Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-02-28
CONGRESSIONAL NEWS.

by the chair. 1t was clearly a race be-
tween the silver bill. the appropria-
ton bills, and the pooling bill. Mr..
Jones, of Arkansas, in charge of the
bill for the unrestricted coinage of
silver, succeeded in getting the first
recognition and moved to take up the
silver measure. Ayes and nays were
taken on the direct question taking up
the silver bill. and the silver men
gained their point. Yeas 3O-nays 81.
Mr.. Jones then asked that a time
be fixed for taking a vote. He asked
unanimous consent that the vote be
fixed for two O'Clock, but Mr.. Villas
objected. 'Then 1 give notice. said
Mr.. Jones, "that 1 will keep the bill
before the senate until a vote is Sc
cured.
Washington, Feb. 1S.-In the house
Mr.. Lynch (dem.) of Wisconsin. from
the committee on Indian affairs,
moved the passage of the bill to au-
tborize h construction of certain
dams across the st. Louis and Cloaues
rivers in Minnesota. The purpose of
the bill was to permit the Altamonte
Water company to erect dams across
these rivers to furnish power to Du-
luth and other places and for that
purpose to overflow, condemn and pay
for lands Overfown ON the Fond du
Lac Indian reservation. Mr.. Lynch
said that the project was one of the
Aargest in the west. Mn. Haugen
(rep) of Wisconsin and Mr.. Baldwin
(dem.) of minnesota, supported the
measure. The vote resulted 1872.
Two-thirds not having voted in the
afirma tive, the bill was lost.
Madison, Feb. 1S.-In the senate
bills were passed as follows: Requir-
ing the expenses of the Labor bureau
to be audited by the secretary of state;
fixing the terms of the court in the
ninth judicial circuit; requiring notice
of the intended adoption of children to
be given; extending the provisions re-
latlng to the drawing OF petit jurors
in counties to municipal courts. When
bill No. Ill senate, to permit city
councils to change ward boundaries
by ordinance, came up, Senator Aus
tin offered an amendment to require
a tWO-thirdS rather than a three
fourthS vote of the council and to
provide that wards being once changed
may not again be changed for five in
stead of three years. 1t was adopted.
In the assembly bills were passed,
providing for a stenographer at $40
per month for each supreme court
! judge relating to county insane hos
pitfalls and asylums, relating to dis
charging fire arms, changing the time
of holding court in Waukesha county.
relating to the collection and payment
of taxes by county treasurers and
providing for the employment of sten-
ographic reporters in certain court
cases. The bill forbidding the collec-
tion Of taxes in buildings where liquor
is sold came up ON a third reading.
"A brief debate followed. The measure
was finally rereferred.
Washington, Feb. 2O.-Mr. Chandler
created something of a sensation in
the senate by outlining some inn
portant steps to be taken by the next
congress, including a congressional in
! vestigatiOn of the recent purchase of
gold by the president OF the United
States. That congress, he said, would
favor Hawaiian annexation and the
construction Of the Nicara guam canal
by Uncle Sam.
Opponents of the new %battleships for
the navy suffered a crushing defeat
IN h house when Mr.. Sayre's motion
to strike out the authorization for war
vessels was lost, first in committee of
the whole by a vote of ~ to 121 and
later in the house, by a vote of 81
to 1919. After Mr.. Sayre's motion had
been defeated, Mr.. Cannon, Illinois.
attempted to have an appropriation,
first of $4,000, 900 and then of $4,000
600 inserted in the bill for the build
lng of the ships authorized, but failed.
Washington, Feb. 21.-The senate
got down to business and would have
completed the Indian appropriation
bill had not acrimonious discussion
arisen on the sectarian school question.
1t brought out a wide range of de-
bate on the separation of the church
and the state in the course of which
expressions were general that the
government should entirely abandon
UNCONVENTIONAL schools. Those who
participated in the debate were
Messrs. CockreIl, Lodge, Daniel, Quay,
Teller and HaWley. The latter urged
that in abandoning sectarian schools,
there should be no abandonment of
Christian teachings in the government
schools. He would rather have the
school run by Jesuits han to have
n with no God in it. On an aye
and-nay vote exception was made in
the ase of the Indian schools at
Hampton Va, and the Lincoln school
at Philadelphia, OF the ground that
they were strictly UNCONVENTIONAL. Mr..
Lodge offered an amendment for the
gradual abandonment of denOmina-
tiona1 schools within the next three
house bill proposes, but this amend
ment and others pending were not
acted upon. The sectarian question
was still under discussion when the
bill was laid aside.
Washington, Feb. 21.-The house de-
voted most Of the day to the con-
sideration of the senate amendment
to the consular and diplomatic bill,
for the construction of a cable to the
Hawaiian islands. Messrs. Ryan.
Pa rt1att and Siok1aS darnocratq cpoIyo