Doings In Congress

Washington, D. C, Feb. 1.- The miliiarj- academy appropi iation bilí was reported to the house. The anti-civil service reformers won a slight victory when Perkins, Republican, of Iowa, presented a resolution for printing the hearings before the civil service committee. Grosvenor antagonized the resolution. He said the hearings had taken an ex parte turn and he desired to submit some facts in refutation of certain statements before the hearings were printed. Perkins, however, refused to withdraw the resolution until the house, by a vote of 55-90, had refused the previous question. He then yielded. Vcssel for the Yiikon lïiver, A bilí was passed authorizing the secretary of the treasury to build or purchase a suitable vessel for revenue cutter service on the Yukon river, to cost not exceeding $40,000. A resolution was adopted which requested the secretary of war to submit to the house the report of C. McD. Townsend of the corps of engineers, dated Dec. 13, 1897, concerning certain proposed improvements of St. Joseph and Benton Harbor, Mich. The senate resolution for the relief of ex-Senator Cali of Florida was adopted. Then at 12:30 p. m. the house went into committee of the whole and resumed consideration of the District of Columbia appropriation bill, which was begun on Saturday. Senate Proceedings. Rev. Hugh J. Johnson, pastor of the Metropolitan M. E. chureh, Washington, delivered the invocation at the opening of the senate's session. The resolution of Pettigrew declaring it to be the policy of the United States not to acquire territory, to defend which a navy would be required, went over at the request of the author. Morgan's resolution calling upon the president for correspondence and information relating to the arbitration of the British seizure claims was adopted. The senate then. at 12:40 p. m., on metion of D&vis, chairman of the foreign relations committee, went into executive session. Hawaiian Aunexation Treaty. The senate resumed consideration of the Hawaiian annexation treaty in executive session with Senator Platt of Connecticut as the principal speaker. He advocated the ratificatlon of the treaty as in the interest of our commerce and our civilization. He said that the trade of this country would, as in other countries, inevitably go where our civilization goes and argued that if we would extend our commercial relations in the Pacific we must control the Hawaiian islands for all time.