Twenty ninth Congre sstN
FIRST SESSION.


SENATE.
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.M& 5 SATURDAY, Juue ~, 1910. art Att8


MIR. Lewis, from the Committee on FL
nance, reported the Army Appropriation bill,
with sundry amendments, 9eb


The Committee ON Naval Affairs, were in-
structed TO inquire into the expediency OF max.
ING appropriation to indemnify the officers and
crew OF The United States Steamer Missouri.
for losses sustained by the burning Of that yes
I The joint resolution granting portion OF
ground, on which to erect monument to
Washington, was debated.


A motion to lay il on the table was disagreed
to--yeas l9--nays "a; and after discussion, It
was. for the present, laid over.


HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES n


Shortly after the meeting of the House, the
bill to reduce the duties on imports was taken
up in Committee Of the Whole on the state Of
the Union. s.st %,


Messrs. Bedinger and Towns spoke in favor
Of thd bill, and


Messrs. Ewing Of Tennessee, Pollock, and
Severance, against it,


AT ten minutes past three the committee
rose for want Of a quorum. lT @4ai.


Several motions were made to adjourn, for
calls OF the House, ETC., and, at last, after more
than half an hour thus spent, the House ad
iou rned.