Show SENATE AT II DAY AHD SIGHT Appropriation Bills Commanding the Solons Attention Atten-tion MUST GET A MovE ON JJlAIJfBS HISTORIC Rm1f IS TO BH FURGIIlLSED Con idorn7 le Interest Attached to i the Diacnaaloii of Appropriations of Fnl > Uc Bnllflinsa nt Vnrionj Points In the United States Chey ciilie TJoisc City and Hclvnn > Pw OK tlio nnck 1 TVasulnsrton r 5 Vclaied nj proprlations were before the Senate today With prospects of work arly End late to complete them Mr Cockrell chairman of the appropriatIon ap-propriation committee asked that recess re-cess be taken at D oclock tonight until S oolocki the session then to continue until 10 or 11 The retiuest went over until later in ihe day The sundry civil bill was taken up Hh6 Ham for tho examination of the I sUbsoil of the lot for the Jierv public fruildJns < at San Francisco Vas changed to make it mandatory on the secretary of Tvnr lo have two or more army en fjino rs to conduct the investigation Mr Perkins California spoken Incidentally In-cidentally of the needlessness of the investigation by those more versed in politics than In scientific engineering and desirous of taking G pleasuM trip to the coast The appropriation of 575000 for the public building at Annapolis An-napolis dVM struck out There have been some Indirect orl iicbms BS to including Annapolis with Cheyenne Boise City and Helena and Gorman created a surprise by a pcr pppal request to omit Annapolis Mr Wilson Washington secured 320000 for a public buSldinj at OIyn J > iaMr Mr Vest ChaIrman of the Committee Commit-tee on Public Buildings and Qyounds Warn d the senators of the northwest that by loading amendments on the bill all appropriations for Cheyenne Bece Olympia etc would fall Mr TFhlte proposed a substitute I1OYidln for the condaranation of the Bitn property instead of purchasing Mr Hce urged the Injustice oft such action faln tt Mrs Elaine The sub BtltutG was defeated 23 to S3 The committee amendment rot the r purchase of the BlaIne property was then agreed to Teas li nays 25 The sundry civil bill Was then pro fteeded with At 525 p mi theSenate held an ex tcuttvfe stsion and then took a recess until S oclock Pike TipIvt ScfiKion i The ghtsession of the Senate was bUended toy about twenty senators but as the question of a quorum was not raised work proceeded on the sundry appropriation bill The appropriation E appro-priation for the chief officials of the coast and deodetlc survey occasioned much debate IJ The House nad reduced the number of bureau assistants from 12 ti 34 The Senate committee restored the original number Mr jLauriti of Mississippi read a letter from the superintendent of the j coast and geodetlcs survey sayinq the v reduction was desirable and jf not made the extra session men would become be-come pensioners Mr CockreU declared that Superintendent Superin-tendent Duffleld of the bureau had proposed the reduction with W the T enthusiasm of an officer anxious to Inaugurate In-augurate reform and he new the needs of the office Mr Allison said Superintendent Duflield was attempting ta override his 1 superior Secretary Carlisle TV ho had estimated for the full corps of the l bureau The senator said there was I some secret history as to the vny this reduction was recommended without the knoTflede of the secretary of the tieasury The enlarged staff of forty tw as recommended by the committee commit-tee was agreed to Committee Amendment Con > mlttee amendments were a reed to appropriating 55000 to the widow or other heirs of each of tha killed In the ITord theatre disaster also 44000 for an electric lighting plant foy the capitol capi-tol The amendment increasing the appropriation ap-propriation for surveying the public lands from 17500 to 200000 wa tern porarily pased Mr DuboIs of Idaho 1 giving notice of a further amendment p jnaking the appropriation 400000 4 The amendment was agreed to appropriating I ap-propriating lEOOO fat surveys of 4 lands within the limits of railroad 3and grants and amending the law on the subject The amendment was agreed to donating the abandoned Fort McKInney military reservation and buildings to the state of Wyoming for state Institutions Also granting to North Dakota lands In the Fort Rio r military reservation Also appropriating 1 < appropriat-ing X100000 for renewing the superstructure super-structure of the Rock Island Illinois f t bridge The secretary of war is directed top to-p nd not to exceed 490000 In changing i chang-ing the bridge to a double track struc i lUll under certain contracting relations 1 rela-tions with the Chicago Bock Islam ii JPacifio road f Shermans Sitvinc c Mr Cockrell offered an amendment rhfca was agreed to appropriating 530000 for completing the statue of general William 07 Sherman An amendment was agreed to fixing the Shiloh National park commission at Ptttsburg landing Tenn estimating the cost of lands nt 0GvO The amendment transferring the MacWnac Island Miphiaran military reservation to the state oC Michigan iiras agreed to 1 The amendment wag agreed to ap pyopnatinir 40000 for extending the Fort Wane Michigan military reservation reser-vation Other committee amendments agreet f W t For the expenditure of 10000 by the 3 ippoijrl rlvey commission oj the river at Sioux City and for a definite aurvey of the water way connecting Puget Sound with Lakes Union and iWashlngton Senator Allison of Iowa criticised that provision of the bill transferring the Fort Leavenwafth Kansas mill torY reservation to the department of justice Mr Hawley qf Connecticut urged the abandonment of the entire plan of t1aSfer The amendment was tem prjrarifly placed over Yhe committee amendments of till t-ill were approved until the concluded features were reached first concerning ellS F government printing offlco ana second Lv concerning the Important flnancja plaiTfdr on issue of S1000000QO of certificates oT indebtedness These were reserved tomorrow Sd r I Then at 1055 oclock the Senate ildjQfnr |