The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1894-12-13
DOINGS OF CONGRESS-.
LAST SESSION OF THE FIFTY.
THIRD CONGRESS-.
"a Condensed Record of the Proceed
tnSs in the Senate and House
Matters of Importance Dealt
With.

titled An act to reduce taxation to
provide revenue for the government
and for other purposes as provides
that upon all sugars above No. IL
Dutch standard in color, and upon all
sugars which have been discolored
there shall be levied and paid duty
of Is of / per cent per pound in .addi-
tion to a due Of 40 per cent al valorem
shall be and the same is hereby re-
pealed." Senator Power introduced
a bill providing for the free coinage
of silver, making the silver dollars to
consist of 412 10 grains of standard
fineness and these dollars to be legal
tender for all debts, public and pri-
yate. A feature of the day was a
sharp debate on the China-Japan
questions, brought out by Mr.. Lodges
to the torturing of two Japanese stu
lection. Mr.. PETER made the first
formal speech of the session. CRITICS.
ing from a Populistic point the recent
issue of bonds and giving his views on
finance.
resolution in the house requesting the
the house the names of the soldiers
of the late war discharged from his
department since the beginning of his
administration, and the cause Of dis
missal in each case. The house passed
three bills-tlle printing bill, bill to
prevent the free use of timber on
public lands and prevent granting of
permits in the future and another to
authorize the secretary of the interior
to receive unsatistied military bounty
land warrants under the act of 1858
at the rate of $1.25 per acre in pay
ment for land located under subse-
quent acts.
Washington, Dec. S.-Representative
Bryan Dem, Neb.) introduced in the
house joint resolution proposing an
amendment to the constitution making
the president Ineligible to a second
term. Representative Sicklcs has in
PRODUCED a bill appropriating $1OOOOO
to enable the government to acquire
title to the Gettysburg battlefield and
transform it into a public park. Rep
reScntative Cultivate of Ohio intro
duCed a bill changing the duty on
photographic and Photographic prints.
etc, not forming parts of books, to %
per cent ad valoren4. The present duty,
MIR. Cultivate says, is almost prohibit
tive, and that proposed by him is the
same as that originally proposed by
the Wilson bill. Representative Ora
per of Massachusetts has introduced
a bill making compulsory the use Of
automatic couplers and arrangements
for, steam heating.
A bill passed the senate providing
for a national dedication of the Chick
amagua a1d Chattanooga Military
Parks. The senate adjourned until
Monday
Warrington, Dec. 9..-In the house
Mr.. McRae, from the committee on
public lands, called up the bill to pro-
tect forest reservations. Mr.. Wells
Gem, Wis., opposed the bill in every
feature. The attempt to drive this bill
through under the whip and spur,
smelled, he would say SAVIOR, if he did
not have such high respect for the
chairman of the public land commit
tee, of Doodle. It was said that the
forestry association was behind the
bill. There was another association
behind it, which had it's origin in
Maine fifty years ago, and had now
extended to the Pacific slope. 1t was
an association of timber thieves and
lard sharks. That association was be-
hind the bill. If these timber thieves
We're allowed to go into the public
forests they would bride the agent of
the interior department and destroy
them. The pine land thieves Of Mich
igan and Wisconsin,, he declared ex-
7o1, ~ v,1,,V
der, and had then bought seats both
in this house and the other. lie
would not permit the people of this
country to be plundered of millions of
dollars worth of timber. He appealed
to the members of the house not to
permit these thieves to go into the
forests with the disguised purpose OF
cutting only dead and matured timber.
He challenged any advocate OF the
bill to show line in it designed to
protect and preserve the forests.
Wien Mr.. Wells took his seat Chair
man McRae arose and Indignantly de-
nled that there was any land ring Or
association behind this bill He had
assumed the responsibility for the bill,
and If the gentleman from Wisconsin
Knew of any hidden power behind it,
he would yield time to him to make
III own it's nature.
II said BEFORE" said Mr.. Wells holly,
"that believed in your honesty, but
the gentleman is green in the lumber
business, and believe the gentleman
is being deceived and made a tool off,
r Il may be green N the lumber bust
ness" said Mr.. McRae, but I take
pride y, the fact that represent cne
of the largest timber sections of this
corbtry. My state, however, is not
afe cted by this bill There is DO IN
terest behind this bill, save such as
ought to inspire every patriotic citi-
zen--the protection Of the forests from
devastating fires and timber thieves"
After some further debate by MIR.
Wilson Wep.. Washl. Picker (Rep,
s. d. and Coffeen (Dem, Wyo) the
morning hour expired. and in accord
ance with the terms of the special or
der the house proceeded with the
discussion of the railroad pooling bill,
under an agreement to take up the
bill under the fve-minute rule
Washington, Dec. II. Representa-
tive McCreary Dem., KY has pre-
sented a bill for the appointment of a
currency commission. It is to be COM