Birmingham state herald., 1896-03-27
TIME WAS7ED|N THE SENATE No Matters of Public Interest
 Was Discussed.
RESOLUTION TABLED
Provides for Free Coinage of Silver and Pro-
 hibits Bond Sales.
NAVAL APPROPRIATION BILL PASSED
to Pass Without Amendment-A Resolution Offered in Behalf of
 President Harrison.

Washington, March 26.-The house spent most of todays session in discuss ing, in committee of the whole, the mo- tion offered by Mir. Hanley member of the committee on naval affairs, to amend the naval appropriation bill for the year ending June 30. 1897, by providing for the construction of six battleships instead of four, as recommended by the committed The motion was supported by Messrs Hanley, Johnson. republican, of Califor- mia, and Cummings, democrat of New York, and opposed by Messrs Hulck of Ohio, Robinson of Pennsylvania and Bou- telle of Maine. The motion was lost-32 to 136.
 Without further amendment the bill was reported to the house and passed ox- actly as recommended by the committed the first appropriation bill of the ses- sion to pass without amendment
 Among the morning miscellaneous bus mess transacted was the passage of two or three private bills, the presentation of a concurrent resolution by MT. Heat whole of Minnesota authorizing the ap- pointment by the president of a banking and currency commission, to consist of nine citizens, to act wKh the comptroller of the currency and to report their rec concentrations and conclusions to con- gress, which was referred to the commit tee on banking and currency, and the presentation of the report of the congress s1onal committee on the opening of the Chickamauga national park by MT. Gros- venor.
 MT. Cannon reported the sundry civil appropriation bill for the year ending June 30, 1897, and gave notice that he would ask the house to consider it to- morrow
 At 5:3O o'clock the house adjourned.
 The Senate
 None of the matters that came up be- fore the senate today were of much pub- lie interest and importance. One-third of the time was consumed over a joint resolution appointing Bernard R. Green successor to General Casey in the matter of the construction of the new library building in Washington; nearly as much time on an amendment to the legislative appropriation allowing third clerk to the senate committee on pensions, and all the rest of the time on a-motion made by MT Sherman to strike out of the leg islative bill all the sections in relation to the compensation of United States dis trict attorneys, clerks and marshals. This latter subject was not disposed of when the senate adjourned.
 The joint resolution reported yesterday by MT. Sherman, from the committee on foreign relations, authorizing Benjamin Harrison to accept certain medals pre- scented to him by the governments of Brazil and Spain during his term of ser vice as president. of the United States was taken up and passed
 Mr. Allen, populist, of Nebraska, of fered a resolution as follows:
 Resolved, That congress should by ap- propriate legislation and without further delay restore silver to the free and un- limited coinage at the ratio of 16 parts of standard silver to one part of gold, and should by appropriate legislation with draw from the secretary of the treasury any power he may now have to issue bonds or any other interest-bearing ob- legations of the United States until the necessity therefore shall be declared by congress, and that congress should not adjourn until these things have been accomplished.
 The resolution was laid on the table for the present.
 At 5:20 the senate adjourned until to- morrow.