The record-union., 1896-05-29
DOINGS IN CONGRESS-.
RELIEF RESOLUTION FOR THE
STORr1 SUFFERERS.
The Conference Report on the Indian
Appropriation Bill Meets With
Resistance in the Senate.

WASHINGTON. May 2S.-A concur
rent resolution providing for the loan
of tents by the War Department and
such other relief as the Secretary OF
War may deem necessary to the suf-
fererS Of the recent storm was intro
duced upon the meeting of the House
to-day by Bartholdt and agreed to
without discussion or objection. Later
the Senate amendment making it a
joint resolution was agreed to, and at
4:30 the Speaker announced that he
had signed it.
Leave was granted Bartholdt and
Hubbard of the Missouri delegation to
visit st. Louis, and they left this after
noon.
The partial conference report upon
the sundry civil appropriation bill
which was under consideration when
the House adjourned yesterday, was
disposed Of The House agreed to the
following Senate amendments: Appro-
priating $4,000 to build approaches to
the Martinsburg CWest Virginfa) pub
lie building; appropriating $4,000 to
repair and improve the Courthouse at
Little Rock, Ark, and appropriating
SEQ, 900 to repair and improve the New
York Postoffice
The bill granting Fort Omaha reser-
walton to the State of Nebraska was
agreed to, with an amendment recon-
mending in conference that it be leased
to the State at a nominal figure.
The House rejected the conference re-
Port on the bill to pension the widow
of the late General Poe of the Engineer
Corps, fixing the amount at S15 per
month, and insisted upon it's amend
ment making TIE pension $50 a month.
The remainder of the day was spent
in discussing the contested election
cases of Johnson VS.. Stokes, from the
Seventh South Carolina District. John
sons right to the seat was maintained
by Overstreet Rep) Of Indiana in a
two hours speech, to which Almond
Oem) of Missouri responded for an
hour and a half.
Without completing the case the
House at 5:15 adjourned.
IN THE SENATE.
WASHINGTON, May 2S-The only
actual piece of legislation by the SEN
ate to-day was the passage of the
House joint resolution for the loan of
tents etc, to the ST. Louis sufferers,
and that resolution was passed because
it would appear rather ungenerous not
to pass it. The joint resolution had re-
ceived the signatures of the Speaker
and ce-President, and had been sent
to the President before adjournment.
The conference report on the Indian
appropriation bill met determined re-
sistance on account Of an amendment
contained in it (and which had no
basis in the bill passed. providing for
extending the rights and duties of cit
liens to the Indians of the five civil
lied tribes.
The matter went over without action
at 2 o'clock, when the consideration OF
the bill to prohibit the issuance of bonds
without the consent of Congress was
taken up.
Daniel of Virginia continued the
speech which he had begun yesterday
in support of the bill and in advocacy
of free coinage and in advocacy of the
silver policy, winding up with en-
phatic declarations that he took his
place in the ranks of the plain masses
of the American people, who appreci-
ated their institutions. and intended
to defend them at whatever cost.
A speech in favor of the bill was also
made by PETER of Kansas, in which he
declared that if the gold policy were
persisted in, and If the usurpations of
the President in issuing bonds were
not estopped (Which was the object of
the bilD. the people would be driven to
repudiation.
The bill went over without action, and
the Senate at 6:20 adjourned until to-
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