The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1893-03-10


Failed to Pass Both Houses and Were
sheIved Forever.
WASHINGTON, March THE silver
and tariff question, the antioption bill
and the reduction of appropriations,
were the leading topics of consideration
by the Fifty-second congress which
expired by constitutional limitation
at 10 o'clock noon Saturday. Sec
ondary only in Importance to
relating to the Worlds Fair. equipmen MT
of railways with automatic car couplers,
national quarantine and immigration,
Boring sea and Hawaiian annexation.s
No Affirmative Action.
Nothing of an affirmative nature, ex-
cept to prevent two items in the McKin-
ley bill taking effect, was actually &C
colnplished so far as respects silver, the
tariff or ant1optlons, the action taken
on each of these questions in one branch
OF congress being negatlved by the
action or nonaction of the other branch
the Appropriations.
The result of the agitation of the
necessity for retrenchment of expendi-
lures, is not apparent in any considera-
bic change in the aggregate appropria-
lions carried by the national supply
bills, for they amount to about as much
as in the Fifty-frst congress, laws on
the statute books preventing some large
reductions which otherwise would have
been made, while the decreases which it
was possible to effect were offset by in
creased appropriations for pensions and
rivers and harbOrS
The Silver Question.
The silver question was kept steadily
before the attention of congress by the
alternate efforts of advocates of free
coinage and the repeal of the Sherman
law. The coinage committee of the
house, in the first sess ion, reported
free silver bill, which. after an exciting
debate, was saved from defeat by the
casting vote of the speaker, but was
friends of the bill failing to secure the
signatures of majority of Democrats
to a petition asking for cloture rule in
its behalf. The senate then passed
free coinage bill, but when the free sill
yer men renewed their fight in the
house they were outnumbered by IA
votes and of course failed. The anti-silYer
men met similar fate in their efforts
to secure repeal of the present law, the
senate refusing. by a decisive vote to
consider it, and the house killing the
Andrew-Cate bill by declining to vote
SO as to give its friends the parliamentary
right to move cloture on it, without
which it is conceded they could never
be forced to a vote in the closing hours
of congress.
Action the Tariff.
On the tariff, the dominant party in
the house adopted policy of
attacking the Mckinley bill in detail,
largely for political reasons, and partly
for the reason that, in view of the
political complexion of the senate, it
was practically out of the question to
pass a general tariff revision bill
through the senate, while special meas
ures might ST nd some show of passa ge.
The result W"s the enactment into law
of two bills continuing block tin on the
free list and fine linen at 80 per cent ad
valokem.
AntiOptions Killed.
The antioption bill passed both
houses, but was killed by the refusal to
suspend the rules, by two-thirds vote,
to the amendments put on the bill by
the senate, opponents of the measure
maneuvering so as to prevent Mr.. Hatch
making effective his majority IN favor
of the measure. and forcing him at the
last moment to try suspension of the
rules. The pure food bill, the running
mate of the antioption bill, passed the
senate, but was never able to get con-
sheraton in the house.
worlds Fair Matters.
Worlds Fair legislation comprised
the grant of $4,000, 00n in souvenir half
dollars in aid of the fair, the closing of
its gates on Sunday, the appropriation
of various amounts for different fair
purpose and the passage of sundry acts
of special nature and minor impor-
tance.
Car Coupler and Immigration Bills.
The automatic CTR coupler bill, shorn
of its drastic features, was enacted into
law, as was also national quarantine
bill, increasing the powers of marine
hospital service to meet the threatened
dangers from cholera and an immigra-
ton law imposing additional restrictions
on immigration, but not suspending it
entirely.
Treaties Considered.
The senate averted the trouble over
the Bering sea fisheries by ratifying
treaty of arbitration. It also ratified
extradition treaties with Russia and
other countries, but still has before it
treaty of annexation OF the Hawaiian
Islands.
The opening of the Cherokee outlet
was provided Tor IN the InQlan DILL un-
der a clause appropriating So, 2S5 900 for
its purchase from the Indians, $2S5, 900
to be paid in cash and $'.0U0,000 in five
equal annual installments.
vetoed by the President.
Three bills were vetoed by the presi-
dent. viz: To refer the McGarrahsn
claim to the court of claims "a second
McGarrahan bill failing of action in the
house,: to amend the court of appeals
set aud in relation to marshals In the
Ci.ited States courts of Alabama. The
i,.= .,iIl became a law by passage over
ceto. Senator Hoar (Rey.l stating it
>een vetoed through a misunder
ing of its provisions. The presi-
subjected three bills TO a pocket"
=. and two other bills failed of en-
o sment in time for preservation to
I'm.
Investigations Conducted.
The pension and census offices, the
whisky trust, Panama Canal and Pacific
Mail companies, the Watson-Cobb
charges, the Pinkerton system and
Homestead troubles, and the Maverick
and Spring Garden bank failures, and
the Ellis island immigration station.
were investigated by congressional COM
rnittees. but nothing came of the reports