Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1895-01-31
DOINGS OF CONGRESS
DAILY REPORT CT WHAT g ar
ING DONE.
Daily Report of the Measures INTRODUCES
and the Action Taken Thereon In Ro,A
Che Senate n Lower Households az
the business.
The Nations SOlOns.

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The Senate again gave its attention u
the Hawaiian question IN the 2lst. thera
being added interest in the subject owins
to the Presidents course in dispatching
warship to Hawaii, and in,making n SOM,
official announcement of his views. TN
Nicaraguan Canal bill was laid before ,he
Senate. Senator Morgan asked unanimous
consent that general debate on the b;n
shall close on the 25th, at 2 o'clock ana
after that until 5 o'clock the debate shall
proceed under the tve-minute ruln a.
which time voting on the amendment and
bill shall be begun. After some discussion
the amendment was agreed to. The bill;
was then temporarily laid aside, and Sen.
ator Call called up the Notifications an.
preparation bill. 1t carries an appropria. !
ton of 81 ,935 ,557, an increase of $56. 500 oyer
the amount appropriated by the House.
The amount provided for the current fiscal
year was $2,437 600. The committee amend.
ments were agreed to, and the bill passed.
Then on motion of Senator Harris the
Senate at 4:4O went into executive session
and shortly aftcrward adjourned.
The House, operating under a special or.
der, was on the 2lst enabled 10 vote on
seven pending bills, and they passed.
These authorized the construction of a pub.
lie building at Chicago to cost 81, 900. 600,
and among the others was one at South
Omaha to cost $4,000. The appropriation
clause in each bill was stricken out and the
appropriations must appear in the sundry
civil bills. Mr.. BOutelle was prevented
from gaining consideration for his lila.
walian resolution. Mr.. Richardson, Dem
Ocrat, Of Tennessee was elected speaker
pro TEN. to act during the absence Of
Speaker Crisp.
The policy of the administration as 10
Hawaii was again the subject of sharp at.
tack and defense in the senate on the 2od,
In the House on the 22d the bill author
ling the appointment before March 4 of a
cadet to the naval academy from each I'M.
represented Congressional district passed.
The conference report on the urgent def
cheney bill was adopted, and in Committee
OF the Whole, consideration of the
Indian appropriation bill was resumed.
Amendments were adopted to add 5000
to the appropriation for the Wyandotte In
dams and To authorize the Secretary of the
Interior with the consent of a majority Of
the chiefs OF the Pottawattamie and Kick
apoo Indians, to sell their surplus lands.
A provision in the bill for the construction
OF Indian industrial schools at Chamber
lain and Rapid City, s. d., was ruled out
on a point Of order made by Mr.. kean.
populist, of Nebraska. Mr.. Kiefer's
amendment to pay to l25 scouts and SOL
dicrs OF the Sisseton and Wahpeton Indi-
ans who took part in the Sioux outbreak in
1882, $3.50 each was passed. The provision
contained in the general appropriation for
Indian schools, amended SO as to authorize
The construction and purchase VI schools
1nt nf this prn1vi,V,., x,,u. ,~. -
amendment to pay the Indians of the Pine
Ridge Agency for 5000 ponies under the
;rcaty of 1868 was ruled cut on a point of
order. The last section of the bin, pro-
'idlng that no Indian child should be sent
from any Indian Reservation to a school
beyond the state or territory wherein the
reservation participated without the yol-
untary consent of the father or mother of
such child, was stricken out Oh a point of
order. The bill was then reported to the
House, the amendments agreed to and the
bill passed. Mr.. Sayers gave notice that
ne would call up the sundry civil bill on
the 23d. Adjourned.
MIR. Dingley of Maine called the attcn
ton OF the House on the I'D to what he
termed the utter failure of the Paris tri-
bunals regulations for the protection Of
the Alaskan seal herd. Mr.. McMillin of
the ways and Means Committee reported a
resolution calling or the Secretary of the
treasury for the cost of supporting a
"klhgley government" in Samoa. The
House then went into Committee of the
Whole and took up the sundry civil appro-
priation bill.
In the Senate on the ed Senator Hale Of
Name introduced an amendment to the
diplomatic and consular appropriation bill
providing 5000 Q for the survey of a ca
Die route between the Hawaiian Islands
and the United States. Senator Smith
then introduced his bill for a nonpartisan
currency commission to formulate a con-
slstent currency plan for the country. Sem
ator Jones added to the interest on the
currency question by presenting his bill,
which has been discussed in the Finance
Committee. Its reading was followed
with close attention owing to the prom
lnence OF the Senator in shaping most Of
the Finance Committee work.
The vote on the Nicaraguan Canal bill
Will be taken in the Senate at 5 o'clock N
the 10Th, unless some unexpected narlia-
mentary obstruction is interpOsed. An
otaer resolution relating to the Hawaiian
question was introduced on the oath. The
session closed with the rapid passage Of
S"Ciity -oiic pension DlllS.
The House on the oath devoted all its
time to the consideration of the sundry
civil appropriation bill with such success
That at the hour of adjournment it had
completed the reading Of the bill except
several controverted paragraphs, which
were temporarily passed over.
The sundry evil bill passed the House
on the 18th in the shortest time, SO far as
known, on record. 1t was under consider
alton Y three days. AS passed the bill
carries $S9, 1875 ,72l. Two propositions Of
Tered respectively by Mr.. Savers and Mr..
Coombs, the former to clothe the Secretary
OF the treasury with power to issue United
states bonds OF such denominations as hA
should see fit, instead of as now to reissue
tnem OF the same denominations. and the
iatler TO retire and cancel gold certificates
ana make them non receivable for customs
uu1es after July next, furnished the prin-
cipal theme of discussion.
Inc House on the Goth entered upon the
consideration of the I'LL to repeal the differ
entlal OF i cent per pound imposed by the
tarlt act on sugars imported from bounty
paying countries. Mr.. Wilson of Virginia.
Chairman OF the Ways and Means Conn
mittee, opened the debate with a long ar
gnment IN which he introduced all the nor
~respondence between the German Ambas-
sador and the State Department ON the
suDJect, including a letter not hitherto