People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 March 1895 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

Both houses of congress adjourned Moruia;-. Little business was transited in the final hours. Ex-Speaker Reed and two of his * ri< u-.s refused to vote for a resolution thanking Speaker Crisp for his fairness. Appropriations made by the congress just adjourned aggregate $5:>3,22.>,2*J, übont $67,000,000 less than those of the itved congress. Messrs. Crisp, Culberson and- Kitt will be the house delegates to the international monetary conference. Giuted States supreme court decided •American patents expired with those in foreign countries. Telephone, telegraph and el; ctric light inventions are involved. B inds for $300,000 issued by Perry county, ill., to aid in railroad building nave been held valid by the supreme court. A now trial of the Coffins, convicted of v recking the Indianapolis National Lank, was ordered by the federal supreme court. A review of the session of congress shows few of the important measures debated were enacted into law. The naval appropriation bill was passed by the senate after it had been amended to provide for the building of but two battleships. The appropriation for Chicago's new postofflee building was cut down to $300,000 by the conference committee. A resolution designating Speaker Crisp as one of the delegates to a bimetallic conference was unanimously adopted by the house. An agreement was reached by both houses (. n the sundry civil and Indian appropriation bills.

A bill granting a pension to Gen. John C. McClernand was passed by the house through the efforts of Gen. Sickles. Both liouses have adopted a resolution looking to the participation of congress in tne dedicatory ceremonies at Chickamagua. The senate receded from the Hawaiian cable amendment to the diplomatic and consular appropriation bill. National council of women denounced the money power in politics and physical force as a basis of government. Senator Morgan's strong opposition prevented an appropriation to defray expenses of the Behring sea arbitrators. Monthly statement of the public debt shows a decrease of $34,033,325, due to the receipt of gold for the recent bond issue. Senator Hill of New York bitterly scored Senator Chandler of New Hampshire for his merciless attack upon Senator Roach. Bills to protect or kill seals; to pay West Virginia its share of refunded tax and the senate anti-lottery bill were passed by the house. Inspector-general of the army has reported to congress that national soldiers’ homes are overcrowded to a dangerous degree.