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of the bill to provide enabling acts for the admission of the territories of Arizona, New Mexico and Oklahoma.
 THURSDAY.
 SENATE-The Philippine bill was the star attraction in the senate and, as usual there were several sharp in- terchanges between the debators.
 Senator Bard introduced an amend ment to the appropriation bill, seek ing to increase the money allowance for the Los Angeles public building.
 HOUSE-At the opening of the ses- sion of the house the speaker announced the appointment of Mir. Gillet of Massachusetts as member of the committee on appropriations to fill the vacancy caused by the retirement of Secretary of the Navy Moody.
 Without preliminary business the house then proceeded with the consider ation of the omnibus statehood bill |, under an agreement that general debate should close at o'clock.
 MT. Moon of Tennessee, the ranking minority member of the committee on territories, the first speaker, earn estiy urged the passage of the bill, arguing that the admission of the three territories to statehood would be only an act of simple justice to the people residing therein. The constitutional right of admission, he contended, ex- isted in each case.
 FRIDAY.
 SENATE-Soon after the senate convened joint resolution was passed to permit steam railroads in the Dis trict of Columbia to occupy tempor- arily parts of streets for the benefit of the travelling public during the national encampment of the G. A. R. in October.
 At the conclusion of routine business, the resolution recently offered by Mir. Culberson of Texas, calling upon the Secretary of War for certain informa- ton as to Gen. Smiths order in the Philippines, was called up, and at the suggestion of MT. Culberson was indefinitely postponed.
 HOUSE-The house passed the Omnibus" bill granting statehood to the territories of Arizona, Oklahoma and New Mexico. The bill as passed provides enabling acts for Oklahoma, Arizona and New Mexico similar in form to former enabling acts, with the exception that the constitutional con- vention of New Mexico is empowered to designate the name by which the new state shall enter the Union, and in the case of Oklahoma, the conven- tion, by irrevocable ordinance, shall express the consent of that state that congress at any future time may attach all or any part of Indian Terri tory to it. The enabling acts differ from one another chiefly in reference to the public lands appropriated for educational purposes.
 SATURDAY.
 SENATE-In the senate Mir. Perk- ins of California reported the forticfia- tion appropriations bill and gave notice that he would call it up again.
 Mir. Proctor of Vermont reported the bill making appropriations for the department of agriculture.
 A bill for the sale of sites for indus trial plants in the Indian territory was passed.
 | lOOpL-DOlIlC DuSllCSo W do transacted by unanimous consent dur ing the early portion of the session of the house.
 Bills were passed as follows: To make Port Arthur, Tex, sub port of entry in the district of Galveston to amend the act to grant the Clear Valley Railroad company right ol way through the Nez Perces Indian lands in Idaho; to amend the inter- national revenue laws so as to place storekeepers and gaugers on the same footing as regards salary; to grant ar American register to the bark "Home' ward Bound"
 The Fairbanks bill apprropratine $100, ,000 for the relief of the citizens of the French West Indies was present ed to the house.
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