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Show LATEST DISPATCHES, FOHTY-FOrUTH CONGRESS. SENATE. Washington, 29. Sargent, from the conlcrence committee on the naval appropriation bill, mado a re-upuu-iut, .nmaiitti.e had agreed viding for the extension cv bill pro-completing pro-completing the survey and location of the 1'ortland, Dalles fe Salt Lake railroad; the senate bill for the relief of settlers upon certain lands in the state of Minnesota; the house bill to authorize claimants upon even numbered num-bered sections of land within twenty-mile twenty-mile limits of the Northern Pacific railroad to make proof and payment for their claims at the ordinary minimum mini-mum rate of $1.25 per acre. Morrill reported back the joiut resolution reso-lution recently submitted by tho president pres-ident to provide for defraying temporarily tempo-rarily tho ordinary and necessary expenses of tho public service by extending ex-tending the appropriation bills for the present fiscal year into the next, with an amendment providing that in no case shall such appropriation be continued con-tinued lor a longer period than thirty days. iho amendment was agreed to and the resolution passed. Several committees on appropriations appropria-tions announced that thoy had failed to agree. Adjourned. |