Show congressional proceedings the senile washington D 0 july 18 in the senate today the joint resolution was passed abo secretary of detate to accept from C F watte it A entitled love and lite by him at the worlds fair mr called op the ranata lor tei n sst H ot the 1 elates of arid land to reclaimed h nd sold in email tracts lual and wae passed applies to 0 o game iva 1 the desert kanj law and also to montana and kartub and to the state that may be formed out ot the territories of arizona new mexico oklahoma and utah when admitted the conference report on the appropriation bill was presented and agreed to an amendment was proposed py mr rep of idaho and agreed to directing the secretary of the interior to contract for the construction st of an irrig atine cancil on the fort hall indian reservation in icho the coat to be paid out of money belonging to the fort hall indians an amendment was proposed bv mr squire rep of washington aulbort ing the indiana holding lands in severally on the reservation near tacoma wash to sell sufficient portions of their lands to raise enough money to improve the remainder at 6 la 10 the senate went into executive cession without acting on the amendment and at adjourned jour ned hour of washington july 18 the statement by representative baker of new hampshire that he has been erroneously re ported by the tellers as present ad not voting the truth being that ho was not present moved mr reed to say a word for the system of quorum counting in the fifty diet congress wherein lie paid out of of opportunities but two had occurred while out of two opportunities sunder the existing ays eys tem one error bad occurred speaker crisp admitted the possibility of error under any system but pointed out that the supe claimed for the present rule was that it removed any suspicion of an intention at unfairness under the special order adopted on monday the remainder of the day was devoted to business reported from the committee on military affairs bills were passed to regulate enlistments in the army to authorize the boards of managers of the soldiers home to transfer and maintain the inmates of any branch in rase of emergencies to place major general john L green on the retired list as a first lieutenant eugene wells as second lieutenant napoleon J dante as assistant quartermaster dunbar K ransome as captain charles B stivers as captain and james william albert as major at the house adjourned program Pro eram washington D 0 july 18 the program for handling the tariff disagreement when it is reported to the house tomorrow was substantially agreed on this afternoon mr kilsoo will make a briel verbal report as soon as the house convene mr from the committee on rules thereupon will present ft special rule allowing two hours for debate at the end of which time a vote will be taken on again pending the bill to a conference ron ference it is expected that there will be no objection to the rule mr allson and mr reed will each control one hour |