Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1895-03-09
LAST DAY OF CONGRESS
The Senate and House in Session
All Night !
All the Appropriat ion Bills Have Been
Agreed to-Thc Senate Gives Up
the Fight for the Hawaii
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Washington, March At was 11:l5
last night when the conferees o n the
the general deficiency bill emerged
from the conference committee, where
they had been for the greater part of
four hours, trying to compromise the
differences between the two houses.
The conference resulted in a general
triumph for the house i'm a majority OF
the amendments made by the senat"
Among the items which were stricken
out are those providing for II pur-
chase Of the Malone square In Wash
ington as a site for the government
printing office: providing for the pay
mcnt 81 the war claims of the states
of California, Oregon. Nevada and
Delaware and the Southern Pacific
and French spoliation claims. Among
the amendments agreed TO was that
making appropriations for army trans
uortation. The matter Of allowing AN
extra months pay TO clerks Of mem
beers of the house was modified so as
10 require the clerks to perform a
month 8 service after the adjournment
of congress.
The senate also receded from It's
action on the Hawaiian cable item In
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that measure was passed.
At $3.50 a. IN. all the appropriation plils
had been agreed to. The house at 3:l'
cNncurred i'm the senate amendments
10 the naval measure, the last bill To I've
disposed of. A recess was then taken
until S o'clock this morning. The sen
ate took a recess until $50.
The appropriation bills will be en-
crossed and printed and made ready
for the signatures of the presiding OIL
GERS tomorrow, when the houses con-
vene. and will in all probability reach
the president In the forenoon.
Sunday morning the house by a vote
Of 1873 to 1874 agreed TO the senate amend
ment to the sundry civil service bill
providing for the payment Of the sugar
bounty Of 1894. This caused a very Bit
ter fight and members of both parties
were earnest for and against the amend
ment. Finally Wilson Of West Virginia
threw his great influence for the bounty
and the amendment was carried.
MI. Wilson. In support Of he pay
ment Of the bounty, said ii was eX-
tremely unfortunate that this question
came before the house as an indepen-
lent proposition. He was not willing
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record without an explanation. To no
one, ne said. was a bounty more repug-
nant than to him. But a bounty having
been given by the act Of 1890, wrongly,
as he believed, and certainly against
the wishes Of the sugar producing state,
II became the duty OF congress to deal
with things as they were found. There
fore. when the tariff bill was first re-
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vision TO repeal that bounty gradually.
In the spirit of justice and equity, deal
ing with a great industry. the ways and
means committee believed the bounty
should not be stricken down at a single
blow. n today. dealing with II in the
same spirit I'm which the tariff bill was
framed. he did believe the sugar grow
ers were entitled to at least a proper
ton of the sugar bounty they had
earned I'm 1893 and 1894 under the then
existing law.