Our Law-makers

WASHHfOTOW, Feb. 26.- A bilí was passed in the Senate yesterday granting a pension of $100 a month to the widow of Major-Gcneral Judson Kilpatrick. Bills were reported to provide for a general system of reservoirs for irrigating the arid lands of the west; authorizing the purchase of gold and sil ver bullionto the amount of $4, 500, 000 a month and the issue of Treasury notes in payment thereof; for public buildings at Deadwood, S. D. ($200,000), and Sioux Falls, S. D. (8250,000). Washington, Feb. 27.- In the Senate yesterday twenty-six pension and private bilis were passed, and the Blair educational bill wasfurther discussed. Washington, Feb. 28.- The Senate yesterday passed a bill appropriating 875,000 for a monument to Christopher Columbas, to be erected in Washington. The bilí to declare unlawful trusts and combinations in restraint of trade and production ,was considered. A bill was introduced for the establishment of a bureau of animal industry to prevent the exportation of diseased cattle and to próvido for the supprossion and extirpation of pleuro-pneumonia and other contagious diseases amonff domestic animáis. Washington, March 1.- In the Senate yesterday Senator Inpalls was elected President pro tom., Vioe-President Morton being absent. The dependent pension bill was discussed. The House bill for the appointment of aelegates to the Madrid international industrial conference waspassed. Adjourned to the3d. Wamiim, n., March 4. - In the Senate j'estcrday a bill was passed fixing the salaries of United States district judies at ,5.000. Billa were introduced to repeal the long and short-haul clause and the section of the interState commerce Act; to inquire fnto the advisability of inereasing the duty on imported hops from eight cents to twenty cents per pound. HOUSE. Washinoton, Feb. !36.- In the House yesterday bilis were passed authorizing the director of the mint to perfect and beautify the existing designs on coins; constitutinpr Minneapolis a sub-port for tho collection district of Minnesota; to discontinue the oinage of the SI and S3 pold pieces and the three-cent nickel piece, anü authoming thp President to appoint delegates to the international industrial conference to bc holrt at Madrid April 1, 1M)O. A bilí was voported appropriaüng 825,000 for a mounment to William ilenry Harrison, the grandfather of President Harrison, at North Bend, O. WAsm Tos, Peb. In the House yesterih,. ,. urgenoy detlciencj bill (88,650,213) waa reported. Bills were lntroduced revivinjf the grade of Lieutenant-(. , ral: to prevei . adulteration of food and drugs and bartering of food or drugs in and between the States and Territories; providing that all the waters in the United States shall be used for purposes of irrigation. WA8HWGT0N Kcb. 28.- In the House yesterday the contcsted olcction case of Atkinson (Rep.) versus Pendleton (Dem.), f rom West Virginia, was declarod in favor of Atkinson. A bilí was introduced toamend the world's fair bilí so as to rcquire at least two of the board of control to be womcn. WASHINGTON, March I.- In the House yesterday tbe deficiency appropriation bilí (f24,650,000) was passed, and the army appropriation bilí ($24,458,220) was reported. A bilí was introduced authorizing a pontoon bridg-e across the Mississippi at Davenport, Ia. At the evening session forty-five private ponsion ills were passed. Washington, March 3.- In the House áaturday the bilí providing f oran Assistant Secretary of War was passed- yeas, 126; nays, 100. The contested election case of Featherstone vs. Cate, from the First Arkaneas district, was called up. Mr. Haug-en (Wis.) made the opening speech in favor of tbe contestant. Mr. Outhwaito (O.) took the floor, but in view of the small attendancc of members the House adjourned. Wasiiixgtox, March 4.- In the House yesterday bilis were introduced priaun; s.io.uuo lor a monument to the división of regulara on the Uettysburg battlefield; to regúlate the appointing of fourth-class postmasters by competitive written and personal examination, and giving (he Postmaster-General the power. Mr. O'Donnell presonted a potition of Hip Seventh-Day Adveutists protesting aainst the onactment of any law In regard to Sabbath obsérvame.