The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-04-11
The CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS
What Was Done in the Two
| Houses Yesterday.
For sectarian Schools.
The Imprisonment OF Mrs. Maybrick
and the Secretary of the Interior Dis
oussed In the senate-The House Busy
All Day With the Question OF Filled
Cheese.

WASHINGTON. April 1o.-The Senate
took up the question Of appropriations
for secsarian schools to-day but did not
complete 1t. The debate was very tenn
perate. no reference being made to the
organization which has been active In
opposition to sectarian schools. Mr.. Car.
ter. OF Montana, proposed to strike out
the provision that no money should be
spent on sectArian schools. This led to
q general argument in which Senators
Carter, Lodge, Gray. Hoar, Hawley, AL
lison and Gallinger participated. An
important bill, which passed at the close
Of she day, was that providing for
trans Mississippian and International
Exposition at Omaha in 1898.
Eearly in the day Mr.. Call (Dem.,
Fls.) stated that inquiries had been
made OF him by Eugene v. Debs and
other labor leaders as to whether the
Senate judiciary committee was taking
any action upon the restriction Of the
power OF federal judges.
Mr.. Hoar arose and said that MIR. Hill
(Dem., N. W had special charge OF the
bill and Mr.. Thurston had presented a
measure covering the whole subject.
He (Mr. Hoar) expected definite plan
would be presented to the Senate later.
There was something OF breeze
presented on q joint resolution, con-
corning the imprisonment of Mrs. Nav
brick, and requesting that the Presi-
dent intervene with the British au-
thorities toward securing her release.
THAT ought not to be introduced
here, snd l move TO lay the resolution
on the table," interposed Mr.. Sherman.
"The Senate of the United States has
no jurisdiction of the subject"
Mr.. Gall dissented from this PROPOSE
ton and said he would insist on vote on
It, The resolution, he said was in defer
ence to wide public sentiment in this
country. and there was nothing in 1t
discourteous towards Great Britain. He
thought the course proposed by Mr..
Sherman an arbitrary one. Mr.. Sher.
man insisted on Its being tabled.
The consideration of the Indian ap-
preparation bill was then resumed, in
which Mr.. Cannon criticised the Score
tary Of the Interior, and Mr.. Palmer de-
Tended him.
House Proceedings.
The House to-day spent the entire dsy
in general debate on the "filled cheese"
bill. Tomorrow the bill will be read
under the five minutes rule for amend
ment. There is considerable opposition
to the adoption and it's promoters fear II
will fail to pass. The principal obiec-
tion seems to be the taxes of the bill.
Those who spoke In favor of II to-
day were: Messrs. Grosvenor. Tawney,
Ssuerhering, Barney and Dolliber, all
Republicans. Those in opposition were
Otey, Mcmillan, Tracy. Evans, Linney,
Shaw, Clardy and Underwood.
Mr.. Grosvenor, of Ohio, in speaking
in favor Of the passage of the filled
cheese" bill, said of all the persons
who appeared before the wsys and
means committee, but one, q manufac.
turer OF filled cheese, had opposed the
bill. The bill had been framed on the
lines OF the oleomargarine bill, which
hod become law against the most In
tense opposition, and had been subse-
quently subjected to the severest tests
Of litigation.
Mr.. Otey (Dem., Va.) opened the
debate In opposition to the bill, (which he
said should be entitled q bill to manu-
facture crime. He maintained that the
testimony OF experts showed that filled
cheese WAS q healthy article Of diet, as
good as cream cheese and milch cheese.
Mr. McMillin (Dem., Tenn.), member
OF the ways and means committee, made
the principal argument against the bill.
lie argued that there was no reason
why the manufacturers of filled cheese
should be taxed while the manufac.
iurers OF other forms Of cheese were not
taxed, and that resort to the power OF
taxation for the suppression OF It's pro-
duction or sale was an abuse of that
power.
Mr.. Linney (Rep., N. o.. in opposing
the bill said he had left the Democratic
party because 1t had drifted away from
the proper system Of taxation.
The House st o. 10. took q recess un.
I'll o'clock.