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and ceremony.
 The president has sent to the senate the name of Eugene F. Ware to be commissioner of pensions.
 A former corporal of the Ninth h. fantry was before the Philippine com mittee as witness to barbarities in the islands.
 MONDAY.
 SENATE-Soon after the senate con- vened, the bill changing the terms of the circuit court of .the United States within the first circuit was passed; also bill relieving Harry c. Mix from the payment of 5000, recogni- zance given for the appearance in court of A. F. Holt.
 A resolution offered by Mir. Proctor of Vermont was adopted directing the secretary of war to furnish the senate with copies of all reports of officers of artillery and of the inspector generals department, since January 1, 1900, as to the condition of the magazines and emplacements of seacoast guns mount ed on disappearing carriages.
 The bill providing for the purchase of the lands of the Sioux Indians, in the Rosebud reservation, was then taken up, providing that settlers, in order to make good their titles to the land, shall live on it for five years.
 HOUSE-In the house an urgency resolution, making an additional ap- propriation of SIC, ,000 for the expenses incident to the dedication of the statue of Marshal De Rochambeau, was adopted.
 Mir. Jones of Virginia then announce ed the death of Mir. Otey and offered the customary resolutions of regret.
 TUESDAY.
 SENATE-In his invocation in the senate today Rev. Dr. Milburn feel ingly referred to the unparalleled fact of the death of three members of the house of representatives in four days.
 The senate committee on military affairs has completed the army appro- priation bill. The increases recom- mended by the committee bring the total up to about $100, ,000, ,00O.
 HOUSE-The house adjourned im- mediately after the reading of the journal out of respect to the memory of Representative J. D. Salmon of New Jersey. This is the third consecutive legislative day the house has paid similar tribute of respect to one of it's diseased members. Never in the his- tory of the house have three desks been draped at the same time. It was a coincidence remarked upon by mem- bers in connection with the deaths of Messrs. Cummings, Otey and Salmon, that Mir. Cummings was appointed on the committee to attend the Rosecrans obsequies at Arlington that Mir. Otev was appointed on the committee to attend the funeral of MT. Cummings, and that Mir. Salmon was designated to attend the funeral of Mir. Otey.
 WEDNESDAY.
 SENATE-When the senate convened, Mir. Cullom, chairman of the foreign relations committee, reported favor ably bill making an appropriation for the diplomatic and consular service of the United States in the republic of Cuba. The salary of the minister is fixed at l2,000 Mir. Spooner offered an amendment appropriating not ex- ceeding 5000 year for the rental of a proper legation residence in Havana. It was agreed to. As amended, the bill was passed.
 HOUSE-Some routine business was transacted at the opening of the session of the house. The senate amendment to the bill to authoiize municipalities in the Indian territory with 2O00 in. habitants or over to issue bonds was agreed to.
 A bill was passed to change the terms of the district court within tho First Judicial district.
 Mir. Sherman, of New York, called up the conference report on the Indian appropriation bill.
 The house then began consideration