The record-union., 1896-01-22
DOINGS In CONGRESS.
Neither Finance Nor the Monroe Doctrine
Engage Any Of the Senate'S Time.
The Cuban Question, However, Comes
in for Measure of Attention.

Arrest and Imprisonment of Amer
leans on the Island-The House
Passes It's Third Appropriation Bill,
That Providing for Urgent Defi-
ciencies for Current and Past Fiscal
Years.
! WASHINGTON, Jan. 21-Neither
the financial question nor the Monroe
doctrine engaged any. part of the time
of the Senate to-day. When, at the
close of the morning hour, the House
bond bill with the free coinage substi-
tute came up as the unfinished busi-
ness, Teller (Rep) of Colorado, who
had the floor to speak upon it, readily
consented to suggestion to postpone
his speech till tomorrow, and Jones
(Dem.) of Arkansas, who has the par
liamentary management of the bill,
just as readily consented to have the
bill go over for the day.
The Cuban question: however, came
in for a measure of attention indirectly
in connection with two resolutions Of
fered by Call (Dem) of Florida, one in
reference to the arrest of United States
citizens in Havana, and the other call
ing on the State Department for copies
of reports of United States Consuls in
Cuba relating to the progress of the
war on that island. Both resolutions
were referred to the Committee on For
eign Relations after brief discussion,
in which Hoar (Rep.) of Massachusetts
ridiculed the notion that the Senate
was "a constantly loaded cannon"
ready to be touched off at any Senator's
direction, and then Sherman (Rep) of
Ohio, Chairman of the Committee on
| Foreign Relations, remarked that the
resolution would be setting an exam
PIE that might give the Government
great deal of trouble
Most of the days session was spent in
disposing of bills on the calendar that
were unobjected to. Some sixty-five
measures were passed-a majority of
them private pension bills.
In the routine business of the morn
ing hour Service pension bill" was re-
ported to the Senate from the Commit
tee on Pensions without any recon-
mendation, and was placed on the cal
endar.
A resolution was offered by Call
| (Dem.) of Florida, requesting the Pres
ident of the United States to inquire
into the arrest and forcible removal of
Mark C. Rodriguez. a citizen of the
United States on board of the United
States mail steamer Olivette, in the
harbor of Havana on the 10Th inst, and
also into the arrest of Louis S. Someil-
Ian and his son in Havana, and if no
! just cause for such arrests exists, that
the President shall demand their inn
mediate release. He subsequently
/ ~ l.,
| it one of inquiry merely, at the sug-
gestion of Hoar (Rep) of Massachu-
setts, and at the further suggestion of
Sherman (Rep.) of Ohio was referred
to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
Calls resolution calling on the State
Department for reports of Consuls in
Cuba on the war now existing there,
was taken from the Vice-President's
table and referred to the Committee
| on Foreign Relations.
The resolution of Pugh Dem.) of
Alabama, relating to the payment of
United States obligations in silver, was
then laid before the Senate, but went
over.
A resolution to pay years salary
tc the widow of the late Captain Bas-
sett. Assistant Doorkeeper, was re-
ferred to the Committee on Contingent
Expenses.
The calendar was then taken up, and
several unimportant bills passed.
At the close Of the morning hour the
bond bill was laid before the Senate as
the unfinished business, Teller (Rep.)
OF Colorado having the floor to address
the Senate upon it. At the suggestion
of Hoar. however, with the consent of
Teller, and of Jones (Dem) of Arkan-
sas, in charge of the bill, it went over
for the day, and the calendar proceeded
with
Senate bills for bridges across the
Columbia River between the States of
Oregon and Washington, across the
Mississippi River at ST. Louis and
across the Missouri River near Cham
berlain, S. D., were passed, as were
twenty-five private pension bills, in
Guiding one increasing the pension of
Helen S. Dent, widow of Colonel Dent
and sister to President Grant, from $40
to $50 a month; also a Senate bill to
amend the Railroad Land Forfeiture
Act of March 3, 1887, in the matter of
payment of purchasers; Senate bill to
reconvene the delegates of the United
States to the International Marine Con-
i ference of 1889; Senate bill to protect
/ the wages of seamen by exempting
| them from attachment; Senate joint
resolution looking to the establishment
cf a permanent Census Bureau; Senate
bill to pay ST, 800 to Peter Grant Stew
art of Oregon for certain property
| taken by the Government, and Senate
bill to amend the Act granting a right
Of way through Indian Territory to the
Kansas City. Pittsburg and Gulf Rail-
road Company.
After having thus passed some sixty
| five bills on the calendar, there was
brief executive session, and the Senate
at 3:55 adjourned until tomorrow
IN THE HOUSE.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 21.-The House
of Representatives to-day passed its
third appropriation bill-that providing
for urgent deficiencies for current and
past fiscal years, reported yesterday
The total amount carried by the bill as
prepared by the Committee on Appro-
priations was SAFE, ,923. and as passed
by the House S4. .420, 403, the only
amendment made of any Importance
being one to appropriate $4,000 for the
survey of the Chicopee lands in Wis
| consin. Nearly three-quarters Of the
amount named in the bill was for court
expenses, largely fees of witnesses.
! Deputy Marshals and Commissioners.
/ and much of the debate on the bin was
| devoted to the necessity of reform in