The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1890-07-03
DOM GS OF CONGRESS.
MEASURES CONSIDERED AND
ACTED UPON.

At the Nations CapitoI-What Is Being
Done by the Senate and House Old
Matters Disposed Of and New Ones Con-
sidered.
The Senate spent the greater part of the 25th
inst. in the discussion of the House bill for the
admission of Wyoming into the Union. Mr..
Vest OPPOSED the bill on the ground that the
populatio n of the Territory was not sufficient
TO entitleit to Statehood. There were at the
largest Estimate only 10000 people there, and
they were scattered over area of IS, 900 square
miles, OF the Is 900 voters, 5000 were women,
and he Was decidedly opposed to woman sui
frage. Mr. Platt replied in support of the
bill, and without reaching a vote the SEN
ate at 5:40 adjourned. The House adopted
tho conference report the naval appro-
pr alton BILL and then proceeded to the
discussion of the silver bill. The debate was
clos ed BY Mr.. Mckinley. At the conclusion of
Mr.. Mckinley speech vote WAS taken on Mr..
BANDS motion to concur III The Senate amend
ment which declares the silver dollar equal in
value to gold dollar and provides for free
coinage, and the motion was defeated-nRys,
152; yeas 135. This was test vote on the
silver bill, and when this amendment was re-
jected by a yea and nay vote, the other amend
ments were rejected without division and the
bill sent to a conference committee. The
Republicans who voted to agree to the Senate
free coinage amendments were Ander-
son, of Kansas; Bartine, Carter, Connel1,
DeHavenL Dorsey, Featherstone Hermann, Kel-
ley, Laws, Morrill, jIl Morrow; Perkins, Peters
RADIO. The Democrats who voted against agree
ing to the amendments We're: Andrew, Bucka-
lew, Campbell, Clancey Covert, Durgan,
Dunphy, Flower, Geissenhainer, Mays, Nc.
Adoo, Mttchler, Quinn, Rusk. Stump, Tucker,
Turner Of New York, and Vaux, Mr.. HIT
(IlI) presented the conference report on the
diplomatic appropriation BILL and it was agreed
to. Mr. Cannon I'LL, from the Committee on
Rules, reported back substitute for the reso-
luton int roduced by Mr.. Lodge (Mass.) setting
apart five days of the present week for the con-
sideration of the national election bill. Messrs.
McMillin and Blount vigorously attacked the
and from ina on wa "a
confusion on the floor. Mr.. Cannon (1L) and
Mr.. O'Nea1 (Ind.) engaged in a colloquy some
what personal in its nature and this added
so much to the already existing disorder
that the Sergeant-at-arms came forward with
his mace of Office and restored order. MIR.
Springer (Ill) moved to table the resolution.
On Yea and nay vote this motion was lost
yeas, 1lb; nays, 1873. After arranging to meet
at eleven o'clock for the six days during which
the debate is to continue, the House adj
iourned.
IN the Senate, on the 26th, the House bill for
the admission of Wyoming as a State was taken
up and Mr.. Jones Ark addressed the Senate
He decla aired himself in favor of the admission
of Wyoming, but he was unwilling TO see Wyom-
ing admitted in the way now proposed. There
was no Authority for holding constitutional
convention. Mr.. Stewart spoke in favor of the
bill and Mr.. Reagan opposed it. At the close Of
Mr. ReRgen's speech understanding was
reached that the vote on the bill and
amendment would begin at o'clock next day.
After disposing of some routine business the
Senate went into executive session and SOON
thereafH ter adjourned. In the House Mr.. Lodge,
of Mass hchusetts began the debate upon the
national elections bill. He proceeded to sketch
the plah of the bill in outline. No local ma
chinery was disturbed, he said ballots were to
be cast As at present, and no secret-ballot sys-
tenn was to be interfered with where it now pre-
vailed. Everything that concerned the Govern
ment should be open. The assurance of honest
elections lay in making public every step and act
by which the representatives Of the people we're
chosen TO their high Office. TO secure publicity
at every stage of the election therefore, was
the leading principle of the bill. Under it's
terms cbncealment became impossible without
a resort to violence and violence itself WAS pub
icity. THE debate was continued by Messrs.
HemPh1ll of South Carolina and Rowel
ly int errupted by Southern members,
who questioned his statements rela-
tive to the alleged suppression of the negro
vote in certain Southern States. Mr. Bingham,
from the Postofice Committee, reported the
Senate amendments to the postof1ice appropria-
tion bill, and on his motion the House non-con-
Cured lin them. The consideration of the
election bill then resumed and Mr.. Lehl-
back, of New York Republican, spoke against
the BILL Mr.. Tucker, of Virginia, spoke against
the bill and then the House adjourned.
IN the Senate on the 9th, the consideration
of the bill for the admission. of Wyoming as g.
State W hs resumed and Mr.. Morgan addressed
the Senate Ill opposition to it. Messrs. Payne
and Gray argued against the BILL and Mr.. PIatt
favored it. The question Was taken on Mr.
Jones' substitute Tan enabling act for Wyo~
ming, Idaho Arizona and New MexicO), and
it was rejected by strict party vote-yeas,
10 nays, 49, Mr.. Jones (Ark.) then moved as O.
substitute an enabling act for Wyoming alone,
and it was rejected by exactly tho same vote.
The bill was then passed by strict party
The fr$t section of the bill is as follows: "That
the State OF Wyoming is hereby declared to be a
State of the United States of America, is hereby
declared admitted into the Union on an equal
footing with the original States in all respects
whatever end that the con stitution which the
people of Wyoming have formed for themselves
be and the same is hereby accepted, ratified and
confirm ed" The second section gives the
boundaries The third declares the State en-
titled I'd one representatives in the List Congress
The other sections refer to public lands and to
provisions for schools agricultural college,
q pe1itentiary, an insane asylum, ETC.;
also to Circuit and District Courts of the United
States The bill for the admission of Idaho
was then taken up and went over as "unfn-
ished business" After an executive session the
Senate adjourned In the House, consideration
of the Federal elections bill was resumed, the
debate being participated in by Messrs. Haueen
(WisD, Covert IN. W, Vaux PA, and Ken
nedy ohio. The House in the evening passed
los private pension bills, including a large num-
Der which came over from previous sessions,
and at To 80 adjourned.