The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1895-02-07
FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS.
Second Session.

!
! feature OF Mondays session CT the senate
/ When the reading OF tho message was con-
Guided IL was sent to the finance committee.
| Most OF the day was taken up by the house
| bill with senate amendmcnts) disappearing
| an agreement with the southern Ute Indians
providing for their removal from Colorado to
! Utah, allowing lands in severalty to those de-
string them and removing others from por-
! tion OF the present reservation and combining
Z them to the western part OF 1t and to several
+ townships in New Mexico The bill was
! passed.
i HoUsE-Soon after the session began Mr..
/ Prudcn, President Cleveland's executive clerk,
appeared, and announced 4 message in writing
! from the president. It was Immediately read.
I When the reading was concluded there was
round of applause. in which quito numbes
OF republicans joined. Mr. Springer, chairman
/ of the committee on banking and currency,
forthwith sent to the clerks desk the admins
tration bill. The bill to repeal the d,Iercntial
duty imposed by the tariff bill on sugar from
| bounty-paying countries was taken up. This
| occupied the house till adjournment.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 30.-SENATE-At the
morning meeting Of the senate finance COM
mittec the various propositions embodied IN
the Jones, Vest, Mcpherson, Smith and Sher-
man bills were gone over, and there were some
| indications toward the close OF the meeting
| that 1t might be possible to secure majority
vote on modification OF the Jones bill. There
! W as no vote on any proposition. however Mr..
| Jones told the committee that il there was no
decision on the lines OF his bill or any other
measure he would ask leave to report his bill
that 1t might be brought before the senate for
action.
HoUsE-A special order was invoked Tues
! day to bring up the bill to repeal the one-tenth
OF cent di1erontal duty imposed by the new
tariff law on sugars imported by bounty pay
7 ing countries, and 1t was passed without
amendment by vote of 230-3l. The debate
was OF an interesting character and at times
very spirited. 1t touched quite extensively on
the treasury Situation and the remedies to be
applied The conference report on the bill
granting pension of fifty dollars month to
! Catherine Tod Crittenden, widow OF Gen. Crit
tenden, was adopted.
/ WASHINGTON, Jan. 3l.-sENATE-W ednes-
day the currency question was thrust upon
the members Immediately after the minutes
we're approved, and In short time one OF the
most sensational sessions OF this congress
was OH in earnest. Senator vest denounced
the gold theories and announced that he had
parted company from Cleveland sherman
| Vest and Hill also made strong speeches. The
latter introduced resolution calling on the
| secretary OF the treasury to inform tho senate
whether IT Is necessary or desirable that ic6ls-
lation should be had authorizing the issue OF
bonds, treasury notes or other securities 10
realize money for the purpose OF paying cur
rent deficiencies In the revenues, ana II SO the
nature and substantial details of such legisla-
| tion.
HoUsE-Tho Olney bill, with some minor
| amendments was agreed to by the house COM
Inittee on labor, and it will be reported to the
house with the Endorsement OF the committee
and the labor organizations house bill was
passed authorizing the chief Official OF any
state penitentiary or Jail to open the mail OF O
| prisoner which he has reason to believe Is IN
tended to be dercgatory to the discipline OF tho
| institution. A senate bill was passed grant
Ina q right Of way across the Sioux reservation,
South Dakota, to the Forest City q Sioux City
Railroad Co. Mr.. Hatch reported the agricul-
tural appropriation bill for the year ending
June 80 1896 and 10 was placed on the cal
endar.
WASHINGTON, Feb 1.--SENATE-SenatorT Tel
| Ter Thursday gave notice Of proposed amend
ment TO the act repeating the one-tenth dlf1er-
cntial duty on sugars and the adoption OF q
section imposing tax Of e per barrel on beer,
porter, ale, ETC. HIS resolution directing the
secretary OF the treasury to inform the senate
whether it Is necessary or desirable that legls-
lation should be adopted authorizing the issue
OF bonds treasury notes or other securities
to realize money for the purpose OF paying oe-
| rcirnces in the revenue was agreed to. Mr.
German offered an amendment to MT Allison
resolution directing the secretary OF the treas
ury to report to the senate the actual condl-
ton Of the treasury from January l, 1871, 10
December 81, 1894; agreed to.
HOUsE-Mr. Cultivate dem, o. Thursday
rcnorted to tho house the bill prepared by the
committee on military affairs for the reorgan-
ization of the army. The measure is based
upon recommendations made by Secretary La
mont in his last annual report, but does not
follow strictly the line OF the recommends
tons The bill Is reported as substitute 1or
a number OF bills looking to the increase OF the
army and will 60 to the house as such
WASHINGTON, Feb. 2-SENATE-No bust
ness OF importance transacted IN the senate
Friday.
| HOUSE-There was scene III the house Fri
DAY morning which will rank with some OF the
historic scrapping matches OF congress. inc
participants were Congressman Heard (Mo),
chairman of the house District committee. anu
Col breckenridge Ky) The lie was passed
and nothing except forcibe interference on the
part OF other members prevented the two
statesmen from coming to blows. Inc trouble
grew out Of the Hawaiian resolution intro
duced by Mr.. Hit. The resolution was privl-
Legged and so took precedence OF the District
bills which Mr. Heard was managing and which
was the regular order OF the day.
WAsHINGToS, Feb. 4.-SENATE.-The senate
Saturday confirmed j. Eugene Jarnigan, on
South Carolina. to be U. S. consul at Ruatan
Honduras. Lee Mantle took the oath OF ONCE
| Saturday as u s. senator from Montana lie
has been the subject Of much contention, as
he once before presented his credentials oaseo
on appointment from the governor, but the
senate declined to accept thcn. The senate
spent most OF the day on the district approprl-
alton bill. The conference report on the fortl-
| hcatiou bill was agreed TO, except the Item OF
fifty mortars, on which further conference
was ordered.
! HOUSE - Representative Beethoven, OF
PENNSYLVANIA, has introduced in the house
bill for the allowance of certain Claims re-
ported by the accounting officers OF the U. D
treasury department. No business OF impor-
lance transacted in the house Saturday.
Frightened to Death.
JEFFERsoNy1LLE, Ind, Feb. Airs.
Dold, residing at Sellersburg, died at
3 o'clock Sunday morning from
fright. At midnight Mrs Dold awoke
and thought she he:.rd burglars ran.
saclzing the premises. This proved
purely imaginary, but the thought OF
thieves so terrorized her and shocked
her nervous constitution that she died
in paroXysms.
Shipment of Oysters to England Stopped
NEW YORK, Feb 4.-The typhoid
fever scare has been the means of stop
ping entirely the shipment of Arneri-
can oysters to England. About 5000