Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-12-09
HOUSE MEASURES.
Two Bills for the Establishment Of
Postal Savings Banks.
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE.
Many Memorials from Commercial Organ
OEatiOnS IndOruinE the Tdea-COOnoy'S
constitutional AmendmOnt-A
National Quarantine

WASHINGTON, Dec. 7.-Congressman
Lorimer, Of Chicago, yesterday intro
duced in the house bill providing for
the establishment of postal savings
banks. The bill provides for central
bank at Washington and branch banks
at the various post offices Of the coun-
try. A feature of the bill is proviso
that married women can make deposits
the same as if they were single. No
individual can deposit more than $500
in any one year, and no interest shall
be paid on deposits of over 81, 900. The
rate of interest to be paid is two per
cent. Congressman Bartholdt also in
troduced a bill providing for the es-
Establishment of postal savings banks.
Mr.. Bartholdt introduced postal
savings bank bills in the Fifty-Third
and Fifty Fourth congresses, but his
new measure is more deliberately
drawn. Mr.. Bartholdt says it covers
every one of the suggestions of the
! postmaster general
| Proposed Department of Commerce.
WASHINGTON, Dec. IA number Of
memorials are being received by the
committees on commerce and inter
state commerce in favor of the creation
of department of commerce. Boards
of trade and other commercial org an
izations in Chicago, Milwaukee, Quincy
and other northwestern cities are the
latest to send their Endorsements.
Senator Frye, chairman of the com
merce committee, introduced a bill
creating such department at the last
session of congress, and will urge it at
this session. The committee will grant
hearings soon to commercial bodies
from various parts of the country The
bill provides that the head of the de-
partment shall be a member of the
cabinet, but chiefly for reasons of
economy congress may decide to create
a bureau of commissioners instead of
department
COOney's Constitutional Amendment.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 7.-Congressman
Cooney of Missouri, yesterday intro
duced in the house a resolution pro-
viding for the submission of consti-
tutional amendment. The amend
ment which Mr.. Cooney proposes is
that no territory shall be admitted to
statehood in the United States which
does not lie contiguous to the terri
tory already embraced in the United
States. Mr.. Cooney admits that the
purpose of the amendment is to pre-
vent either Hawaii or Cuba coming
into the United States as a state. He
has no objection, he says, to the Ha-
waiian treaty of annexation, nor would
he oppose the annexation of Cuba as a
territory, but he would oppose their
being admitted as states. Mr.. Cooney
thinks that the adoption of his consti-
tutional amendment would remove
much of the opposition to annexation.
National Quarantine.
WASHINGTON, Dec. THE scourge |
of yellow fever from which a number
of states suffered during the past sum-
mer, and which was only checked by
the cold weather, has revived interest |
in the matter of a quarantine. Repre-
sentative Thad NJ Mahon, of Pennsyl-
vania, has pending in the house a bill
providing for the establishment of
bureau of public health and the estab-
lishment and the maintenance of a sys-
TEN of quarantine; and ALSO providing
measures of security against the intro
duction and spread of contagious and
epidemic disease.