| Show IN T I 1 both houses grinding bay aw a nt it national Sati onil legislation chocta A I 11 AID OF enrolls I 1 h f the lor for seal question lot not let yet fal falli settled I 1 I 1 bill to prevent derryll an ori ins ing bj by the states THE AV ASHINGTON march 3 voorhees vorhees ea offered i a prea tube arid concurrent resolution ol ution reciting that in in the recent lease of the fur seal islands of alaska to the north american commercial co certain provisions of the law had not been complied with and andai directing the secretary of the Tica treasury lury to furnish the senate with complete copies of all bids it fr the le lease ase w with ith the accompanying paper papers a all 11 th the e testimony memoranda morandi me letters t era and arid corres correspondence willi with the holders and ahr that t the Sacre secretary tary refrain from frem jiuing hsuing or delivering a lease to the american al co until the bulj lt ct should ke to in inquired into by the senate enate fc he lie asked to hae have the resolution referred to the finance committee as that committee mets m ets to morrow o so ordered the tile bill fixing the file ea laries of the judges of the united states district courts at 5 per annum wai wag taken up and after discussion passed 33 to I 1 ac r the senate then resumed I 1 consideration of the blair educational bill and was addressed addre eed by spooner in opposition to the bill at i he the M sion of his remarks there was wag an executive session and t then I 1 ien the senate adjourned THE HOUSE washington march 3 odonnell lf of michigan at the tile request of the seventh day adventists of he the united mates states presented a petition n bearing names protesting aganad aga net the tile passage of any bill in regard to the observance of the sabbath abbath fc referred A joint resolution passed autti oriz ing the appointment of thirty additional medical examiners for the pension bureau perkins moved to suspend the tile rules and put upon ita its the senate bill for the organization of th ill territory of olahoma Oka homa willi with the house a substitute the motion was lost houck colled up the contested elec tion ciao of featherstone vs ate outhwaite in in advocating the case of the c cin exhibited what is known aa as the double action ballot box which the republicans assert was used in twenty one I 1 precincts and which whit h enables the precinct judges fo to cast aide the vote of any person the they may BOO see fit lie showed the die man 1 i n lation by c it lucli I 1 I 1 dg a could i ale deceive j the fotr vo tac an and lan lead him to believe bia big ballot had iwed wen properly deposited he ile buted qu led from the returns of the precincts in which it is is a alleged the boxes were used in in order to show that the vote for featherstone far exceeded that for cate and he further asserted that there m was as not a particle of evidence in the case t to 0 show how that such a ax was faed at the 0 election ele clion the ballot box had been brought into the case bv by the attorney for the conte stint but had told where it had come from pending further debate the house adjourned |
