Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1893-02-16
NATIONAL LAWMAKERS.
Sen ate.

sentativeS of John Roach, deceased, to pay bal
ance due on the United States steamer Dolphin.
ss.l65 taken from the calendar and passed.
1 he Senate then resumed consideration Of the
substitute reported from the committee on
Interstate commerce to promote the safety OF
employees aud travellers upon railroads by COM
pelllng common carriers engaged in inter-
saae commerce to equip their cars with a, au-
ana their locomotives with driving wheel
brakes In the course of his explanation of the
BIN Mr.. Cullom, in charge, said there were
forty different patterns of automatic couplers
ana that ii the owners of rs 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 q
long debate and without action on the bill the
Senate adjourned.
WASHINGTON, D. c., Feb s.-The morning
hour in the Senate was spent for the most part
III the consideration and passage of bills on the
calendar. and considera bic progress was made
In that direction. At l O'Clock the senators,
headed by Vice President Morton, and accom-
panied by some of its principal officers proceeded
TO the hall of the House OF Re 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
laken. The following bills were taken from
the chalendar and passed: House bill for the
relief of certain settlers on public lands in the
1ncson land district Arizona: House bill to
amend the act OF March B. 1891, establishing q
tSu Of private land claims Senate bills for
tain awards made by Board OF Claims to GER
tain citizens of Jefferson County, KY: Senate
bill to exempt veterans from competitive exam
lnation in the classified service of the United
States. Senate bill to amend the act Of May S,
1892 prohibiting the immigration of Chinese
absence of Mr.. Dolph, who had re-
porte6) was laid aside without action
after notice by Mr. Roar of substitute
the act sis hereby repealed" "A very simple
substitute" was MI. Cockrelrs laughing com
men IT. s subsequently NJ Dolph moved to take
strike out the word "whlle' qualification
for witnesses. When informed of Mr.. Hoar's
taken upon it, but Mr.. Hoar 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 a discussion OF the rail-
way automatic car bill Without concluding
the consideration of the bill the Senate adj
jOurned
WASHINGTON, D. c.. Feb. 1G-The debate in
the Senate to- day on the automatic car coupler
bill was not of an enlivening or even an inter-
esting character; ana o'clock tomorrow was
fixed the time to take the vote. The Vice
President presented memorial of the Chicago
Chamber of Commerce favoring 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-
CATION was passed was, on motion OF Mr.. DOlDh,
reconsldered; all amendments adopted by the
Senate to it we've rejected, and the bill was
passed without amendment, just as 1t came
and these bills were passed: Senate bill appro-
priating 100000 for a public building at Lara
the Revised Statutes-in relation to the trans
pOrtatlon OF merchandise 1t prohibits the
transportation OF merchandise from one Amer1-
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 sufficient protection for domestic COM
merce; but Mr.. Frye said that 1t was not.
The last calendar bill that was passed was
senate bill to amend the act of August
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 portion OF the White
Mountain Apache Indian It reservation was pre-
seEted and agreed to. The legislative, execu-
tive and judicial appropriation bill was printed
and referred
WASHINGTON, D. c., Feb. 1.-THE bill to
promote the safety of employees and travellers
upon railroads by compelling railway COM
panies to equip their cars with automatic
couplers and continuous brakes, and their
locomotives with driving wheel brakes was
finally disposed of in the Senate to-day. The
substitute for the House bill OF last session was
agreed to and the bill passed: Yeas, 80; nays.
ton was the agreeing to the conference report
OH the Notifications BILL and making the
Nicaragua Canal unfinished business.
WASHINGTON, D. c., Feb 12-The bill which
Is intended to secure the construction OF the
Nicaragua ship canal occupied the attention
of the Senate to-day. 1t provides that per
cent. bonds of the company to an amount not
exceeding $10O,oO0,oOo shall be guaranteed
principal and INTEREST," by the government OF OF
the United States These bonds to %, be
paid out and expended by the company
in the construction of thecanal. The govern
ment is then to own the capital stock of the
wi execution 600
of it which is to be retained by the company
and, except the shares to be delivered to the
The Importance of this guarantee by the
government was demonstrated IN a
BY v Mi TEye tb who 6e
finally completed at a cost of 500 100000 and
that its fixed charges would be only S. Ooo. 600
year Outside of sinking fund.-, whereas with
out the guarantee). the cost would be not less
than $780, O0O, 900 and its fixed charges 900
year, The bill finally went over without
action. The credentials of Edward MURPHY,
Jr., as senator from the state OF New York (to
succeed Mr.. Hiscock), and of John l.. Mitchell
as senator from Wisconsin to succeed MI. Saw
yer) were presented.
WASHINGTON, D. c., Feb. The House made
some progress with one OF the great appropr1a-
ton bills. 4 he legislative bill appropriates up.
wards OF S21 $40 900, yet aside from review OF
the condition OF the treasury oy Messds nin ag
tack on the civil service law by Mr. DeArmond
the proceedings were embarrassing. The SEN
ate amendments to the Ha rter Dill OF laolng
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 OFT without
any incident of Importance. Grover Cleveland n
was declared to be the choice of the people for
the office of President and Adlai E. Stevenson
for the office of vice president of the Unite d
States The legislative appropriation bill 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 ii
necessary the next legislative day, for the CON
sideration of the bill repeating the Sherman
act. ,
Mr. Bacon, chairman of the committee on
banking and currency, said the main purpose
of the bill was that the purchase of silver bull
ion storing OF it in the vaults OF the treas
ury as commodity in metallic form and with
out coinage should stop The rule as reported
by the committee on rules was IN the form
which that committee of this Congress had in
variably used for the purpose OF bring
ing important measures before the
uouse There was no phase OF the Sill