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Show p TEN YEARS MORE. SENATE PASSES THE BILL EXTENDING THE CHINESE EXCLUSION ACT. Speaker Crisp Goes off for a Kcw Day Kest News From (lie Committee Kouuis Other Items From Washington. Washington-, Feh, in. The senate has passed the bill extending for ten years the operation of the Chinese exclusion laws. 1 On motion of Morrill it was resolved that when the si tiate adjourn today it he to meet next Tuesday. A resolution was nrescnted renucstini: the preaident i if not incompatible with public Interests') to inform the senate of the proceedings pro-ceedings recently had between the representative represen-tative of Canada, the British government and the Unili d States. The hill to continue in force for ten years all cxistilig laws prohibiting ami regulating the coming into this country of Chinese persons, per-sons, was taken from the calendar and passed. The cotiMdcration of the bills on the calendar cal-endar w as commenced. The bill authorizing the construction of a public building at Spokane Falls, Wash., was laid over. The appropriation of (!400,000 for a public building at Tacoma was passed, |