| Show INAUGURATION > DAY A Proposition to Change front March 4 to April 30 T 1 I II PROCEEDINGS IN CONGRESS TODAY 1 Ancrietbrattoin leloUoo Calling far ao ut liety thn lurnlo 10 Denhr sei cut Inquly SEVATE Washington Jan 141ifter the transaction of some routine business in the Senate today Mr Htur of Man achuact presented Ug folloning i joint resolution proposing on amendment amend-ment to the Constitution if i That the following article be 1 proposed pro-posed to the legislatures of the several states as an amendment to the Constitution Con-stitution a of the United Stairs The term of olllco of lrjsldent and of the riftjsixth Congress shall continue con-tinue until the 30lh day of April In the year 1SOJ at noon The senators whose existing term would otherwise expire on the 1th day of March In the year year 1WJ at noon The senators whoso office until noon of the 30th I day of April succeeding subsequent to expiration expira-tion and i tho 30th lrcn day of April at noon I h all thereafter > be substituted sub-stituted for the 4th of Mirch as the commencement ana termblnn oC 01 cal terms of President Vice President senators and icpieEcntatlvcs In Con gross The aoluUn was referred to the committee oil privileges and 1 elections Mr quay of PennsYlvarela offered the following resolution which I was referred to the committee on Indian affairs llesolved That the secretary of the Interior shall be and Is I hereby Instructed In-structed to Investigate the facts attending at-tending to alleged atrocious burning to denth of two Seminole Indians by a trial In Oklahoma Territory and make I report thereon to Congress 1 That the sum of 25000 or so much thereof as may be necessary Is t hereby here-by appropriated out of any money In the treasury not otherwise appropriated for the Investigation apprehension and punishment of the guilty pel sons to be expended under the direction of the teeretary of the Interior Mr Lodge of Massachusetts offered of-fered n resolution which was agreed to calllng upon the secretary of agrlcul tuie to supply the Senate with Informa UOI I to th amount oC sugar Imported Im-ported Into the United Stale the amount of beet sugar Traduced In the United States with what sugar imported im-ported or ilomestlctho beet sugar comes Into tompelllon with and ivhut effect upon beet sugar production In the United States Mr Tinman of South Carolina announced nnuncea that on mount of the absence of his collengu Mr MCLaurln he axileague the eulogies upon the late Senator Joseph E larle which were to have bn Ireated today b postponed The rcmi et YOS granted The Senate at 1801 on motion pIr A Davts chalrrnatielpf thq core tcf 141T em for I prin relatf0fla I went Into executive session sessioni Washington Jon HTh House manager decided not to proceed with the consideration oC the dlplomoUc ana conbula appropriation bill Ida but to give the day for the conslden ton of private bills Title was doubtless doubt-less done to avert the possibility of precipitating a sensational Cuban debate de-bate in the consideration of the bill Inflammatory In-flammatory speeches during the present pres-ent ciltlcal elate of affairs In Havana would the conservative leaders believe be purely unfortunate UnUl the House adjourned lot night the amendment to the agriculture bill providing for the publication of another an-other edition oC the Uurse hook wan pending Today the friends of the amcnament compromised with the appropriations ap-propriations committee by agreeing to a reduction of th number to be printed from ISO 000 to 75000 As amended the amendment was adopted and the bit was passed The resolution accepting the Invitation Invita-tion of the government of Norway to participate In the International fisheries fish-eries exposition at Bergen from Ma > to September 1S18 was called up by Mr Slnpklns Rep Mass Mr Cannon chairman of the appropriations appro-priations committee said that he thought the exposition question lei Congress was running wild We had had Democratic expositions at Philadelphia Phila-delphia Chicago Clnelnnntl New Orleans Or-leans Atlanta and Nathvlllc and we were now about to ha one at Omaha Abroad we had participated 10 the expositions ex-positions at Vienna Paris Drll and Rrussels The anxiety of wouldbe commissioners to how the hotr and glory of our country represented nt the foreign expositions w s agonizing Now here comes the exposition at Iler gen Twenty thousand dollars to be appropriated now If this resolution I rsoluton passed Congress would bo called to foot the bill for a deficiency of J20000 Hegave It as his deliberate judgment that the Interests of the United States did not require our Participation In this exposition 1 w tld our duty by the Pails exposition that would be enough enugh Mr Slmphlns in reply called attention atten-tion to the fact that Norway second In the world to no country In fisheries had accepted our Imitation to parttcl pate at Philadelphia and Chicago Common court esy and decency Ie manded that we accept this Imitation Mr DollUer Rep Iowa thought we would not In the net decade par tlclpate in nn exposition which would be of more practical value to the United Unit-ed States The resolution was adopted Another resolution w is adopted on mutlm of Mr Perkins tell Iowa dl reeling the director of the geological purvey to prepare and have printed 4000 copies of a map of Alaska showIng show-Ing the most feasible routes to the goldfields gold-fields Tho House then went Into committee of the whole for the consideration of bills on the private calendar A bill for thpamnt of 77000 to Wm S Grant of Gardiner Maine for supplies designed for the United States but confiscated hy tho Confederate government gov-ernment at the opening of the rebellion WM favorably acted upon The Senate 1111 to refer to the court of claims of the corporation of the hook agents of tho thodlst church south was next taken up Mr Cooper Dem Tex In harI of the bll moved as a substitute I bill npproprlat this Inp S2Q8000 claim for the full settlement oC Srnlon Itrry hulrhlni Washington Jan ItAler Beaton Perry Per-ry for many ear one tit thu leading dry god merchants of Washington committed suicide this morning bj shooting He for many years hadtbcen n sufferer from Inomnla brought on by nervousness the result of close 01 1leaton I tu business Last Rummcr le lok a long vacation und 1 seemed tu Improve his health lonsldcrhly but more recently the ntlclo oC I 1yetij 1 less eturned 11 woe Ihut I 4 yiara if age He had accumulatil Calls Idpluble money need It wait i his Intention to n tm from business In a few years Ills MC Is I also weilhy 10 her own name The estalillshment conluetea ellblhment olhlell by Mr Perry wits start il by the owners fattier In 1MO I wag 1 Illiably the only one or the old riglnie of business 1 houses that lined Pennsylvania nnu whlb kept paco with the progreI o the I ely ana had met the cent petition brfluglit on 11 I thl clnhlhnwlt DC department at Tell 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