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Show FORTY-NINTH CONGRESS. The Senate. Washington, April 7. Call, according to notice, prooe9ded to address the Senate on resolution instructing the committee on publio lands to report a bill to forfeit all railroad land grants not earned within the time speoified in the granting act or acts extending tho time. The House. Washington, April 7. The Speaker laid before the House the message of the President Presi-dent on the subject of Chinese immigration. Kef erred to the committee on foreign affairs. Willis reported back the river and harbor appropriation bill from the committee. Ke-f Ke-f erred to the committee of the whole. In the morning hour, Dunn, of Arkansas, on behalf of the committee on American shipping, called up the resolution setting apart the 22d, 25th and 26th of May for the consideration of the free shipping bill. Adopted. t |