Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1893-02-16
CONGRESSIONAL
Summary OF the Weeks Proceedings Of
the Senate sud House.


the Senate aud House.
THE senate the 4th passed eighteen bills
that were on the calendar. After that the house
bill to ratify the agreement with the Cherokees
for the cession of their interest in the Chero.
kee outlet lands and appropriating S. 500, coo to
carry il out was passed in the nature OF @ sub
st1tute. A resolution by Senator Morgan was
agreed to requesting the president to send to
the senate draft Of the annexation treaty
negotiated in 1854, but not completed with the
kingdom OF Hawaii. After tributes to the late
Representatives Gamble Is. d.. Ford (Wash.)
and Stackhouse IS CO the senate adjourned -.
The house passed the diplomatic appropriation
bill and the military academy bill Mr. Hatch
reported back the antioption bill and it was
referred to the chmmittee Of the whole. Pub
lie business was then suspended and eulogies
delivered upon the late Representative Ken
dali. of Kentucky, and the house adjourned.
WHEN the senate met on the 18th Senator Hill
moved to take up the bill to repeal the Sher-
man silver law and read a speech In favor of
his motion When a vote was reached it was
defeated by % yeas to AZ nays. The quarantine
Dill was then passed without division, also
bill for the payment of local taxes lands held
by Indians in severalty. The automatic coup
Ter bill was then considered until adjournment
-. When the house met the whole time until
O'Clock was occupied in flibustering to prevent
approval of the journal Every effort to reach
the anti-option bill failed owing to flibuster-
ing tactics, and the house finally adjourned.
THE senate put in most OF the day on the 9TH,
debating the automatic coupling bill, but did
not reach vote. The Guthrie resolutions in
favor Of opening the Cherokee strip were pre-
sented The bill for the relief of the legal rep
| resentatives of John Roach passed 1t APP
propriates Sl6,5)0 to pay balance due on the
Dolphin - The proceedings of the house were
OF routine character, the session being mostly
IN committee OF the whole on the legislative ap-
preparation bill 1t appropriates over S2f, 500
0OO The debate was long and covered the
whole question Of revenue and the probable de-
hciency
in,
was spent in passing bills the calendar. AT
O'Clock the senators. headed by Vice Presi-
dent Morton, proceeded to the hall of the house
OF representatives and took part in the cere-
mony of counting the votes of presidential
electors Afterwards the railway automatic
car coupler bill was taken UP and debated until
adjournment. In the house the interesting
event was the counting OF the electoral vote in
joint convention. Cleveland and Stevenson
were formally declared elected president and
vice-president The speaker laid before the
house the quarantine bill with senate amend
ments- The house, in committee of the whole,
then considered the legislative appropriation
bill until adjournment.
THE senate on the 9th was in exc cutive ses-
sion nearly all day considering the Hawaiian
case. 1t released the Injunction of secrecy
upon the correspondence between the United
States and the British and French governments
from 1872 to 1874 respecting the seizure of the
Hawaiin islands by Lord Paulet for the British
government The correspondence ends with
the declaration by the British and French gov
ernments of the independence of Hawaii and
their guarantee never to seek possession of the
Islands The house had lively debate on the
silver question and the friends of silver won a
decided victory over their opponents. Mr..
Catchings called up the resolution setting apart
two days for debate on the bill repeating the
Sherman act and providing that dilatory
motions should be entertained After some
discussion voting commenced. The anti-siIver
men aimed to vote it down in order to have
chance on cloture. On the first roll call the
silver men were ten votes ahead The anti
silver men got more votes or the democratic
side than had been expected. but the republic
ans split up. The final vote stood, yeas 1873;
nays. AL In committee of the whole the legis-
lative appropriation bill was favorably recon-
mended
TEE senate did nothing on the 10th except to
con tinue debate on the automatic coupling
bill Just as the vote about to be taken
on the final passage OF the bill motion to print
as amended prevailed and the matter went
over. The house had under considera ton the
pension bill The debate dry and unin-
teresting and the bill not finished at adj