Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-02-03
CONGRESS.
Senate.

After brief but stirring debate the
Senate on the Oath agreed to the concur
rent resolution urging decisive action ny
the European powers against Turkey and
pledging to the President the support of
Congress in the most vigorous action he
may take for the protection of Americans
in Turkey and the redress for injuries to
American persons and property. Mr. Gull
lom Qll), who reported the resolution.
Iorth the startling extent of the massa-
cres; the greatest in the history of the
world, the senator said. Mr.. Blanchard of
Louisiana spoke in the same line. The eli
max Of the day was reached when Mr.. Frye
of Maine supported the resolution in
speech which aroused great enthusiasm
from the galleries for its expressions of
sympathy with the Armenians and for its
bitter arrangement of Great Britains course
Senators Frank J. Cannon and Arthur
Brown of the new state of Utah took the
oath OF office in the Senate on the 27th., the
former drawing the term ending March g.
1899. and the latter the term ending March
g., 1897 With the exception Of the contest
ed Delaware case this establishes the poit-
gress until March 4, 1897, as follows: Re
Rr1 publ, ae a; Democrats 80; Pepu!ists, g
At O'Clock Mr.. Hansbrough (Rep. n. d.
addressed the Senate on the resolution in
structing the secretary. of agriculture. to
execute the law concerning the distribution
OF seeds, etc. Mr.. Hansbrough severely
pb a the secretary ar Of grcutnr9e for
accordance with the law
Foreign affairs and finance. occupied the
attention At Of the Senate on the 2Sth; Mr..
strong application of the Monroe doctrine,
and was at times warmly applauded for the
2atriotic ring. of his sentiments, Senator
Turpie of Indiana touched on the Turkish
atrocities in brief but very energetic
speech. Mr.. voorhees, of Indiana, who was
until recently chairman of the finance COM
mittee, spoke in advocacy Of the remonetl,
cation Of silver and sharply arralgned those
responsible for the elimination Of silver
urged the, advantage, of gold standard.
His speech was notable in its presentation
OF the fluctuations of prices, showing them.
10 result from Invention and natural causes
and not from silver decentralization. Mr.
Clark Of Wyoming spoke in favor of silver
coinage. Another effort was made by Mr..
Jones of Arkansas, III charge of the silver
bond bill, to have the vote fixed for the
3oth. Mr.. Hill objected. however.
The presentation Of committee reports on
Cuha, and highly dramatic and. sensa-
tional speech from Mr.. Tillman, the new
senator from South Carolina, furnished two
stirring events in the Sci lte on the Goth.
The majority resolution on Cuba asks the
President to urge Spain to grant belligerent
rights to the insurgents, While the minority
towards securing from Spain the complete
independence of Cuba. Both resolutions
went to the Senate calendar Such tor,
in the Senate as that in the speech of Mr..
Tillman. Veteran members of the body
characterized the speech as one of the
per branch of Congress- It aboundeG in
statements of sensational character. ar
raigning President Cleveland, Secretary
Carlisle and other men in high places;
There was directness of statement and
a dramatic manner of delivery which awed
A very animated debate closed the Senate
session late the Both over the question
of taking the vote on the pending silver
bond bill. 1t had been expected throughout
the day that Mr. Jones (Ark), in charge Of
the bill, would hold the Senate in session
notice Of this. purpose and senator's were
prepared for it. But at 4:15, when Mr..
Villas secured the floor for speech. he
yielded for motion to go into executive
session. Mr.. Jones explained that it was
proposed to take a recess until the follow
ing day. He felt satisfied he said. that
led to much discussion Mr. Chandler was
sarcastic at the abandonment of the plan
for d vote Mr. Stewart declared thar it
made no difference when vote was taken.
or whether any was taken. 1t was al
'dress parade" and ''buncombe." He added
the significant statement that the pending
amendment to the tariff bill. and that when
the latter measure came before the Senate
he would offer silver amendment to test
senators on their choice between tariff and
silver.
There were no important incidents at the
night session of the House on the. 9th
private pension bills. About twelve bills
were passed. among them one to pension
the widow of Gen William Cogswell of
Massachusetts at $40 per month This bill
has passed the Senate
The House on the 2Yth after an inaerest-
ing 4our-hour debate, adopted the resQkl-
+ tions passed by the Senate the week befbfe
calling on the powers signatory to the
treaty OF Berlin to enforce the reforms in
Turkey guaranteed to the Christian Arne-
mans, and pledging the support of Con-
gEess to the President in the most vigorous
action he might take for the protection and
security Of American citizens in Turkey.
The House committee had prepared some
resolutions the same subject. but it was
deemed advisable after the Senate resolr-
for those prepared by the committee.
The session of the House was brief on the
2Sth. Contrary to general expectation the
diplomatic and consular appropriation bill
precipitated no discussion whatever. None
of the foreign complications were even
mentioned and the bill was passed in less
than an hour. The appropriations carried
by the bill are about 100000 in excess of
those appropriated for the current fiscal
year.
The House adjourned early on the Goth
after Intellectual efforts to pass bills to do
nate condemned cannon and relax present
pension laws
The House adjourned early on the Both
after passing the Poole widows pension BILL
bill to grant Omaha the use Of the aban-
doned Fort Omaha military reservation and
to open forest reservations in Colorado for
| locati of mining claims.