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Show WEEK IX CONGRESS. Mar l ' Houte o progret wa made with I the Alaskan code bill, the principal . 1 meature under contldcratlon I ho '. I minority of the jullelary committed were allowed until May 11 to Die Hi view on the ant! trust bill proposed Senate DlMMitslun nf Cuban nlTalrs, precipitated by the disclosure of short age in the jKMlat aervleo of the Islands occupied most of the time of the senate sen-ate lhe following measure wiro iatcd House bill ripenling the provision pro-vision of law allowing merchandise, pasting through the I idle 1 Mate from nny foreign country tu la- transported fre of dm j m far n the Mexican frro wine Is concerned also a rvmolulloii offered of-fered bv Mr Irfnlgc calling unui tho secretary of the treasury for Information Informa-tion In regard to the Influx of Japanese laborer Into the euuiitrj.nnil whither thero had lien an) violation of tht contract labor law M.r it Houte lhe Houte pattid n special . river and harl or bill, carrying Sloo 000 i for sumy and emergency work, and ilcvotul tho rimalnder of the day tr llio Alaskan toilu bill 1 our of the 017 page of the bill wcro dltposcd of be- S furi'jnljournincnt K sennte lhe Hittofllce appropriation I bill wn undir consideration all day Jj without having bun disposed of. W .M.r ih M House A bill to pay Confederate B toldlcr nhoturrt ndered at Appomatox fur hortei taken b) tlraut, wa passed. B Tho amount Inroltrd It about fiOO 000 H Senate I hu bill to amend the re- Hj tlsed itntute so nt to npjiroprtnta the H nlttloii dollars nnniinlly for furnlshlug H nrmt, ordnance nod store quarter HJ matter alun and camp iqulpago tr H the militia, was reported favorable to H tlioinati It ha already pawicd tho H huusi JH House Hulugle of Grant In conncc HJ nictlon with iheuuvclllugothlsitatut jf wa made ipi clal order, and at It con R elusion the house ndjourned m Senate After a iplrlted debate the m senate-, by the dcclilve voto of ti to 10, Wk laid on the table the whole proposition H relating to the transportation of mall HJ by the puiunintlo tube system An H effort wat made to secure the adoption M of an amendment to npproprlata 8.'.'3,. HJ 000 to carry out existing contrnct for HJ the lervlie In N'iw ork, Brooklyn, H Boston und I'hllndelphln, but no action H wn taken upon It, special orderaupcr- H ceiling tho appropriation bill At the JH opening of the acttlon Secretary pro Hi tcm Fryo laid before the acnato n dlt- H patch from the gorirnor of Montana, HH ltobert I- Builth, announcing that ho H had rctokrd the appolnlmml of V, A tfr Clark nt tiuator, uiudu by Lliutcnnnt jjgj Governor Sprlggi, und had appointed mk rn. Martin Maginnla to till the vacancy UK Majr J I H House 1 wn Important bllli, ono to HT extend the eight-hour law to all labor- Hj crt implovid under contract on gov- H irnmcnt work, and tha other to pro- H hlblt Intir-itato trnfllo In prison mado JJ? goi It by bringing them unler th V Juilsdlction of the police power uf tho K ituti, wiro pauisl Loufircncc report Bj on tho agricultural and fortltlcatlou Hj bill wero ndoptid H binato A rtsolutlon to grant the llocr envoy thu privilege ot tha floor during their stay In Washington wat voted down, 3D to SI A re-solution olTcrcd by Mr Morgan, directing tha Intcroccan canal commission to make an Investigation with n view of ascertaining ascer-taining whether there It any corporation corpora-tion or organization of Individuals which has for It purpoto the obstruction obstruc-tion of the United State In eonitruct-lng eonitruct-lng tho Isthmian canal and for other purpose!, wa adoptc 1 |