A Very Long Session

Washington City Sept 13. - The senate took up th anti-trust bill yesterday, and George offered an amendment providing that the president may suspend import duties upon articles whose prices are raised by trusts. During the debate Hoar charged that the tru3ts were run in the interest of the Democracy, and ref erred to the Standard OU company. Payne said he had never nor had now any connection with that company of any kind. AH except two of the stockholders, he said, were Republicans. Spooner offered a resolution of inquiry whether Joseph Hoffman, a Republicanof Benton, Tex., recently a witness before the senate elections committee, and who has recently been shot down, was killed because of testimony he had given before the committee. This led to a heated political discussion. A new conference was ordered on the sundry rivil bilL The house resolution to print 10,000 copies of the Pacific railways report was amended to read "15,000 copies," and agreed to, and the senate adjourned. The house resumed consideration of the sundry civil bill, and Holman's amendraent offered Tuesday was rejected. The amount of the appropriation was then increased to $100,000. The senate amendment appropriating $200,000 for a zoológica! garden in this city was non-concurred in. The bill was then completed and a conference ordered thereon. A senate bill providing that appointments to the Marine hospital service shall be made by the president was passed. The remainder of the day was spent in unsuccessful attempst to secure a quorum to vote on a proposition to take up the Oklahoma bill, and at 5 p. m. adjournment was carried. Washington City, Sept. 14. - A telegram was received in the senate yesterday from Beek, who is ill, and out of the city, saying that he was improving slowly. He was relieved from service, at his own request, on the sundry civil conference committee. Platt offered a resolution directing an inquiry whether a foreign syndicate controlsthe production of copper in this country. Jones oC Nevada spoke in favor of the immediate passage of the Scott Chinese bill. Several other members spoke on the sama subject, an'l it was agreed to take a vote at 2 p. m. to-day. A brief secret session was then held and the senate adjourned. In the house most of the day was spent in amending railway legislation. A joint resolution extending the existing appropriation for sundry civil expenses was adopted first, and then the senate bill amending the interstate commerce law was taken up. Anderson of lona offered an amendment giving state courts concurrent jurisdiction with United States courts in all civil cases under the law, and requiring the commission to prescribe a uniform classiflcation for the railways, who must observe the same. This was adopted. Anderson of Kansa3 offered an amendment requiring the commissiou to execute the law, which was also adopted. Grosvenor of Ohio offered an amendment the effect of which is to prohibit the carriage of oils or turpentine in cars ownad by the shipper. This was adopted, too, and the senate bill was passed. Wilson of Minnesota called up a bill establifhing by statute the principie that legislaturas can control the tariff and schedules of railways for freight or passengers transported within the limits of the state or territory, "anything in the charters of the roads or in any national, state or territorial law to the contrary notwithstanding." This was passed. A long wrangle then took place on a resolution to revoke all leaves of absence except ia case of illness, and it took the shape as usual of a political debate, which was still pending at adjournment. Washington City, Sept. 15. - The senate began the day with an extended political debate, during which Allison said the Republicans would report a tariff bilí thüt would reduce the revenue $ÖO,OÜO,OOO, and take the tax off tobáceo. A vote was taken on the anti-Cbinese bilí, but no quorum was present and the matter was postponed until Monday. The house amendments to the inter-state commeree act were non-concurred in and a conference eotnmittee appointed. Platt's resolution for an inquiry into the alleged control of the copper output of this country by a foreign syndicate was adopted. Payne denied that Secretary Whitney was a member of the Standard Oil company, and he and Hoar had a bitter controversy "that the chair said was disorderly. The biü to créate an executive department of agriculture was taken up, discussed, and laid aside till Monday. The house bill for a board of arbitratiou to settle disputes bet ween rail ways and their employés was passed, as were the bill forfeiting the Ontonagon railway land grant, and the bill permitting citizens of Colorado, Ntívada, and the territorie . to cut timber on the public domain for miningpurDOses. The senate then adjourned until Monday. A telegram as read in the house froni the surgeon general to Dougherty of Florida giving a discouraging statement of the yellow ever situation, and the house immediately took up and passed the senate bill appropriating $200,000 to stamp out the scourge. In committee of the whole private bilis were discussed and a nuinber passed. The conference report on tho su'idry civil bill u as 'read , and being opnosed by Payson on account of the library building ciause it was witbdrawn. The house theu took recess to 8 p. m., at which time thirtytwo private pension bilis were passed, and at 10:30 the house adjourned until Monday. Washington City, Sept. 18. - A bül was introduced in the senate yesterday to reduce postage to l cent an ounce. Sherman offered a resolutioti directing the foreign affaire committee fo inquire into the relations between the United States and Canada, and what measures are necessary to promote the friendly character thereof commercially and politicaliy. A motion to reconsider the passage of senate bill to forf eit lands granted to Michigan was entered. A number of house bilis for lighthouses and fog signáis on the great lakes were passed. Blair's motion to reconsid&r the passage of the Seott Chinese exclusión bül was then taken up, and a vote immediately ordered. The reconsideration was defeated - ayes, 20; nays, 21. The vote was not a party one. The bill creating an agricultural dep'irtment was debated, but without action weut over, and the señale adjourned. Cox was speaker pro tem. in tho house, ia the abseii'-f if Carlisle. aml was greeted with applause. Il solutiuns were otïured asking the interior fiiee whether tue nowspaper charges agai n ;t the Sioux Indian commisBion were tru;and inquiring of the president whether any outrage3 on Americaa fishing vessels have been committed by the Canadian officials during the past year, and whether, if s , he has retaliated uuder the actoflSST. O'Neil waated a doy assigned for oonslderal ion of labor legislation and the vote was in favor tliereof, but a point of no quorum was raised by Bloant of Georgias Kelley offered a resolution extending tbe po wers of the Stahlaecker investigating committee and requiring a report in two weeks, and it was adopted. An attempt to get up the aundry civil biU was defeated by O'Neil on a point of order. A quorum could not be secured and the house adjourned at S;53 p. m. Washington Crrr, Sept. 19.- The deñciency appropriation bill was reported to the senate yesterday. Shermau made a long speech ou the proposed retaliation bill, opposing it, as the president had not used the retalia tory powers he now has. He favored the annexation of Canada as soon as it could be brought about. The department of agricultura bilí was debated, but v.o action taken and after a short executive session the senate adjounied. In the house, a communication 3 was received f rom the postroaster general declaring that there has been no illegal mailing of The Tariff Reform Advocate at CoIumbus,0.,nor anywbere else, and that no investigation was required. Barnes introduced a bil offering a reward of 1100,000 for the disco very of tbe true cause, prevention, destruc tion or material modiflcation of yellow fever. The sundry civil bill carne up and Cannon of Jl'inois made an extended political speech, in which he favored the purebase of bonds with the surplus. Payson opposed the adoption of the conference report on the sundry civil bill, basing his objections on the clause for a public library, which he said would eost on present plans $15.000,000, instead of the $3,262,000 originally estimated. The bill went over. A bill was reported authorizing the war office to prescribe rules, etc., for the care and management of the St. Clair Flats canal, and the house adjourned.