| Show In the Senate WASHINGTON Feb I5The hill appropriating appro-priating 1500000 for the improvement of the Mississippi river from the passes t the mouth of the Illinois river was reported and placed on the calendar A concurrent resolution instructing the Senate committee on immigration and the I House committee on immigration investigate 1 investi-gate the recent admission into tho port of New York of Russian immigrants infected i in-fected with tvphus fever was introduced I by Chandler and passed after remarks by I him condemning the course of the commissioner I f commis-sioner of immigration in permitting these 1 immigrants to land In contravention of tho law I lawManderson Manderson from the committee on military I mili-tary affairs reported back adversely four bills for an increase of tho infantry and artillery branches of the army and reported re-ported in lieu thereof a bill to reorganize the artillery and infantry branches of the army and to Increase their efficiency Placed on the calendar Recommendations from the treasury department de-partment for urgent deficiency appropriations appropria-tions for the current fiscal were fscal year presented pre-sented by tho VicoPresidont and referred to the committee on appropriations Among the bias reported and placed on the calendar was the urgent deliciencv bill Hale stating ho would call it up tomorrow morrow making an appropriation for the Improvement ot the Columbia river On motion of Gibson of Iowa the Senate bill appropriating 35000 for a dry dock on the government reservation near Altrien and limiting the entire cost to 830000 passed The Senate then resumed consideration consid-eration of the bill providing for public printing and binding and distributing documents docu-ments the pending question being Gor mans amendment to tho section creating sccton croatng the office of superintendent of public documents docu-ments After 1 long discussion section was moamea oy a provision tnat public documents be supplied Senators and suppled ld representatives repre-sentatives by superintendents of folding rooms and the bill passed 41 to 20 The House bill to amon 1 tho act authorizing author-izing the construction of a railway wagon WSRon and foot bridge over the Mississippi at Burlington Ia was reported and placed on the calendar Paddocks bill preventing tho adulteration adultera-tion of food was taken up read in full and journed left over as unfinished business Ad |
