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Show WASHINGTON. The Programme for the Week in Both Senate and House Without Special Feature. The Senate Substitute for the House Anti-Chinese Bill Adopted Only One Vote Cast. THAT WAS BY SHERMAN. The Chair, However, Afterwards Decided to Eeconsidsr and Deciared That it Was "No Vote." CLEARING THE "RECORD." Votes From the Committee Itoomi The President to Start to Attend the Grant Monument Cornerstone Corner-stone Laying. Washington, April 25. In contrast with the lively scenes of the past week the proceedings pro-ceedings in both branches of congress the coining week promises to lack public interest. inter-est. The managers of the house have decided de-cided to devote the entire week to the consideration con-sideration of appropriation bills. Today the diplomatic and consular appropriation bill is to be called up. As this measure makes radical changes in the existing law, it will doubtless be attacked by its opponents oppo-nents upon the floor. The appropriation bills also figure largely in the senate proceedings. pro-ceedings. The debate on the Chinese bill will occupy all of today, and the bill will probably go to the house tomorrow with the senate amendments. The house took up the motion made Saturday Satur-day by Reed of Maine to lay on the table the resolution expunging from the record that portion of the speech of Walker of Massachusetts Massa-chusetts not uttered on the floor, reflecting on Williams aud Hoar ( republicans) who refrained re-frained from voting, breaking a quorum. A call of the house was ordered. In the senate numerous protests were tiled principally from the seventh day adventists, urgiag congress not to commit itself to any religious creed by urging that the Columbian expos tion be closed on Sundays. Also two remonstrances from Massachusetts against the passage of the Chinese exclusion bill. Butler gave notice that on Thursday of next week he would ask the senate to take up fur action the bill to transfer the revenue marine from the treasury department to the navy department. Allison expressed the hope that when the appropriation bills were ready they would take precedence of all other matters. Coke gave notice that he would address the senate very briefly tomorrow on Morgan's Mor-gan's silver resolution. The Chinese exclusion bill was then taken up and the presiding otticer put the ques- tion ou the adoption of the substitute reported re-ported bj the committee on foreign relations. rela-tions. Sherman gave the only affirmative vote, and there being no vote in the negative nega-tive the presiding officer declared the substitute sub-stitute adopted. Immediately afterward, however, Mitchel ( who had the floor to speak airainst the substitute) sub-stitute) came into the chamber, and the presiding pre-siding officer was proceeding to put the question again, when Cutler said he understood under-stood the substitute was adopted. The presiding pre-siding officer admitted that he had 60 decided, de-cided, but he would put the question again. While the chair did so aud decided to call it as "no vote". "Is the senate ready for the question?" "No, sir," said Mitchell, and instead, however, of proceeding with his own argument against the substitute, he yielded the floor to Squire who argued in favor of the house bill or som. other vigorous vigor-ous measure to enforce the exclusion of the Chinese. He declared, however, that the great trouble in the uiatter was the lax and ineffectual manner in which the existing laws were executed and to sustain that view-read view-read copious extracts from the testimony takeu by the senate committee on that subject sub-ject a few years ago. McPherson introduced an amendment to th Springer free wool bill providing that after January 1st next, all sugars, tank bottoms, bot-toms, draining, sweekings, syrups or can juice, melada, concentrated melada, concrete con-crete and unconcreted molasses, glucose aud grape sugar , be admitted duty free. In the desert land entry ease of Elizabeth Patrie, from Blackfoot, Idaho, Assistant Secretary Chandler has modified the judgment judg-ment of the commissioner and ordered a hearing before the local officers for the purpose pur-pose of ascertaining the character of the land, and other facts affecting the validity of the entry. The president, Secretary Foster, Secretary Rusk and Postmaster-General Wannamaker will leave for New York tomorrow afternoon to attend the layinjr of the corner stone of the Grant monument. The world's fair committee of the house this morning listened to arguments in favor of the appropriation by the government, the speakers being members of the Chicago directory di-rectory of the World's fair. The supreme case this morning, in the case growing out of the insolvency of the Wabash railroad, decides that the receivers are not obliged to pay rentals on non-paying lines t ased to the Wabash at the time the road became bankrupt; nor to make such claims preferred ones. |