The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-02-01
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
ILlV. CONGRESS.
First SESSION.

IN the senate. on the Goth, the report o: the
committee on foreign relations as to the ex-
tent and meaning of the Monroe doctrine and
its applicability to the Venezuelan dispute
Was received and placed on the calendar with
out discussion. No progress was made with
the house bond bill and free coinage substi-
tute reported from the committee on finance.
Mr.. PETERS funeral bill was referred to the
committee on rules. Several bills OF minor
Importance were passed..--..In the house sew
eral minor bills and resolutions were agreed
to. The presidents message in response to
house resolution Of inquiry into the conduct
of Ambassador Bayard was received and re-
ferTed- The urgent deficiency bill was report
ed, and the military academy appropriate on
bill was passed in committee of the whole.
In the senate, on the 21st, most of the days
session was spent in disposing OF bills on the
calendar that were unobjected to. 65 of which
We e passed. Two resolutions having reference
to the war in Cuba, were. after brief discussion,
referred to the committee on foreign relations
......In the house the urgent deficiency appro-
priation bill, carrying si,42O, 403, was passed,
being the third appropriation bill already
passed at this session. Among other meas
ures passed was a bill affirming and legaliZing
the issue of certain bonds authorized by the
last legislature Of New Mexico for public
buildings.
IN the senate. on the o2d, Senator Wolcott
Coll held the rapt attention of senators on
both sides OF the chamber during a Set speech
in condemnation OF the proposed extension Of
the Monroe doctrine and in criticism of the
action OF the executive on the Venezuela queS-
ton. He spoke OF the ingratitude Of the Vene-
Zuelans, less than one per cent. of whom are
white, in forgetting that it was to the aid eX-
tended by England that they owe their free
dom from the Spanish yoke. and hoped that
the boundary line would be so fixed as TO give
the rich gold fields to the protection Of the En-
gliSh common law......In the house a number
of unimportant bills and resolutions were
passed, and the unanimous report Of elections
committee No. . confirming the claim Of II c.
Miner. the sitting member from the Ninth
New York district, was agreed to without de-
bate.
Il the senate. on the ed. after the morning
hour, Mr. Villas dem, Wis., reported a bill
from the judiciary committee to prevent the
carrying Of obscene literature, etc. from one
state Or territory to another. The resolution
offered by Mr.. Warren rep, Wyo) directing
attention to the unprecedented shrinkage in
the value of farm. animals Gas made the text
of a strong protective tarif speech by its au-
thor. Mr.. Dubois rep IdahO) spoke upon the
bond bill. and Mr.. Sewall (rep) in advocacy OF
the maintenance OF the Monroe doctrine 49,.
In the house Mr.. Henderson rep, la report
ed from the committee on rules a modified
form of the quorum-counting provision Of the
Fifty-first congress-, which, after debate, was
adopted.
IN the senate, on the 24th, the concurrent
resolution previously reported from the COM
mittee on foreign relations on the subject of
the Armenian outrageS. was taken up and
passed, after 4 highly interesting discussion in
which the barbarity Of the Turks and the in
action of the powers were roundly censured.
Mr.. Jones dem, Ark gave notice that he
would ask the senate. on the 30th, to remain in
session until a vote was reached on the house
bond biz with the free coinage substitute.
In the house, in night session for the cOnSid-
GRAFTON of private pension matters, 10 bills
were passed, among them one granting ST5 per
month to the widow Of Brighten. C~oggSwell,
of Massachusetts. and one increasing to 81 the
pension OF the widow of Col. William Dulaney.