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Show IN SENATE AND HOUSE, Public Iliiildlngs to Close on th. Day of (ieneral Sherman. Funeral. Washington, Feb. 10. In the senate today tho credentials of Senators Jones of Nevada, and Mitchell of Oregon, for the term beginniug the 4th of March next were tiled. The conference report on the fortifications fortifi-cations bill was agreed to and Mr. Mc-Connell Mc-Connell addressed the senato on the advocacy of his bill directing proceedings proceed-ings in condemnation agaiust the Union and Central Pacific roads. Referred. The diplomatic and consular appropriation appro-priation bill was then taken up and several committees agreed to. HOUSE. Washington, Feb. 16. E. B. Taylor, rising to a personal explanation, apologized apol-ogized for language he had used against Pitham (111.) in the recent debate, Pitham accepted the apology in the same spirit in which it was made. Conference of the army appropriation bill was then adopted aud immediately thereafter the house went into committee commit-tee of the whole on the Indian appropriation appro-priation bill. As tho ceremonies incident to The funeral of General Sherman will occupy Thursday and Saturday of this week and tho president directed that public buildings in Washington be closed on Thursday and Saturday, and those of St. Louis on the latter day. |