The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-02-13
CONGRESS.
The Weeks Proceedings Given In Con.
 densed Form.

THE senate was not in session on the Sd. In the house the senate free-coinage substitute was referred to the ways and means commit- tee The army appropriation bill was re- ported. The president transmitted the cor- respondence in regard to the Italian lynchinss to the house and this about wound up the work of the sitting for the day
 WHEN the senate met on the 9th the tariF bill was reported from the finance committee with free silve- substitute. Chairman Nor Till made the report, stating that free silver amendment had taken the place of the origi- nal bill and adding, amid laughter, the closing phrase of official procedure of Massachusetts, 'and may God save the commonwealth" Mr. Quay made two attempts to have the bill re- committed, but 1t wont over under objections The substitute agreed to by the finance com mittee is in the exact words of the silver sub- stitute for the house bond bill already passed the senate Among the bills favorably re- ported was that granting pension of SsOO month to the widow of the late Gen. Walter o Gresham, and sO0 Q month to the widow of the late Gen. Thomas Ewing Mr. Allison reported back the pension appro. priation bill ....In the house MT. Diugley, chairman of the ways and means committee reported back the senate free coinage substi. tute for the house bond bill, with the recom- mendation that the house non-concur and in. sist on its bill. MT. Crisp, representing the minority, gave notice that the minority will ask the house to concur. The District of Col. umbia bill was then debated until adjourn. ment
 THE sensation in the senate on the 5th was the speech of snator Vest in ridcule of the sec- retary of agriculture, in which the senatoi severely criticised tho practice of furnish. ing costly flowers from government green, houses for the receptions at tho executive man. sion and referred to the "bugle blasts" from the secretary of agriculture as to the congres. sional extravaganza in distributing seeds "The trouble is." said Mir. Vest, that tho sec. retary of agriculture is a monomaniac on the gold standard" The resolution to distribute appropriation bills among the several commit. tees was debated at some length, during which MT. Teller, of Colorado took occasion to refer to the success of the bond issue The senate substitute for the Cuban resolution was reported from tho foreign affairs com mittee. .... The house passed Q bill making prize fighting misdemeanor punishable with not less than five years Imprisonment At three o'clock debate commenced on the silver bond bill, and before adjournment Mir. De Armond IMo) introduced resolution for the recognition of the Cubans as belligerents.
 THE credentials of Senator-elect Foraker, of Ohio, were presented in the senate on the 9th. A resolution of Senator Thurston (Neb.) was agreed to directing the secretary of state to send to the senate copies of all laws, regulations and decreeS of Germany, France, Belgium and Denmark which discriminate against the in- troduction of American cattle. MT. Turpie then addressed the senate in favor of the elec- tion of United States senators by popular vote Mir. Morgan (Ala.) offered an amendment to resolution of MT. Quay to recommit the tarii silver bill. It instructs the finance committee to add provision deducting ten per cent, from custom duties on goods imported in vessels of the United States, or of the country producing the imported article, provided that the coun- tries exporting such goods shall provide by law that silver bullion, the product of the United States mines, shall be admitted to coinage on equal terms with gold. The Catron house bill to prohibit prize fighting in the ter- ritories passed the senate. In the house the senate free coinage substitute for the house bond bill was debated five hours in the afternoon and for three hours at the night ses- sion. No other business was transacted.
 WHEN the senate met on the 7th Mir Frye (Me was unanimously elected president pro the secretary of the treasury for certain infor- nation in the event of the passage of the pend- ing tarif bill The resolution contemplating reform in handling appropriation bills by dis tributing them among the several committees was taken up and adopted, Adjourned until Monday .... When the house met tilt took place between MT. Talbert (S. O and Barrett (Mass.) over words used by the former the day before in which he justified secession. but the matter finally Quieted down. At the night ses- sion the bond bill was further debated