Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1890-03-15
THE WORLD AT LARGE.
Summary Of the Daily News.
CONGRESSIONAL.

A NUMBER OF bills wero reported In the
Senate on the 9Th and bills passed giving q
pension OF SIS month to the daughter of
Major General Worth, and increasing the
pension OF the widow of General Warren
to 500 per month After an executive ses.
sion the Senate adjourned. =. The entire
morning hour OF the House was con.
sumed IN the discussion OF a bill for
the compulsory attendance OF witnesses be-
fore registers and receivers OF land offices.
The House then, In Committee Of the Whole,
considered bills for public buildings. The
debates at times were quite exciting. Sew
eral bills passed when the committee rose,
after which the House adjourned.
AFTER the usual morning business the
Senate on the 7th considered bills on the
calendar and passed several bills for public
DuiIding8 Pending discussion Of the ap.
preparation of $500, 900 for q building at Salt
Lake City, the Educational bill was reached
as unhn Ished business. Senator Blair again
spoke In Its favor and took occasion
to refer severely to the press Of the
country. Senator Hale opposed the
bill Pending debate the Senate adjourned
until Monday. The House passed the Sen
ate bill for n bridge across the Arkansas
river In the Indian Territory. The report of
the comm ttee on the Alabama contested
election case of Threat VS.. Clark in favor OF
Clark, the sitting member, was unanimous.
ly adopted. The bill referring to the Court
OF Claims the claim OF w. f. Woodbridge for
the use Of his invention OF projectiles for
rihed cannon was defeated. Bills were then
considered in Committee OF the Whole until
recess At the evening session pension bills
were considered.
1HE Senate was not In session on the sth.
-. In the House Mr. McCreary (Ky.). from
the Committee on Foreign Affairs, reported
a resolution requesting from the President
any correspondence with the Mexican Gov
eminent In regard to the employment In the
regular army OF the Unitei states Of In
dian scouts for the purpose OF pursu'
ing hostile Indians In their raids into the
Territories of the United States. Adopted.
The morning hour was consumed In the dis
cussion OF the bill providing for the compul
sorry attendance of witnesses before regis
tiers and receivers OF land offices, which was
passed. The House then, in Committee Of
the Whole, considered pu bile buildings bills,
but when the committee rose the House was
without quorum and adjourned
In the Senate on tho 10th Senator Hoar,
from the Committee on Privileges and Elec.
tlons, made a report on the Chandler-Call
discussion ordering certain remarks strlck-
en- from the Congressional Record and the
substitution OF the r'port Of the official
reporter. Senator Stamford offered Il
resolution lnstructing the Finance Com
mlttee TO inquire what relief for the
present agricultural depression may be
furnished by the Government and
particularly rs to the proposition to
furnish loans by the Government to the
people. Referred. Resolutions by Senator
Plumb calling for a statement as to the
cause of Withholding patents for lands with
in the limits of the Union Pacific land grants
were adopted The Foreign Meat Inspec-
nnnaidnFan
some time. when the Educational bill
was further discussed until adjourn
ment.. In the House after routine business
the Senate bill was passed with verbal
amendments) to prevent the introduction
of contagious diseases from one State to an
other. Bills were passed authorizing the
construction of u number of bridges. The
resolution to appoint committee to go to
Arkansas and report on the contested cleo
ton case of Clayton against Breckenridge
was amended at the request OF Mr. Breckin-
ridge so as to enlarge the inquiry and make
the investigation thorough. and then adopt.
ed The Oklahoma bill was then considered
until adjournment.
AFTER the transaction of unimportant
routine business In the Senate on the 18th
Senator Mitchell offered a joint resolution
proposing a Constitutional amendment for
the election of United States Senators by the
people. N TebOlutiOn WAS huOpteu hSkIuB
for information as to the authorizing of lot
terIes by the Creek Nation in the Indian Ter
ritory. The resolution for the exclusion from
the Record the sentence interpolated by Sem
ator Call in his late debate with Senator
Chandler came up and occasiOned lengthy
debate, which at times grew warm. When a
vote was reached no quorum was present
and the matter went over. Adjourned....
The House passed n number Of bills for
public buildings, among them for buildings
at Atchlson, Kan, Fremont, Neb., and
Springfield, Mo. Mr.. Enloe (Tenn.) moved
70 discharge the Pensions Committee from
the further consideration Of a resolution
offered by him for an investigation into re-
cent rerating of pensions and the reason for
the removal Of Corporal Tanner, as the COM
mlttee had failed to make any report After
explanations from the committee he with
drew the resolution. MFR. b ker IN " re-
ported the bill for the a lmisslon of Wyom-
ing and asked It's immediate consideration.
After some debate the House went into Com
mlttee ot the Whole snd the bill was dis
cnssed until adIounment.