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ed. Bills were passed to authorize the appointment and retirement of James w. Long as captain of infantry; to fix the salaries of district superintendents in the life-saving service at $2000 per annum, and to authorize the secretary of war to furnish condemned cannon for an equestrian statue of the late General William J. Sewell. A num- Der of conference reports were adopted. The senate amendments to the bill to refund taxes on legacies, etc., were concurred in.
 FRIDAY.
 SENATE-It was decided by the senate when it convened, that when it adjourn today it be until Monday next. A partial conference report on the Sundry civil bill was presented by Allison and agreed to.
 Tie senate insisted upon its amend ments still in disagreement, and MT. Allison, Mir. Hale and Mir. Cockrell were named as conferees.
 A bill appropriating $25, ,000 for a monument at Fredericksburg, Va, to Gen. Hugh Mercer, proposition which was authorized by congress in April, 1777, was discussed.
 The senate agreed to the conference report on the military academy ap- propriation bill, thus finally disposing of the measure.
 HOUSE-A bill was passed to recog- nize the military service of the officers and men of the First Ohio Light Artillery. This regiment served three months at the opening of the Civil War, but was never formally mustered into the United States service.
 The consideration of the Philippine civil government bill then was resum- ed. Mir. Jones of Virginia referred to the statement issued by Secetary Root giving $l70, 1000, 900 as the total cost to the United States of our control of the Philippines. He said that in making up the account he had no doubt the secretary of war, "the ranking parti- san of them all," had excluded every possible item in order to reduce the amount to minimum. But even the astute secretary of war, he said, had furnished no estimate of the blood that our possession of the islands had cost. He thought that fully 100, ,000 Filipinos had perished directly or in- directly as result of the war waged against them, and that 10000 Ameri- can lives had been lost or wrecked.
 MONDAY.
 SENATE-The beet sugar fight in congress has been won. Even the presidents message will not avail to secure a lowering of the duties which protect the industry. After weeks of uncertainty and struggle. this outcome was confidentally proclaimed by the leaders of the campaign.
 Nothing official has yet transpired, but the senators and representatives who shape leislation have reached the conclusion that Cuban reciprocity is out of the question. The beet sugar organization in the senate is too strong even for the president.
 Several senators who have knowledge of the condition of business in the sen- ate, said that congress would adjourn by July 1. One of them who has been an earnest advocate of eciprocity with Cuba, said: "Whether we reach an agreement we will adjourn by the 1st. If there is no agreement by that time it will be useless for the senate to re- main here trying to reach an agree ment. If an agreement is reached we can pass bill by the 1st. :"
 r HOUSE-The house transacted some miscellaneous business under suspen- sion of the rules. It included the adoption of resolution appropriating 1925, 900 for the preparation of plans for a memorial in Washington to Abra- ham Lincoln, $l00,000 toward the erection of monument to the prison ship martyrs who died off Brooklyn as result of the cruelties to which they were subjected by the British during the revolutionary war, and $10, ,00O for the erection of monument at Fred ericksburg, Va., to the memory of Gen. eral Hugh Mercer, who was killed dur ing the revolutionary war. The reso- lution adopted was to carry out an authorization made for this purpose in 1777 by the continental congress.