The Mena star., 1899-02-22
PROCEEDINGS IN CONGRESS.
ington During the Closing Days Of the Fifty Fifth Session.

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 IN the senate on the 18th Senator McEnery tLa.) denied that his resolution. adopted the previous day. was introduced in the interest of the sugar growers of his state A bill was passed extending the cordial appreciation" of congress to Miss Helen Gould for her patriotic services in the recent war and authorizing the president to present her with a goli medal The post office appropriation was reported and bill was afterwards passed providing for the admission of Oscar w. Deignan, one of the Merrimac heroes into tho naval academy as a cadet. After four hours of debate over the attempt to amend the sundry civil appropria- tion bill by tackng on the Nicaragua canal bill at the tail end the chair ruled the amendment out of order, and, on an appeal to the house, the chair was sustained by vote of 127 to 109 About ten pages of the sundrv civil bill were disposed of Mir. Grosvenor (O) then present. ed resolution fixing February 20 and 21 for the consideration of the Hepburn Nicaragua canal bill with vote February 21 at four D m. THE army reorganization bill reported to the senate on the l6th by Senator Hawley tConn.). chairman of the military affairs com mittee, who gave notice that he would move to proceed to it's consideration at the earliest pos slble time Senator Cockrell (Mo ], presented q minority report against the bill The naval personnel bill was taken up and read but no effort was made to consider it The military academy appropriation bill was passed The post office appropriation bill was then con- sidered but was not disposed ot Senator Cockrell (Mo) succeeded in getting the appro- priation for the fast mail from Kansas City to Newton, Kan. reinstated in the bill The house considered the sundry civil bill ani the appropriation of $20 000 0)0 to pay Spain for the Philippine islands was stricken out under a point of order made by Mir Wheeler (Ky.) After the bill had been completed and reported to the house. MT. Hepburn (Ia moved to re- commit 1t with instructions to report it back with the Nicaragua canal bill incorporated in 1t After parliamentary debate an adjourn ment was taken, leaving the question to be taken up the next day.
 AREsoLUTIoN of coincidence with the French republic for the death of President Faure was adopted in the senate on the 17th. The per- sonnel bill was passed and about "A private pension bills also The Alaska code bill was then read and an adjournment taken .... The house passed the suEdry civil appropriation I bill The speakers ruling that the motion to recommit the bill with instructions to incor- porate in it the Nicaragua canal bill was not in order was sustained by vote of i55 to 96 The naval appropriation bill was then taken up and half the bill completed The census bill was sent to conference. Two bills were intro- duced to pay Spain the s20 GOO, ,090 for the Phil ippine islands. The evening session was de- voted to private pension legislation
 THE senate spent most of the session of the 18th on the post office appropriation bill. but
 
 the memory of the late Representative Simp- zns (MasS) were pronounced Several minor bills were passed early in the day. among them being two providing for extension of time to the Arkansas 6 Northwestern railway and the Gainesville, McAester dJ St Louis railway to construct railways through the Indian territory and one providing for the sale of the surplus lands tho Pottawatomie and kicsapoo h. dian reservations in Kansas .... The house spent two hours upon the naval reputation bill without making any progress and devoted the remainder of the session to eulogies upon the life and public services of the late Representa- Northway tO)
 THE post office appropriation bill was dis cussed for six hours in the senate on the goth and finally an agreement was made to take vote on the bill at two, o'clock the next day. Senator Hawley (Conn.) chairman of the mili- tary affairs committee got the army reorgan- lzation bill made the unfinished business by vote of A to s6 This action displaces the anti scalping bill and disposes of that measure for the present session. Senator Cockrell tMo) secured the passage of resolution calling up on the wa secretary for information as to the cost Of the army under the proposed Hull bill.
 -. X separate bill was passed under suspen- sion of rules in the house appropriating s20 : OO0OO) to pay Spain for the Philippine islands The vote on the measure stood 2l3 for to 34 aqainst The senate bill to reimburse govern ors of states for expenses incurred in organiz- ing volunteers for the war with Spain was also passed
 spain Wants Buy Our Wheat.
 Washington, Feb. 1.-The lack of commercial treaty with Spain, the former treaty having been terminated by the war, is not altogether prevent ing trade between the two countries. United States Consular Agent Mertens. at Valencia, reports that there is great demand for American wheat A cargo of 4. 900 tons of red winter wheat