| Show FOvrYEIGHTH CONGRESS = SENATE Washington 21The Senate today presided over by Senatas Senat Sherman designated ° r under by the VicePrediuent for tSStule that pose Utcpur Vance presented the views minority of the committee of th9 eign relatioos relative to thnV on tor r and report of the committee action suoject of the exclusion of Am on the t can meats from foreign AII1eri cOnntriea Ellis a < ked unanimous introduce jomtSresoIutfon consent to recjti that the waters of the MlSSlBSiPPi reciting river have risen to hIgh Water markseventyfourfeet at tHew Orleanswhfch fs the highest known in the flood annals ot the river and are still rising b St Louis and New Orleans between l rate of two or three inches at the that the appalling calamity of a OVer daj I flowing a city of 300000 souls is iIh j minent involving great loss of life l and SoWS and approPliatiIl 3600000 to be immediately j I avaIl able to be expended at the disc1 tion of the deretary of War in preventing an overflow of the of New Orleans and the m1JJh city L I adjacent thereto There was noth ha between the city Of New Or leans and a river sixteen feet above I the levt1 of the city but a dirt The calamity that Wall I must ensue If the I waters rose higher could not be de I picted by human tongue It would I be the calamity of the age I Harrison moved to make the spec ial order for Thursday of next week I the bill organizing into a State and admitting to the Union the Terri tory of Dakota Cockrell said the bill could not be passed this session and it would be a waste of time to make it a special order orderThe The vote on Harrhons motion resulted in yeas 35 nays 23 not the necessary two thlrds Before the announcement of the resuh several j Senators changed their Yates stat ing that they understood the qUeg tion was regarded as a political one t The Senate took up the bill to increase l in-crease the salaries of United States district judges to 85000 Van Wycks motion to make the I figure 4000 was rejected Hoar moved as a substitute for Oakea amendment to exclude from aopointment all relatives within the degree of first cousin I The motion went over and the Chair laid before the Senate the i education bill The bill was debated at great length by Garland Coke Frye Vance Ingalls Plumb and 1 Vest without amenJment or other business in the coursa of the day debate l A message wss receivEd from th House announcing the agreement 1 of that body to the reports ofib conference committee on the S nat joint resolution appropriating 10 I 000 for the contingent fund ottbe 1 r Senate and further announcing the nonroncurrence of the House in the Senate amendment to the DIg ency deficiency bill The Senate i agreed to the report of the confer 1 ence en the 3 Jint resolution andad f here to its amendments to the deficiency bill and on that a corn mitee of conference was appointed b Executive session adjourned U HOUSE r Washington 24The joint Mississippi I Mis-sissippi river resolution was lost t I yeas 95 nays 115 but by uninimous I consent it was reintroduced by Ellis I and referred to the committee on appropriations Randall submitted the conference report on the Senate resolution the addition of 10000 to the Senate contingent con-tingent fund was agreed to The House recedes from the amendment which confines the expenditure of the sum to the investigations previously pre-viously ordered and agrees to the amendment which confines < < the expenditure ex-penditure to the payment of current expenses of the special and select committees Randall from committee on appropriations ap-propriations reported back the deficiency de-ficiency bill with Senate amendments amend-ments recommending concurrence in the same and nonconcurrence in others Recommendations agreed to Bills introduced and referred Herbert providing that registers of land offices shall not be allowed fees for correcting their own errors Morrill providing a uniform grade of rating for invalid pension ana abolishing all distinction on account of rank in pensions hereafter granted Morey to secure cheaper correspondence corres-pondence by telegraph Hardy to prevent fraudulent reuse re-use of empty cigar boxes also makIng mak-Ing honorably discharged soldiers eligible for certain government ap Domtmenta without passing the civil service examiner CnlbertsoD of Texas repeal ot f restriction on coinage of the silve dollar Van Eaton resolution calling en the Secretary of the Treasury fcr informatIOn in regard to any contract con-tract entered into by the government govern-ment in which the Territory of Alaska or industries con ec ea therewith are cJncerned Adjourned |
