Congressional

Jas. !}0- Senate - Debate ou the sllve question was resumed lu ttie Seuaie lm medlately after the opening exereises, Mr Morrlll oí Vermont leadng the debate in favor of the suspension vi the coinage o i ilviT, elosing a forcible address nlth tb i statement that the public faith was pledged tu che payinent oí bonds, both principal and in terest, in gold, and that our credit .would b dishonored by paying them off In sllver wortl only 79 cents "n dollar. Mr. Morri] ! thouglit wat the fact that the president ant secretan' of the treasurv, directora of the mint, the comptroller of the currency and al the treasury officials of experlence, no les undar tbs present administraron than umie the precedinj, are urging upon eongress to cease the present coinage of the silver dollar 6houlil have great weiirht with thos who advocate continued coinage. Mr. Beek of Kentucky thought it poor policy to sto: colnlag silver in order to make it more valu able ;it was very short-sighted policy,and merel} went to show that silver was good enougb io everybody but the bond bolder, who is the only person that in writing had agreed to take it. Mr. Teller of Colorado denied a statement of Mr. MorriU's that $165,000,000 of the 215,000,000 already colned could not be got iuto circulation. That statement was intended to mislead the people, and bad done so. Mr. Teller said the covernment had made 30,0OJ.O00 profit in the coinasu of silver, aa.! that It had no right to make such a proüt. Mr McPherson of New Jersey was in lavor of as mucu silver as would keep it on a par; with gold. Mr. Beek said the people of the, Wes had shown thelr confidence in silver by sending East 66,000,000 gold dollars, and taking silver certifleates iof it, sustained by silver alone tül the treasury stopped it. Mr. McFherson of New Jersey attacked thi last -inlcLirai ui Mi. DeCKS. unu 5alU Hint 11 „ar simply a questlon of exchanoe, and that the bankêrs who had deposited tfieir gold for the purpose of Ketting certificates had made a uandsome proüt. ïlr. Teller of Colorado repudiated the idea implied by the gold advocates that the people of the n-est meant to pay the debt The debate was continued for some time, and toward the last became decidedly partlsau. At its close the Senate went into executive sesslon for the connrrnauoii oí normuatlons. Hocse. - The bilí lncreasing the pension o: nidows and dependent relatives of soldier írom $8 to Í12 per month was tbe fitst matte called up in the House. It was advo eated by Mr. Maíson oí Indiana, who staeed that the bil had received ihe unanimous ap proval of the committee. The additiocal eos to the government by means of the passage o this bilí would amount to about S5,000,UQU but an amendment repeallug the limitatloi clause of ,the arrears oí pensión act had been prepared. Mr. Bragg of Wlseonsin opposeí the bilí because it applied tj all widows. In hia opinión lt should apply only to those cases where the woman was " raarried to the man when he received thc úisabllity, aud not to those youn? glrls who had marrled oíd soldiers, cared fo them íor the last few years of ihelr lives, aud then ?o ou the roll9 as soldiers1 wldows. The House then went lnto eomtnittee of the wbole. passed the bill authorizing the purchase of the Produce Erchanee in New York City, and soon after adjourned.J Jan. 21.- Sexate.- A bill providiug for tbe admisión of Dakoia as a state was lntrodueed in the Senate, and Mr. Van Wyek of Nebraska lntrodueed a bill "to prevent the demonetlzation of American eoin bv certain persons in the Cnited States." Th"e bill to provlde for the counting of the electoral vote was taken up, and the dlseusslon upaned by Seuator Sherman of Ohio, who advoeated a joint convention of eongress for the settlement of all disputes in the counting of votes. To this Mr. Edumnds of Verraont very seriously objected on the ground tbat it would be ünconstltutlonal. The debate waxed warm between the two senators, but without reaching any action the Senate adjourned until Mondav. H0D3E- In the House the bifl to iucrease the pensions of soldiers' widows was taken up, and a lively discussion followed, which, towards its close began to be very persouul in lts nature. An amendment was adopted making it a mlsdemeanor for a person to recelve any money for proseeuting a claim under thls act. An amendment was offered appeallng the limitation on tbe'snre&rs uf pension act. It was claimed that this aruendniLut was not in order, and In order to enable the matter to be looked into, the House adjouniL-d. jax. yy.- house.- But very llttfe was aeeomplished In the House to-duy. The Boutelle resolution calllug on the seuretarv of the uavy for Information relative tü the tïtsiiilssal of unlon soldiers from the Norfolk navy yard was reported back from the commlttee on naval aHairs, and gave rlse to a splcy, interesting dlecusslon intcnsely political in its anlmus. As aiüended bv the committe the resolutloo was adoptpd, and the House took a recess until evenlng, at which time 16 pension and two dlsabilitv bilis were passed, and the House adjourned uutil Monday. Jasuaby 25.- Sksatje.- In auswer to a resolution the of the Treasury submitted to the Senate a statement suowlog that the amouut of bonds held by national banks as a basis for circulation Is $5,000,850. ..The board of trade of J, Paul, Miun., presentad a pctitlon urging Cuugress to nppropriate money lor the improvement of the upper Missouri nver. . . A bilí was reported f ro:u tüe commlttee In judicial y to urovide for the ment of the debt of the Pacific railroads ..A ioint rcsohuioii from th ■ House was laid before the Senate, approprlating mouef for the relief of tbe northern Cheyenne Indians, but upou examiaatiou the bül was found to be very misleading, and the matter went over to permit eorrections..Warm debat oceurred over the Hot Spriugs, Ark., leases, but no action wie taken, and the matter went over. ...The electoral count bill was valled up, and Mr. Morgan of Alabama took tbe floor, ind first attacked an amendment offered a few days before, as lt would give to eongress a power not conferred upon that body by the eonstitution, and a power, the exercise of whlch, under the proposed amendment, would tear down and destroy one of the electoral bodies provfded by the constitution. Mr. Shennab'a amendment, givlnp to coDgress the right to créate au electoral body which the people had never chosen to the office of president of the United State?, was fraught wlth ereat dameer to constitutlonal powers. At the conclusión of Mr. Morgan's remarks the Senate went lnto ! executive session, and when the doors were reopened a concurrent resolutioo of the House, legardin? the death of Representative Rankin of WiscoDsio was submitted, a commitee of three was appointed to attend the remalns to Wiseonsin, and the Senate adiouwed. House.- In ;he House absolutely no work was done, and afterappoipting a committee to take charge of and attend the fuqeral oí the late Representatiye Rankio of Wiseonsin, the House adjourned as a mark of respect to the ïeceaeed member. Sneep. - The market i low; conjmoi) frrades Í5c lower: inferior to fair rjalive shorn sheep iold at 82 25(23 30; Western at 2' 2503 5; rexaas at$(3 75; lambs, per bead, $3 9CKg 60. 1