The Solons At Work

Washington City, Dea 6.- Hoar offered a resolution in the seuate yesterday continuing the committee on our relations with Cauada. The tariff bilí was then taken up and Harris, to test the sense of the senate, moved to lay the bill on tne table. The raotion was defeated - 19 to 26, a party vote. The bill was then read by sections for amendments, but only one was adopted, providing for the comfort of prisoners under the internal revenue laws when conflnement endangers tbeir livea. When the section relating to alcohol in the industrial arts was reached Shermau said he did not think it could be executed and would in the futura offer amendments. Thirty pages of the bill were disposed of. The Union Paciflc funding bill was made the special order for Wednesday next. The senate held a brief and unimportant executive session and then adjourned. Bills and resolutions were introduced in the house: To allot lands in severalty to the United Feoria and Miaini Indians in Indian territory , askiiig Information as to an alleged railway trust organized to evade the interstate commerce law, and if f urther legislation were needed; making the postal telegraph bill the special order for Dec. 14. Springer tried to get up his omnibus territorial bill, but Grosvenor objected. The bill to adjust accounts of government employés under the eight-hour law was debated without action. Payson reported a bill to quiet title to the Des Moines river lands and asked its consideration as a privileged question. Cox, acting as chairman, had denied the privileged character of the bill at last session, but Carlisle now declarad it privileged, and the bill was Dassed. Dec. 6 was set apart for a vote on the direct tax bill, and the house adjourned. Washington City, Dec. 7. - A new question came upin the senate yesterday. Thesecretary of state of Kansas sent to the senate a certified copy of the returns on elections in that state. Ingalls, in calling attention to the fact, asked the senate what he should do with the copy. Sherman moved that it be referred to the elections committee, remarking that the proceeding was in his opinión at least extra constitutional. The papers were so refeered. The select committee on meat products was continued, as was that on our relations with Canada. The tariff bill was tben taken up and eigbt pages disposed of, no important amendments being made. Pending debate on amendraents to the iron schedule the bill was laid asida Butler proposed a constilutional arnendment enlarging the presidential term to six years. The senate then adjourned until Monday. The house directed the clerk to drop Belmont's (of New York) name from tbe roll, be having resigned bis soat. The remainder of the day was devoted to discussion of the direct tax bill. The District appropriation bill was reported and referred, and the house adjourned until Monday. Washington City, Dec. 8.- The statement in these dispatehes yesterday that the house adjourned Thursday to Monday was an error. It was decided to adjourn yesterday to Monday. At the session yesterday tbe invaMd pension apm'opriation bill was reported, and also the Smalls-Elliott contest from South Carolina. The majority report give8 the seat to Elliott, the sitting member, while that of the minority declares Smalls entitled to it. The bill to incorpórate the Nicaragua Canal company was then taken up. An ameudment was adopted providing that the United . States shall not be committed to any liability on account of the company and that this provisión shall be printed upon every bond. Holman offered the amendment. Another amendment by Bland was adopted providing that the Lnited States reserves the right to alter, amend or repeal the act and to regúlate the tolls, etc. Still another was adopted regulating the issue of bonds and stocks, etc. , and one binding the company not to release Nicaragua from any of its obligations without the consent of the United States was pending when recess was taksn to 7:30, at which hour the session was resumed, ten pension bilis passed and at 10 p. m. an adjournment was taken to Monday. Washington City, Dec. 11.- Edmunds reported to the senate yesterday that the authority of the president to bring suit to vacate a patent had been declared inherent in the office by the supremo court. A resolution to inquire into the state of afïairs in Samoa was introduced by Frye, who thought the United States should resist the encroachments of Germany and England. The tariff bill was then resumed and a number of amendments lowering the duties on iron were rejected, on strict party votes nearly every time. A motion to postpone further consideration uutil Jan. 10 was then made by McPherson, and later witbdrawn. Harris then tried to get in his amendments, but pending a vote in one cif them Sherman stated that his votes on the bill would be given every time for the doctrine of protection as opposed co the doctrine of tariff for revenue only, and whon Snernmn bad concluded the semita adjounied. In tua house Lawler introduoed a bill granting a p9iisioa of $12 psr raonth to all honorably discharged soldiers and sailors who are 60 years of age; Morse of Massachusetts, to repeal the inter-state commerce law; Dubois of Idaho, for the admission of tbat territory as a state ; McAdoo of New Jersey, providing a constitutional araendment setting apart a certain day for the presidencial election, and prohibiting auy other offleers to be elected on that day. Holman wanted a resolution considered immediately for an inquiry into the truthof the charges that several states had been bought at the recent electiou. Unanimous consent was refused, however. The District and pension appropriatiou bilis were passé l and the house adjourned. Washington City, Dec. V. - The senate adopted a resolution yesterday inquiring what were Gen. Hancock's expenses for entertaining the Frenen offleers at the Yorktown celebration and whether he had been reimbursed; also Frye's resolution for an inquiry into the affairs of Samoa. The tariS bilí was then resumed and discussed at length, the net result of th day'a work being the defeat of Harris' amandment rednoing the duty on steel beams to O.ii of a cent per pound; also of an atnendment to reduce the duty on tracechains to 2 cents a pound; and the adoption of an amendment offered by Vest to fix the duty on steel beams at 1 cent instead of 1.1 cents per pound. ïhis latter was agreed to by the flnance committee and adopted without división. A motion to adtnit cotton ties free was pending wben the senate went into executive session, aud soon after adjourned. The house spent the day in committee of the whole ou the direct tax bili, tht debate was stili pending when the house at 5:10 adjourned, no action of any kind uaviug been taken.