The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1894-04-13
WORK or NATIONAL LAWMAKERS.
HnbOrn eT California Decentralization
Finished His speech.

mouse met w eQneSuay the Republicans
resumed their flibustering tactics to pre-
vent the unseating of Mr.. Hilborn (Cal.) },
bat a quorum was finally secured and
the resolution to seat Mr.. English was
adopted-I65 toll. Upon the announce
ment there was burst OF applause from
the Democratic side, which was renewed
when Mr.. English was escorted to the
bar Of the house and sworn in.
Mr.. Bland then called up the seignior-
age bill, returned by the president with
out his approval. and moved that it pass,
The motion to pass the bill over the veto
was defeated, the silver men lack
Ing ~ Of the necessary two-thirds
WASHINGTON, April 4.-The senate
has passed bill permitting horse racing
in the District of Columbia, during GER
tain seasons, but prohibiting poolselling
and bookmaking.
Senator Allison resumed his speech
against the tariff bill.
WASHINGTON, April SIN the senate
Thursday Mr.. Hill IN. W gave notice
that at o'clock next Monday he would
submit few remarks on the pending
tariff bill
At the request of Senator Hansbrcugh
| On. d. the senate took up tho bill appro-
priating $1,000, 900 for the destruction of
the Russian thistle.
Mr.. Kyle IS. d. proposed an amend
ment providing the sum appropriated
should be divided pro rata among the
states where the thistle is found.
Allen (Neb.) supported the bill: calling
attention to the fact that the weed was
not indigenous, but had gained a foot
hold here under the laws Of the nation
the immigration laws.
Senator George (Nfiss.) favored Mr.
| Kyle's amendment
WASHINGTON, April 5.-The Beriug
sea bill has been passed by the house.
WASHINGTON, April 6.-The policy of
delay of the minority in the senate was
manifest Friday when, before the con-
clusion of the reading of Thursdays
journal, Mr.. Chandler made the point of
no quorum and the roll was called, show
ing four senators less than quorum was
present. After a delay of 10 minutes
four senators dropped in to complete the
quorum and the reading of the journal
was concluded and the routine business
proceeded with.
The house went ahead with appropria-
/
WASHINGTON, April 9.-The proceed
ings in the senate Monday from the open
ing to the closing of the session were full
of interest. The first in point of time
was the swearing in of Mr.. Walsh as the
senator from Georgia, to serve out the
term of the late Senator Colquitt. Two
resolutions, intended to facilitate the de-
bate of the tariff, were introduced, one
by Senator Mills, providing for an
amendment to the rules, SO TO permit of
the previous question, and the other by
Senator Allen, providing for the taking
of the final vote on the bill on June z,
allowing three days for debate under the
| 5-minute rule. Both went over without
action.
The chief interest of the day conferred
in Senator Hills speech. The speech
was mainly directed against the income
tax, although Mr.. Hill spoke of the
Humiliation" of the Hawaiian question,
which he attributed to the fact that the
| head of the state department was Re
publican. In his opening remarks he
discussed the political revolution that led
to the result of the election of 1892, and
his interpretation of what the people ex-
pected of those placed in charge of the
government.
WASHINGTON, April 9.-The house
was depopulated Monday. Thres-fourIhs
| of the members were at the senate listen
ing to Senator Hills speech on the tariff.
Those who remained were occupied with
District of Columbia affairs, but little
actual business was transacted.
WASHINGTON, April 10.-In the house
bills were passed for the protection OF
game in the Yellowstone park and for
/ the punishment of crime in the park by
the extension of the law and jurisdiction
of the Wyoming United States district
court to its territory; to. grant chief
justices in the territories power to APP
point commissioners to take proof of
land cases.
The house then went into committee
of the whole and resumed consideration
of the postoffioe appropriation bill.
Bryan Replies to Reeds Letter.
In the course of the debate which fol-
lowed Mr.. Bryan (Neb.) took the floor,
and ostensibly speaking on the amend
ment, made q reply to the recently
published letter of Mr.. Reed TO Dir. G. L.
B. Vaughan Of Hutchinson, Kan, in
which he criticized Mr.. Bryan for using
in his speech made IN Denver an extract
from one of his (Reed's) Boston tariff
speeches. In that letter Mr.. Reed COM
planned that the extract taken from It's
contents conveyed a wrong impression.
Mr. Bryan stated that the extract he
used had not been taken from its con-
tents; that he had used all of the pub
lished report of the speech. Moreover.
he stated, that Mr.. Reels letter of ex-
| PLANTATION was written deliberately and
reiterated practically the idea contained
in the speech from which he had quoted.
He proceeded to characterize the
speech as an appeal to sectionalism; an
appeal to the ssIfishness of New England.
While Mr. Reed told the west that ali
the states wefe equally interested in the
preservation IF the protected tariff, hs
told Massachusetts, that she was more in
terested. This was a remarkable utter
anee from the leader of tia Republican
party. He called attention TO the dis
crepancy IN Mr.. Reeds letter. He spok
of his reference to thu Wilson bill IN this
speech, where. as a matter of fact. the
Wilson bill was not reported until a