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Show Congress. Washington, May 0. The house went into committee of tho whole on the river and harbor bilL THE SENATE took up the resolution to pay the Choctaws and Chickasaws for their interest in the Cheyenne-Arapahoe reservation. Dawes, chairman of the committee on Indian affairs, addressed the senate in advocacy of the measure. Dawes spoke until 2 p. m., without finishing. finish-ing. Business was then suspended and eulogies delivered by Gorman and fthers on the Tate Senator Wilson of Maryland, who died in February, 1891. five times as much as we. Senator Dolph today proposed an amendment amend-ment to the sundry civil bill appropriating $250,000 for a public building at Portland, Ore., in addition to the appropriation already made and to increase the limit of cost to $1,500,000. A BEKINO SEA CONFERENCE. Washington, May 6. Secretary Blaine, General J. WT. Foster and E. J. Phelps had a conference with the president this moraine: on the Bering sea arbitration. The exchange of ratification takes place in Loudon today or tomorrow. SILVER PURCHASES. Washington, May 0. The offerings of silver to the treasury today aggregated 431,000 ounces, the amount puruchased 281,000 ounces at $.08,710 to .8715. THE CORDAGE TRUST. Representative Scott of Illinois, offered for reference in the house a resolution reeiuestr ing the attorney-general to inform the house whether he received any information which would warrant him to institute proceedings against the cordage trust for operating a monopoly in binding twine. FREE DELIVERY AND FRACTIONAL NOTES. The house post oflice committee agreed to report favorably the bill for tho extension ot the free delivery in rural districts and a bill for the issue of fractional postal notes. |