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Show a;; 1175 ritOM Washington. " . , Itrem Our llritiUr UtrrMiooJinL) v.' WASiiifiiToir, June 8, lOOO. Thero wa. excllenicnt enough In Ibf doling hour ol Congren to pleaie the ' ' ' most exacting. The Scaato foagbt, i 1 , wrangled and Senators engaged In tit- 3 unsl and polltlcnl nluio right up toad- ij i Joiirniniml, anil enmity wnaaroused that Tl will lait thelifo tliueot tome of tho par- J Jlt'l tlclpanli. Although palltlci wai at tlrp. IbWVM Uittoiii of the squalbllog, In several. ifr J Instance Senator took advaatage olllaS 'J opportunity to even up ponnnal tcnltk. ?. ' The wrangle nver the armor plateclaun f f j of the Naval appropriation hill, w tiled 1 wai the lait passed, wai finally com- ., ' promised by leaving It to Secretary Uxn to decide whether he will pay the plica aked for armor plate or spend (1,000,001 in establishing a plant for the government govern-ment to make Ha own armorplate. A email appropriation for aurveyi In tho samo bill delayed adjournment a day. : Tho House finished Its business ahead nl the Senate, but it had an all-light ' " icralon at which there wa more excite- ment than business, A quorum mi I lost and the Sirgcant-at-Atma and his I ' asslttant! were chasing all ovar Wash- I ' Ing'.on arouilng absentei 10 a to niata 1 a quorum In order that a nre might be taken, a quorum having been made- I neeesaryby the ralilrgofapolnlof order. For a time there wen threat efexteiiJ Ing tho fcasten ladeflnltsly, but they were not made good, Thescsilon was i:t- ' days long, the ihortesl long sositon for yean, ' Congrei provided for tho proiuotlonol Oen. lilies to lieutenant general nvft Oen, Corbln lo major teneeal, altkouuli it wa arloaefjght up te the last rnlnnlev owing tooppesltlonlnth Heusetothtin Iproinotloni and totheelauielntkeearo hill Increasing the atimder of cadets nX , West Point, which alao want throagiV '' v Representative ' 1-enta. of OMo, mad' okaL'gJM Ttltef KiM'aenlfltljnal spVRTiY!iil7ffieWsWp)plljsrf; increase el cadets, hut tho House nMTj-tg.LlL&jY agreed lolt, although the additional op- Wr polntment to West Point are to Ues controlled by tha increase of cadets, Iml the Houie finally ajreed lo It, althoiii-5i . I the additloaal appointments to We-at I Point are to be controlled by the W l'reildent and Senator entirely. I lien. Joseph Wheeler I noV a frill fledged brigadier In the regular army, having been liemliialed and cosflrmed by the henale teflllthetvacancymiile Vy the promotion of Oen. R. S OH to In a majorgentral. 1 Southern memhiri of Congren ham . ,j called the attention of the C'omiiilnlonw I of Penilom to the wholesale robbery ct ex-ilaveiby the ageatiof theio-ralletl ex alaveiiension organltatloa.,bat Ibt. knowledge wn not new to Commissioner ,' -;,k Kvans, who lays thatthe colored peylk h , of the Soulh beye been bled to the ex- " J tent of more than a million by them . ':k, unnrupuloin men, wlfo cannot bi ,. reached by any law. The only rsiandj ieforlntelllgtntperionatotrytoinaprees .. upon the mlnda of the ex-alave thai " thero I no poislblllly of Ceagrsisloetal '' legislation providing a peaalen for tkciii and that money ient fer the alte purpoeeof pushing suli leglilatlen fa absolutely thrown away, The long fight over the iiomlnatlsm ' vJ of ex-Cougrcmaa Hyaum, cf lad,, ax gold democrat, lobe General Appraiser Vf at the porlofNew York, reiulted In tbti y rejectlenoflhononiiiiallonbythe&ctiate .;V Hit vole being 33 to 33, f The Berate refuied lo cnnalder tbn ; " J antl-tmal hill paned by the House wllb " '),i only one dissenting vote and by avoleatt 43 to23 referred It to the Judiciary Cm- ' mlltee. , j The hill limiting the meaning of tha i,;; word, "conspiracy," and the uio of ri- i& slnitnlng orderi Injunctions In cenBce- , ;j,,g tlon with labor trouble, in which thei tm l.ibororganliatloniareileeplylnteivstMJ , l3j hai been ordered to be favorably leported by the IlouseJudlclary eommllee wills , ' a provlio that the act shall not apply to ' l caiei In which threats, lutlmldatjon, or , y'j coercion, are shown tn have been usetU. k |
