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The first conference was held on the A message from the House of Representatives. by W. J. 1st day of March. and a disagreement was had. particularly on Browning. its Chief Clerk. announced that the House had agreed one item. an appropriation of $17.000 for playgrounds. which to the amendment of the Senate to the bill authe House had Inserted in the bill. but which required the en- thorizing the Secretary of Commerce and Labor to construct a tire amount to be paid from the revenues of the District of water main and electric cable across Galveston Channel to furColumbia. Two subsequent conferences were held and no agree- nish water and light to the immigration station. ment could be reached on that particular item. For the third The message also announced that the House had agreed to time the bill went back to the House a few days ago. and the the report of the committee of conference on the disagreeing question was directly put up to the House as to whether an votes of the two Houses on the amendments of the Senate to amendment made by the Senate providing that the appropriation the bill to establish in the Department of the should be paid onehalf from the revenues of the District of Interior a bureau of mines. Columbia and onehalf from the Public Treasury In accordance The message further announced that the House had passed a with the provisions of the socalled organic act should be agreed bill to create a commerce court and to amend an to. and the House by a very considerable majority adhered to act entitled "An act to regulate commerce." approved February the position it had taken. and rejected the amendment. 4. 1887. as heretofore amended. and for other purposes. in Now.