Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-02-16
CONGRESSIONAL.

tons, Senators Hale and Blackburn were APP
pointed telers TO assist In counting inc ptesl-
dential votes, and Senator Carllsles Resignation
as senator from Kentucky was presented. Inc
district appropriation bill was taken up, CON
sldered and passed, -
Tho house fixed upon February for the sill
yer bill.
Fight on tho antioptions bill begun briskly IN
the house. When Mr.. Hatch moved TO comply
with the request of tho senate for u conference
Mr.. Bynum demanded That mo senate h lin,lS
ments must first DO considered ~ committee OF
tho whole. This point tho speaker TOOK uay
to decide.
MIR, Fitch, Of New York, moved IN amendment
10 the federal elections laws and, in reply 70
Mr.. Boutele of Maine, stated that the demo-
cratic party made no secret of it's purpose 70
repeal the federal election dlawss;, Mr. fltch
amendment was agreed to- li2 TO ~,
1t provides that hereafter no part OF any
money appropriated TO pay any ices 70 thc
United States commissioners, marsllals or clerks
shall DO used for any warrant Issued, OF hiresS
made under the laws relating to tho election OF
members OF congress- unless theprosecutlon mas
been commenced on sworn complaint heVtlnR
forth tho facts constituting the oiiense and al
leglng them to be within the personal knowl-
edge OF the nillant 49, -
OF the Raum investigating committee, intro
duced in the house bill to revise the pension
list. The purpose is TO discover all undeserYnB
pensioners and have their names erased from
Mr.. Cummings, of New York, introduced
bill TO provide for and facilitate z commercial
and political union between the United states
and Canada.
Mr.. Kilgoro, Of Texas, gave it out fiat that he
intended to iilibuHtcr AGAINST tho anti-optlons
bill to tho end Of tho session.
Senator Perkins secured amendments IN tho
senate IT, the Cherokee strip bill. One provides
that the government hold IN tho treasury enough
Cherokee money to pay all claims of the Della
wares and the Shawnees that may be awarded by
tho court Of claims AAnolher ratliles the agree
tp,of Ia wifi InplguXyug Paw
nees which will add 10000 acres to come in
with the Cherokee lands in the strip; and
third which gives homestead rights in the new
lands to parties who have from any cause been
forced TO leave and surrender claims taken on
other government lands. These amendments
will 60 with the bill into conference,
The senate passed the bill ratifying the Kick
apoo agreement; and this goes to conference
committee.
Senator Teller took the occasion Of presenting
some petitions on the subject of tho suspension
, of purchase of silver bullion to get in extended
remarks on the morris of that question lie
commented with some bitterness on the pub
lished reports as to the determination OF Mr.
Cleveland to have the Sherman net repealed.
The friends OF the anti.options bill obtained a
victory in tho house. Although The speaker de-
cided against them and ruled that the house
could not at present non.cOncur in the senate
amendments and thus throw the bill into CON
ference, when report would become privileged,
the house. Notwithstanding the determined light
of the members of the ways and means commit
tee and of the other opponents OF the bill re-
ferred 1t to the committee on agriculture, which
is favorable to its passage. And 1t did SO by
large majorty-not quito two,thirds, but APP
proximating it closely that it is still in doubt
If two.thirds vote is required it could not DO
obtained.
The deficiency appropriation bill was passed
The senate passed the Cherokee strip bill with
amendments and Senator Plat at once moved
that tho senate insist on its amendments and
request { conference. The motion carried and
Senators Platt,. Pettigrew and Jones, OF Arkan-
sas, were appointed on the part of the senate,
The bill as passed is substantially the original
senate bill. The conference will be held speed
lily and the early final passage of the bill is ex-
pected
All efforts to secure remuneration for intrud-
ers' improvements were rejected and the bill
passed without dissenting vote
y. Senator Hill, of New York, having given no.
tice of motion to take up inc blll 10 reReal the
Sherman silver purchase act, Senator Teller said
that if such motion should prevail the senate
would do other business than the passage OF
appropriation bills during the session. Senator
Teller asserts that he will talk until March 4, If
necessary, in order to defeat q repeal.
In the house effort Ia being made to get up a
majority petition TO the committee on rules to
adopt cloture rule on the repeal of the Sher-
man law There was prospect that repeal re-
publicans would unite with the democrats in
sufficient numbers to pass the repeal bill.
Senator Hills motion to now consider the anti
options bill was accompanied by u carefully
prepared speech, IN WHICH lie ucClpFcu himself
friend Of free bi-metallic coinage.
The motion was defeated by nearly two
thirds majority, the vote being, yeas %, nays ~.
Afterwards the quarantine bill was taken up
and passed, without a division; also a bill for
the payment out of the treasury of local taxes
on lands held by Indians in severalty. Finally
the automatic coupler bill was taken up and
discussed for time when it went over.
1t was suspension day in the house and Mr..
Kilgore, Of Texas, early began iilibustering mo-
tions, his superficial object being to prevent the
consideration of the antioptions bill, but deeper
than this was his antagonism to tho bankruptcy
bill.
After long. but rather uninteresting fight,
Mr. Kilgoro found himself in hopeless minor
lty and was Obliged to surrender, and the jour
nal, against which his skirmish line was drawn,
was approved.
But he was not disheartened and when he
found Mr. Burrows of Michigan, leading an at
tack against a war claims bill, he seconded every
move made by that gentleman. 1t was after l
O'Clock when the various tilibustering motions
of Mr. kilgore were disposed of and the journal
approved then Mr.. Bum moved to suspend the
rules and pass a bill app1opriating $4,000 for
the relief of the heirs of Adelicia Choteau. MIR.
Burrows demanded second, and as no quorum
voted on motion of Mr.. Kilgore call of the
house was ordered. The call showed the pres
ence of quorum, and tellers were again ordered
and again no quorum voted and again call of
the house was ordered. After some other roll
calls the house adjourned without having
reached the anti-optons or the bankruptcy bills.
Representatives Baker, OF Kansas, and Miller,
of Wisconsin, undertook to get bill considered
which would cut the presidents salary from
$4,000 year to l500O. They hlibustered awhile
ard could have kept out any other business UNI
til they were successful but Miller. after many
private appeals to him. surrendered and quit.
The Cherokee strip bill, reported back to the
house from the senate bearing, as it does, SEN
ate amendments which require reconsideration
by committee of the whole house, will again
have to run the gauntlet of filibustering which,
in the prevailing irritable temper, may be ex-
pected.
Tho senators, headed by Vice President Morton |
and accompanied by some of his principal Off |
GERS proceeded to the hall of the house of rep. |
Tesentatives and there took part in the cere
mony of counting the votes for presidential |
electors.
The senate debated the automatic car coupler |
bill, but took no action. In the debate Senator |
PETER said the farmers and working classes had |
been trampled upon by the railway corporations
and were crying to congress to take hold of the |
subject and compel respect to the public will |
he hoped the bill would pass, no matter how |
much it might cost the railroad corporations |
he had no qualms of conscience on that point |