The Forrest City times., 1897-03-05
WINDING UP ITS WoRI'
The Last Days Session os
 Fifty-Fourth Congress ls
THE WORK, AS USUAL, IS lsCoupr,
Too Much Left Until the Las, u,- and. as Result, Some Inoo-..- Matters are Left Improperly
 Attended To.
SENATE

HA session of the Fiftv-fonrtb uays opened with drizzling rain s.a The gallery doors of the sana,a O@ kept locked until 1O:45. and wh. that time. they were opened tba tions that are free to the general n.s9 s,e- without card were immedia.al,. v''s e,, up to the last seat while hun5-.s. people were left outside T section to which admission ;s cards from senators had vacant seats left. while the seet;on served for the families of senata-e mained quite empty. even for sa.. time after Chaplain Milburn ,,ass s'.Ie ss farewell prayer-consisting of on. ., the collects from the Episeonal n-svs. book
 In order to save time the reaain,.. Tuesdays journal was dispensed yy;.l The conference report on the D;s,-sa. of Columbia appropriation bin was - ported and explained by Nr Taus. (sil., Col.). The report showed. A pS,.l compromises on both sides. on .L- question of charities. however. no com. promise had been effected. and if sin remains in controversy. The sana.. receded from its action for the con struction of crematory in pot,eTs field. This amendment had has, offered by MT. Gallinger frep.. NH1 and when Mir. Teller's explanat;or ended, Mir. Gallinger explained his r. gret at the senate conferees ahandoping it, as he said the condition of thin0S in the cemetery for the indigent poor was not paralleled in any other great city in the world.
 The conference report was agreed to and further conference ordered on the matters still left open.
 A further conference was ordered on the sundry civil appropriation bill.
 A conference report was presented OF the bill to amend the laws relating to navigation. When it was read an in quiry was made by MT. Allen pop. Neb.l, as to whether the bill now con. tained the fiogging clauses.
 MT. Frye rep, Mel, chairman of the committee on commerce. who presented the conference report. made a full answer to the inquiry. The conferencs committee had he said, added to the bill a clause that nothing contained in it should be construed to repeal or modify section 4,611 passed in 1850 which enacted that '.fogging on board vessels of commerce is hereby pro hibited.1 Then the conference report was agreed to.
 MT. Gordon (dem.. Gal presented paper detailing the scenes in Carpentel hall, Philadelphia, on the Fouth Or March. 1797, when Washington deliv- cred his farewell address and took his leave of official life, and he ask that the paper be published in the Record. So ordered.
 Mir. Dubois (sil., Idaho). chairman of the committee on public lands, pre- sented the report of that committee Tn the case of the inquiry into the issue of patents for lands in the Perrine grant in Florida and Mir. Pettigrew tsil., :. .Dl presented a minority report The majority report justiies the action of the department while the minority report favors the annulment of the patents and the opening of the lands to public settlement Both re ports were ordered printed and went | over without action.
 The conference report on the post or flee appropriation bill was presented and agreed to.
 Mir. Hale rep, Mel presented par ! tial conference report on the naval sp- | propriation bill and made an explana- tion of it. He said that all the general 1 items in dispute had been arranged anu | that the controverted matters which were still open were as to the increase l of the navy by torpedo boats ana as 'o the price of steel armor for ships l There was nothing which the Senate | could do except give the house an os. i portunity to pass upon the sehS'e amendments.
 HOUSE.
 The galleries were filled when .he house met at l0:sO a. m. Considering i the early hour when the house tooA " 1 recess 6 a. m.) the attendance ol hsi' bers on the floor was very good A disagreeing conference report o' the Indian appropriation bill was pis sented
 Mir. Flynn (rep., okla.) opposed .ue .ne senate amendment which detacnes .,i' f. 900, 900 acres of land belonging to 'n. Osage Indian reservation and traiisi'' it to the Indian territory.
 Mir. Curtis (rep., Kas.l, who deien.ss .s the amendment, asserted that all sls leading chiefs of the Osage tribe ia'oite , ' the transfer. They were attacie' hs Oklahoma without their consens said. and if made part ot the inn'', ' territory would secure that measule h, justice which is now denied theN 1 the citizens of Oklahoma.
 By vote of 57 to 100 the houS' jected the report of the conIers9e'
 further conference was agreed 'o'
 Mr Cannon rep, ILL moved 'o sI pend the rules and noneoncur in the senate amendments to the g'"N deficiency bill. ,b,
 Mr. Mahon (rep., Pal wahoeu house to vote on the amendment s,, n ing payment for the Bowman aee :'l;or ments, amounting to nearly A''' l dollars