Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-01-19
IN CONGRESS.

| Tho house passed She fortifcations apvYopria.
ton bill, carrying sbI8,Oj5, without amend.
m ia on 81 word OF debate. few private pen
slonB plllS were passed and some defeated, The
opposition was led by hr. Bland.
me senate passed house john resolution
| covering into the treasury $4,000, being an OK.
cess OF the'sum due to tho Choctaw and Chick
asaw Indians under an apprOpriationOf the laat
congress.
The anti.cption bill was opposed in set
speech by Senator Vilas on the ground of UNI
constitutionaiity, II dinctl7 invaded Tho saidD
inc sovereign and peculiar governmental func.
tons OF the states aud wGs fragrant advance
to Capitalization involving tho Characterization
OF the most odioas paternalsm.
me senate bill compelling witnesses to testify
before tho interstate commerce commission was
taken up and passed.
Tho bill TO pay For the Dolphin, constructed
by Roach, and which Secretary Whitney, under
Presdent Cloveland had refused to pay was up,
IN the senate and Senator PETER made short
saInest speech in favor of the bill.
Inc senate discussed quarantine regulations
anu tne suspension OF lmmigration. Senator
ohahdler spoke threg hours. An amendment
was pending to authorize the president TO Issue.
proclamation suspending immigration from
countries whore the cholera may be prevailing
Mr.Chandler treated this proposition an a piece
OF cowardlce on the partof congress, in impos.
ing responsibility uponthe president instead
OF taking the responsibility itself.
Arguments against the quarantine bhl were
made by Senators Mcpherson of New Jersey,
ihLb vi NOuneCllCuti MILF OF Texas, and UOlDl
OF Oregon, Many amendments were offered,
some OF which were agreed to.
Inc committee on order OF business, appointed
by the republican caucus, decided to call up tho
proposed amendments to the interstate COM
merce act
The measure introduced with q view OF sup
.ossing crime in the territory OF Oklahoma
and regulating the courts thereof was favorably
considered in the senate.
The attendance in the house remains small
and nothing is brought up which would raise
tho question OF nc. quorum. About twenty-five
private pension bills were passed.
vote might have been reached on the quar-
antino bill in the senate had not Senator White
avowed his purpose to prevent it; nor would no p
give his consent to have the final vote at time
set, inasmuch as he had learned that several
gentlemen from New Orleans were on their way
to Washington to present their views in opposi--
ton to the measure,
The house considered the District OF Columbia
appropriation bill. Otis, of Kansas, and De
Almond, of Missouri, argued that the District
was costing the government too much.
The senate spent much time on the Joint reso-
luton authorizing and directing tho treasury
TO suspend all purchases of silver under the
sherman act to which Senator Aldrich offered
Q substitute which proposes to authorize tho
issue OF bonds to procure gold, il necessary, to
maintain tho parity between gold and silver
COINS and its treasury notes, and for suspension
of the purchase of silver bullion on July /, 1894.
The senate discussed the quarantine bill aud
quit it on an amendment by Senator White linn
iting its operation to January /, 1895.
The house finally passed the District OF Col.
umbia appropriation bill After the hour was
consumed in consideration OF the bill t. pro-
mote the efficiency of the militia, the remainder
OF the day was devoted to tho consideration OF
the bill permitting the Norfolk & Western Rail
road company TO enter tho District Of Columbia.
In the house the Grain joint resolution, pro-
posing amendments to the constitution, substi-
tuting the 3lst day of December for the 4th day
OF March, as the commencement and termina-
uNf maj rlNnRa
mouse and senate, and providing that congress
hold its annual meeting on the second Monday
OF January and substituting the 10th of April for
the 4th of March as the date for the commence
mont and limiting of the terms of tho president
and vice president. Much contrasting debate
pro and con was INDUCED in on the measure,
The vote on ordering the Joint resolution to tho
third reading resulted, yeas 49, nays l2l, thus
defeating the measure,
The quarantine bill was signed and sent to
the senate, where the anti-option bill had pre-
cedCnce, but Senator Washburn consented to
lay IT aside to permit action on the quarantine
bill from the house. The section authorizing
the president to suspend immigration was
amended by making it read Prohibit, in the
whole or part, the introduction of persons or
property" The section was then agreed to-
yeas, 81 nays, 10; and the bill passed without
division.
The Indian committee was given Wendesday,
to bring in the Cherokee treaty and strip bill.
Friends OF the bill are glad that Simpson, Of,
ments before leaving for Topeka to have some
one Ilibuster against the bill.
Friends OF the Cherokee strip bill were sorely
when they discovered that they
would DO unable to place the measure before
the house On the day set apart for it.
Tho legislative program OF the house was set
aside, owing to the death of Senator Kenna,
Before the house convened the committee on,
Indian affairs held special meeting, which
was attended by Holman, who had a now scheme
TO print For throe successive days no has pre-
sented new scheme. This was the third day
and the third scheme.
EvOn when the house convened there were
hopes entertained by some of the members OF
the committee that the senate roso ution an
nouncing the death of Senator Kenna would not
reach the house until after the strip bill had
been disposed Of
In this however they were doomed to disap--
as very soon the resolution appeared,
and in accordance with the old time custom tho
house adjourned. There was every reason for
believing that had the bill been place before
the house it would haye passed within an hour.