The Irish standard., 1899-02-25
CONGRESS KEEPS BUSY.
End of the Fifty-Fifth Session Is
Near at Hand, and Work Is
Being Rushed.
COMPLETE SUMMARY Of PROCEEDINGS.
The senate Completes the Private
Pension Calendar and Considers.
Appropriation Bills-House Passes
the Hill to Pay Spain $4,000, 0OO-
other transactions.

Appropriation Bills-HOuse Passes
the Hill to Pay Spain $2O,OOU,0OO-
other transactions.
Washington. Feb. 18.-Bils were
passed in the senate yesterday provid
ing for admitting to the naval academy
Oscar w. Deignan, one of the Merrimac
heroes, and extending the cordial APP
probation of congress to Miss Helen
Miller Gould for her patriotic services
during the recent war and providing
that the president should present to
her gold medal. The post Office APP
preparation bill was reported and the
nomination of Representative Samuel
j. Barrows, of Boston, Mass, to be
librarian of the congressional library
was received from the president.
Washington, Feb. 17-The army re-
organization bill was reported in the
senate yesterday, the military academy
appropriation bill was passed, and the
post Office appropriation bill was con-
sidered.
Washington. Feb. l8,-In the. sem
ate yesterday the naval personnel bill
and a bill granting pension Of $50
were passed. the private pension calen-
dar was completed, "a bills being
passed. and a resolution adopted ex-
pressing to the government and people
of France sympathy over the death of
President Faure. The committee on
commerce decided 10 put the Nicaragua
canal bill on the river and harbor bill.
Washington, Feb. 2o.-Bills were
passed in the senate on Saturday to
amend the patent laws so as to give
the right Of applying for patent on
the part Of an insane person to his legal
guardian, and for the sale of the sur
plus lands on the Pottawatomie and
Kickapoo Indian reservation, Kansas.
discussed and an amendment was
adopted extending the franking priv
ilege as now fixed by law to the Ha-
waian islands.
Washington. Feb. 2l.-During almost
six hours yesterday the post Office APP
preparation bill was under discussion
in the senate. a favorable report was
made upon an amendment to be offered
to the sunday civil bill providing for
the construction Of cable to Hawaii
and Manila. The nomination Of Horace
A. Taylor. of Wisconsin. to be assistant
secretary of the treasury, was con.
frmed,
Washington, Feb 22.-Formal dis
cussion of the army reorganization bill
was begun in the United States senate
yesterday. The post office appropria-
ton bill and the bill Withdrawing from
entry and sale and granting 10 the state
of Wisconsin certain lands were passed.
House.
Washington, Feb. 16.-The house yes
terday settled the fate Of the Nicaragua
canal bill in this congress by refusing
to override the decision of the chair
that the canal bill offered as an amend
ment TO the sundry civil bill by Mr..
Hepburn was out of order.
Washington, Feb. IA proposition
to include the item of S2o,00o,00O to be
paid Spain for the cession of the Phil
ippines in the sundry civil bill was de-
feated in the house yesterday. Mr..
Hepburn Ca.) moved to recommit the
bill to committee with instructions to
report it back with the canal bill in
corporated in it, but the motion was
defeated. Mr.. Bland (Mo.) introduced
resolution providing that the govern
ment should take immediate steps to
care for the graves of confederate dead.
Washington, Feb. 1s.-In the house
yesterday the sundry civil appropriation
bill (S40,Oo0,000) was passed. as was
also bill authorizing the president to
appoint five additional cadets at large
to the naval academy. A bill was in
troduced to pay Spain s2O,0oo,O0O, pro-
vided for in the Paris treaty.
Washington. Feb. 20.-The house
spent two hours on Saturday upon the
naval appropriation bill and devoted
the remainder of the session to eulo-
gies upon the life and public services of
the late Representative Northway. of
Ohio.
Washington. Feb. ala bill appro-
priating $2OO0O,00O for payment to
Spain under the provisions of the treaty
OF Paris was passed in the house yes
tcrtlay by vote. of 213 to 81. as was
also the senate bill to reimburse the
governors of states for expenses paid
by the states in organizing volunteers.
Washington. Feb. 22.-The naval APP
preparation bill was discussed in the
house yesterday and favorable report
was made on a resolution proposing
amendments to the constitution pro-
hibting polygamy within the United
States and all places subject to their
jurisdiction, and disqualifying polyga-
mists for election as senator's or repre-
sentatives in congress. The report of
the judiciary committee on the status
of Gen. Wheeler and other members
of the house holding army commits
sions declares vacant the seats of the
representatives.
Potatoes Frozen.