The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1896-03-20
TIE 54TlI CONGRESS.
ROUTINE oF HOUSE AND SENATE
BRIEFLY CHRONICLED.
summary OF Biils aud Resolutions
Presented aud Acted Upon.
TINE HOUSE

Inc eonhlucfntlOn OF the Indian app
preparation bill was resumed In the
house Monday. An amendment offered
by Mr.. Flynn, delegate from Oklnho-
ma, 10 pay S25, 900 THE annuity 30 the
seminoles) 10 the Indians themselves
through an officer designated by the
inteFior department, was adopted Mr..
Fly ln alleged that under tae present
plan this money went 20 Governor
Brown and that tho Indians, instead
OF receiving money received due bills
good at the Brown stores
The committee recommended favor
ably nine bills and tho house passed
five.
AT 1890 o'clock the house adjourned
until Monday.
oiihe house at Tuesdays session
promptly passed the Indian appropri-
alton bill as amended. No one de-
manded n separate vote in the house
on the Linton sectarian school amend
ment as agreed 30 in committee of the
whole. The Ogden, New York, land
claim item was stricken from the bill
in order TO avoid a long discussion.
Ut. Dingley, chairman Of the ways
and means committee, then called up
the bill reported from that committee
authorizing the president to conclude
negotiations with Russia, England and
Japan or either OF them, for a commits
sion to inquire into the habits OF the
Alaskan fur seals and the best method
of preserving the seal herds. pending
which the president was authorized by
the bill TO conclude a modus vivendi
t. terminate January l, 1898, for the
protection of the seals and in case such
mOdus vivendi could not be con-
oluded before the opening of the pres
ent season, the secretary of the treas
ury was authorized to take and kill all
the seals while on their feeding grounds
on Pribylof Islands.
Mr.. Dingley had the report of the
cenmittee, which had already been
published, read, and he explained that
the necessity for immediate action
arose from the fact that the Canadian
pelagic sealers, whose ravages the bill
sought to prevent, we're already fitting
out their vessels and would sail in a
week.
THE bill was passed without debate.
{Under an arrangement made Mon
day, Mr.. Babcock, republican, Wis
consin, chairman of the District OF
Columbia committee, claimed the floor
in behalf of that committee.
All but the first hour of long days
session in the House Wednesday was
devoted to the discussion of the Van
Horn-Tarsney contest election case. II
was announced by Mr.. johnson, in
change, that a vote would be taken
Thursday. Mr.. Tarsney made the
opening speech in his own behalf, adj
vocating the adoption of the recon-
mendation of the minority, that the
case be reopened and the ballots in
certain disputed precints of Kan
sas City recounted. Messrs Parker,
republican, of New Jersey, and Pow
ers, republican, of Vermont, also sup.
ported the minority report.
nv Burton, republican, of Missouri,
and Prince, republican of Illinois, ad,
vocating Tarsney, but the latter had
not completed his remarks when the
house, at 3 80 o'clock, adjourned.
Senate amendments to the bill ex-
tending the time in which the govern.
ment may enter suit to annul land
patents issued under railroad, wager
rpad and canal grants were corcurreC
81 by a yea and nay vote-155 to SO.
1.-THE resignation of Representative
Cowen, democrat, of Maryland, as {
member of the committee on banking
and currency was announced by Speak
er Reed.
Mr.. Loud, republican, of California
chairman of the committee on post
ofeqes and post roads, reported tn,
pc. tai appropriation bill for the veal
ending June 30, 1897.
The committee has made severa
Important additions to the bill provid
insE for increased fast mail facilitie
between Springfield, Mass, and New
Orleans, La, which had been stricken
from the bill, was reinstated, the ap
preparation for the service being 1896
600.
An item appropriating 100000
was added for special mail service be
tween Chicago and Council Bluffs
Iowa, via Burlington.
Special facilities were also provide
for between Kansas City, Mo-, an
Newton, Kansas, the appropriation TO
this route being $81, 700.
THE SENATE.
In the senate Monday, Mr.. Calm
ger republican. New Hampshire