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Show FORTY-NINTH CONGRESS. The Senate Washington, January 18. Sherman resumed re-sumed the chair to-day. Among the petitions presented and referred was one by Coke from the merchants of El Paso, Texas, complaining of smuggling on the Mexican border, and urging Congress to take measures to put a stop to it. Alao by Dolph and Mitchell Memorials of the State Legislature of Ooegon, praying Congress to make appropriations for the improvement im-provement of the Columbia river and the establishment of a public park in Oregon. : : The Mouse. : ' . Washington, January 18. In the absence of the Speaker, the House was called to order by the clerk, and a note from Carlisle read designating Springer as Speaker pro fern, for the day. Under the call of States the following bills and resolutions were introduced and referred: re-ferred: By McKenna Authorizing a re-survey of San Francisco and other bays and waters in California. By Cannon To extend the benefit of the pension laws to worthy applicants for pensions pen-sions who served in the late war, and their widows and minor children who are unable, under the existing laws, to furnish the evidence evi-dence required to connect their , disability with the service- - By Weaver of Iowa A resolution calling on the Secretary of the Treasury for information infor-mation as to the total amount applied to the sinking fund between June 30, 1884, and June 30, 1885, and under what date and in what amount the same has been applied. By Strnble (by request) To provide for a uniform ballot-box. ' ' |