Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1893-01-28
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amendment limiting the presfdsdtial Office to
one term. He had not finished AZ The hour when
the anti-option bill was specis order After
quorum was secaEed' as sss OF call OF me the
| anti-option bill. An amendAent was agreed TO
fixing July 13, $685. when the bill should go INTO
| effect The amendment of Snator Villas, limit
ing the effect of the bill to sanbling operations,
Rns rejected IL to 80.
In tie house, Mr.. Chapman, of Michigan,
moved to suspend the ruls and pass the JOINT
resolution providing for the election OF senator's
| of the United States by popular vote. After
some flibustering by the republicans, the mo-
ton was agreed 70 withoutdivisIon
morning hour for so long reaches a vote soon.
| Speeches continue on the 1easure.~,
| Sweeping denunciationsp of the measure were
ing in utter contraventionof the constitution Of
the United States and In fiolation OF the rights
of states.
The Garrahan bill rec lived death blow for
this session, the Affirmative vote falling elgnt
short of constitutional majority.
The sundry civil appropriation bill, as re-
ported to the house, makes 1t the duty OF the
secretary of the interior 10 consolidate the dis
trict land offices so as TO bring their total COM
pensation within the appropriation. For the
prevention If epidemics $<5o,OO0, an increase OF
S250,0O0 with which to tght the cholera, Is ap-
propriated.
Kilgore, of Texas, prevented any business dur
ing an entire day in the house. This is as usual
when he gets balky.
The senate passed bill concerning testimony
in criminal cases after providing in 1T that no
person shall be excused from attending or testl-
flying before the interstate commerce commits
sion on the ground that the testimony or evil
dence may tend to eliminate him.
The bill amending the interstate commerce
act was taken up. 1t is intended to obv1ate the
construction which the courts placed on the
words 1.-The same line" as they appear In the
fourth section of the act. They have held that
where several railroads connect, constituting
one line, the transaction of business of any less
forming the
charge. without violating the law, greater
rate than is charged over the entire line. The
pooling section of the act is amended by striking
out the word not" and inserting the words amy
contract, agreement or arrangement" ltfurther
provides that railroads may make contracts,
agreements or arrangements for apporhonlng
among themselves their traffic or their gross or
net earnings under certain conditions to be In
terposed by the interstate commission 1t fur
Their provides common carrier who is a corpo-
ration, may be indicted for violation of any pro
visions of the act. Senator Lind moved to
strike out the section amending the pooling
section of the original act, and Senator Patter-
son acquiesced. After an amendment was agreed
to, requiring all common carriers to accept
from connecting lines loaded cars or trains, to
be hauled to the point of delivery at rate not
exceeding that charged for similar service over
their own lines, the bill was passed The bill
was then passed making the printed and written
documents in possession of the commission ad-
Missile as legal evidence.
When time comes to vote on the antl-Opt1OnS
bill its opponents will not resort to dilatory
although it is apparent that they do
not hope strongly to beat it.
The senate committee on Indian affairs In
vited discussion before it by all parties in inter-
est. Among those appearing, and who were
heard, was certain Hastings, a native of Ar
kansas, who is one of the Cherokee representa-
tives here. He clustered about what t'our ma
ton" would do and what "Our nation" would
not do; when Senators Platt and Pettegrew
shut off his bluff.
The result of the episode may, and probably
will be provision in the bill to the effect that if
the CherOkees and their Arkansas representative
do not approve the bill within certain time, the
president will be directed to open the stTlp to
settlement and the question of remuneration to
the Cherokees can be settled in the courts later,
where the United States treasury will have a
better showing than before congress.
In the senate the house substitute concerning
under the interstate commerce law
was non-cOncurred in, conference asked and
Senators Wilson. Teller and Pugh were ap-
pointed conferees.
Among petitions on Sunday opening of the
worlds fair was one signed by Archbishop Ken
lick and Vicar General Brady of the Roman
catholic church, Bishop Tuttle of the Episcopal
church, and other citizens of St. Louis, Mo-, IA
7oring opening after II o'clock Sundays, and
another minister of the Methodist Episcopal
church, south, of st. Louis against Sunday open
ng.
Senator Wolcott called up his joint resolution
directing the discontinuance of the sale OF Col
he said why those stamps had ever
Oeen manufactured. He noticed that the post
master general had suggested in his annual re-
port that he expected to receive $500 600 extra
profits out of their sale to stamp collectors.
That was trick that might suit some of the
little Central American states when they were
ew thousand dollars Shy" but the United
States was too big country to unload cruel
and unusual stamp upon stamp collectors. Rail
road mail clerks complained that the / cent
columbian stamp was so like the registration
stamp that constant mistakes were being made
oy Them and he had letter from physician
who said if the sale of those stamps were stopped
he asked unanimous consent that the joint reso-
ution be read a third time and passed. But OBJ
ection was made and it was laid over.
The agitation of the omnibus statehood bill,
treating states out of tho territories of Okla
IONA, Utah, Arizona and New Mexico, has COM
nenced in earnest in both senate and house.