The Forrest City times., 1901-02-15
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources.
FieTY-SixTH CONGRESS-.
I Second Session l

| l~eE0H0 Se&5l0usI
 Tn the senate. on the 9th. the military
 academy appropriation bill was passed
 after enly an hour consideration. The only change made in the bill was the
 hazng at wes, Point The rem remain6er of the daE was devoted te the war revenue reduction bill. which. after the adoption | Of seseral committee amendments, was passed. X night session was held for dis i Cslssion of the shipping hiIi.....In the house the day was devoted to the fur fher consideration of the post office ap- proprlation bill the time, after 8 two hours speech by MT Loud. being de- l voted to debate on pneumatic tube ger 1 vice, special mall facilities and rallN aE mail pay. II was agreed Co vote, on the ith. af J2.59 r. m. upon the several amendments.
 In the senate. on the 7th. the pension ap- propriati0B bill carrying $li4e@.04, was passed after a few minutes consideration. The ship subsidy bill was then taken up. Mr. MCI-aUren fdem.t speaking for and measure. -+--.ln the house the post office 1 appropriation biE. after a debate lasting almost ali entire week was passed, the proposed amendments being all voted down Several bills oI minor importance
 were passed. after which the house took , up the diplomatic and consular appropri- ation bill.
 In the senate on the sth. an effort to agree npon date for a final vote upon 1 fhe shipping bill was defeated. Mir Eriteh1rd freU.. < c spoke in slpDOrt of the bill which was then inforInaIis- laid aside. and the naval appropriation bill occupied the remainder of the session. Tn me hoaSe a general pension bill was PtsNeo ID restore to the pension rolls widows Of soldiers Of the rebellion who having remaTried. subsequently, beca me widowed or divorced The benefits are limited, however. 10 widows of soldiers Who were married before the close of the rebellion and who are now dependent mon their own labor for support The house also passed IN private pension bills mak- tng aooht nine hundred private pension bills passed by this congress.
 In the senate. on the 9th almost the en- tire session was devoted 10 consideration of the naval appropriation bill All the committee amendments were adopted but when the measure was about to be placed on its passage a discussion of the armor plate question Was precepitated by MT Butler and 10 enable some others to speak upon the subject the bill went over Eulogies upon the late Representative eluded the sesion ....In the house consid- eration Of the diplomatic and consular 1 appropriation bill occupied the session until two o'clock. when 1t was laid aside voted 10 eulogies of the late Representa- tiyes Daiy. of New Jersey. and Wise, of Virginia.
 In the senate, on the l1th the naval ap- propriation bill was passed early in the -ession. The Shipning bill was then taken up ana kept before the senate during the remainder of the legisla tive day.4. In the house. Mr Payne. chairman of the ways and means committee. submitted the resolution of committee to disa gree Nllh tne substitute proposed by the sen- ate as an amendment tc the war revenue reduction bin. and asked fol q conference with the senate. This precipitated q lively debate on nc constitutional limitations of the poWer of tEs senate over revenue 1 legislation initiated by the house which consumed most of the days session