plan was fruitful of par
| tisan discussion of election methods In the
| house and the Republican policy of dealing
with contests in the Fifty-Arst congress.
The plan was adopted by party vote.
The presidents message laid ON the speak
er's table until late in the afternoon, when IL
was read and received with much enthusiasm
by members of both parties.
TWELFTH DAY.
r-nate.-There was an unusually small Mt
tendance of Senators at the opening of to
day's session; and there was not the leas
sign or indication of excitement growing ou
of the presidents message in reference to tn,
Monroe doctrine Mr.. Hill introduced a bill
to repeal the law which provides that no per
son who held office in the army or navy o
the United States at the beginning of the lat
rebellion and who afterward served in an,
capacity In the military naval or civil servic,
of the confederate states, shall be appointe,
to any position in the army or navy of th
United States. The bill was allowed to re
main on the table.
House--Mr. Hit (Rep.. Ill.) introduced
bill appropriating 100000 for the paymen
of the expenses of commission to examin