The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-02-21
CONGRESS.
Condensed Proceedings of the Senate and
 House,

House.
 THE senate on the 9th, by vote of 26 to q decided to inaugurate the project of laying cable from the Pacific coast to Hawaii I' came in the form of an amendment to the diplomatic bill and appropriates e,O0,O09 to be. gin the work and authorizes the president C contract for the entire work, estimated to cost 8, ,000,OO0 The consular bill as auien6ed passed. MT. Pefer offered a resolution which was adopted. calling on the judiciary committed to report his resolution for an inquiry as to the legal right of the secretary of the treasury te issue bonds. After eulogles to the late Sen ator Stockbridge the senate adjourned The house in committee of the whole agreed to put clerks of members on the pay roll at slOJ per month. instead of during the session. Several conference reports were agreed to- and after eulogies upon the late Representative Wright of Pennsylvania, the house adjourned
 THE financial question again came to the front in the senate on the Ilth, when MT. Hill presented resolution defining the policy oi the government to pay it's bonds in gold in case the parity between gold and silver could not be maintained. The matter led to a long debate but went over for the day. The president sent in . special message in response to resolution on the Behring sea question. The further busi- ness transacted was purely of a routine nature
 .... The house devoted the whole day to consid- eration of the legislative appropriation bill in committee of the whole. The bill was nearly completed. A bill to provide for coinage at the branch mint at Denver passed.
 IN the senate on the 18th Mir. Cullom present. ed memorial from various trades and trans portation associations in Chicago asking legis- lation for protection from express robbers and train wreckers. Mir. Gray reported adversely the resolution for the election of senators by the people. Mir. Jones (Ark) reported the f. nancial committee bill for the unlimited coin age of silver. The proceedings of the senate were mostly routine. Several pension bills passed. The house was in committee of the whole considering the legislative. judicial and executive appropriation bill When the bill was reported back to the house the contest was resumed against the provision for annual clerks to members. Mir. Dockery pointed out that the annual clerks would cost S35j, 900 before the next congress actually assembled. A yea and nay vote was taken on the amendment for the an- nual clerks and it was defeated and the bill passed.
 THE financial question again occasioned a spirited debate in the senate on the 18th brought on by bill offered by Mir. Villas grant ing the president authority he had requested to issue per cent bonds. Mir. Sherman of- fered substitute for the Jones bill heretofore reported providing for gold bonds and tempora- ry gold certificates. The house resolution was adopted extending the time for making returns on the income tax to April l5... The day fin the house was devoted to District of Columbia business. During the debate Mir. Van Voorhis, introduced resolution calling upon the com- mittee on ways and means to furnish to the house the contract Of the recent bond negota- tion and such other information as the secre- tary of the treasury had communicated to the committee. Mir. Wilson immediately informed the house the majority report upon the joint resolution providing for per cent. gold bonds, which had been favorably acted upon by the committee, would contain copy of the much desired contract
 THE senate on the ifth voted to make no change in the present railway mail system. The post office appropriation bill as reported gave the postmaster-general complete discre- tion in expending S32J0,0DJ for postal cars and cut on the present fast mail line from north to south The bill was debated all day and the senate refused to do away with the fast mail line from New England to the south and also declined to extend the policy for substituting fast mail lines. The response of Secretary Carlisle giving the condition Of the treasury was received. The only feature of the house proceedings of any general interest was the debate upon and defeat of the resolution by which 1t was proposed to authorize the issue of s6S, O)0 Of per cent. gold bonds to substi tute for the thirty-year bonds sold by Secre- tary Carlisle under the late contract. The de- bate was full of interest. Messrs Wilson, Hopkins, Hatch, Bryan, Reed and others took part in the debate and at o'clock the special order was called--the third reading of the res- oluticn, which the house refused by a vote of l2O yeas to l67 nays, and the third defeat of the administration plan to relieve the treasury was recorded An analysis of the vote showed 60 democrats and 3l republicans for the resolu- tion and 9S democrats, C. republicans and : populists against
 THE senate on the 18th passed the post office appropriation bill All amendments cutting down the fast mail service north and south were voted down The pooling bill was taken up long enough to enable MT. Butler to make speech in it's support. The finance committee favorably reported the bill repeating the one- tenth discriminating duty on sugar from coun- tries paying bounty. Several local bills passed and the agricultural bill was nearly completed The hsSie considered the naval appropriation bill and devoted the day to general debate. The bill carries s3l, ,sO7 ,023 and authorizes three new line of battle- ships and twelve torpedo boats. The senate amendments to the bill extending the time for making income tax returns were disagreed to and the bill sent to conference At the night session pension bills were considered.