Doings Of Congress

Secretary of War Alger was directed by the Senate to send relief to the Klondike miners. ïhe same bilí passed the House, also. It appropriates 175,000 ior the purpose. A nuraber of important nominations have been sent to the Senate by President McKinley, including the following: The present altorney - general, Joseph McKenna, of California, to be an associate justice of the U.S. supreme court; Charles G. Dawes, of Illinois, to be comptroller of the eurrency; Hamilton King, of Michigan, to be minister resident and consul-general to Siam; Wm. VV. Thomas, Jr. , of Maine, to be en voy extraordinary to Sweden and Xorway; Nathan B. Scott, of West Virginia, to be commissioner of internal revenue. At a hearing beore the interstate commerce committee of the Senate Geo. M. McKenzie, representing the ticket brokers of the country, protested against the passage of the anti-scalping bill. He stated that 95 per cent of the tickets sold by brokers carne from the raüroads themselves and that it ia estimated that the brokers save the traveling public neaily 80,000,000 annually. Senator Wolcott, ehairman of the international monetary coininission, stated in the Senate that it is uncertain when a report would be made by the commission, as negotiations are still pending, but there was no intention of prolonging effort beyond the the point where reasonable hope for success should exist. The Democratie members of the House held a caucus attended by 101 of the 125 Democratie members. The caucus decided to resist all efforts to retire the greenbacks and treasury notes and to extend the privileges of national banks or to reduce the taxes which they now pay, also to favor the passage of the Senate resolution recognizing that a condition of war exists in Cuba, and the enactment of a just and wise banUruptcy law.