Connecticut western news., 1897-01-28
DOINGS OF CONGRESS-.
BOTH eRANcHEs OF THE NATIONAL
 LEGISLATURE AT WORK.
cubaa Question, Proposed Me.~t.ry css- ference and Nicaragua Csasi nln Are Topic. In th. s~n..s-Ts. Hea.s Over ride. the Executive on i. r.ns,o. mu.

Topics Ia the s~nsts-rs. Heas. Over
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 WASHINGTON, Jan. 2T.-The acnnte had \ busy session, the Cuban war, the pro- posed international monetary conferepce and tho Nicaragua canal each coming In for share of attention.
 Mir. Turpie of Indiana closed his speech on the Cuban resolution. urging that Spain had utterly failed la qnell tho out hrssak and that the United States should intervene
 The woicott b.n for an International monetary conference was considered for tho first time Mir. White tDcm of Cali fornia and Mir. Cannon tInd. of Utah and Mir. Daniel (Dom. of Virginia urged that the conference would be futile and was not intended as serious movement to- ward bimetallism. 10 was most evident. however, that the bill would meet with little opposition beyond tho expression of sanators that the conference would accom- plish nothing. Mir. Stewart offered An amendment providing that in case the con ference failed the secretary of the treasury shall within a0 days begin tho free and unlimited coinAgc of both gold and silver. No final action on tho bill was taken.
 Tho Nicaragua canal debate waa TO- suined. Mir. Daniel speaking against the measuru.
 Mir. Morgan (Dcm.) of Alabama. In charge of the Nicaragua canal bill, pro posed an amandmont designed to overcome the ohicction stated in the rcccnt protest of Minister Rodriguez of tho Groater Repub- ho of Central America Tho amendment provides that of the tio0, ooa. 900 of oapi- sal proposed by the bill . A cent shall be reservcd for Central American govern ments and their citizens who may deslra to subscribe It also specifies that the bili shall In no way ro by the concession granted by Nicaragua and that all azrcs- ments under that concession shall be ob- served.
 Mir Chandler introduced bill perms- ncntly consolidating the labor and census bureausa and creating department to he known as tho labor and census departmonT. with commissioner at Its bead. Thcrs is also to bc an assistant commissioner and several permanent employees in the census branch of the work The hill also provides that the twelfth census shall be restricted to such specific topics and features as may be authorized hy congress.
 Proceedings ef the Heas~.
 The house ovcrrode another of Prcsldcnt Cleyeland's pension vctocs by vote of is7 to 6s. Tho bill pensioned Jonathan Scott of the Sixth Iowa cavalry, who Is now liv- ing at Oswero, Kan, at the rate Of sTa per month. Mir. Cleveland vetoed it on the ground that tho disability for which the beneficiary was to be pcnsioncd was not contracted in the service
 Tho rest of tho session was devoted to a continuation of the bill for Indian appro- prtations Only few amendments were adopted. and those of minor importance. About 2s pages of the bill were covered.
 Mir Hartman of Montana offered in a spirit of fscctiousncas an amendment to the Indian appropriation bill appropria- ting ti, GOO. GOO, 900 for the education and civilization of the "Sccley savaFes" of tho Manhattan reservation. The house enjoy ed n good laugh, and the Amcndmcns was quickly ruled out on point of order.
 Mir Hurley of New York introduced a resolution to appropriate tio0.0 900 as a contribution to the monument to Rcvoiu- tionary soldiers which tho Sons and Daughters of the Revolution arc to build in Fort Greene park, Brooklyn. The rseo- lution proposes that tioo, 1000 shall bo raised by private subscription before the government appropriation Is available.