The Doings In Congress

WASHINGTON, Jan. fi. - In the senate yesterday there was a full attcndance to take up business affcer the holiday recess. The reports oí the public printer and the Ínterrtate commission were presented. Petitions containing nearly 1,000,000 signaturas were filed asking for the ratification oL the ( !ongo anti-slavery treaty. A petition asking for the appropriatioD of $100 per capita for transporting negroes to Liberia was also presented. A batch of bilis then carne in, one of which to appropriate $100,000 for vessels to carry food to Russia was passed - 40 to 9. Senator Perkins, of Kansas, was Bwom in, and after an executive session the senate adjourned. In the house Clerk Kerr assumed the gavel and held it until McMillin was elected speaker pro tem. The rules committee reported an order that no private bilis be printed and that petitions be presented in open house instead of beiug put in the petition box. Both orders were negatived, and 100 copies of each private bill were ordered printed, while the old rule regarding petitions was continued. Mills was granted indefinite leave of absence, and a number of executive documents were referred. A large number of bilis were introduoed- 372. Among them were a number providing for free coinage of silver, and proposing amendments t the constitution, so as to eleet president vice president and senators by direct vot of the people. The tariff bill was attacked in secuons all along the line, and if th bilis introduced yesterday should chaTic to pass there will be but little left of th McKinley bill. An&rew of Maasachusett evi-n proposed to repeal the reciprocitj clause of the laiv, wich was stipposed t be universally popular.