The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-01-16
CONGRESSIONAL.
Condensed Report of the Past Weeks Pro.
 Ce0dln9a.

Condensed Report of the Past Weeks Pro. ceedings.
 THE senate was not in session on the 9th, | ... The house held Q brief session. MT. Brod-
 erick asked that MT Allen, of Utah. be sworn ln but as the governor had not signed his ore. ] dentials the admission of tho state not being | complete until the presidents proclamation
 was issued) the matter went over. The house | soon adjourned.
 WHEN the senate met on the 7th Mir. Chan dler offered bill for Q popular loan through | the issue of postal saving certificates. MT.
 Jones (Ark.) reported from the finance com | mittee the free silver substitute for the house
 bond bill MT. Morrill, (Vt) notified the sen.
 ate that tho bill was opposed by every repub-
 iican on the finance committees. MT. Elkins wv Fa) offered Q resolution which was re- l ferred providing that hereafter any contem. plated bond issue shall first be advertised 20 dlys The senate then resumed con.
 sideration of Mir Sherman's resolu. | tton concerning the gold reserve and
 MT Vest addressed tho senate at length. He arraigned the supreme court for the income
 tax decision, and laid the responsibility for the | lack of revenue at their door. when they ex-
 empted the "sordid wealth of the land" from | taxation he contrasted the records of the present and past administrations; threw some
 light upon heretofore unknown chapters in the | history of the Mckinley law; denounced nnan-
 cial dependency of this country and of others upon the moneyed influence: attacked the
 president and the secretary of the treasury for
 their proposition to retire the greenbacks and place the circulation in the hands of tho na- tional banks. and in conclusion declared that the conflict between bimetallism and the gold
 standard was irrepressible, and that the | sooner 1t was decided the better 1t would be | for our public and private life At 4:25 o'clock the senate adjourned. ... The house held nnOther hrief SaQSiOu Tho v viror rprfa pt
 business transacted was the admission of the new member from the state of Utah. Mir. Allen, and the adoption Of resolutions calling upon the attorney-general for information concern ing the enforcement Of the antitrust law and for recommendations of new legislation on the
 the secretary of the treasury for statistics con-
 corning the seal fisheries of Behring sea- Ad-
 journed at i:2S o'clock.
 THE senate held . brief session on the sth. MT. Hale from the committee on naval affairs. reported bill authorizing the secretary of the | navy to enlist additional men for the navy and 1t was placed on the calendar. MT, Butler, (N. CD gave notice of amendments to be offered | to the bond bill The senate then adjourned.
 .... In the house MT. Spaulding (Mich) intro-
 duced q resolution providing that the Sand
 wich islands be formed into new state, to be called the state of Hawaii, with republican form of government to be adopted by the peo- pie, through deputies in convention, with the consent of the existing government. The rcs-
 olution proposes as an alternative that Hawaii | may be admitted as state by treaty between
 the two governments, with one representative
 in congress. The resolution was referred and
 the house soon adjourned.
 DEBATE on the free coinage substitute for the bond bill was again postponed in the sen- | ate on the 9th through the intervention of Sen- ator Stewart, who made speech in favor of
 the Elkins resolution as amended by Mir. But Ter to prohibit the sale of bonds except by con- sent of congress At the conclusion of Senator Stewards speech Senator Jones (Ark) called
 up the senate free coinage substitute, but it
 went over Senator Baker Okan) offered a
 resolution enunciating an expansion of the Monroe doctrine and spoke at some length.
 The senate soon adjourned. ...... The house
 transacted but little business The pension
 appropriation bill was reported It carries an
 appropriation of slil3a5,s.O Mir Livingston (Ga.) introduced Q resolution that the pres-
 dent be requested to forthwith ascertain
 whether Great Britain is advancing her out
 posts in Venezuela, and if so he demand an im- mediate withdrawal Went over under objec-
 tion. The house then adjourned.
 IN the senate on tho 10th resolution was | adopted sppropriating sa5o for the purchase of portrait of the late Allen G. Thurman. Sov- eral speeches were made in the morning hour
 on minor matters and then Mir. Morgan of- fered c resolution of congratulation to tho Trsnsvaal republic for It's stand for independ-
 enee Mr Jones (Ark.) then addressed the
 senate in favor of tho free coinage substitute for the house bond bill. and the senate ad- journed until Monday the 18th .... In the house Mir. Tawaey (Minn) offered resolution relat- ing to pension claims, but 1t went over under objections MT. Odell (N Y) offered a resolu-
 tion to direct the committee on banking and
 currency to report an amendment to the gen.
 eral banking laws, giving power to banking
 associations to invest not to exceed 50 per cent
 of their lawful reserves in bonds of the Uni ted
 States. to be hereafter issued under the acts of
 June l4. 1875, and May 3i, 1873 Objection was
 made and 1t was referred. The report of the
 committee on rules was then considered