The Forrest City times., 1897-02-26
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
FIFTY-FoURTH CONGRESS.
Second SesuIon.


 Is the senate. on the isth bill entitled "A Bin Go Fxtend Inc Use of the Mails was passed. although admittedly conferriEg mo- uopoiy. House bill for The free admission of necd.ework imported by the New Yors AssO- clation Of Sewing Schools for exhibition pur- poses was also passed. after which the senate went Into executive session -...- In the house the standardization case of Hopkins (rep) against Kendall tdem.) from the Tenth Ken lucky district. vas deciGcd iu favor Of tbe con- testee. against the rc Jmmendation of the committee. The rest ol the session was given up to the passage Of bills by consent
 IN the senate. on the Ig.h. two conference re- ports Un pension bills were agreed to. giving
 SO a month to the widow of Gen. Stoneman, and S75 month 10 Gen. Julius H. Stahl Sem at0r Daniel was designated as reader of Wash ingtons Farewell Address on the ed A bill 10 remove the political disabilities from Col. D. F. sims, of Kentucky. was passed. At l2: 30 the senate went into executive session.
 .....ln the house the deficiency appropTiaiio bill was taken up and gave rise to a long dis cussion- At o'clock the house took recess until ?. m.. the evening session being for the consideration Of private pension bills.
 IN the senate, on the 20th resolution offered by Mir. Cameron extending sympathy to the gov ernment Of Greece in it's intervention to free the people of Crete from the tyranny of foreign op- presSion was unanimously adopted. The In dian appropriation bill was taken up com mittee amendment making temporary provision for contract or den0minational schools opened up discussion that occupied the remainder of the session. In the house. in committee of the whole tho deficiency appropriation bill was disposed Of excepting one paragraph providing for payment to the Southern Pacific Railroad Co. Most Of the session was devoted to dis eussion of the domestic affairs Of the house which resulted in no affirmative action.
 IS the senate. on the 22d. Washington Fare well Address was read by Mir Daniel tdem. Val. The remainder of the session was occu- pied in the consideration Of the Indian appro- priailon bill which was not concluded at the time Of adjournment The Loud bill was re- ported back with amendments. including one cent postage In the house no exercises in celebration of Washington's birthday took place The deficiency appropriation bill was taken mp amended and passed. The naval ap- proprlatlon bill was then brought forward and considerable progress made in it's reading be- Tore the close Of the days session.
 IN the senate. on the 23d. practically the en- tire day was consumed in the discussion of an amendment to the Indian appropriation bill for the opening to settlement of the Uncompahgre Indian reservation in Utah containing over two million acres, which was finally agreed to- A resolution was passed requesting the presi- dent to furnish statement of facts concern ing the arrest. Imprisonment and death of Dr. Ricardo Ruiz in Cuban jail A short ex- ecutive session was held ..... In the house most of the session was spent in consideration of the naval appropriation bill which was passed exactly as reported by the committee on naval affairs A bill to amend the Revised statutes so as to give governors of territories the right to remove well as to appoint cer- tain territorial officers was, after much discus