Show WEEK IN COiN aRESS juno june 88 25 llouis noc BaThe the earlier portion of the darwas devoted to consideration of reports report on the sundry arli and the army and navy api tp pro p bills the house adopted a apropo altion agreeable to the senate wit with h reference rete renoe to the he disputed items 1 in the bunmy bill and by a vote of 63 to 65 95 to agree to the senate amend amendments ments menta to the naval daval bill providing for submarine torpedo boats boata tho the philippine chil government overn ment till bill was wa thrown open to amendments amendment by an amendment offered hy mr bartlett of georgia cabe involving the construction of c the constitution 0 can be appealed from the courtat the islands to the supreme court ot of tho the united states and by another offered by mr little field of maine one corporation in the tha islands is prohibited from broin handling stock block la in snot mother ber these were the only amendments of Import aaro anco offered SIMATI after bad discussed the pending pure food bill bad and mr galling bad delivered livere an extended argument to show liow that the prosperity of 0 th alio llio country was due to the abe operation oper ailon of the dingley tariff law the senate took up tie tic eal calendar enlar and passed panned a largo number lumber of t bills ot of minor importance june JOD 80 20 loubat nou BAt at a 8 0 clock at night at the tha end of a nino hour bour session and of 0 a debate lasting night and day for a week the house bouse passed the tha philippine civil government bill practically as it came from the tha committee it was waa ft a party vote lit 11 to 97 with the iho exception ot of ur mr mo he call of who voted with demo brats the minority substitute for the establishment of a temporary government in the islands and their permanent independence as soon as ai a stable government could be ba established was wai defeated by 65 95 to before the consideration of the philippine bill was resumed the house housa by a vote tota of 63 to 9 adopted the conference report on the canal bill 1111 thus accepting in toto the ho senate enate bill the tha bill now goes to the president bonatt during the comparatively brief time tho the senate was in session nofi Blon tho the conference report on the laih lath ralan oun ai bill was agreed too to and the general deficiency the last baab of the big supply measures was wag passed A slight light pro tent woo wan made the tha appropriations of cf yx tor for the duffalo buffalo exposition and for or the charleston 8 0 exposition but finally anally they were included in the tha bill 1 ha measure also aloo curried carried HA 15 for the payment of the tha ex president a lul last illness and the death of deo dent t the amount including the pay ot of physicians june jane 27 some odds odd and ends were cleared up during the early portion of the session requests for unanimous consent tor for which there Is 1 alway se a great demand during the closing days of a sen session tilon were suddenly blocked by mr moon of Tc e who told his friends I 1 that h bo would object to all such much requests until unlit be wua was recognized recognised to tio nth consideration of the bill to give the indian I 1 territory errit ory a territorial form of government the district of columbia appropriation pria tion bi bill 11 was disposed of as were several other less Import important rint measures A joint lount resolution appropriating low tor for a monument to martyrs to be at fort green brookin Drook Brook ln N Y wan was passed it provides unit the appropriation of shall be raised the N ork to be done under the direction of the abe secretary of war the governor of now new I 1 ork and the mayor ot of new neav ork gity city juno june 28 25 house when the house adjourned the general deficiency bill and one item in the paval paral appropriation bill was fragall all that remained in dia dl betge n the tha two houses so BO tar far as an the appropriation bills are comer concerned conc ried tho the conference report on tho district of columbia bill wua wits adopted and it i ow roes to tho president for his signature earlier in the day the house bouse decided the con elitt lon case of vs butler from I 1 thoi be 11 missouri r I 1 district hy by the seat vacant 13 uy y a vote ot of wo to a strict party parly vote mr duller butler who la is tt a democrat was decided not entitled to the suat bant mr butler made a vigorous speech bococh of an hour in defense of his bis right to the sent rent A lively debate di bate was precipitated in the senate over a resolution of mr morgan of alabama authorizing the committee on inter cocoanto canals to investigate the abe status of american stockholders in the canama canal company with a view of protecting them in the french courts A partial conference report on the general deficiency bill was as agreed to sad and hale allison and teller appointed conferees june 30 tho the conference report on the philippine civil government bill chichis considered the last obstacle in the way of adjournment was adopted by a strict party vote with the tingle single exception of mr mccall mccali of massachusetts chu who voted with the democrats A partial report on the general de flUency appropriation bill was adopted and after a prolonged flight the house by a vote of to adopted the senate amendment amend anent to appropriate TOO tor for the buffalo exposition and then sent the bill back to conference the senate amendments to appropriate HW tor the charleston exposition and 1 DO to pay the hawaiian fire bubonic plague awards were defeated A number of bills were passed under suspension of tha rules sinate farly la in the sension ot of the senate mr elkins of debt virginia delivered an earn abt speech in favor of the annexation of cuba maintaining that it would be in the best interest e 6 t of both countries mr elkins remarks d drew rewn a sharp fire bre from mr platt of lon it and mr jianna hanna of ohio who ario deprecated any annexation proposition at this tibt and urged that the united states fatatis ought to be sensible t I 1 its obligations to the civilized world it if not to cuba among the many bills passed wai wag one giving rear admiral schley the pay and allowance of a rear admiral on OB the active list ot of the navy |