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Show CONGRESSIONAL. BKNATIi, Washington, 10. Carpenter iul.ro-duccil iul.ro-duccil a joint resolution declaring it had bocohio tho duty uf tho United States to recognize Cuba as ono of tho independent nations of tho earth and that tho United States will oh-I'VouMrie.t oh-I'VouMrie.t mmtnilily between tho cUhU IteiWml to tho Committee Com-mittee on l-nrein b'elali.mH. handler report, d favorable tho House bill to enable tho Secretary of the Treasury to gather authentic information in-formation in regard to the fur trade at Alaska; placed on the calendar. Ingalls introduced a bill requiring tho Union Pacific to pro rale all J freights curried over its hna in connection con-nection with other railroads. At the expiration of tho morning hour tho Louisiana election bill wa resumed. West explained that bis denial, yesterday, of knowledge that after tho repoafby the Louisiana legislature leg-islature of tbe election law, another bill repealing the repealing act was passed, and that both were now in the haiuh of Governor Kellogg, was caused by misapprehension of Kelloeg's dispatch to him. Tho discission developed the fact that under tho constitution of Louisiana all bills passed during the last fivo dayH of the session ofthe Legislature go to the Governor, who has till tho next session to sign or veto them; and that Kellogg now admits the two bills are in his hands, but Bays ho'don't intend to sign the one repealing the net repealing re-pealing tho old election laws. Without With-out a vote adjourned. JIOUSE. In Committee of the Whole the House eugftged in the consideration of the Legislative Appropriation bill, Parker moved to strike out tho item of $14,000 for newspapers and stationery station-ery to members; rejected, Butler, of Mass., opposed Holman's amendment, amend-ment, and in the course of his remarks re-marks criticised Dawes' recent speech by which Butler said the impression was given to the country that the presidential office yielded the incumbent incum-bent $400,000 during tho term. The appropriations for the President's household were in noway perquisites, but on tho contrary added to the Presitlent's discomfort. A discussion ensued which wa participated in by Dawes, who said Butler had misconstrued miscon-strued his speech, as he had not referred refer-red to the appropriations to the President's Presi-dent's household, but to the appropriations appro-priations for the executivo establishment. establish-ment. Kelly reported a bill appropriating $3,000,000 for the Centennial Exposition; Exposi-tion; referred to the Committee of the Whole, Cox, who made a humorous speech in reply to Butler, finally succeeded in gcttiirg into a personal wrangle. The amendment was rejected. Several Sev-eral amendments to increase the salaries of the Assistant Secretaries of State were oflered and rejected. Pur-man Pur-man favored striking out the proviso for bidding the publication of the laws in two newspapers in each State, and advocating an amendment preventing the abolishment of the sut witly of $00,000 to Republican newspapers; rejected. The Committee rne, having finished four pages of the bill. Butler, of Mass., reported a bill for the distribution ofthe Geneva award; onlercd printed and recommitted. Adjourned. |