Show congressional SUMMARY MONDAY JAN 12 tho bill to amend tho the lw law as a to iho the visitation and inspection of iho the military aa and the examination of their and government rovern ment r as passed benator senator stanford introduced a R bill to enlarge the whito white house some minor business having boon been disposed of tho the financial bill was taken up and discussed by mere blesses alien allen berry and cockrell who advocated ted tho free coinage cc n clause clauso boune mr Dock cri crt rising to a ques alon of privilege offered a the fact of tho the wco of br his liver silver pool resolution item to tho oom mitte on rule rules an I 1 the fact that that bad to report taa same and directing tho the committee on rules to report the resolution to tho the house for the speaker stated that ho he would submit the matter to the house as to whether the question wo was ono one of privilege or not tho vote tood stood yeas to 80 nays mr mckinley from tho committee on rulea rules stated that the committee bad had intended to take time to investigate tho the matter and ascertain if it there be any round ground for alo rumor upon motion of of S mr ir of arkansas it was agreed to appoint a i pedal committee to investigate tho charges mr It of massachusetts reported the diplomatic and consular appropriation pria tion bill and it waa was placed upon the tits calendar the army appropriation bill was then taken up but befaro completing the bill the adjourned JAN 13 bir morgan in behalf of mr colquitt gotico of an amendee it to the financial bill abolishing the tax tat on state bank banks A bill was passed authorizing the construction st of a bridge across aero the lied river of the th north at drayton dray ton north dakota dako also 1 bills for the erection of public build ing at california C and at jollet illinois the bonate senate then returned resumed the consideration of tto financial bill and wa was addressed by mr bherman in opposition to tho the freo free coinage amendment HOUSE tho bill for a kublic building at pueblo Itu eblo colorado Co lomio with senate amendments was disagreed to and requests quests ro for a R confere uvo granted tho the samo same action was taken on a bill to provide aa an additional ass ulato justice of tho the court of arizona the house went into committee of the whole on tho the army appropriation JAN 14 SENATE according to the arrangements made yesterday yos yest arday tho the benato proceeded to the consideration of tho the financial bill immediately after tho the reading of the journal and mr ingalls took the floor ff ho he said that thoro there two portentous evils which menaced tho the surety it they did not en endanger danter the existence of the republic the first was ignorant debased degraded spurious sull suffrage rago suffrage au contaminated by the sewerage of decayed dayo d nations frage intimidated and sup pressed in the bouth suffrage impure and corrupt corrupts apathetic and indifferent in the groat at cities of the north so that it was doubtful to his mind whether for halt half a ventury there bad had been a presidential election in this country that expressed the deliberate and intelligent judgment of the american people the second ovil evil to which he had averted was tho the tyranny of combined concentrated centralized conscienceless and incorporated capital and the people were considering that groat great problem now in the course of a long and brilliant speech bo he urged the passage u of the bill with tho the free coinage amendment ho lie was by senator jnes in favor of the bill finally the discussion on mr stewarts amendment closed and the senate proceeded to voto vote on it agreed to yeas 42 nays 80 30 A number of amendments were voted upon pon the bill was the then a reported ted to the senate and the amendments made in committee of the whole wore were agreed to then mr vest astonished the senate by bringing forward as a substitute for tho the bill a purely free freo coinage bill which provides that tho the unit value in tho the united states shall be the dollar to be coined of 41 X grains of standard silver or 25 10 grains of standard gold mr vest stated that his substitute was similar to the f free 0 coinage bill that passed the senate last session mr aldrich moved to amend the substitute by adding the national banking feature of tho the original bill lost last yeas aj nays 34 mr vests veava substitute was agreed to without div division isloa the bill as am amended by substitute was agreed to yeas 39 nays 1 7 as follows lows yeas alien allen barbour Barb bate berry blackburn cameron Ca moron cockrell Coc kroll coke daniel lurtis luz E ustis faulkner gibson gib son gorman hampton ingalls In galli jones of arkansas arkan A as jones of nevada kenna mcconnell cconnell I manderson Man dorson mitchell Mit cheU morgan paddock pasco power pugh keagan sanders shoup stanford Stewart tTe lr I 1 turpie vance vance vest voorhees walthall Wal thaU I 1 39 nays aldrich allison carey care casey cullom davis dixon dolph dolp edmunds evarts Evart sHalo hale hawley higgins III I 1 ns hiscock hoar McM IUan pro platt a t g quay sawyer sherman spooner stockbridge sto abridge warren warrant washburn wilson of iowa VV Vl Ilson lson of maryland 0 27 mr hoar called up the elections bill in order to make it the unfinished business for tomorrow to morrow the vote was 83 33 to 83 33 and the vice president cost cwt the deciding vote in favor of taking up tho the bill JANUARY 15 mr dajcs from the committee on indian affairs reported resolution for investigating the condition of the sioux and other indian tribes mr manderson anderaon i introduced a bill to establish a branch mint at omaha neb and mr nir mcconnell one for a mint a at t balse city idaho at 2 the bill to increase the com vens atlon of the employed emp loyes in the rovern ment print printing lug office went over without lalon and the eloctio ibell was taken up and mr evarts poke spoke in its advocacy HOUE After the journal bad had been approved the house proceeded eded to the consideration of conference reports on public building bills A message from the benato senate was received announcing tho the passage of the financial bill with a free coinage substitute the reception of thi this mesi by the democratic eide side was cordial aud effusive 1 and mr uland bland of missouri expressed th tho e hope that early action would be bad upon the measure the bill went to the speakers table the speaker anLOU nood the appointment atthe oi the following folic win committee to investigate the liver pool question dingle ll iton owell poole a id gates oates |