Show WEEK IN CONGRESS april 3 the senate b 1 to promote the efel clency of the revenue cutter bervice passed the house by a vote 0 to 9 the bill gives the comma aln officers of the evenue bervice relative rank follows cap tain with majors in the army and lieutenant commanders la the navy 1 eu tenants with the captains in the army and lieutenants la the navy beconi lieutenants w th first lieu tenants in the army and 1 eu tenants junior grade in the navy and third lieutenants with second lieutenants in the army and ensigns la the navy it elves the officers ot the service longevity pay equivalent to the corresponding ranh in the army and provides for their retire ment with three fourths pay upon reaching the age limit t M years at the conclusion ol 01 a lively debate the banate passed the cleoma bill by a vote of 39 to 31 the measure as passed by the senate differs la borne respects from that passed by the house it provides that oleomargarine and kindred products shall be t to all the laws and regulations ot any bute or territory or the district of columbia into which they are transported whether in original packages or otherwise that any person who darlne and furnishes it tor the u of others except to his own family who shall mix with it an artificial coloring that causes it to look like butter tx held to be a manufacturer and subject to the tax provided by existing laws that upon colored so as to resemble butter a tax of 10 u ts a pound shall be levied but upon oleomargarine not colored the tax shall be one fourth ot 1 cent per pound that upon adulterated butter a tax of 10 cents a pound shall be levied and upon all pro ess or renovated butter the tax shall be one fourth of 1 cent per pound the manufacturers of pro cess or of renovated or of adulterated butter shall pay an annual tax of tte who asale dealers shall pay a tax of 1 and the retail dealers a tax of 18 per annum measure provides regu athons tor the collection of taxes and pre bribes minute how the various pro ducts are to be prepared tor market april 4 HOUSE the bouse began consi ler atlon of the chinese excl slon bill no opponents 0 the general principle of exalus on appeared but the members were divided in their support of the balla presented alitt of illinois york and adams of pennsylvania supported the majority bill and dark of missouri bahn of california and of massachusetts spoke tor the minority substitute some routine business was transacted A email urgent deficiency bill carrying was passed SENATE the senate began consideration ol 01 the chinese exclusion bill mr mitchell of ore gon making the opening speech lie pointed out forcefully the ne essley tor tl exclusion of chinese laborers and carefully and elaborately analyzed the bill april HOUSE the chinese exclusion bill wag un der consideration in the house general debate being closed without exception the speeches were favorable to rigid exclusion and a feeling of repugnance to the chinese mr taylor of ohio from the committee on elections presented the report on the horton butler contested election case from the twelfth missouri district which declared the seat va cant ibe minority were given three weeks within which to file their views banate after passing the indian ap atlon bill the senate considered the chinese exclusion measure for nearly three hours the principal speech of the session was made by mr fairbanks of indiana in support of the bill april 7 house passed the chinese ex elusion bill after incorporating in it several amendments which increased the drastic char acter of the measure As passed the bill re enacts all the existing exclusion laws and incorporates with them the existing treaty regulations it extends those exclusion laws to the philippines and the other posses alons of the united states and forbids chinese labor in our colonial possessions coming into this country the ins commission by the terms of the alir Is directed to adopt proper measures for the enforcement of the provisions of the bill la the philippines the conference report on the war revenue tax repeal bill was adopted and the bill sent to the white house the senate bill to extend the characters of national banks for twenty years vas passed the fol owing bills were passed providing tor the promotion of anatomical science and lor the prevention of the destruct alon of graves in the district of columbia tor the establishment of an assay office at provo city utah aillia HOUSE the debate on the cuban reciprocity bill was opened by mr payne the republican leader in a strong speech which commanded close attention from both ames of the u there were only two other speakers mr new land democrat of nevada v ho took the po mitlon that the concession should not be made to cuba unless she were invited at the same time to become a part ol 01 the united states and mr mcclellan democrat of new york who favored a 50 per cent reduction for the benefit of cuba but gave notice that if the rate of reduction was cot increased he would vote tor the bill mr lacey of iowa asked unanimous consent tor the consideration of a bill to protect the game and elsh in alaska there was no ob and the bill was passed vigo s protest was made in the senate by M cullom of illinois against the passage of the chinese exclusion bill in it present form mr cullom while expressing himself as in favor of the exclusion of chinese labor said that many of the pro ismons of this pending meas ire were in contravention of our treaty obligations with china lie urged that the united baates could not afford to igno e its solemn treaties although he conceded the authority of cong ess to enact the proposed law it it saw fit to do so ahe senate today passed thirty nine private pension bills all ibe boston papers contain adver ti for men to work in the brew enee of city affected by the strike of the inside workmen the adver ti say that applications from former employees will receive first con at tuscumbia cumbia ala five men are dead two mortally wounded and two seriously hurt as a result of the work of a negro will pandle with a rifle while res sting arrest pandle was burned to death in his own house after being fatally shot albert T pair ck vi ho was convicted on march 26 of the murder of william marsh in bew lork lias been sentenced by recorder doofe to be put to death in the electric elect lic chair at b ng sing prison on may 5 lie was taken to sing bing monday A sensation has been cause I 1 in vien na by a clon sl ed in the neue ereie Press etl at austrian troops will be employed to restore order in the d all let 0 in Lul lurkey buch action it is 1 eld would be a step toward part tion of luikey fhe seaport of icis in tl e state of lara venezuela was tadeu april 3rd by the revolutionary forces ider german merchants at cara have received anfor nation tl at barquis n etc has been in tl e on of it e ce april ath 1 e captain of 11 e ailing idio oner mary laylor reports 1 abing p eked up forty five miles south of cap I 1 e buoy from it e m at ng warship condet fro n 1 er I 1 as been found abony the coast foi distance of several hundred miles a |