Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1895-02-14
DOings Of Congress.

sylS lila, whose members were interested
IN war claims amounting TO s., 900, 900 and
not included, and the measure was defeat
ed, 95 to 14S. Mr.. Outhw ate, Democrat.
OF OhiO, presented a special order from the
Committee on Rules for the consideration
OF the new currency bill. The rule gave
the 9th and 9th until 3 o'clock for general
debate and thereafter until $3.50 p. m. on
the 18th, when the vote should be taken for
the consideration of the bill under the five
mlnuter rule. The rule was a~dOpted-135
to 2O8--after which the House went into
Committee of the Whole and took up the
agricultural appropriation bill, which was
passed without amendment, and the Ha-
wailan correspondence was laid before the
House. Tuesday, February Is, was set
aside for eulogies on the life of Rrepre-
sentative Post of Illinois.
The second days debate in the House on
the 9th Oh the bill authorizing the issue of
$5OO,OOO,OO0 gold bonds for the redemption
OF legal tender and treasury notes was not
productive OF marked incident of any
kind. A great deal of confusion existed
after 2 O'Clock, when the committee began
voting on amendments to the bill. Most
of the amendments were defeated as fast as
offered.
In the Senate on the 9th the resolution of
Senator PETER was agreed to calling on
the Secretary of the Treasury for informa-
ton as to the kinds of money which has
been realized from the sale of bonds. The
bill was passed providing for the examin-
alton and classification of certain mineral
lands OF Montana and Idaho. The diplO-
matte and consular appropriation bill was
then taken up. AS the Senate was about to
adjourn Senator Cullom called up the Chi
cagO post Office bill, the cost of the new
building being limited to 10000 OO. The
bill thereupOn passed on a viva voce vote
without opposition. The Senate held a
brief executive session and then adjourned.
The last hope of financial legislation for
the relief of the treasury at the present
session OF Congress went by the board
when the House on the 9TH. by a vote of
ia to 161, rejected the administration bill
to authorize an issue of $500, 0 1000 of gold
bonds. The bill was beaten before it
reached its preliminary stage. A bill to
authorize the Iowa and Nebraska Pom
toon Bridge Company to construct a bridge
across the Missouri River at Sioux City
was passed. Mr.. Grosvenor. Republican.
of Ohio, asked unanimous consent for the
consideration of a joint resolution for a
committee to regulate the Tennessee cleo
ton.
The Senators 'plOwed through snow
drifts to get tOthe Capitol on the Sth. The
condition of the Washington poor induced
Senator Sherman to introduce a bill ap-
propriating $4,000 and making it immedi-
ately available for the relief of the poor.
Formalities were dispensed with and the
bill was passed without opposition or de-
bate. The Vice-President announced a
message from the President. AS the clerk
began reading there was a sudden suspen-
sion of the buzz of comment through the
chamber and marked attention was given
to the document. Senators German and
Aldrich rose at the same time to move the
reference of the message to the Finance
Committee, and it was so referred. The
routine business of the Senate was then
resumed. The Hawaiian cable amend
ment to the diplomatic and consular bill
was then further discussed by Senator
Kyle and Senator White. Unanimous con-
sent was given that the vote on the amend
ment aud diplomatic bill be taken at 2:a
o'clock, O the 9th. The Presidents mes
sage giving Minister Willis latest dis
patches as to the sentences to death in
Hawaii was presented and read amid i'm
pressive silence. The Senate bill was
passed giving As, 600 acres of good land:in
INlSSlSoIppl III IIlc use Vi tuc dSTlculIuTal
and mechanical colleges of that state. At
$40 p. m. the Senate held a brief execu-
tive session and adjourned.
Discussion of and fillibustering on an APP
preparation to allow Congressman clerks
at 81 200 per annumb brought forward as an
amendment to the legislative appropria-
ton bill, retarded material progress on the
measure in the House on the 8th. The
Speaker laid before the HOuse:.a message
from the President on the Hawaiian Ques-
ton and the accompanying papers were
read. A dozen or more private pension
bills coming over from the two previous
Friday nights were passed and the House
at AIS adjourned.
BY the decisive vote of IS to Is the Sen
ate on the 9th voted to inaugurate the
project of laying a cable from the Pacific
coast to Hawaii. An amendment to the
diplomatic and consular bill was made
giving $500,0 0 for beginning work ON the
cable and authorizing the President to con-
tract for the entire work, estimated to cost
5000 600. This is the rst::practical result
coming from the intermittent Hawaiian
debate, lasting more than a year and re-
newed with intensity during the past
week in connection with the proposed ca
BILE. The Committee OH Commerce re-
ported favOrably a plan for an Interna-
tional Commission to inquire into the feas-
Utility Of a waterway connecting the great
lakes with the Atlantic. Agreed to. 1t
provides for a joint commission from the
United States and Great Britain. The bill
was passed directing the parting and rein
ing of bullion to be carried on at the Uni
ted States Assay Office at Helena, Mont.
Senator PETER introduced a resolution call
ing on the Judiciary Committee to report
ON the resolution he had previously sub
mitted for al inquiry as to the legal right
Of the Secretary of the Treasury to issue
bonds. 1t was referred to the Judiciary
Committee. The Senate was then con-
fronted again by Senator Calls resolution
for the Senate investigation of the Hondu-
ras and Louisiana Lottery. The resolu-
ton was finally cut off by the Senators
agreeing to take III the diplomatic and con.
Sular appropriation bill.
The House on the 9Th, in Committee OF
the Whole, by a vote of 154 to 50, voted to
place individual clerks Of members on the
annual salary roll at the rate of 500 per
month. These clerks now get 500 per
month during the session of the House
The annual attempt to strike out the APP
preparation for the Civil Service Commits
sion was made, but did not assume a seri-
Gus phase n was d~efeated-32 to 20. A
Joint resolution was passed to extend the