The Forrest City times., 1896-02-07
NEWS IN BRIEF
Compiled from Various Sources.
liV. CONGRESS.
First Session.)

IN the senate, on the 29th concurrent res- olUtion was read. discussed and placed upon
 the calendar, requesting the president to use his good offices with the government of Spain to have belligerent rights extended to the Cu- ban revolutionists. The event of the day was
 the speech of Mir. Tillman (dem.. <. C), osten-
 sinly in favor Of the free-coinage substitute
 for the house bond bill but really in denuncia-
 ton of the president and the secretary of the treasury, in which he referred to the former as "bullheaded and self-idolatrous. and to the latter as that Judas from Kentucky" "..... In the house the first consideration morning hour Of the session was held, during which several
 bills reported from the committee on public lands were passed.
 IN the senate on the SOth most of the morn ing hour was consumed in discussion about the joint resolution ordering the purchase and distribution of seeds by the secretary of agri- culture, on which. however. action was
 taken. The remainder of the session was oc- cupied with speeches on the house bond bill with the finance committee's substitute In the house Mir Wadsworth reported the agri- cultural appropriation bill from the committee on agriculture and MT. Grout reported the Dis trict of Columbia appropriation bill for the year en ing June 30. 1s97. The contested elec- ton cases from the Fourth and Tenth Texas districts were decided in favor of the sitting
 members. Several bills of minor importance were passed.
 IS the senate. on the 31st. an unanimous agreement was reached that vote on the house bond bill with the finance committees free coinage substitute should be taken at two o'clock ?. UT. on the lst. Several speeches, for
 and against the bill and substitute were made.
 a night session being held to accommodate l those who would otherwise have found no op- portunfty to speak. Mir. Palmer (dem., III. )
 gave notice of an amendment to be offered by him In the house consideration Of the Dis
 trict of Columbia appropriation bill was en- 1 tered upon. and number Of bills of minor inn portance were passed. night session for the 1 consideration of private pensions bills was
 taken up in hlibustering by the opposition. IN the senate. on the lst, discussion on the | house bond bill and the free coinage substitute
 was determined at 2. p m., an amendment re- 1 serving to the government of the seigniorage
 on the silver coined. offered by Mir. Morrill, l (rep., Vt) having been rejected. the title l changed to read: ITO Restore the Coinage of
 Silver and for Other Purposes, and all the sec
 tions Of the house bill having been stricken
 out. the bill was passed by vote of 42 to B -.
 In the house large number of unimportant 1 bills were passed during the first hour, after which the day was spent in discussing the Dis trlrt Of Columbia appropriation blll, without a
 conclusion being reached.
 THE senate was not in session on the 3d ..... In the house the army appropriation bill for 1 the coming fiscal year was reported A bill
 was passed granting right of way through the Choctaw nation to the Arkansas & Choctaw 1 Railway Co. The senate free coinage substi- i tute for the house bond bill WIS received and referred to the committee on ways and means
 Nearly the entire session in committee of the 1 whole was spent in discussing the District oi Columbia appropriation bill and pending amendments thereto.