Show I AT TODAY I house Takes Takei Up the Currency Bill and De Dc Debate bate Begins lien Senate at III Oilier Washington Dee Dec only I Ia a fair attendance In the of the he house Houle to 10 witness the opening of the debate on the currency bill Immedi ably after the reading ot of the Journal the nOUN house under the special rr wept O t i 1 h M YI p P bu burnt ol r i the tho ot th the Uh fa ot of Indiana vho tho Is to be In charge of the measure on the oot opened the general debate with n a set lIel i speech U STr Washington Dee announced 1 Intention ot of Mr Mason Muon Ill to time tho Senate today on his re resolution ox ex pressing the sympathy of the Senate with the South African republics In the war var with Great Britain drew drow n a large crowd to the Senate galleries In the of Prill Frye Fot Mr Ir Conn was designated to occupy the chair Mr Ir Hoar the of the legislature In favor of n a constitutional amendment In Ing tor or uniform hours of labor In manu facture In iii lime United Mr Platt hiatt Coon Conn T resented presented of time the legislature Ut Connecticut opposing the admission of to Congress Mr Ir Corell directed 1 the attn tion of the pension to 1 a lull Jill introduced b by by Mr Pettus Ala the payment of n a pension to Freedmen Mr lallinger chaIrman ot of the corn com on pensions expressed the lie opinIon Ion that po no such measure should liar han boon been tl to In my judgment said Mr CalIla ger that Is a bill that ought not nol and probably bl will not receive till the ta favorable consideration ot of time the committee The promoters promote of Ih the bill are deluding thousands ot of poor am are elm pi lW tryIng to keep this agitation alive for Cor their own benefit Mr Cockrell urged that the bill be reported back h AS soon loon nB as pos poe possible sible It was referred to the pension committee Mr Pettigrew S 8 D 1 orter od n ion calling on the secretary ot of war for lor nil all orders and papers relating to Gen Can action relating to the C Cour ur dAlene miners reciting charges against Con Oen Merriam In lila his conduct ot of the nf at fair Mr Chandler objected to time the immedi immediate ate consideration of the tho resolution and It went over ocr 4 toe tor San Francisco Dee board the steamer America Maru which ar dyed here bore today are F A Johnson anti antiA A it 1 Kent who are In d detention Is wanted In Jamestown N Y for tor embezzlement and lorge forgery lie Be ned fled to 10 Japan with Marjory n the no nc tress who was arrested In this thu guy October lat just DI as she was leaving one ot of the tho from China Ina and Japan Till Plague In Out Oot ITI Sun San Francisco Dee Dec steam steamship ship America Maru arrived today from via Ia honolulu Yokohama advices that the bubonic plague which developed at Iobe hM has successfully out anu and there Is no longer any f fear r Honolulu ne nea I ii to the effect t that thal Congress wilt be to to set lIet asIde Attorney General Griggs order which makes ohl nil all of pub pulu ho lands made by the HawaIIan go gov since annexation The transport Garonne mules on board put Into Honolulu after At and tailing to reach Manila h I the northern route from Seattle The Tho encountered terrIfic storms anti was compelled to head hlad southward after losIng 1010 eleven mules nine of thom kille killed I by the storm She Sha wi con her journey Journe In a few days Time The Por Stephens II and Lennox hav al already already ready gone hor horses and mimics The hancock and Pueblo arrived In Ingo go good condition after weathering very cry revere storms storm and lInd left for tor Manila on Sunday morning The Duke of Fife St St Iau Ohio and Indiana at are now In port coal |