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Show oo TODAY IN CONGRESS Washington. Dec. 20. Senate : Met at noon. Conferees on the currency bill prepared pre-pared to meet representatives of the house House : Met at 10 a m Took up the administration currency cur-rency bill to appoint conferees to work with the senate managers to compose disputed points. Representative Taylor of Colorado introduced bill to establish ten mine experiment stations, to be located in the discretion of the secretary of the Interior. Secretary Garrison testified before house appropriations yub-commlttee on fortifications in advocacy of his estimates for fortification work War department asked for urgent deficiency appropriation of $2,250,000 for unskilled labor on the Panama canal oo |