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Show HOAR KNOCKED SILIY. potFjst; Gala Day in Tjjs Sepatc. The Force Rill and Clos-j re Resolution Both Get Down np. Republican Senators Stand Shoulder to Shoulder With tho Demorrntc. How the Glad Hews Was Received in the House by the Stalwarts. mrti? nGT'Jan- S6 The Senate ff2Ltffnoo5 in continuation of tlie legislative day of Thursday last, the pending question being on the resolution resolu-tion to amend the rules by providing a method of closing debate A Hm,2!iCian resumed tlie floor and continued con-tinued his argument begun Saturday, . iFPOiMt,OD t0 the Proposed rule and . icluuus mil, both of which measures, be claimed, '-on authority of tfaeaew York Times" would be fur hAriif l01'an gelded for a motion afion of t pt0A1)rCe,ed t0 the anon of the Apportionment bill thSf.Sh1 t0 iay tije motion on tne table.and the motion was rejected bonatois Cameron, Jones (Xev 1 ffWai?' ?eUcb Washburn and Wo I cott voted w th tho TipmftBMt , Ingalls was paired with banders' The tion to take up the Apportionment bill and it was carried; veaa,.iv,--,m as ,. L6itutud by tho tsenaior from -utia (Stewart) that Stanford was h fayor of proceeding with business. he would transfer Squire's pair to Stanford, and would himself vote. Aldrich objected, and the final result re-sult was that the pairs stood as follows: fol-lows: Pierce and Brown; Plumb and Gibson; Pettigrew and Pasco; Squire and Daniel; Shoup and Colquitt; Sanders San-ders and Ingalls; Chandler and B!od-gett; B!od-gett; Moody aud Hearst; Iliggias and VToorhees. Stanford stands not paired. . The result was announced years 54, nays 35, so the motion to lay on the table was rejected. The announca-ment announca-ment was greeted with applause on the Democratic side and in the galleries. gal-leries. A vote was then taken on "Wolcott's motion to take up the Apportionment bill, and it was carried by like vote-yeas vote-yeas oo, nays 34. The reading ef the bill and report was continued until 3 o'clock, and the bill was then laid aside till to-morrow. Gorman's motion to amend the journal jour-nal of Tuesday last was agreed U without with-out dissension, and the journals of Thursday and Wednesday were approved. ap-proved. Memorials of the Idaho Ljgislatur e were presented, aud referred on the subject of persecution of the laws in Ilussia, against a reduction of the duty on lead and lead ore. Also a large number of petitions from tie Western States for and against the Conger Laud bill and the Torrey Bankruptcy bill. .among me pension bills reported and placed on the calendar was one for Mrs. Mary Ann Doherty, a bill for whose relief was vetoed by Cleveland two years ago. The Army Appropriation bill was reported, re-ported, Dolph offered a resolution, which want over, instructing the Committee on the Judiciary to report as to the power of a minority of the Senate to compel attendance of absentees. . Biair moved to proceed to consideration considera-tion of the House bill for the adjustment adjust-ment of the accounts of the eight-hour law. Pending action, the Senate adjourned. ad-journed. HOUSE. Washington, Jau, 20. The usual skirmish in the House took place today to-day as to the reading and approval of the journal. Th joural was finally approved. The yeas and nays was then ordered on the motion to go into Committee of the Whole on the .N aval Appropriation bill, but the call of the roll was interrupted in-terrupted by information given by Rodgers (Ark.) that the Force bill was defeated iu tha Senate. Then the Democrats gave cheer after cheer. The Speaker's gavel was for some time ineffectual to check tho Democratic Demo-cratic enthusiasm. "Another Bull Hun,'' ejaculated Brewer of Michigan. Tho House then went into Committee Com-mittee of the Whole on the Naval Appropriation bill. Kelly of Kansas, referring to the Democratic enthusiasm over the news from the Senate, said he did not doubt that it was good news to the assassins of John M. Clayton. Something needed need-ed to be said about the betrayal of party pledges. If there was any, it came from, those men who had been instructed by their State Legislatures to vote for a certain bill, i.nd who turned around and voted against it. After some further discussion, the committee rose, the bill was pass-.d nd the House adjourned. |