Forty-ninth Congress. Work Of The Senate And House During Past Week

Washington, Fcb. 18, sentatives yesterday passcd the Dip Consular Appropriation bilí. Bj a ote ol SS te 160 the Texas Seed tril! fai!el to p;,ss over the President' 8 veto. The conference report on the anti Mormon btll was adopted by a vote of &2 to 4O....Sïnate- The Senate has pa the Hale bilí appropriating tlS,4Xi.iK)o tor the construction of gun-boats, toroedo-boats and heavily-armored vessels ïorcoast defense, as also an act for the dellvery to their rightful owners of certa in deposited In the Treasury Department by the Secretary of War. A substitute for the Eadj Tehuantepec Ship-Railway bill, offered by Senator Vest, was passed. It provides for the inoorporation by james B. Eads and some eijjhtj other persons named of the Atlantic & Pacific Shíp-Railway Company, with a eapital stock not to excecd 1100,000,0 0. The substitute was passed - yeas, 46; nays, 7- with an amendment thereto offered by Senator Van Wyck providing that no certifleate of stock shall be issued until it shall have been f uil y paid for in money at par value, and prohibiting the issuance of bonds in czoess of the paid-in capital or the disposal of the same at leu than their par value. Washington, Feb. 19.- Hodse- An effort to pass the pension bill of Simmons VV. Hart over the President's veto failed in the House yesterday. The House reTused to eoncur in the Senate amendments to the In valid Pension bill and ordered a conference. A bill appropriatin? W, (163, HM for the payment of Mexlcan and ot r pensions was reported. At its evening S' the House passed twenty-three pension bilis sknatk- The Senate adopted the ei encc report on the Anti-Polygamy blll (a ■ . sis of the measure is given elsewhere]. Tne eredentiuls of Frank Hlscock, Senator-elect from New York, were placed on file. Washington, Feb. 21.- House- The Pensions Committee made a unanimous report Saturday recommending the passage of the Dependent Pension biTl over the President's veto. Action will be taken Thursday. Most of the session Wü6 taken up in rtisrussinn nf the Simdry ClT-'l Appropriation bjll . . . .Sknatk - 86T6raJ tions from Grand Army posta for tl)' the nepen lent Pension bill over tbs teto w ■ prsented. The Sánate resunjed BO1 of the Rivet and Harbor bill, but o aotlon e ,. = taken. Washington, Fcb. 22.- Housb - MeuoriaU from nuraci'-ib (;;viitl Army posts wer3 premtedlntbe House yeiterday askint' for the p!is;i ■ i pendent Ponsion h'il d'. r the veto. Mr. Hendo son ÍN. ('i. rom ii.iii nee on Bleettons, submltted , 1 1 iort on the Indiana coi iidd against Steele, and it was laid over until lay. The report, which is unanimon?, conlirms tne right of the contestee (Steele) to the seat. After some discussion the House refaced to recede from its disagreeBients io ttae Senate amendments to the bill re pealing the Pre-Emption, Timber-Culture and Desert-Land laws. A further conference was ordered .... Senatk - The Senate yesterday passod the river and harbor appropriation and the bill to incorpórate the Maritime Canal Company, of Nicaragua. A bill was introüuoed yesterday to lócate at Columbus, Tenn., B senal for the manufacture of ordnance and oidnance st'-r-s.