Birmingham age-herald., 1894-08-02
TIE RUSSIAN THISTLE
 - Will Be Allowed to Grow Un- molested in the West.
 g LET CONGRESS RESIGN"
LET CONGRESS I
A Fanatic Petition Causes Com ment From Hoar-FunSton
 to Be Unseated.

WASHINGTON, rAug. 1.-The presenta-
 ton by MT. Lodge of Massachusetts of a printed petition, copies of which had been received by many senators, adopted at meeting in Faneuill hall and upon Boston common, with the heading, "Lst Congress
 Resign, - was made the text of a short speech by MT. Hoar, He wished to point out, he said, for the consideration of those gentlemen (the signers of the petition) that they seemed to be entirely unconscious of the existence of body of men called ''the American people.' Those men made demands as if few hundred or a few thousand men had only to get together on some common and after five or ten mnutes'
 turbulent conversation propose something which was to take the place at once of the constitution and laws of the country.
 The people of the country, MT. Hoar
 continued, had considered the question of
 the resignation of public officials and had
 demanded such resignation in very much
 more peremptory manner than those gen.
 tlemen could possibly do it. The peoplel had not only demanded 1t, but had fixed the time for it. All senators and member
 would resign their offices at the times fixed
 by the people. The vice. president would ign his high office on the 4th of March 1897 He would yield it without any fur49 fher rbt or pTop0pg ba np6moed
 to an otfiee more honorable or
 with more power, or he might be called to
 some other form of public service or he might retire into private life. But, like all the rest of them, he had to resign at the time which the people had fixed. "The worthy gentleman' who had signed these petitions must have done so without hav-i ing read or undersood the arrangements which had been on the subject with the as sent of almost the entire body of the American people. (The petitions had been printed and sent out for signatures under the management of Morrison L, Swift, who has obtan ed considerable aotnrlSty in
 connection with Inc Coxey and similar
 movements. sa.5--..i .,4- .- > fdi
 A bill was passed to amend the act of
 January 26, 1893, to authorize the construc-
 tion of bridges across the Hiawassee, Ten
 nessee aud ClInch rivers in Tennessee.
 The consideration of the sundry civil ap. pfopriation bill was resumed, but the bill
 was side tracked for couple of hours In
 order to have the question of railroad sta
 tions and depots in Oklahoma territory
 fought out. It came up as part of con,
 ference report. The side of the railroad
 companies was taken by Messrs. Black
 burn and Platt, and that of the people of
 the towns of Round Pond and Enid by
 Messrs. Berry, Harris, Palmer and Pefer,
 and the result was that the popular side
 prevailed, and that the senate amendment, which is favorable to the railroads, was
 receded from~-24 to 20.
 Some additional work for Mir Gray's sugar investigating committee has been proposed by Mir. Chandler of New Hamp- shire, who offered a resolution instructing that committee to inquire into the facts connected with the organization and his- tory of the Dominion Coal company of Nova Scotia; whether the company owed lsits organization to assurances that the tariff duty on coal shall be repealed by | congress, and who gave such assurances.
 The resolution will come up tomorrow. The conference report on the agricultural propriation bill was presented and agreed to. The senate receded fron~ the Russian thistle million dollar amendment. Consideration of the eundry civil bill was resumed. An amendment which was of- fered by MT. Hunton, authorizing the sec- retary of war to employ, in connection with the Gettysburg national military park, represen tative of the army of northern Virginia, (Confederate) recog- nized as we'll informed in its history, gave agreed to, and a similar amendment, of- fered by MT. Bate of Tennessee, relating to the Chickamauga and Chattanooga national park, was also, after discussion, agreed to. Adjourned until tomorrow without dis. posing of the bill. F5r
 IN THE HOUSE.
 MT. Hatch reported the result of the con- ference upon the senate amendment to the agricultural appropriation bill appropriat- ing $1 coo GOO for the extinction of the Rus sian thistle in the northwest. The senate receded from the amendment. The report was agreed to.
 Then the house proceeded to the consid- eration of the contested election case of Moore vs. Funston, from the Second Kan sas district. The committee on elections reported in favor of MT. Moore's claim to the seat for which Mr. Funston holds the certificate and which he has occupied since1 congress met. F The cage was argued for the contestant1 by Mir. Jones, democrat, of Virginia, who made the report for the committees; Mr. Brown, democrat, of Indiana, chairman of the committee, and Mir De Armond of
 Missouri. for the sitting member: MT.
 Mccall, republican, of Massachusetts, who made the minority report in his favor; Mir.
 Daniels, republican, of New York; MT.
 Waugh, republican, of Indiaua, and MT.
 Funston himself spoke. The resolutions
 offered by the minority that MT. Moore
 was not elected and that MT. Funston was defeated by party votes, and then tho house adjourned, postponiug until tomor-' row the votes that will unseat Mr. Funston and put MT. Moore in his place.
 If you are tired and never hungry, Hoods