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Show LAST DAVINIONCUKSS Busine-s Being Rushed Through Both Houses at Railroal Speed Tliia Afttrnuou. HOW OUR HARD CASH 13 SPENT. Clearing Up the Apnropriaticn Bills to be R-a'ly for Adjournment at 12 O'clock Tonight Bills Signed by Hirriioa. Washington, M.uvli TIk' senate met at !.:!() a. m. ami immediately went into executive session. 'J lie doors were reopened nt 10 15 a. tn., when the general deficiency appropriation appro-priation hill was taken up and all amcntimcui agreed to except as to the four that were reserved, including tho French spoliation claims aud the Pacific Pa-cific railroad claims. l'liinih offered aii ainenlment appro- diction of the courts of tho United States. The act in regard to the treaty of reciprocity rec-iprocity with tho Hawaiian islands, tho act providing for safe and humane transportation of cattle; the act for the erection of United States prisons and for tho imprisonment of United States prisoners. printing J-lo.oou fur the relief of citizens of Oklahoma who were reudered destitute desti-tute by the drought; agreed to. Plumb desired to have the amendment amend-ment offered and agreed to distributing among the various departments of the government the number of census office clerks, whose employment is about to cease, but Edmunds objected on th ground that it was purely a legislative subject and interfered with the operation opera-tion of the civil service rules, those clerks not having had to go through the forms of the civil service examination. The amendment providing payment to the Pacific railroads was agreed to without division. The next reserved amendment was that for the payment of the French ppoilalion claims. The discusston wus carried on at much length by Messrs. Stewart, Hoar, Kustis, Sherman. Edmunds, Ed-munds, Spooner, Morrill, Haniel, Blair, Hale, Keagan and Hawley. Finally Gorman having appealed to the senators sena-tors to stop the discussion and to pass the bill before it was too late, a vote was taken aud the French spoliation claims amendment was agreed to; yeas, 41; nays, 14. The last reserved amended was that striking out the house bill paragraph giving a month's extra pay to tho officers offi-cers aud employes of the senate and house borne ou the annual or session rolls. Tho amendment was disagreed to and the paragraph retained. Faulkner moved to add to the paragraph para-graph tho words: "and official reporter re-porter of the sonate and the house." Agreed to. Stewart offered an amendment to reimburse re-imburse California. Oregou anil Nevada moneys expended by them in the suppression sup-pression of the rebellion, $2,4.11,000 to California, $22.1,000 to Oregon and $404 lo Nevada; amendment agreed to without with-out division.'' ... ' , . Varlisle 'oiTered an amendment to give an extra month's pay paragraph I so as to include the employes of the law department of the congressional I library; agreed to. A paragraph was inserted directing the secretary of the treasury to settle and pay the claims of New York, Pennsylvania, Penn-sylvania, Delaware, Virginia and South Carolina and the city of Baltimore on I account of advances made in 1M12; and appropriating $2,500,000 for that ur-pose. ur-pose. The bill was then passed and eint back to the house with tho senate amendment. The conference report on tho diplomatic diplo-matic and consular appropriation bill was presented and agreed to. Ou the pension appropriation bill the conference reported that no agreement had been reached. HorsE. When the houso met after recess, it was found the wear and tear of heavy work of the last few days had told heavily upon the reading clerks and tneir voices, as the readings of the various var-ious measures sent to them wero almost al-most inaudible. , Cutcheon of Michigan, submitted tho conference report on the bill to increase the number of the hoard of managers of the national home for disabled volunteers. volun-teers. As agreed to the bill provides pro-vides for eleven members ami the names of the following in addition to those already appointed: Edmund Morrill, Alfred Pearson, William Wil-liam B. Franklin, John C. Black, George Steele. James Burnett, J. 11. Bonebrake and Francis Fessenden. Pointing action Breckinridge presented pre-sented the conference report on the legislative bill. An agreement was reached on all questions except the senate sen-ate amendment making senators' clerks annual employes. The report was adopted ami a further conference ordered. or-dered. The house then agreed to the Cutcheon Cutch-eon conference report. |