Show SENATE WASHINGTON Dec 10The finance committee com-mittee reported back adversely the bill to provide for the organization of national than 50000 Indefinitely banks with a less capital 0 definitely postponed Among the bills introduced in-troduced today were the following By Chandler to amend the laws relative to the elective franchise providing under certain cer-tain contingencies for the conduct of elections elec-tions by federal officers on the petition i of fnf 19 gi a certain percentage of voters that they believe the election will be unfair if held by the state sfficers etc By Spooner making it the duty of the proper officers of the treasury and in tenor departments to adjust and settle the claims of any state against the United States for lands disposed of by the United States that were included in any grant of swamp or overflowed lands of such state By Hawley for the selection from national na-tional guard and military schools of civil ians t be appointed second lieutenants in the regular army By Squire for the erection of public buildings at Seattle Tacoma and Spokane Falls Washington Each not t exceed 300000 By Spooner I memorial signed by twenty of his former constituents praying that boards of trade bucket shops and other mercantile bodies and individuals be prohibited from fixing the value of the produce of American farms by sales for future deliveries By Merrill a bill to provide for the relief re-lief of telegraph operators during the war who although not performing strictly imprisoned military duties lost their lives or were The resolution offered yesterday by Turpie as to trusts was takeh up and Turpie proceeded to address the Senate upon it He said that trusts were the gigantic sin of this age and generation The fist was a nuisance open and notorious noto-rious but it could not be grappled with and suppressed as other nusances and such legislation as was proposed jn the bills introduced in-troduced by Sherman and George in conjunction con-junction with his own proposition were a confiscation of trusts goods and should be enacted and enforced At the close of Turpies speech the bill for celebrating the four hundredth anniversary anniver-sary of the discovery of America by holding hold-ing an international exposition in the city of New York was introduced by Evarts Read the first and second time tme The programme for the ceremonies in the House tomorrow in commemoration of the hundredth anniversary of the first inauguration inaugu-ration of George Washington as Presidert was adopted The Senate then proceeded to executive business and at 145 adjourned ad-journed till tomorrow |