Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1897-03-04


occupied the day, with the exception
of a sensation created by Senator Du-
bois, of Idaho, who warned his former
Republican associates that they could
not control the next Senate and that
the silver Republicans would never CO.
operate with them while they chung To
the single gold standard. A lengthy
session was held at night con tim
uing until 2:3o a. IN. The postofiice
bill was passed and the consideration
of the sundry civil bill opened.
HOUSE. A five-hours' fight on the anti
railway ticket scalping bill resulted in
its passage by vote of 142 To So.
SENATE. Goth day.-With the larg-
est number of members that has at
tended a session IN a long time the
Senate held Sunday session i'm order
to push the appropriation bills through
The sundry civil bill was under con-
sideration, number of important
items in payment of sugar bounties,
for rivers and harbors, etc, retaining
to be passed upon. The sugar bounty
amendment was agreed to, % to II.
The amendment appropriates Sl,0s5,-
1856 for the balance of bounties earned
from August, 1894, to June, 1895,
The river and harbor items were next
considered, most of the committee
amendments being agreed to as re-
ported The bill carried the unprece-
denied total of S51, 900, 900, of which
ST, 900 was for rivers and harbcrs
contracts and Senator German, of
Maryland, made AN earnest speech,
pointing out the enormous total of the
bill and urging that it be not loaded
down with new river and harbor items
Senator Hill, of New York, took oc-
casion To chaff the Senate on working
on Sunday that il involved a debate on
electric light conduits in Washington
and that the Senator (McMillan, of
Michigan.) who urged this conduit
anne ndment had himself offered bill
Ito protect the first day of the week
commonly called sunday, as a day of
rest and worship" The amendment
providing for commission to visit the
Alaska seal fisheries caused further de
bate which turned upon the treaty re-
lative to the arbitration of the Alaskan
| boundary recently sent To the
Senate by the President. Senator
Morgan, who was member of the
Paris seal arbitration tribunal, said
that as usual when the court was made
up of European arbitrators. the decis-
ion was against ms; it always would BE-
so under like circumstances. There
was more real danger of trouble over
| this seal question since the arbitration
than there ever was before arbitration
was adopted. owing TO the deliberate
refusal of Great Britain 10 carry out in
good faith the spirit of the Paris award
Il do hope, said Mr.. Morgan, that
| the incoming administration will have
the fortitude to insist that Great Brit
ain will comply with the Paris award F"
! The amendment continuing the seal
| investigation was agreed to- The Sen
ate, by a unanimous vote, then added
an amendment eounteracting the Pres
idents recent order Withdrawing 81
900, 900 acres of land from the public
domain and establishing ii as forest
reserves. The bill was then passed.
Hot sE--No session
SENATE-GIst day-Sensational Sena-
tor Tillman created stir during the
consideration of the naval iappropria-
ton bill. The recommendation of the
committee that the price of armor
plate be fixed at $500 per ton was being
discussed and Senators Hawley and
Squire had spoken against Senator
Chandeliers amendment to reduce the
ILL.,.
had complained of the lack of infor-
nation on the cost of making armor
plate. when Senator Tillman took the
floor. He charged that the armor
plate manufacturers had their paid
agents in the Senate who were rob
bing the government. The charge
was resented by Senator Hawley.
whereupon Mr.. Tillman replied that
1.-The CALLED jade ,winces, and it looked
for time as though a personal con-
flict was imminent, until Mr.. Hawley
was escorted to the cloak room by his
friends. The Chandler amendment
was adopted, but an amendment to
authorize the secretary OF the navy to
establish n government armor plate
factory at "a cost of l,500, 900 if he
failed to make contracts at $500 was
lost. The naval bill was not passed
until midnight. The President sent to
the Senate correspondence relating to
American citizens arrested in Cuba.
IIoUsE-Almost the entire day was
spent in dull routine work until the
hill TO prohibit the transmission of de-
tailed accounts of prizs fights by
mail or telegraph was brought up.
This led to very lively Skin
mish in which prize fighting was
denounced ON all sides. but the
bill met with most strenuous OPP
position ON the ground that ii would
tend TO establish censorship of the
press. No action was taken. The
sundry civil and postoflicc appropria-
ton bills were sent 10 conference. A
bill was passed to provide for the trans
mission to Washington of presidential
election returns by mail and to abolish
the present system of messengers
Four dogs hitched to sledge drew
Veterinary Surgeon Dead man from the
500 TO Alpena in six hours. The dis
tnupp il g. nilpS Ono nf tho lors has