OCR Text |
Show HOUSE. mill, of Kansas, moved to suspend ules aud pass with substitute the le bill granting pensions to soldiers -ailorswho are incapable of per-ling per-ling labor and providing for pen-, pen-, to widows and minor children impendent parents. . - - ringer demanded a second and the in was 'seconded. ' -,".' '. 7 " orrill briefly explained that tho titttte provided for a service pen-of pen-of 18 per month to soldiers who readied the age of 62T' years, or are dependent. He thought the : principle which had been, applied iterans of the war f ' 1812 and tho with Mexico should be applied to' etenns of the war of 1861 . e -Montana election case, was then n up nd Vance, a member of the -nittea on privileges and elections, an argument supporting '"the rity report,' declaring Clark and nnis, the democratic claimant, Jed to the. seats, ., answer to a question he stated tha. stimated senate bill would require ul expenditures of $36,000,000 and iouse substituted $39,000,000.- c house committee on railways aud Is has ordered a favorable report ,e hill providing for the construe-by construe-by the United States of a ship canal urt Niagara Falls, and one million irs will be appropriated to begin vork under the direction of the -sec-yof war. tsl cost to be $23,500;000. v It will venty -three miles long. It is urged war measure, as the only means of ag around the falls now being the and canal which would ho closed ust the United States in ease of It is to follow tho lines already ved. - ie house eommitlco on coinage, iits aud measures, today authorized orable report on the bill for the 'inage of woru and mutilated sub-ry sub-ry coins of tho United States. ' -is provided that silver : coins of a 'lenominalion than one dollar shall jfter be legal tender in sums not' 'ding $20 in all payments of public private debts and when held by mil K..,l 1... , . 'Mi bonds may be counted as part " lawful reserve. .... t . ier a debate the house refused to nd the rules and pass the senate bill with the house substitute, lffil, nays 87. which, was not a wj- two-thirds vote in the affirm- ie house committee on appropria-completed appropria-completed the legislature, execu-md execu-md judical ajiprpriation bill, which aggi'ogate appropriation of kouse committee on pensions or-1 or-1 a favorable report on tho bill nm a pension to Mrs. Delia Par-we Par-we daughter of tho . late Admiral Mewart and mother of Charles 'ftPariiell. The original bill pro-" pro-" for lioo per month, -but was d to $30.- . . .. |