Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-12-23
CONGRESSIONAL.

| Dec. 14-The final vote on the immiera.
| ton bill viii be taken in the Senate next
Thursday at p m. according to an agree
ment reached to-day. Mr.. Call, Democrat
OF Florida renewed attention to the Cuban
question by three resolutions, one being
| bitter denunciation of the manner in which
! 1t is alleged General Maceo was killed while
under flag of truce. Other resolutions nv
MI. Cali requested the President to demand
the release OF United States prisoners at the
Spanish penal settlement on the island of
Ceuta, and also asked the secretary of state
for list of Americans held in Spanish pris-
ons The Call resolutions went to the com
mittee on foreign relations. Several spirited
polt1cal colloQuies occurred on the floor dur
| Ing the day. Mr.. Aliens speech protesting
against incorporate criticism of Populism in
Nebraska led to passage between him and
Mr.. Hoar, in which the Massachusetts, senator
declared that it was a new and novel de-
parture for senators to appear as the repre-
sentative of political parties instead of rep
resentatveS of their states In the course
OF Mr.. Aliens remarks, he paid 4 glowing
trioute to William j. Bryan as the foremost
cltlzen or Nebraska and the greatest orator
since the days of Webster and Clay. Mr.
PETER added "a defense of Kansas against
the attacks prevalent in the East that con-
tract liabilities were being violated. He
paid high tribute to the Integrity of his
state.
Beyond agreeing to a resolution for two
weeks holiday recess. beginning December
y, the proceedings in the house to-day were
almost entirely devoid of public interest
Morse's bill regulating the sale of LIQUOR in
the District of Columbia was passed.
December Ex-senator Morgan of Ala
pama held the attention of the Senate and
weH-hlled galleries for an hour by his
earnest advocacy of strong and decisive
policy in dealing with the Cuban question.
MI. Morgan spoke freely of the possibibil-
tiles of war, welcoming it if necessary to
guarantee the protection of American citi-
zenS He asserted that SPANS bankruptcy
would prevent the collection of any
indemnity for wrongs. The question
OF passing the bill granting Nancy
Alabach a pension, the veto of the
president notwithstanding, occasioned con-
siderable debate, but was finally passed over
the veto: yeas, Al; nays, II. Mr.. Allen in
troduced a resolution for the appointment
of committee of nine Senators to investi-
gate the extent to which money was used in
the recent presidential election. The reso-
luton empowers the proposed committee to
SEND Tor persons and papers, and directs a
report Dy the first Monday of December,
1897. The resolution was referred to the
committee on contingent expenses, Mr..
Allen remarking that he earnestly desired
speedy report back to the Senate.
Tne mouse entered upon the consideration
of the Loud bill, to amend the law relating
to the transmission of second class mail
| matter. 1t denies the right of serial novels
to admission to the mails at the newspaper
the sample copy privilege; prohibits the re-
turn OF unsold publications at the pound
| rates, and makes some other changes in the
| present law designed to correct existing
abuses The bill to reorganize the Atlantic
and Pacific Railroad company was called up
| and passed with some amendments, after
an hours debate The bill as passed gives
! the purchasers under foreclosure sale all
the right of the old company under its gov
! eminent charter.
December 16-The session of the Senate
| developed the most eventful and exciting
| debate that either branch of Congress has
heard in long time. 1t brought forward
| the recognized leaders of the various parties
| and elements, including such conspicuous
figures as Messas Sherman, Frye, German,
Teller, Vest, Aldrich, Plat, Mitchell of Ore
gon, Chandler, Hale and Allen in notable
statements on leading questions which have
! engaged the attention of Congress and the
| country of late. Throughout the debate the
sentiment had prevailed that the Dingley
| Dill was dead, and to give this final and
/ apparently Official sanction, Mr.. Plat of the
finance committee, announced that no effort
| would be made to urge that bill to passage
Mr.. Sherman promptly arose and said, in
| view of what had been said, he acquiesced
IN the general sentiment that no further
effort should be made on behalf of the
| Dfngley bill. This was regarded as the final
| disposition of the bill.
The day in the house was productive of
| little progress the army appropriation
bill was under discussion but a deadlock
occurred over the proposition for the aban-
donment of the army and navy hospital at
Hot Springs, Ark. and the house adjourned.
December 1.-THE senate, by vote of So
/ to TO- passed the Lodge immigration bill
with section that it should not apply to
persons arriving from Cuba during the war
| on the island. AS passed, the bill amends
| the immig grafton laws so as to exclude from
admission to the United States all persons
over 16 years of age, who can not read
and write the language of their ma
| tive country or some other language,
but an admissible immigrant, over the
age of 16, may bring in with him or send
| for, his wife or parent, or grandparent or
minor children or grandchild, notwith-
standing their inability to read and write.
The bill goes to the house for conference.
The House passed the third of the regular
| appropriation bills, that for the support of
the army The bill as passed makes no pro-
vision for the Army and Navy hospital at
Hot Springs, Ark.