The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1895-03-06
FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS.
An Outline Of the Work In the Senate
and House.
sIxTy-FouRTH DAY.

ating s235, ,2s9 to pay the bounty on sugar
produced in this country up TO August 25,
isg3, when the new tariff law went into eff
feet, on which bounty has not yet been paid,
and to pay $40 OF a cent per pound on all
sugars above 80 per cent. poariscope test
produced up to June 30, 1895. For the latter
bounty $1,000, 900 is appropriated. Messrs.
Cameron and Quay voted In the affirmative
on both propositions. For the first amend
ment the voto was i6 to 20, and for the sec
ond 80 to 25.
The House passed the bill for the submits
sion Of all controversies between common
carriers engaged in Interstate commerce and
their employees which cannot be adjusted by
mutual arrangement; to a board OF arbitra-
tors, whose award shall be enforceable by
the United States courts.
s1xTY-FiFTH cay.
The senate began to-day the process Of un-
winding itself from the tangle into which II
always gets at the end OF the short session,
and such progress was made that littleis felt
felt about the appropriation bills being pass-
ed before noon of Monday. Tho most Inn
portant step taken Ia the direction OF avoiding
an extra session was the withdrawal OF the
new section inserted in the sundry civil bill
by the senate finance committee authorizing
the secretary OF the treasury to issue short
time bonds, or certificates Of indebtedness, to
meet deficiencies. and forbidding further
sales OF bonds, except after public advertise
ment.
HousE.-To-day was wasted In the house
so lar as the purpose for which the day was
set aside was concerned, namely, to consider
bills reported from the committee on public
buildings and grounds. Only one bill was
called up, that TO purchase what is known
rs the Malone site Tor new public printing
Office, but the opposition was fierce and
bitter, and attera wrangle OF several hours
the house got into parliamentary tongle
uh abandonment
bill. The conference reports on the bill TO
prohibit the importation OF goods In bond
through the United States into the Mexican
free zone, and on the pension and postollce
appropriation bills, were agre d to. several
pension and other bills Of minor importance
were passed by unanimous consent.
sIxrf-sIxTH DAY.
HousE-A large amount OF miscellaneous
business was done by the house to-day. The
attempt to pass over a veto the bill to pen
sion Hiram Rhea, North Carolina veteran,
failed, It being shown that the applicant was
guerilla. The vote was 06 to 1853 The
house voted to insist on its disagreement to
the senate appropriation for the Hawaiin
cable. Several minor conference reports
were agreed to and number OF district bills
passed. The general deficiency appropria-
tion bill amended by the senate committee
on appropriations, was reported to-day to the
senate by Mr.. Cockrell. 1t carries total ap-
-
029,000 over the house appropriations
Senator Quay today secured the adoption
by the senate OF his amendment to the sun
dry civil bill appropriating $50, 900 for the
movable dam at the junction OF the Beaver
and Ohio rivers. He also secured the adop-
tion OF q resolution extending until Septem-
ber the time for taking evidence as to the
value OF the Monongahela navigation com.
pany. The resolution provides that the ex-
penses OF taking the testimony shall be de-
frayed out OF the appropriation for the Inn
provement of the Monongahela.
sIxTY-sEvESTH DAY.
In the senate today Mr.. Morgan, DEM, oi
Alabama, offered n resolution referring to
the committee on foreign relations the mes
sage Of the president OF February l3, relating
to the payment by the United States of the
claims OF Great Britain arising out Of the
Bering Sea controversy, with instructions 10
examine into the question Of the liability OF
the United States to Great Britain and the
amount thereof, II any; and as to any liability
OF Great Britain or Canada arising out oi
such controversy. The resolution went over
under the rule.
The resolution offered yesterday by Mr..
Manderson, (rep., OF Neb.,) instructing the
committee on rules to inquire into the pro-
prietory OF recommending the appointment
OF Joint commission on neurology was taken
up and agreed to.
The JOINT resolution for the delivery Of
condemned cannon to the citizens committee
at Louisville. KY, during the encampment OF
the Grand Army OF the Republic in 1895 wac
taken up and passed. Tho senate then as
LAS proceeded to the consideration OF exet
cutive business.
CLOSING SESSIONS.
Saturday night the house had the sundr,
civil bill under consideration and after
vigorous fight IL receded by vote OF 1874 t
125 from its objection to the appropriation o.
five millions and more for the payment o
last years sugar bounty.
The Hawaiian cable was knocked out be
cause the senate conferees misrepresenteC
the senate. and, while ostensibly iavoring tn,
cable, secretly iet the houss conterees know
they were against 1t, and that the senate
would finally yield. There was treachery II
camp Mr.. Cleveland used every effort 4
beat the cable, which he felt personal af
front to himself aud 1t was the appeals ol
his friends and the party lash that held the
house In line when 1t was ready and anxious
to yield for the cable. The senate's re-
cedence reduces the appropriations half q
million.
At midnight matters had become prett
well shaped and In good condition for ad.
tournament The conferees on the deficiency
bill, which contains so many big schemes
French spoliation, nearly 81, 2,000, 900; Califor
nia and Nevada claims, several millions, Bow
man war claims and Malone site-haS
agreed to strike them all out. That removes
what seemed to be the stumbling block to.
ward an agreement.
Alter recess OF II hours, beginning at
O'Clock on unday morning, the Senate reas
sembled at 2 and was In session until Csc
| p. M, when recess was taken until $3.50 D
IN. The galleries were comfortably flied.
The conference report on the sundry civil
appropriation bill was concurred IN after
long discussion. The amendment for tn,
purchase OF the Blaine property, to give aI
unobstructed view OF Pennsylvania avenu
from Senator Cameron's house, was rejected
provisions for the officers OF the revenu
cutter service was modified SO us to ALLOW
retirement on half pay. The amendment To-
the Tennessee centennial was rejected. Th,
amendment for survey OF the route OF III,
Nicaragua canal was agreed to. The amend
ment for delegates to an International con
ference on the money question was preserved
In the bill.
After long discussion the amendment re
ducing the number OF battleships from thre,
to two was agreed to by a vote OF SO to 29.
Among the measures that received favor
uble action at the night session OF the hous,
were those to regulate the sale OF liquor tC
Indians and 10 amend the copyright law. II
of bt lat Mr n