Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-05-25
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become one of the most notable contests of
| its kind in the history of the Senate. The
! result was in doubt up to the last moment,
and this lent added interest to the final
/ vote. There had been some question as to-
| the direction of Mr.. Stewards vote, but it
went with those of the Democrats and Pop
ulists, and was the decisive vote in declar-
| ing that Mr.. Dupont was not entitled to
seat. Before taking the vote Mr.. Platt
/ Villas Dem, Wis., against. Earlier in the
day Mr.. Bacon Dem, Ga) spoke against
| Congress.
The Senate on the 18th. by vote of 6,
yeas to a nays. defeated motion by
| Mr.. Allen Pop.. Neb) to proceed with the
consideration Of the resolution to investi-
gate alleged election Irregularities in Ala
elected over r. R. Kolb, Populist Four.
Republlcan senator's. Chandler, FRYE. Gal
linger and Morrill,, and two Populists. Allen,
| and PETER. made up the affirmative vote.
! Mr.. Allen took occasion to declare that the.
vote disclosed the insincerity of Republican
honest elections. He had felt satisfied, he
said. that when it came to the show
down." Republican senators would join
! with Democrats in defeating the investiga-
ton. He said he desired this vote to go,
before the country in view of the claim that
the Republican party stood for fair cleo
| ton and an honest count. With this furry
! over. the Senate took up the bill relating
! to the price of gas in the District of Co.
lumhia. The debate involved general dis
cussion of the cost Of gas. The bill was
| passed.
! The Senate on the 18th passed the~DiS-
ing Approximately $7:3O0.000 A debate on
| the question of appropriations for sectarian
purposes cropped out on the paragraph
making appropriations for charities in the
! district. On vote the Senate sustained the
| committee in providing specific approprja-
| tons for numerous private charitable in,
stltutlons, some of them Of sectarian
character. further provision was adopt
ed for an Investigation into the charity sys-
| tenn or the district with view to ascer-
| tanning what. if any, part of the public ap-
| Preparations are used for church purposes.
/ The Senate passed the Notifications APP
| preparation bill the Goth, leaving only
| the general deficiency bill vet Enacted upon.
| senator German created stir by offering
| an amendment to the bill providing for the
issuance OF per cent. certificates of in
| debtedness in the amount of 500. 900 900 to.
meet the deficiencies in the treasury, but
Mr.. Butler Pop, ~ CO had intended to-
| press for vote on the resolution prohibit
Ing the issue of bonds without the authori-
" OF Congress, as he said the shipments
| Of gold-over $1.0OO0OO observation-disclosures
that another bond issue would be made.
fications bill. Mr.. Butler said he would de-
fer his motion until the bill was passed.
NJ NJ. Hi Immediately gave notice that at
| press the hill relative to punishment for
contempt of court. Mr.. Sherman also gave
notice that he would try to take up the
hlled cheese bill ut the first opportunity.
The Senate had an hour Of much excite
ment. with resort to obstruction tactics
/
hour on the 21st. The early portion of the
session had been given to the routine of
agreeing on conference reports on appro-
priation bills. At 5 O'Clock Mr. Butler
! pop. n. O. moved to take up his bill
prohibiting the further issue of interest
bearin: bonds. Mr.. Hill Immediately moved
| an adjournment, securing yea ar nay
vote IN order to gain time The motion to-
adjourn was defeated whereupon Mr.
Chandier followed with motion for an
executive session
House.
The House on the 18th occupied itself
| IN passing the private pension bills which
were favorably. acted upon during the two
special days given to their consideration
Mr.. Erdman Dem, Pa.) and Mr.. Talbert
Dem. s G.? threw such obstacles in the
| way OF the bills as they could. Thirty-four
were held up because they were not en-
/ crossed. but 100 were passed, leaving about
sixty We undisposed Of. At the, opening
| to question of privilege to denounce as
fabrications some newspaper reports print
entered the hall Of the House in an intoxi-
Gated condition and had been carried out
by colored .porters: He explained that at
the time of the alleged occurrence he was
i desperately i'll and had been i'll ever since
and only rev days ago had been able to
ducers. The Hoge- Otey election case N1s from rom
! the Sixth Virginia strict was unanimous
ly decided in favor ofsMr, Otey Dem.), the
session the House adjourned until Monday
1t was. expected that the House would
take up the CONSIDERATION or the lmmIgfa-,
ton bills on the calendarson the 18th under
| special order, but owing to the pressure
of other matters the order was not pre-
sented until just previous to adjournment
1t was then amended so asc to give the 10Th
and the goth until O'Clock for the consid-
Grafton of these bills. There are four Of
tional test; the Stone bill provides for
consular Inspection and the Mahany and
0fSs G Of be rfr gd n
and especially deal with immigration from
Canada. A bill to permit distilled spirits
four years old or over to be bottled in bond
was passed. In the course of some re-
marks Mr.. Henderson predicted that Con-
gress would adjourn sine die between
The House on the 10th entered upon a
two days. debate of the immigration bills
/ reported from the immigration committee.
W. A. Stone of Pennsylvania and Mr..
/ Tracewell of Indiana argued for a restrict
i've measure, Mr.. Corliss of Michigan for
his bill designed to put an end to Canadian
competition with American labor, and Mr..
Morse of massachusetts, and Mr.: Barthodt
The feature of the debate today was the
I plea of Mr.. Buck of Louisiana against any
sort of restrictive legislation beyond that
now the statute books, which excluded
paupers and criminals
After two days debate the House on the
Goth, by the overwhelming vote of 1926,
passed the Bartholdt-McCall immigration
| bill as modified by the Corliss amendment.
The Stone consular inspection bill, which
was offered substitute. was defeated,
classes of aliens excluded from admission
to the United States all male persons be-
tween the ages of 16 and so years of age
Except parents of persons living in this
| country, who cannot both read and write
English or some other language. The Cor
liss amendment added to the bill excludes
aliens who come across the borders year
after year to perform labor in the United
States with no intention of settling there
in. 1t declares all labor contracts with
aliens void and makes parties thereto with
in the jurisdiction of the United States
punishable by a fine of $1,000 imprison-
ment not exceeding one year; makes it a
| misdemeanor for naturalized citizens, who
have returned to foreign country. to make
the same his home to again perform labor
in the United States; makes it misde-
! meanor for any alien to the border
! for labor in the United States except at a
port of entry and imposes a head tax of so
| cents on each immigrant.
SO much Of the time Of the House was
occupied on the 21st in considering the
Presidents veto of bill to pension Francis
r. Hoover, private in the Sixty-fourth
Ohio volunteer infantry and in listening to.