Show LATES11 TELEGRAJtfS 4 FORTTSJXTR CONGRESS REGULAR SESSION 8 EX ATE Washington 5WaJl from the select committee to inquire into alleged frauds in the late election submitted a report ol the result of tbe investigation on the subject of the de thai or abridgement of suffrage in Rhode Island and reported a bill tJ enforce the provisions of section 2 article 11 of the amendments to the Constitution of the United Staff Piaed on the calendar Wallace also presented petition from citiasoa of Rhode Island praying pray-ing for relief from the rule of suffrage observed in that etate Referred to the committee on judiciary Blaine stated that there would be a minority report on suffrage in Rhode Island Butler submitted a resolution calling cal-ling on the secretary of the treasury for copies of reports of Captain John W White United Status revenue service ser-vice made while on duly in Alaska waters and of nil papers relating to the transfer of the jurisdiction of the Territory ol Alaska from the war to the treasury department Adopted I Booth Irom the committee oa public lands reported favorably the House bill for the relief of settlors on public lands and it passed It pro vidfB that when a prteaiptioa homestead home-stead or timber culture claimant the file a written rehnqaiahment of his claim in tae local IsnJ office the land covered by raid claim shall be open and subject tJ entry nithou further action by the land commit sioner where any person ca3 con tett d paid land fees and procured the cancellation of nay entry he shall be notified by the register of the land office of that district and shall be allowed thirty days to onto the land Any settler who htrealts proceeds to enter land under the homestead laws shall he allowed the same time 10 perfect bis original on try as now allowed settlers under the preemption law and his rights shall red ate Lack to the date of stttlempu as if he settled under the preemption i lawsThe The bill to sell Fort Logan Montana Mon-tana aud establish a new post on Mutsefeheil Rifer Monteuw was parsed On motion of Voorhees the bill for a joint commission to arrange for better accommodation for the congressional con-gressional library was taken un tu t allow him to speak in its support He described the lamentable condi tion of tbe library Eaying it vas a reproach and disgrace to tho nston The KelioggSpofiord reeolution was tempoinrily laid aside and the District or Columbia apprepriatio bill taken up discussed at great I length and pending debute tte Senate adjourned HOUSE Washington 5Atkil1t chairman of the committee on appropriations reported a bill appropriating 2000 for carrying on the public printing office the current fiscal year Atkins stated that the sum was the same tiS appropriated by the bill vetoed by the President The hill paaed without d iinn Tho morniiiK hour having been die peneed with King called up the jam reaolutbna reaffirming the Monroe doctrine Blackburn raised the question of consideration stating that be dpgiroc Ito I-to proceed with the postoffice appropriation appro-priation bill The Houscfby a decisive vole refused to consider the Monroe doctrirfe resolutions and went into committee of the whcle on the postofBce appropriation bill An amendment was adapted authorizing autho-rizing the postmastor general to u = e JSoOCOO of the 9190000 appropriated appropri-ated for railway mail service in securing necessary and special facH An amendment increasing the appropriation I ap-propriation for railway mail service to 980000 was rejected 76 to SO King submitted an amendment increasing from 825000 to 850000 the appropriation for iulaud transportation trans-portation by steamboat routes AdoDled The clause relative to transporta tion by Star routes having been reached Blackburn proposed various amendments to the provision modify ng it DO aa to read 1roeided That on all Star mail routes upon which increased compensation compen-sation beyond 50 per cent over tne earn originally the contract price and cost of service for additional trips has bean allowed during the year ending June 30 3S79 and Juuo 30 IS90 such service shall decreased or curtailed tailed fo such rate of compensation for increased expense as shall not ben be-n escess of 50 per cent of the original nal contract pricn and cost ef service for additional trip Blackburn explained that tie pro visa proposed to make contracts on seventythree routes and put them exactly on the dead level on which the late law of Congress had put all I uture contracts upon which the de j artmcnt might hereafter enter I < Os i tf b I Efflng rntved to stifjko out loe proviso It proposed roughly pnd radcly to fay tWt f tbe contractors con-tractors on seventy three great routes of the Welt should be thrown back to 50 per cent increase in-crease Ho was ia favor of economy but ho would rather have public expenditures reduced in any other department than in tbe postal service he would vote to reduce expenditures anywhere rather than among the hardy pionojrof the frontier Lei Congress economise by putting the eateries back to where they bad been before the war and by catching the rougea in tho interanlrevenuo service but Jot it i not attempt to do so by impairing the progress of civilization by breaking down the mail service of the west Without coming to a vote thy committee com-mittee row The Senate amendment to tho House bill for the sale of Fort Logan and the establishment of a new fort on the frontier was concurred in The House then took a recea Evening session to be for the consideration con-sideration of the district code bill |