The San Francisco call., 1897-01-24
inquiries What Foreclosure
Arrangements Have
Been Made.
Calls on Mr.. Olney to Furnish
the Senate With Certain
Documents.
Bill Passed to Reclassify Railroad
Postal Clerks and to Regulate
Their Salaries.

WASHINGTON, D. c., Jan. 23.-There
was small attendance of Senators when
the proceedings OF the day began.
Allen (Pop.) of Nebraska offered reso-
luton, which was agreed to without OBJ
lection, calling on the Attorney-General
to inform the Senate whether he had
entered into an agreement or stipulation
with the reorganization committee OF the
Union Pacific Railroad respecting the
foreclosure of the Government lien thereon
and the amount to be bid in the event of
the foreclosure of the lien; also to send 10
the Senate the full text of the agreement
or stipulation, together with the names of
the parties thereto and of the persons
comprising the reorganization committee.
as we'll as the written authority he may
have for beginning such foreclosure pro-
ceedings or entering into any such agree
ment or stipulation.
Morgan D.) of Alabama offered reso-
luton requesting the President to furnish
copies of all correspondence and official
communications relating to the Nicara-
guam canal with the Government Of Mic
aragua since 1887. The resolution was
agreed to.
The consideration Of unobjected bills
on the calendar was then begun and the
following were passed, the Nlcaraguan
canal bill being laid aside formally for the
cay:
Appropriating 5000 for the heirs of the
three Italians killed by mob violence in
Walsenberg, Colo, March. 1895
To refund 10 Ames q Detrick of San Fran
cisco drawbacks on grain bags exported in
1882
To transfer Lieutenant Jerome E. E. Morse of
the United States army to the rs per cent pay
of retired officers.
To reclassify railroad postal clerks and reg
ulate their salaries. The bill divides these
clerks into ten classes. Glass l is to be paid
$500; class 2, 5000; class 8. $1,000; class 4,
100; class 5, $1,000; class 6, $1,000; class Z,
$l400; class s, $500; class g. $1,000; class 10,
$500.
Appropriating 1913 900 to the owners of the
Hawaiian bark Arctic
For the examination and classification of
certain lands in Oregon.s
To pay the heirs of the late John Roach
$3 30,511 for labor and material, dockage and
detention and occupation OF yards and shops
for the gunboats Chicago, Boston and Atlanta.
Authorizing increased com pensation for
gunboats to the Atlantic works, Boston.
Granting pension of $75 month to the
widow of General John Newton.
Increasing the pension of the widow of Gen
eral W. W. Brunes to $50 mouth.
I'm inveighing against the difference in
amount OF pensions in these two bills,
Allen (Pop.) of Nebraska said that there
appeared to be something in the atmos-
phere that encouraged such invidious dis
tinctious, and that he sometimes thought
- ha No
the capital should hold his nose to Keep
out the stencil.
Granting pension OF $50 month to the
widow OF Bishop Perkins, cap tain OF the Six
teenth Infantry formerly United States Sem
ator from Kansas.
All the pension bills on the calendar
being disposed Of Q04 in ninety-five min
utes), the following were passed:
House bill authorizing the cons tructlon of q
railroad bridge across the Rio Graude River,
at El Paso. Tex,
House bill extending the time for the COM
pletion of the bridge across the East River,
between New York and Long Island, to Jan
uary 1, 1900.
House bill to prohibit the sale OF intoxi-
eating drinks to Indians.
Senate bill approDriating 100000 for the
estab ishment of q quarantine station at
Astoria, Or.
The Senate at 80 o'clock adjourned
until Monday.