Fifty-first Congress

SENATR. Washington, March 26. - Senator Sherman's anti-trust bill was further discussed in the Senate yesterday. Bills were introduced to pension Mary Crook, widow ol the late General Crook, at the rate oí $3,000 per annum, and to establish an educational iund from the proceeds of public Jands. Washington, March 27. - In the Senate yesterday the Sherman anti-trust bill was further discussed and the world's fair bill was reported. Washington, March 28.- The Sherman anti-trust bill was further discussed in the Senate yesterday. The House bill for the admission of Wyoming as a State was presen ted. The bill appropriating 525,000 for the purchase of 2,500 tents for peopledriven from their homes by floods in the South was passed. The bill authorizing the President toappoint and retire John C. Fremont as a MajorGeneral was reported favorably. Washington, March 29.- In the Senate yesterday the greater part of tbe day was spent in executlve gession discussing the Florida judicial nominations. Washington, March 31.- 'Bills were passed in the Senate Saturday appropriating 83,738,000 for the improvement of St Mary's river, Michigan, and $1,684,000 for the improvementof the Hay laka channel, Michigan. Washington, April L- In the Senate yesterday the dependent pension bill was taken up and passed by a vote of 42 to 12. A petition was presented providing for rueasures to prevent the sending of obscene literature and pictures through the mails. HOUSE. Washington, March 28. - In the House yesterday the world's fair bill locating the fair in Chicago, the buildings to be dedicated October 12, 1892, and the opening to the public to take place May 1, 1893, and close October 30, 1893, was passed by a vote of 202 to 49. Bills were introduced for the payment of a bounty of $100 to soldiers and sailors of the late war who received no bounty; providing pensions for soldiers and sailors who are dependent for support on others. Washington March 27.- In the House yesterday a bill was introduced granting a pension of $2,000 per year to the widow of General Crook. The rest of the day was spent in discussing the bill for the admission of Wyoming into tha Union as a Stato. Washington, March 28.- In the House yesterday the bill admitting Wyoming as a State was passed by a vote of 139 to 128. Washington, March 29. - In the House yesterday Mr. Enloe, under instructions from the committee on war claims, reported bilis embracing nearly 300 claims for stores and supplies f urnished the United States army d.uring the war. At the evening session twenty-five private pension bilis were passed. Washington, March 31. - In the House on Saturday the naval appropriation bill ($22,151,523) was reported and the army appropriation bill was discussed. Washington, April 1. - In the House yesterday the army appropriation bill was passed; also a resolution for information as to duties imposed by foreign. countries on breadstuffs. Bills wer introdueed to give a military and pensionable status to the officers, enlistad men, their wives, children and dependent parents of all military organizations of the loyal States during the late war; to prescribe proof of naturalizaron to be furnished with entries of publio land. .