The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-01-23
CONGRESSIONAL.
0ondonsed Report of the Past Weeks Pro-
 c0odings.

Condonsed Report of tho Past Weeks Pro.
 ceedings.
 THE only feature of interest in the senate on the 18th was the speech of Senator Morgan 9Aia), who addressed the senate for two hours m opposition to the bond bill. He paid his re. spects to Senator sherman who was an at- tentive listener. by characterizing him (Sher- man) as the author of i've new measures of finance that have given the people and the gov- ernment more trouble in handling the little remnant of s348,0OOOO0 of greenbacks than 1t did to pay si2 0O0.o 900 of annual expenditures for the support of the government. and more than SoOO,0oo'e0o ot principal and interest of the national debt that we have raised in the last 50 years. These measures wore 7. the characterization of silver in 1873. the se- questration of the gold reserve in the treasury in 1878. the power given to the secretary of the treasury in 1890 to pre- serve the parity between the metals, the power to sell bonds at private sale and the power to enable private persons by contract to dispense with the legal tender laws in their transactions He said the senator from Ohio had been known as the "Napoleon of finance" but he was approaching his Waterloo. ... Most of the day in the house was devoted to debate upon the pension appropriation bill. Mir. Morse, of Massachusetts. presented resolu- l on on the Armenian outrages for reference to the committee on foreign affairs. Adjourned.
 IN the senate on the l4th . bill passed, after a lively running debate granting . pension of SS month to the widow of Gen. Cogswell, who was member of congress from Massa- chusetts at the time of his death. MT. Mills offered resolution declaring the policy of the government to be against the issue of bonds, favoring the speedy payment of tho public debt and for coinage of the silver bullion in the treasury. MT. Butler (N. C.) spoke for two hours in opposition to the bond bill and in favor of silver Legislation The senate then adjourned. Debate on the pension sppropris- tion bill was continued all day in the house. Among the speakers who favored Q liberal ap- propriation was MT. Kirkpatrick. of Kansas.
 SENATE proceedings were of little interest on the l3th. Mr. Shermsn reported favorably joint resolution appropriating SIS 900 for the expense of tho Alaska boundary commission and 1t passed MT. Mills (Tex.) then addressed the senate on his resolution in regard to bonds, silver etc, and then MT. PefYer was accorded the floor on the bond bill, and the senate ad- journed. The house was occupied all day in debate upon the pension appropriation bill.
 THE debate on the bond bill continued in the senate on the 10th, Mir Peier closing his speech. Mir. Hale spoke for an hour in favor of establishing @ cable between the United States and Hawaii MT. Call also asked for information on tho Cuban revolution. Then eulogies were delivered upon the late Repre- senate adjourned. q. Debate on the general pension bill continued all day in the house.
 THE senate transacted no business on the 17th. The house, after discussing the pension appropriation bill for week, finally passed it. The bill carries an appropriation of tl4I ,32,, ,- S2O, about S50,000 less than the estimate. The house then adjourned until Monday.