Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-12-25
CONGRESSIONAL

Dec. 12-Ex-Speaker Grow rep, Pa mads
speech in the house of almost an hour on the
portion of the presidents message referring n,
the tariff. in which he compared the old pro
tecuon tariI with the new customs laws. He
showed that the new law, up to December l.
had produced a deficiency of S13i ,Oo1,00O while
unoer protection measures, from 1880 to 1893
the revenue had exceeded the expenditures by
si,SiO,0OOOOl He attributed the deplet,on of
the gold reserve to tho raymeut of current d.
nclencies out of the reserve. and maintained
that the greenbocks would not menace the re-
serve If there was sufficient revenue It being
apparent that Secretar Carlisle's report vould
not DC ready this week, the house adjourned
over until Monday
The proceedings of the Senate covered tbs
entire range of legislation from the introduc-
ton OF petitions, bulls aud resolutions to the
passage OF bills. and included two formal adj
dresses. bill extending the Chicago port of
entry SO as to cover the State of Illinois re-
celved the final in dorsement of the Senate
Having already passed the house, it will be
probably the first bill of the Fifty-Hourth Con-
gress to becomes law. Almost an hour of the
session was devoted to listening to a speecb nv
senator Petfer In advocacy of his bill curtaii-
ing the expenses incurred in Congressional
funerals, and providing that sergeant-at-arms
shall take the place of the committees now
sent out by the two houses as escorts to their
homes of remains of deceased members. The
Senate then went into executive session, and at
Dec. 16.-The Senate was in session about two
hours, half of that time being given to Mr..
Stewart of Nevada in a vigorous assault ON the
gold combine In one respect the Senator
presented a new phase of the subject wi tb
which his name has been SO much identified
In Senate speeches. He urged that the great
depreciation of silver gave to the cheap labor of
Asia tremendous advantage in competition
with the domestic PRODUCES of the American
market japan IN particular, he said, was
profiting by this difference of so per cent be-
tween our money and that Of Japan and Jan
anese merchants va re to-day underselling our
home products in many lines of goods Mr..
Stewart used severe language In arraigning the
gold syndicate, declaring that it controlled
national conventions, selected presidents and
directed the affairs OF the national admins
tration.
In the house DELEGATE Flynn of Oklahoma in
troduced resolution calling upon the secretary
OF the interior for his reasons for not appoint
ing alloting agent, for the Wichita Indian res
ervation as provided for in an agreement made
between t1e Indians and United States com.
missioners last spring and also whether any OF
his re ations were interested in not having the
allotments made. Mr.. Flynn made A long
speech in which he furiously attacked the sec.
rotary of the interior and charged that relatives
of Mr.. Smith were receiving big fees for their
influence In delaying the opening of the reser-
walton to settlement. Several Democrats de.
Tended the secretary. The resolution was
passed without division.
Dec. 1.-THE Presidents message on I'll,
Venezuelan question occupied the main atten.
ton OF the Senate during its brief session.
Sc rotary Cox read the document amid i'm.
pressive silence, the Senators following
every word with intense interest The con-
Guiding sentence Of the message was
no sooner read than a demonstration oc-
cured almost unparalleled in the his-
tory OF the upper branch Of Congress, sem
ators on beth sides OF the chamber Joining ia
their expressions of approval by long-continued
hand clapping. The message and ACCOMPANY.
ing documents were at once referred to the
committee on foreign relations and beyond the
reading of the document no debate or reference
to it occurred during the session.
While the time of the House was mainly ali
sorbed in debate on the Republican plan to
create three committees of nine members each
to deal with the election contests, its interest
was conferred upon the Presidents message.
The debate upon the election committee plan
was fruitful of partisan discussion of election
methods in the House, and the Republican pol
ICY of de Hing with contests in the Fifty-irst
Congress The principal speakers were
Cannon of Illinois, DalzeI of Pennsylvania.
johnson of Indiana and Powers of Vermont.
Repub licans, and Crisp of Georgia, Bartlett of
New York, Wheeler of Alabama. and Bailey OF
Texas, Democrats. The plan was adopted by a
party VOTE The presidents message laid On the
speakers table until late in the afternoon.
when 1T was read and received with much en-,
thusiasm by m 'mbers of both parties