The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-04-16
CONGRESSIONAL.
Condensed Report of the Past Weeks Pro

Coudeused Report If the Past Weeks Pro. ceedinga.
 THE post once appropriation bill was passed In the senate on tho 7th. almost the entire day being devoted to . discussion Of the amend- ment to consolidate small offices with larger ones. but the proposition was defeated. only seven voting in It's support Mir Butler (N O introduced joint resolution for m amend. ment to tho constitution to limit the veto power of the president. .. The house debated the bill to fix the standard of weights ana measures by the adoption of the metric sys- tenn, but the fate df the bill still hangs in the balance, as, though 1t was defeated by Q vote and nays and pending the roll call the house adjourned. resolution was introduced by Mir. Blue (Kan.) to investigate the manage ment of national soldiers homes.
 MR TURPIE's speech on Cuba was the event of the day in the senate on the sth While arguing for radical action, even to the extent of sending fleet to Cuban waters. much of his speech was given to ridiculing Mir sherman and Mir. Lodge in managing the Cuban resolu- tions. The Indian appropriation was debated and Mir. Allen introduced bill to restore the names Of widows of soldiers to the pension roll after the death of their second husbands who by reason of their second marriage had been dropped from the rolls. ... The bill to adopt the metric system of weights and measures was
 
 the bill to exempt sailing vessels engaged in the coast trade from compulsory pilotage laws was debated but not voted on. The conference report on the agricultural appropriation bill was adopted.
 MIR MANTLE (Mont) in the senate on the 9th defended the course of the silver republican senator's in voting against the Dinsley tarih bill. He urged that unsectional protection should be linked with bimetallism. Some nropraSs VI made m the Indian aDurOpria- tion bill and the calendar was cleared of all private bills after an hour specially devoted to pensions The naval appropriation bill was reported and Mir Gallinger introduced a bill for the creation of United States commission to treat with commissions from other Christian nations flor the correction of the intolerable evil so consistently and still continuing in tho shape of the Ottoman empire. ".... In the house the District of Columbia bill was debated. the principal feature of which was an attack on the A. P. A by Mir. Fitzgerald (Mass). The | filled cheese" bill was also considered Mr. Van Voorhis reported bill to permit the es- | of national banks with small cap- ital in small cities
 THE senate on the 10th took up the question | of sectarian Indian schools, but did not com 1! plete 1t. A bill was passed providing for Q | ppi and international exposition | st Omaha, Neb. in 1898. Mir. Call presented a | Joint resolution concerning the imprisonment | of Mrs. Maybrck in England. It was referred | to the judiciary committee after Q somewhat | heated discussion. Mir sherman saying that 1t ought not to have been introduced. as the sen- ,te had no jurisdiction over the subject ... The house spent the entire day in debating the | filled cheese" bill, very considerable oppo- '!tion to the measure having developed. The notifications bill was reported and also bill Q prohibit the sale of Intoxicating liquors to Indians holding land by allotment