Connecticut western news., 1895-02-07
OUR CONGRESSMEN.
WHAT IS BEING DONE IN WASHING.
 TON DAY BY DAY.

The House Is Wrestling With the Admin
 istration's New Financial Bill, and the Senate Is Anxious to Take Hand Too.
 A Row In the House.
 WASHINGTON, Feb. 6.-The effort to carry out President Cleveiand's financial recommendations now congresses the time and attention of congress As tho first steps arc being taken iu the house, the interest centers in that body.
 A personal encounter between NIT. Breckinridge of Kentucky and Mir. Heard of Missouri took place in the house on Friday. Feh. l.
 Peace was finally restored and explana. tions made Before ad ournment both members asked pa dou of each other and of the house. Then they shook hands, and the incident was closed.
 The financial question again came be- fore the senate as an incident to the con. sideration of the rending District of CO lumbia appropriation bill, and Mir. Teller of Colorado took occasion. in concluding an effective speech. to give the significant warning that he would sec to it that so far as the present session Of congress was concerned there should be no hasty or weak financial legislation on the lines now proposed.
 On saturday. Feb 2, Lee Mantle oi Montana took the seat in the senate for which he has been so long contending. Defeated by Pennsylvania Members On Monday. Feb. 1. an attempt was made in the house to pass an omnibus bill for the payment of claims for stores and supplies confscated from loyal people in No .atr hp ff,,ar f. I STIS.6S2 It excited mue h opposition. es. | pecially from Pennsylvania members in. terested in Pennsylvania border wal claims amounting 10 Si,G00, QUO and not included in the measure 1t was defeated l -a5 to HIS.
 Tho senate spent almost the entire day on the District of Columbia appropriation i bill and for the first time since the meas ure was talk, n up 1t did not serve as n text for financial discussion. It is hoped tC | pass the bill today. thus clearing tn way for the po.toffico and the diplomatic and consular appropriation bill, now on the | calendar. and for the Indian and sundry | civil appropriation bills soon to be report ! cd iro.n conn itt-e.
 Among the bills passed was that for the establishment of national military paris at Gettysburg. Pa. and appropriate mark. | battle-ground As the bill has already passed tho house. it will become a law OF receiving the presidents signature | On TuesGay, Feb. 8, the debaie on the administra ion bill to authorize th, issue of S1ua OC0. 900 gold bonds for tho | purpose of rething the legal tenders ana f treasury notes began in the house and continued for six hours. It developed widely divergent views at the outses The silver Democrats and Populis op posed 1t outright some of the adminis- tration Democrats. like Hall of Missouri | favored a substitute on tho lines of the Carlisle bill. while Mir. Reed, tho leader of the Republican minority, after speecl charging the present trouble to tho dc ficiency in the revenue, introduced a bil authorizing the secretary of the treasury to sell per cent coin bonds to keep uI the gold reserve and certifl, ates of indebt edness reJeemabie at the pleasure of tn, government to pay current expenses un til the revenues should equal the expendi lures. I he issue of gold bonds. he said would discriminate against the coin bond of the past.
 In the senate there was breezy persona alteration between Mir. Mitt hell of Ore gon and Mir. Harris of Tennessee.
 The words "ungentlemanlyh and "con temptihle were exchanged, and for [ time it looked as though the senate cham Der might witness a repetition Of tho hel ligerent scene in tho house last week
 But the conflict assumed somewhat serio comic aspect, aud the senate soon re lapsed into an uneyentful consideration O routine business The District of olum bia appropriation bill was passed aftel having been before tho senate more thar week. and the discussion of the diplo matic and consular bill was begun.
 The senate modified its former actior on the Jal aneSe treaty to the extent O inserting revision which will render i impossible to abrogate the treaty before | l goes in. O effect