Show LATEST TELEGRAMS 1 11XLVll CONGRES 4 J REGULAR SESSION SENATE Washington 27 Test moved to recommit to the committee on territories ter-ritories the bill for the admission of Dakota The bill passed granting a pension to the widows of Presidents Garfield Gar-field Tyler and Polk 0 The tariff commission bill coming com-ing up Vanwick and Anthony advocated ad-vocated a commission of Congressmen Congress-men while Brown favored them on a civilian commission The agricultural appropriation bill with amendments was reported back The amendments reduce the amounts for experiments sorghum and beet sugar for the extirpation locusts and for agricultural data A few items are slightly increased AdjournedRODS RODS Washington 27 Williams of Wisconsin offered a resolution requesting re-questing the President to inform the House whether any protocol had been signed by Trescot or any other diplomatic representative of the United States setting forth terms for ending the war in South America Amer-ica and if so to furnish the House a copy of the same and also with copies of the correspondence relating relat-ing thereto not already communicated communi-cated to one of the Houses of Congress Con-gress Adopted Caswell reported back the post office appropriation bill Referred to committee of the whole Petitions were presented asking i the passage of the Lowell bill A bill was introduced by Haskell authorizingthe department of justice jus-tice to audit the claims of medical experts at the Giteau trial allowing not over twentyfive dollars per day for each Referred By EingJfor a joint committee of five senators an representatives to investigate the floods in the Mississippi Miss-issippi Valley and report what preventive pre-ventive measures are necessary Bayne of Pennsylvania iutro duced a joint resolution requesting the President to take such steps as are necessary to secure the negotiation negotia-tion of an additional treaty between be-tween the United States and Great I Britain which will provide for the extradition of such fugitive criminals crimin-als as may be charged with serious crimes or felonies or who may have escaped before the eCution or completion of their sentences and who arenot extraditable under the existing treaty referred By Phelps to establish the department de-partment of industry the head of which shall be a cabinet officer It provides for a bureau of agriculture fishery mining msnufactures commerce com-merce statistics and education The head of each bureau will be known by the title of commissioner commis-sioner appointed by the President by and with the consent of the Senate Sen-ate ByThomas appropriating S863 000 for the improvement of the Mississipi River and for continuing i the work already begun in accordance accord-ance with the recommendation of the Mississippi River commission By Harris to provide for an as assistant secretary of the navy to be selected from the officers of the navy under the rank of rear admiral ad-miral andto receive highest rate of pay of his grade and perform the duties of the secretary of the navy in the absence of that officer By McCook to restore and fix the inspectorgenerals department of the army The secretary of the interior in response to a resolution calling for an estimate of the amount required to pay off pensions of survivors of the Mexican and Indian wars prior to 1846 estimated that 865380480 would be required to pay the Mexican Mex-ican war pensions and 828201632 to pay the pensions of Indian wars aggregate 93582112 Some bills relating to the District of Columbia were passed and the bill incorporating the Garfield memorial me-morial hospital was taken upI up-I Neal of Ohio explained that the purpose of the bill was to make the corporation perpetual Cobb of Indiana predicted that if the bill should pass the government govern-ment of the United States would be called upon to erect the building aid maintan the institution Humphrey of Wisconsin thought the incorporators should have recourse re-course to the general incorporation law for the accomplishment of their purpose BJqunt of Georgia said some of the incorporators under cover of the name of Garfield and pretending pretend-ing to seek to create a memorial to him came here asking to accomplish accom-plish by that means what they had failed to accomplish heretofore upon its merits It was a mockery of the name of Garfield for them to come in here with this old measure and he trusted the House would repudiate re-pudiate the spirit which had been shown Wilson of West Virginia offered an amendment providing that whenever the corporation shal apply to Congress for aid to any appropriation ap-propriation made for that purpose shall operate as a repeal of this act1 Pending action the bill and amendments were on motion of Holmes of Indiana recommitted with instructions to the committee to report an amendment to the gener incorporation law of the Dis trict of Columbia by means of which the hospital can be incorporated incorpor-ated and be perpetual Under the present law no association can be incorporated for a longer period than twenty years Adjourned 0 |