Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1894-12-12
FTFTY-THIRD CONGRESS.
Senate.

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| committee on rules to report comprehensive
| revision of the rules with q view to expedit-
| Ing business and compelling vote. Mr..
| Turpie offered q resolution reciting that the
| time had come for the election of United
| States senators by direct vote of the people.
Mr.. Lodge offered a resolution calling on
| the secretary of state for particulars con-
| corning the execution of two Japanese stu
| dents by the Chinese authorities at Shanghai,
| when the students had been given the pro-
| lection of the United States. Mr.. Blanchard
presented q resolution protesting against the
| recent Turkish atrocities against Armeni-
| ans, and directing that the remonstrance or
| this government be communicated to Turkey.
| Mr.. PETER offered two resolutions. The first
| directs the judiciary committee on the Senate
| to investigate the circumstances and legal
| authority under which the secretary of the
! treasury made the last two issues of bonds.
| The second resolution calls on the President
| for information concerning the circumstances
| and necessity for sending United States
| troops to Chicago during the tendency of the
| Pullman strike.
| The Senate was in session for only half
| On hour on the 4th, the leaders of the
| majority desired to caucus the general
| OrdP- eS business before proceeding with
| the business itself There was time enough,
| however, for Mr. Lodge of Massachusetts to
| have passed two resolutions for informa-
| ton which promise to bring the Hawaiian
and Bluefelds incidents before Congress for
| comment and probably criticism. There
| was the usual deluge of bills and petitions
| incident to the opening days of a session,
| none OF them, however, being of Dsablic Inn
| pOrtance
The Senate showed it's first signs "a ANNA
| ton on the 9Th and, although the session
| lasted only until 2 40, there was time enough
| for several brisk debates Mr. Vests efforts
to secure a change in the rules of order to
| expedite Senate business was the chief event
| of the day. The usual dizziness of a discus
sion of rules offset by the prevalent
! feeling that a cloture rule would have much
| to do at this particular time with pending
| tariff bills affecting coal, iron and sugar. Mr..
| Vest formerly opposed to clOture, but
| he announced his conversion and said cloture
was imperative to maintain the dignity and
sef-respect Of the Senate and the esteem of
| the public
The Senate had brief session on the 9Th
and then adjourned over until Monday. Mr..
| Vest had intended to urge action Oh his plan
| to secure cloture in the Senate but there
was no disposition among the senators to
settle the question at once and Mr.. Vest
reluctantly let the subject go over. Mr..
Turpie Dem, Ind) deliverd a carefully
prepared speech the resolution for the
| election Of United States senators by direct
vote of the people. A bill was passed for the
| national dedication of the Chickamauga and
| Chattanooga national park on September 10
and 20, 1895, under the direction Of the Sec
rotary Of war, and then at 1 80 p M the Sen
ate went into executive session, and at / so
| p. N. adjourned until Monday.
House.
In the House on the 4th inst. bill provid-
| ing for the free coinage of silver was intro
| duced by Representative Hartman Of Mon
| tana. An important provision of the meas
| ure is that requiring import duties to be
| paid in gold In cases where the articles Of
| importation brought from countries
| whose governments refuse to open their
! minis to the free coinage of silver and gold.
The session in the House the 4th was
| exceedingly dull and uninteresting. The at
tendance was small, and there was no clash
| of any kind. bill providing for the dedi-
! cation Of the Chickamauga and Chattanooga
| Military park September 10 and 20, 1895,
ana one for the establishment OF a national
! military park on the site of the battle of
Shiloh were passed, and the remainder Of
! the day was devoted to a fruitless discussion
Of the printing bills. Mr.. Richardson occu-
! pied two hours in explaining the minute de-
! tails of the conference report, which
! subsequently vigorously attacked by Mr..
Dunn IN. j., on the ground that the bill
| would clOthe the joint committee on printing
| with 1nordinate power, both in the matter
! Of patronage and control of the printing Of
| public documents. After further debate the
| report went over to the House.
In the House on the 9Th, Mr.. Cultivate,
from the committee on rules, presented the
railway pooling bill each day after the
morning hour until disposed of. The order
was agreed to without division. The object
Of the bill is to authorize competing COM
mon carriers, subject to the provisions of
the interstate commerce act to enter into
contracts for the division of their gross or
net earnings and to secure more expeditions
and efficient enforcement of that law. APP
pltcations for pooling together with copies
of the contracts must, according to the
terms of the bill, be filed with the commits
sion, and unless disapproved, become opera
tive twenty days after filing.
The entire time of the House on the 9th
was occupied in the discussion of the rail-
road-pooling BILL to which there appears to
! be great deal of opposition Messrs. Cooper
(Fla.), Gresham (Tex.), Morse (Mass.), and
Daniels On. ", took part in the debate.
The former directed his opposition to the
section giving the railroads the power to
carry questions relating to the revocation Of
pooling orders into the courts and offered a
substitute giving the interstate commerce
commission absolute control over all pooling |
contracts. Messrs. Gresham and Morse ia |
vored the bill, while Mr.. Daniel attacked it |
on the ground that it would subvert the OBJ
5ectS of the interstate commerce law.
The House spent an hour on the 7th in the
| consideration of the bill to protect forest
reservations The remainder of the day was
occupied in further discussion of the rail-
road pooling bill. The debate was partict-
pated in by Messrs. Bartlett On. ", Coch-
Messrs Bryan CNeb.) and Northway co., in
opposition to the bill. Mr.. Wells Dem.
The attempt to drive this bill through under
the whip and spur smelled, he would say
savored, if he did not have such high re-
spect for the chairman of the public land
committee, of 'boedle." It was said that
the Forestry association was behind this
bill. There was another association behind
1t, which had its origin in Maine fifty years
ago, and had now extended to the Pacific
slope The pine land thieves Of Michigan
and Wisconsin, he declared, excitedly, had
grown rich on their plumber. and had then
bought seats both in this House and the
other. He would not permit the people Of
this country to be plundered of millions of
dollars worth of timber. He appealed to
members of the House not to permit these
thieves to go into the forests with the dis
guised purpose Of cutting only dead and
matured timber
Less than twenty-five members were pres
ent when the House was called to order on
the Sth In the morning hour Mr. Mallory
(Dem., Fla.), from the committee on inter
state commerce, called up the bill to pro-
mote the efficiency of the revenue cutter
service, which provides for the retirement
OF officers of the service incapacitated by
reason of infrmitieS of age or physical or
mental disabilities Mr.. Mallory Mr. Eng |
lish Dem, n j., and Mr.. Covert Dem, \. |
~ supported the bill, but it was antagonized |
by Mr.. Clark OF Missouri, who deliberately |
avowed his intention of talking it to death. |
The morning hour expired without action, |
and the House then resumed the considera> !
ton of the railroad L00linp hill