The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1896-03-18
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Gathered from All Quarters.
CONGRESSIONAL.

SENATE, March 10--Mr. Lodge attacked tne
course of Senor Dupoy De LONE, the spanish
minister to the United States, IN correctins
through the public press statements Ihaue IN
the senate on the subject OF the war III Ouur''
particularly on the subject OF Gen. WeylcI
purpose and character Other senators tooi''
mart in the debate that followed. The balance
Of the session was given to the Delaware eice-
tion case. Mr. Turpie continuing out not nhisn-
inc his speech against Mr.. Dupont's rlght 10
the seat.
HousE-The annual fight against ne appro-
nrIntion of $4,000 for special faculties over
the trunk lines between Boston ana new Ut
leans. carried In the bill for the past /! years"
came up during the consideration OF inc posU
ofice appropriation bill Mr.. Loud moVeG % 10
strike out the item, but this was deiea,eu lno
provisions Of the bill setting forth inc resu-
Iations under which street car mall service
should be conducted, the prlceS u pe i'A0' 0'>''
we're stricken out.
SENATE March 11.-Mr Hoar made speech
in support of his resolution to postpone the
conference report on the Cuban concurIenV
resolutions till April and 1t nnaliy WenC W
the calendar, from which there VIII propapy
be no effort made to reSurrect It, MI lurpio
concluded his three days speech against inc
claim of Mr.. Dupont to seat IN the seh"'o
from Delaware and the senate adJourheu
House post office appropriation m Dl't
was disposed of and sent to the senate lhe
session was chiefly devoted to consideration
of the 'spy" system in the post office depart
ment ne espionage upon letter carriers in the
past two years is called, and it was attacked py
several members An amendment TO strike ou ou.
the increase Of appropriation made IN tne oili
for the payment OF post office inspectors was
agreed to- ,, ,a
SENATE. March l2.-Mr. Hill attacked ana
Mr. Sherman defended the conference repor'
on the Cuban belligerency resolution Alter
speech by Mr., Pritchard in support OIL M
Duponts claim to seat in the senate q mum
ber OF bills were taken from the calelu"f "i'
passed and the senate adjourned
HousE-'rhe session was devoted to the con
sideration of contested election cases I'M
case of Dudley Coleman vs. Charles f. Buck
from the Second Louisiana district, was dls
posed of by the adoption OF resolutions reporte
by elections committee No. :, that Colena
(rep) was not elected and that Buck (ueih'
was entitled to his seat Debate upon the Gus
of William f. Aldrch VS.. CASTOR a. koppln'
from the Fouftn ..labama district, TOOK up I'll
remainder Of the day
SENATE, March la-Mr. Cockren, OF MIS-
souri,, in long speech presented the hlune, .
condition of the government. during whleh
argued that every government opng'uoh
with the single exception OF gold certlncatcs
was payable in gold or silver coirat the opIl.
of the government The senate adjourned uni
the 10th.
HousE-By vote of 173 to % it was decide
that CASTOR A. Robbins (dem.) was not entlti
TO the seat occupied by him as representatl
from the Fourth Alabama district ana 1t W
givon to w. f. Aldrich his republican opp
nent. Two bills were passed. One requlrl
engineers and assistant engineers on steane
sailing under American registers to De Anne
can citizens The other was the tonnage I
bill repeating the reciprocal provisions OF
law of 1884, and reducing the tax on the COZ
trade. Adjourned until the 10th.