Show r I The Senate March 4The Senate has WASHINGTON the nomination of Captain A A confirmed and James BriRadierGeneral Greeley to be Recorder of Deeds for the M Trotter to be of Columbia District at 5 oclock Plumb from morning This Committee on the District the Conference bill reported Appropriation of Columbia had been unable to committee the that moved that the Senate insist on agree He and ask for further on its disagreement So ordered conference presented the conference report He also the relief of settlers and purchasers on the bill for lands in Kansas and Nebraska chasers of publio to He also presented the brinks Agreed ffice appropri of the postoffice report conference to The deficien bill ation bill Agreed item on motIon of taken up an being again to to the Choctaw inserted pay Daws was 2858000 the amount of the judR Indians Court at the October ment term of of the 1886 Supreme The bill and amendments I were finally presented to the Senate j 4vwvM w M4AW KJOUCkkC I On demand of McPherson the ytas and nays weretaken on one of the Pacific Railroad Rail-road amendments and it was agreed to yeas 27 nays 17 The yeas and nays were also taken on the amendment for French spoli tion claims and it was agreed to yeas 31 nays 12 Morgan moved to insert a provision for fifty copyists for the Pension office and made an affecting appeal on behalf of any respectable educated but poor women who are seeking government employment in Washington but cannot get it under the civil service rules After discussion the motion was laid on the tableyeas 27 nays 16 Finally at 515 oclock the bill was passed and a message to that effect was sent to the House Allison presented the conference repoi rt on the Legislative Executive and JudIcial bills an agreement being reached on all points except as to clerks to Senators He moved that the Senate insist So ordered Other House bills were then taken fro the calendar and passed The Senate at 6 a m went into secret session WASHINGTON March 4The doors were reopened at 10 oclock this morning and the Senate in the meanwhile having take two hours recess The first business den was the presentation by Plumb of the cor ference report on the District of Columbia Appropriation bill The report was read and agreed to The next business was the presentation by Dawea of the conference report on the Fortification bill It was to the effect that the conferees had not been able to agree Dawes said it was with infinite in-finite regret that the Senate conferees wen obliged to make this report They had conceded vervn > uoh in order to reach a conclusion con-clusion and to srhe the essence and vitality of the measure needed to protect the coast The plan which they hat submitted to the committee was expressed in the form of a bill which he would have > printed in the Record and alongside with it he would have printed the plan submitted at the last moment by the House conferees The country would judge between these two < propositions and decide where the blame lay for the failure by this Congress to do any thing towards the inauguration of some efficient system of fortifications The irreconoileablo difference between the Senate managers and the House manager was on the question of purchasing steel for the purpose of making steel guns of the highest type The question might be < summed in one sentence Whether stee guns should be subordinated to cast iron cans or cast iron guns subordinated to the highest typo of steel guns The Senate has confirmed the following nomination Arthur K Delaney of Wisconsin Wis-consin to be Collector of Customs for the District of Alaska The Deficiency bill failed for want ol time to engross it The Fortification bill was abandoned in conference Hawley another one of the conferees said he desired to emphasize this most extraordinary extra-ordinary condition of affairs There was nc fortification bill for the current year nor the next year so far as concerned armj coast defenses and heavy guns nothing whatever had been done There was nc money to cut grass along glacif s of forts or to buy shingles or nails for old sheds and dwellings of forts not one solitary cent Work was stopped and all property at these forts were left to raols find ruin for the coming two years The simple statement of that fact was a most extraordinary indictment of somebody He lad no doubt whatever that if the whole subject could have been left open to the full and free deliberation of jongress something would have been lone which would have been a credit to the country So far as the Senate was concerned the record would show that he debates and votes on both sides of the chamber had been fully up to the popular demand WITHOUT DAT The President and Cabinet reached the Capitol at 12 oclock actual time The locks of the two houses were set back TR5 Senate adjourned without day at IA Senate time but 1204 actual time The House WASHINGTON March 4At 5 oclock this morning the effects of a sixteenhour session were plainly visible in the appearance of emnants of documents and reports The imosphere in the House was very impure and oppressive and was well impregnated with tobacco smoke notwithstanding the repeated appeals of the Speaker to the members mem-bers requesting them to observe the rule which prohibited smoking on the floor A few minutes after 5 Blount of Georgia announced that the conference committee on the Pos tofiice Appropriation bill had reached an agreement by the recession of tbe Senate conferees from the subsidy mendmendment The report was agreed to thus disposing of the bill finally The Legislative bill came from the Senate bout C and it was immediately called up by lolman who explained that the point of ifference remaining between the houses was the item for the secretaries of Senators oman moved that the House recede from it i disagreement to the Senatorial amend tent I Holmans motion received a majority vote but Taulbee made a point of no quorum which consumed the time until 730 when his opposition was withdrawn and the lotion declared carried this passing the legislativeAppropriation bill Although the Deficiency bill had not reached the House yet on motion Long of Massaohusette the Senate amendments to the bill were non concurred in and the Speaker authorized to appoint a conference committee The conference report on the bill amending amend-ing sections 5191 and 51J2 revised statutes was agreed to As early 7 oclock spectators began to oc hour before the upy the gallery and in an cuPy expiration of the Fortyninth Congress by imitation at least 2000 persons were resent The House adjourned sine die at noon |