The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-05-15
THE DUPONT CASE IN The SENATE
It Will be Voted on by That Body
To-day.
A Joint Resolution Passed by the Senate
to Garry Into Eject REGULATORS of
the Continental Congress Directing
Monuments to Generals Nash and
Davidson, of North Carolina-Pension
Bills Passed by the House,

Bills raised by the House,
WASHINGTON. May 1.-THE Dupont
case was taken up in she Senate TO.
day with view to concluding the de-
bate and taking final vote at 5 .. m.
tomorrow.
Twospee ches against the bill proposing
additional restrictions ON immigration
were made early in the day. Mr.. Glib
son severely arraigned the A. P. A., de-
claring that it inspired this bill and tn OF
the organization was seeking to invade
politics.
Mr.. Nelson said the A. P. A. had had
NO part in inspiring the bill. Mr.. CAT
fiery spoke briefly during the day on
the need of action to Offset the pro-
posed legislation by the German reich.
stag on sugar bounties.
The following bills were passed
Amending the law relative to liens on
imported goods while In customs
houses; settling titles of certain lands
IN the Avadonda grant, Colum bia
county, Fla q joint resolution to csrry
into effect two resolutions of the con-
tinentsl congress directing monuments
to be erected to the memory of Generals
Mash and William Lee Davidson, of
North Carolina.
sixty pension bills were passed
clearing the calendar of all pension
bills except the one recommended to
psss overa veto. Among the bills passed
were those pensioning the widow OF
Brig-Gen. John Hough at $50 per month;
the daughter of Gen. Phillip Kearney
at $26; the widow of Rear Admiral Queen
at SIS.
The Vice-President named Senators
Gray, of Delaware, and Sewell, of New
jersey, as Members of the board Of Wis
itors to West Point, and Senators
Blackburn, OF Kentucky, and Hale, of
Maine. to Annapolis. At 5:45 p. m the
Senate held an executive session and
then adjourned.
House Proceedings.
The House to- day devoted the whole
day to private pension bills. They
were disposed OF at the rate OF about
one every five minutes, fifty.eight In
all being favorsbly acted upon before
adjournment.
Among them were bills granting
pensions to the widow Of Gen. o. nj.
Poe, $50; the widow of GenesAl jameson,
$50; the widow of Gen. John Newton.
S75; the widow of United States Sem.
tor George K. Spencer, OF Alabama, $50,
and ex-Congressman Smalls, OF South
Carolina, $40.
While the pension bills were being
considered the committee of the whole
rose informally and disagreed to the
Senate amendments to the river and
harbor bill and sent 1t to conference.
Mr.. Hepburn rep, Is caused g
Hurry later by raising the point hat the
action of the House on the river and
harbor bill was irregular. He con-
tended that the committee of the whole
had no right to rise in order to disagree
amendments carried large additional
appropriations. he said, and were sub.
iect to the point Of order that tbey must
first be considered In committee.
The action taken took them beyond
the Jurisdiction of the House in that re-
spect and was an Injustice. It WAS, In
fsct, snap judgments. Mr.. Richardson
Dem, Tenn thought Mr.. Hepburn's
point of order would have held at the
time, but that 1t came too late.
Mr.. Cannon agreed with Mr. Hepburn
that the action was q species of sharp
practice which any friend Of the bill
ought to hasten to correct. Mr.. Her
man (Rep., Ore.), who made the mo-
ton, denounced the insinuation of
sharp practice and explained shat the
demand for an early adjournment made
1t imperative that every means should
be taken to get the river and harbor
bill to the President with the least
possible delay.
The speaker took the point OF order
under advisement. and will render his
decision tomorrow. Before the House
went. into committee of the whole
under the order, the report In the con-
tested election case of Cheatham VS..
Woodsrd, from the Second North Caro-
lima district in favor of the sitting
member WAS adopted without division.