Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1893-02-15


delivered carefully. prepared speech de-
claring himself friend of free bimetalGc
coinage, which he thought should be reached
through international agreement His motion
was defeated by nearly Il two-thirds majority
the vote being yeas, %; nays, AZ. Afterwards
the quarantine bill was taken up and passed.
without Il division; also bill for the payment
out of the treasury OF local taxes on lands held
by Indians in seyeralty.
WASHINGTON, D. c., Feb. The Senate bill
for the relief of the assignees or legal repre-
sentatives of John Roach, deceased, to pay bal
ance due on the United States steamer Dolphin,
IS, les taken from the calendar and passed.
The Senate then resumed consideration of the
substitute reported from the committee
interstate commerce to promote the safety OF
employees and travellers upon railroads by COM
pelling common carriers engaged in inter
STATE commerce to equip their cars with au-
tomato couplers and continuous brakes,
ana their locomotives with driving wheel
brakes In the course of his explanation of the
bill Mr.. Cullom, in charge, said there were
forty different patterns of automatic couplers
ana that If the owners of 20 per cent of the
freight cars agreed upon particular type of
coupler the Interstate commerce commission
would fix that as The one to be used. After
long debate and without action on the bill the
Senate adjourned.
WAsHINGToN. d. c., Feb 8-The morning
hour in the senate was spent for the most part
III the consideration and passage of bills on the
calendar, and considerable progress was made
in that direction. AT l o'clock the senators,
headed by Vice President Norton and accom-
panied by some ofits principal officers, proceeded
to the hall of the House of Representatives and
there took part in the ceremony of counting
The votes for presidential electors. Afterwards
the railway automatic car coupler bill was
taken up and was debated up to the hour OF ad-
journment, without any definite action being
taken. The following bills were taken from
the chalendar and passed. House bill for the
relief of certain settlers on public lands in the
Tucson land district, Arizona; House bill to
amend the act of March ), 1891, establishing
court of private land claims; Senate bills for
the examination and allowance of GER
tain awards made by Board of Claims to GER
tain citizens of Jefferson County, Ky: Senate
bill to exempt veterans from competitive exam
ination Ill the classified service of the United
States. Senate bill to amend the act of MAY 5,
1892. prohibiting the Immigration of Chinese
having been reached on the calendar Gn the
n poSe wa of M DolR who had re-
after notice by Mr.. Hoar of substitute
for the bill-the substitute being that
substitute" was Mr.. Cockrell's laughing COM
ment subsequently Mr.. Dolph moved to take
up the bill, and said that it merely proposed to
strike out the word while as a Qualification
for witnesses. When informed of Mr.. Hoar's
substitute he SAID he was ready to have vote
taken upon it. but Mr. Eoar simply said let it
go over, and the bill went over without action.
WASHINGTON, D. c. Feb. a.-The whole of to-
days session in the Senate, after the morning
hour, was devoted to discussion of the rail
way automatic car bill Without concluding
the consideration of the bill the Senate adj
journed.
WASHINGTON, D. c.. Feb. 1o.-The debate in
the Senate to-day on the automatic car coupler
bill was not of an enlvenng or even an inter
esung character; ana o'clock tomorrow was
fixed as the time to take the vote. The Vice
President presented memorial of the Chicago
Chamber of Commerce avoring the annexation
OF the Hawaiian Islands, and it was referred to
the committee on foreign relations.
The vote by which the House bill to provide
for sundry lighthouses and other aids to navi-
gauon was passed was, on motion of Mr.. Dolph,
RECONSTRUCTED; all amendments adopted by the
Senate to it we've rejected, and the bill was
passed without amendment, just as 1t came
from the House The calendar was taken up
these hills DaS
prlatng 10000 for public building at Lara
ME, Wyo Senate bill to am nd section 4S47 of
the Revised Statutes-fn relation to the trans
portatton OF merchandise. 1t prohi bits the
transportation of merchandise from one Ameri-
can port to another American port through a
foreign port; and was explained by Mr. FRYE
as aimed at the foreign tramp steamers which
evade the coastwise laws by taking merchan-
disc from New York to Bremen and Antwerp
and thence to- San Francisco. The sugges-
ton was made by Mr.. Mcpherson that the
additional distance of 5000 miles ought to
be suthc1ent protection for domestic COM
merce: but Mr. Frye said that it was moi.
The last calendar bin that was passed was
senate bill to amend the act of August
IS. 1883. in relation to the Jurisdiction of
the circuit courts of the United States ut
provides that any foreign corporation may be
sued in any district where it may be tound.)
The conference report on the bill TO restore to
the public domain a portion of the White
Mountain Apache Indian T, seIvAtIon was pre-
seEted and agreed to. he legislative, execu-
tive and judicial appropriation bill was printed
and referred.
WASHINGTON, D. c., Feb. 1.-THE bill to
promote the safety of emploves and travellers
upon railroads by compelling railway COM
panles to equip their with automatic
couplers and continuous brakes, and their
locomotives with driving wheel brakes was
finally disposed of in the Senate to-day. he
substitute for the House bill of last session was
agreed TO ana the bill passed: Yeas, so; nays,
TO- The only other important piece OF legiSla-
ton WAS the agreeing to the conference report
on the Notifications BILL and making the
Nicaragua Canal unfinlsh ed business.
house.
WASHINGTON. D. G., Feb. 6.-Thts was sus-
pension day IN the House. and Mr.. Kilgore
superficial object being to prevent the consid-
Grafton OF the antl-optiOn bill, but deeper than
this was his antagonism to the bankruptcy bill,
which public rumor had put down Oh the slate
Tor o-day. Many members VINO were in favor
OF the one proposition were opposed to the
other: and there was third section which,
being In favor of both propositions, was op-
posed to bills which it suspected would
be called up for the consideration of war claims
measures. After the long but rather uninter-
esting fight Mr.. kilgore was obliged to surren.
der, and the journal, against which his Skin
mish line was drawn, was approved But he
was not d1sheartened, and when he found Mr.
Burrows leading an attack against war claims
bill. he vahantly seconded every move. 1t was
motions OF Mr. kilgore were disposed of and the
journal approved, then Mr.. Bum moved
TO suspend the rules and pass d bill
propriating S32 900 fer the relief of the heirs
motion Of MIR. Kilgore call Of the House was
ordered, The call showed the presence of a
quorum, and tellers were again ordered, and
gain no quorum voted and again call of the
House was ordered. After some other roll calls
the House adjourned. without having reached
the anti-option or bankruptcy bills.
WASHINGTON, ID. c., Feb. THE House made |
some progress with one Of the great appropria-
ton bills. he legislative bill appropriates up
wards OF 81. 500 600, yet aside from a review OF
the condition of the treasury by Messrs Ding
ley and Dockery-divergent Newsstand an at
tack on the civil service law by Mr. DeArmond |
the proceedings were uninteresting. The SEN
ate amendments to the Harter bill of lading |
bill were concurred in.
WASHINGTON, d. c., Feb. S.-The event in the |
House to-day was, of course. the counting of !
the electoral vote. and this passed OFF without |
any incident Of Importance. Grover Cleveland |
was declared TO be the choice Of the people for |
the office Of President and Adai E. stevenson |
Tor the office of vice president of the United I
States. The legislative appropriation Dbl con- /
sumed the remainder Of the day, but no result |
was reached
WASHINGTON, D. c., Feb 9.-Mr. Catchings |
called up the resolution of the committee on |
rules, setting apart this legislative day and if
necessary, the next legislative day, for the con-
Of the bill repeating the sherman |
act.
Mr.. Bacon, chairman of the committee on !
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