Birmingham state herald., 1895-12-24
CONGRESSIONAL CONTESTS Cases Referred to Their ReSpeC-
 tive Committees. MEMBERS TELEGRAPHED FOR Wanted to Discuss aFiuaucial Measure Net
 Thursday. i
 
 A JOINT RESOLUTION INTRODUCED Appropriating s1,5oo, ,ooo for Reserve Supply of Projectiles for the Navy.
 House in Session Thirty i M Minutes. 
MEMBERS TELEGRAPHED FOR
A JOINT RESOLUTION INTRODUCED

Washington. Dec. 2S.-There was fair attendance of members when the speak er's gavel fell at noon today.
 MT. Tracy republican, of Missouri, was appointed to the naval affairs committee in place of MT. Hart, democrat, of Penn sylvania.
 MT. Daniels, republican, of New York, chairman of the committe on elections, offered a resolution authorizing the ap- pointment of a clerk for each of the three branches of the committee and au- thorizing the committee to sit during the sessions of the house. Agreed to. A section of the resolution authorizing the committee to apportion the contested cases among the three committees was objected to by MT. Crisp and the eases were, under the rules, distributed by the speaker the first nine going to commit- tee No. l, the next eleven to committee No and the remainder to committee Mo- 3.
 MT. Dingley, chairman of the ways and means committee, stated that the con- current resolution providing for a hol- day adjournment, with the senate amendments, had been considered by the ways and means committee at their meeting this morning. They had unani- mously declared that in view of the re- quest contained in the presidents mes sage and under all other circumstances it would not be appropriate to take a holiday recess until measure of relief had been considered by the house. Allab- sent members had been telegraphed for and he hoped they would be present on that day.
 On motion of MT. Aldrich, republican, of Illinois, chairman of the committee on accounts, resolution was agreed to di- recting that committee to designate what committees should be allowed clerks.
 On motion Of MT. Dingley the house at 12:30 D. m. adjourned until tomorrow.
 Chairman Dingley of the committee on ways and means requested the sergeant at-arms to telegraph absent members of the house that their presence In the house on Thursday was necessary to consider a financial measure to be re- ported on that day. TelegramS were sent to 120 absentees. < f
 resolution was offered by MT. Hen derson, republican, of Iowa, a member of the rules committee, having for its purpose the clearing of the way in the house for any financial bill which may be reported by the ways and means commit- tee. The resolution provides that when the ways and means committee shall re- port upon the questions of raising rev. enue now before it, it shall be in order, on motion of the chairman of that com mittee, to take up and dispose of the same in the house.
 Among the bills introduced in the house today was the following:
 By MT. Brewster, republican, of New York-To relieve the United States treas ury by providing that hereafter no gold coin of a less denomination than $10 shall be coined, nor shall there be issued any legal tender notes or paper currency or any kind of less denomination than BIO.
 Mr. Cummings, democrat, of New York, off in ba hnIIca fnd1V n joint rpSOlll- tion directing the secretary of the navy to accept the Katahdakin and to make her a part of the navy.
 Mr. Dalzell, republican, of PennSylva- mia, offered in the house joint resolu- ton appropriatng $1, 100000 to enable the secretary of the navy to contract for reserve supply of projectiles for the use of the navy.
 preamble to the resolution calls at- tention to the section of the annual re- port of the secretary of the navy, which states that the naval service has not re- serve supplies of projectiles for itself or for auxiliary cruisers which would be fitted out in time of war.
 The chairmen of the three election con- mittees are making arrangements to have their committees meet as soon as possi- ble.
 MT. Daniels of New York, chairman of committee No. 1, will endeavor to get his committee together tomorrow. To this committee the following cases were re- ferred: Robinson against Harrison. Third Alabama district; Aldrich against Robbins, Fourth Alabama district; Good wyn against Cobb, Fifth Alabama dis trict; Aldrich against Underwood, Ninth Alabama district; Belknap against Mc- Gam, Third Illinois district; Rinaker against Downing Sixteenth Illinois dis trict; Felton against Maddox, Seventh Georgia district; Denby, Jr, against Owens, Seventh Kentucky district; Hop kins against Kendall, Tenth Kentucky district.
 diana. chairman, will probably meet Thursday It has the following cases: Coleman against Buck, Seventh Louis jana district; Beattie against Price. Third Louisiana district; Benoit against Boatner Fifth Louisiana district; Booze against Rusk, Third Maryland district; Vanhorn against Tarsney, Fifth Mis- souri district; Mitchell against Walsh. Eighth New York district; Camppeli against Miner, Ninth New York district; New York district; Cheatham against Woodward. Second North Carolina dis trict: Thompson against Shaw, Third North Carolina district; Martin against I,ockhart Sixth North Carolina district:
 The third committee, with MT. Mccall of Massachusetts as chairman, has set no day for meeting. It has the following cases to dispose of: Murray against El- 1iott First South Carolina district; Morr- man against Latimer, Third South Caro- lima district Wilson against McLaurin, sixth South Carolina district; Johnson against Stokes, Seventh South Carolina district; Davis against Culberson, Fourth Texas district; Kearby against Abbott, Sixth Texas district: Rosenthal against Crowley, Tenth Texas district; Thorp against McKenney, Fourth Virginia dis trict; Cornette against Swanson, Fifth Virginia district; Hogg against Otey Sixth Virginia district; Yost against Tucker. Tenth Virginia district: Newman against Spencer. Seventh Mississippi dis trict .
 Under these references all the eases coming from any one state are assigned