Show LATEST TELEGRAMS PORTYSIXrH CONGRESS c REGULAR SESSION SENATE Washington llThe President nreecnted a communication from the secretary of war showing the nccoa sity of an appropriation for the reten sion of pension clerks A bill to provide for ascertaining and settling private land claims in New MfXICO Wyoming Arizona Utah Nevada and Colorado was taken up Pending debate the bill went over Tbe Senate concurred in the House joint resolution for a sanitary conference confer-ence All countries subject to cholera are invited to participate The KellociKypoObrd case was taken up Hill discussed the legal points Hill warned the Senate against the doctrine that the Senate could reverse the judgment of a stato He held to the doctrine pronounced by Webster on this point He went into the fctb respecting the legality of tbe Packard legislature and declared that Kellogg rewarded men who perjured themselves them-selves by giving them places in the custom house nOV E Washington 11 Nicker from the ways and means commiltse reported re-ported bills in relation of the duties on iron sugar and other articles Garfiekt submitted a minority report re-port Ordered printed and referred to the committee of tho whole Springer called up the CurtinYo kurn case Weaver made a motion that debate de-bate be limited to an hour and after Colerick had made a speech a similar motion Dy Orerton was agreed to Ryan sni Shear reported the majority ma-jority report The House then took up the ex ecuttvo legislative and diplomatic appropriation bills Atkins said the committee had attempted at-tempted to equalise the ealarieo reducing the Senate employ salaries 24000 and increasing tho Hauee salaries S800 The Senate bad hezetofore always refused to allow a decrease in it salaries Tho bill provided pro-vided for eighty three more pension clerks and ainetysiz in other departments depart-ments YVnilthorne tried tD get in an amendment to make the salaries of senators 350 per month but it was rejected as were also other amendments amend-ments of the same kind Young of Tennessee remarked that he considered his cervices worth SS5000 The committee arose Recess |