The Week In Congress

Washington City, Jan. 26. -The señale passed a resolution VVednesday appropriating $i,0u0 to Lucos for his expenses in contesting the seat of Senator Faulkner. Chandler's resolution asking iuformation of the naval office as to contracta, etc., for building a new navy was extended to take in each year from and including 1880, and adopted. The deficieucy bil! was then resurned.amended in som ui'important partieulars, and passed. An executive session was then held, after wbich the senate adjourned. The house, after soma uninteresting business had been transacted, took up tüe resolution of Masón of Illinois for an investigatiou of trusts, pools, etc., and after m.ikiiig it opply to every combination or Corporation which may affect prices of neoessaries or eommerce, adopted it. A resolution was reported calling on the treasury for inforraition as to whether the greenbaek circulation is up to the legal limit of $346.641,000. The bilí to authorize a bridge across the Missíssippi at Burlington, Iowa, was passed. Springer introduced a memorial for the organization of the "public land strip" into the territory of Cimarrón. At 3:15 the house adjourned. Washington Crrr, Jan. 27.- The senate received petitions Thursday: From the Chicago board of trade asking for retaliatory legi lation against France and Germany for excluding Americau meats; against the ad' mission of Utah as a state; for Prohibition in the District; and for tbe license of railway conductors. The agricultural experimental station appropriation was reported and put on the calendar. The bill increasing the pension for total deafness to $30 per monlh and proportionately iucreasing that for paitial deafness was passed. A number of bilis of no special importance were also passed, and then the bilis to pension Mrs. Gen. Logan and Mrs. Gen. F. P. Bloir were passed. The pensions are $2,0U0 per annurn. The vote was 55 ayes and 7 noes - Berry, Colquitt, Coke, Harris, Reagan, Saulsbury and Vanee. An executive session was then held, and at its conclusión Blair spoke for hls educational bill. The senate then adjourned until Monday. A memorial from the Quakers of the United States, England, Canada and Ireland in favor ot international arbitration was sented to the house. A bilí to discontinue 3ceut coinage was reported. A bilí was passed relieving the plaintiiï from security for costs in cases removed from state to federal courts, when plaintiffis a citizen of the state in which the suit origi.iated; also a líill provtding for terms of court as Qjiuey, Ills. An attempt to set sido the time after the morning hour, from Feb 21, for public building bilis was resiste'! by filibustering, and the house adjourned without action on the matter. Washington City, Jan. L8.- house passed the "little" deficiency bill Priday, as amended by the senate. A bill was inlroduced providing for the appointmeDt of a commissioner of forests, with four assistants, whose duties it shall be to classify the timber lands, decide whut shall be sold and what reserved, and have general control of the saine. The bill prohibits the cutting of timber from public lands except in case of farmers and minere. The private calendar occu! pied the remuinder of the day, but without aetion the uou-se adjourned uutil Monday. Washington City, Jan. 31. - The first business of the senate Montiay, as ufualpwas the receipt of imrnerom petitions for Proj hibition. The proposition to reduce letter , postage was reported adversely. A bill was introduced for torest protection. The constitutional amendment to change the date of the president's inauguration and terraination of the short session of congress from Marcb 4 to April 30 was reported favorably. Plumb introduoed a resolution for an investigation of alleged inemoiency in the postal service. Morgau and Blair made speeches aainst aud for the educational bilL At 4;80 the senate went into secret session and at 5:20 adjourned. The house passed the bill authorizing a bridge across the Missouri river below St. Charles, Mo. Among the bilis, etc., introduced were the following: To prevent aliens acquiring public lands; authorizing the appointment of clerks to members of congress; to take the taz off salt and oleomargarine; for a bounty on exported wheat, corn and flour; to prevent trusts, combinations, etc. ; for the issue of fractional silver certifleates; for the further coinage of silver and redemption of national bank notes; for survey for a waterway from Lake Michigan to the Mississippi. The reports in the LowryWhite contest, from Indiana, were presented, the majority declaring for a new election, and the minority favoring the contestee. A letter from the public printer was read denying the charges of delay in public work, and after some debate a resolution was adoptei for an investigation of the office under the present bead, and under Mr. Rounds, deeeased. Tha senate amendments to the bill oppropriating for agricultuial experiment stations were concurred in, and the house adjourned. Washington City, Feb. 1. - Riddleberger made another elïort Tuesday to advance his movement to abolish secret senate sessions. He first offered a resolution for consideration in open senate of the 3ritish-Am9riea.i extradition treaty, anl this iailinsr on Edmun Is' objection, Riddleberger offared another resolntioo amending the senate rules so that the treaty should be openly discussed. The resolution went over, as did Plumb's resolution for an investigation of thu alleged itiefficieucy of the postal service. Stewart introduced a bill to further restrict Chinese immigration. A bill was passed for a $1, - 200,01)0 public building at Ornada, Nab. The joint resolution was adopted proposiug an amendmeut to the constitutiou clianging the date of inau?uration of president, and closo of the congressional term, fsom March 4 to April 30. Evarts advocated the Blair bil! and Bates opposed, aud after an ezecutive session, at 4:45 p. m., the senate ndjourned. The house passed the bill authorizing the construction of a bridge across the Missouri river at Jefferson, Mo. The committee on commerce reported in favor of requesting the inter-state commerce coimnission to investígate the Reading strike. A bill was iutroduced requiring land grant railways to construct and opérate independent telegraph linea The Mis. Logan and Mrs. Bluir pension bilis were favorably reported. A bill for a $100,000 public building at Portsmouth, O., was passed. Wilkins' bank bill was postponad for two weeks. A bill toprohibit soldiers from working in competilion with oiüzjns was introducad, and tha houss adjourned. Dynamite was exploded Buuday uight in Newport, K. I., Barbor to break tlie ice, and the shock was so severe that houses at Providence, Bristo), Warren, Eist Oreenwich and other town3 were shaken, the inhabitants thinking thau an eai tliquako had occurred.