Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-05-30
A BEER TAX.
An Amendment Offered to tho
Filled Cheese Bill
GEN. SPENCER'S WIDOW PENSIONED
A Bill Passed in the Senate to Allow Her
SIS Month-Alcohol Used in the Arss
A Washington Rumor-Terri-
torIal Divorce Bill.

WASHINGTON, May 27.-Tarih and
finance each came in for a share of
consideration in the senate yesterday
Early in the day Mr.. Sherman sue
ceeded in having the filled cheese bill
taken up, whereupon Mr.. Dubois of
Idaho, offered an amendment adding
rs cents per barrel to the tax on beer.
The senator said his amendment was
intended to test the sincerity of sena-
tors who expressed the patriotic desire
to aid the treasury by raising more
revenue. Mr. Sherman opposed the
amendment as a skillful means to de-
feat the cheese bill. His motion to
table the Dubois amendment was de.
feated, yeas. 25; nays. 80. On the ques-
ton of adopting the amendment, the
debate became general Senators Mills
and Gray supporting and Nelson. Al
drich anc Villas opposing it The bill
and pending beer amendment were
displaced at two o'clock by the bond
bill, which was advocated by Mr..
Pritchard, of North Carolina, and OPP
posed by Mr.. Lindsay, of Kentucky. A
bill was passed to pension at SIS a
month, the widow of Gen. George
Spencer, at one time United States sem
ator from Alabama Senator Vest pre-
sented a resolution from Typograph-
ical union No. so. of Kansas City, Mo-,
favoring naturalization of telegraph
lines A similar resolution was pre-
sented by Senator Cockrell. Senator
Cockren presented a resolution adopt
ed by a convention of railroad commits
sioners of different states held in
Washington on the Goth inst, protest.
ing against the passage of an amend
ment to the interstate commerce law
repeating imprisonment punishment
for violations of law. Senator Baker
favorab1y reported a bill granting a
pension to William II. II. Wright, of
Mcpherson, Kan.
The house yesterday by a vote of les
to Co. passed the bill for the repeal of
section 81 of the present tariff law,
providing for a rebate on alcohol used
in the arts or for medicinal compounds.
An amendment was attached to the
bill providing for a joint commission
to examine and report on all questions
relating to free alcohol at the next
session The house also agreed to the
senate amendments to the bill author
izing the construction of a bridge
across the Missouri river at St Charles,
Mo.
RUMoR CONCERNING MKINLEY.
WASHINGTON, May 2Z.-Simultane-
ously with the return of Senator Quay
from his pilgrimage to the republican
Mecca at Canton, comes a story, which
is given general credence here, that it
is the intention of the Ohio man, if he
is elected president, to call an extra
session of congress Immediately upon
his Inauguration. The call, it is said,
will be made the next day after his in
auguration, and will specify that the
purpose of the session is to consider
the tariff. According to this congress
would. meet March Is next 1t is said
to be McKinley's idea that all the woes
of the country come from the present
tariff system, and that the immediate
return to protective tariff will bring
relief.
TERRITORIAL DIVORCE BILL
WASHINGTON, May 27.-The Oklaho-
ma divorce system was brought to
legitimate end yesterday by the presi-
dent adding his name to a bill making
necessary residence of one year be-
fore divorce proceedings can be fled.
The bill is now law, but it does not
interfere with cases pending.