WashikciTov.March l;'.. - Special.' fki^proceedings in the senate to-day over the^bi wlucli approprtati s i |0.(li il ^oi . pot^ollice building in Hie V'ellowstoni National^I'nrk. indicates that it went through the^committee rooui in a hurry, and if it i* a^fair sample of the scrutiny which a public^building bill gets m the senate, il is little^wonder that all the bills of this nature in^treduced in the senate go thiough with a^whirl. Ihe bill was introduced by Senator^Vest, ol Missouri, who called it up this^morning and urged its passage. Il is in^^tended to provide lor a postoflice at Mam^^moth Hot Springs, llegardless of the fact^thai the government bus title to the entire^park, the bill is in the usual stereo^^typed form. which provides that^no money shall M^the title M the^iu the government, a^punters'ink and an absurdity on Ihe face^of it. I'uither than fins the bill continues:^^I'roposuls for the Bile of land suitable for^a site shall tie invited by public advertise^ment in one or more newspapers of said^city of largest circulation, etc.^ None of^the committee seems to have considered^that ^said city^ is simply a tract of laud^with a hotel or fwowithin walkingdistMM .^ami that there are no newspapers puhliaMd^within many miles. 'I bo bill, however,^was going throti'.di tin ttiill al a rapid rate^and in a few minutes would have been^passed, had not Senator Sherman grasped^the situation and had action dtlavrd until^tbo correct ion could Is made.
NorthwesternNews.^BOMMM tative Cuiter tried to call up bis^bill providing for a cession ol part of^ihe Crow MMTMttM iu Montana, but KU-^gole, of Texas, objecied MM idler the^Montana mm appealed for unanimous con^sent.
