Show LATEST TELEGRAMS FORTYSEVENTH CONGRESS REGULAR SESSION SENATK Washington 7A favorable report re-port was made on the claims for depredations by Utes in tha White River massacre in 1879 The bill regarding the Japanese indemnity fund was reported favorably favor-ably The Senate bill passed for the payment pay-ment by the secretary of war to the secretary of tke army of the Cumberland Cum-berland 700 for the Garfield monument monu-ment Coke poke on the Morrill tariff bill favoring a revision by a committee com-mittee of both house Coke having concluded his speech several measures of no general interest in-terest were passed Cockrell from the committee on military affairs reported favorably the joint resolution authorizing the secretary of the treasury to a certain cer-tain the amount expended by X in sas in repelling invasions andsup pressing Indian hostilities The pausion arrears reaoSut on was made unfinished business Adjourned lluJE Washington 7A resolution was adopted directing the postruit IT general to furnish information o cerning subletting coniruL > carrying mails The majority and minority reports re-ports from the banking commit eon e-on the bill enabling national Ito It I m to extend their corporate extbteice were placed on the calendar The Nicaraguan claims were reported re-ported back adversely A bill was reported for the erection erec-tion of a public building at Denver Col Referred to committee of the whole I At the conclusion of the morning hour Page called up the special order the bill to restrict Chinese immigration Prescott antagonised this with a motion to take up for consideration the apportionment bill After some discussion the Speaker ruled the apportionment bill as presented pre-sented was a privileged question and overruled the point of order made by Page The latter gentleman gentle-man raised the question of consideration con-sideration when the House decided de-cided 163 to 63 to consider the apportionment bill Ryan of Kansas reported the Indian In-dian appropriation bill which appropriates ap-propriates 4920203 921510 less than the estimates and 835600 greater than the amount appropriated appropri-ated for the current year The number of agents is reduced from sixtyseven to sixty The apportionment bill was again taken up and amendments were offered of-fered fixing the number of representatives repre-sentatives at 325 321 365 319 324 and 320 Horr Mich opposed the bill as an outrage on common sense and critized the speech of Prescott N Y for the intimation that the apportionment ap-portionment bill shall be based somewhat upon the wealth of the various states New York was wealthy because the small states had labored to build her up and it did not come in good grace from her to attempt to strike down the political pol-itical power of those little states in a manner so wrong and so unjust upon its face Applause Pending discussion the House adjourned ad-journed |