The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1897-04-08
WORK OF CONGRESS-.
Condensed Proceedings OF the Ma
# tiOnal Law Mill.

y Washington, April i. - With this
morning the duties imposed by the
Dingley tariff bill will be in force and.
the present law will be thing Of the
PAST if the last amendment attached
to the bill before it's passage in the
house fixing to-day as the day on
which it's provisions shall go into eff
feet. should be in the bill when tits
finally enacted and should be held to
be legal by the courts. The Republics
ans. ans presented an unbroken front to-
the opposition. All the rumors that
with particular sched-
5ules Of the bill might lead some, of
them to break over the party traces
proved unfounded. Five Democrats;
one more than was anticipated, gave
the bill the approval of their votes.
These five Democrats are interested in
the sugar schedule. Three come from
Louisiana and two from Texas One
populist, Howard of Alabama, voted
for the bin. Twenty-one other mem
bers Of what is denominated "the OPP
POSITION" consisting of Populists,
Fusionists and Silverites, declined, to
record themselves either against or for
the measure. The vote on the final
passage was 205 to 1922; present and:
not voting, p, majority of 49,. Speak
CT Reed added to the dramatic nature
of the climax by directing the clerk to
call his name at the end Of the roll
call, recording his vote for the bill,
Events of the last hour leading up to-
the final vote were replete with ex-
element and incident and not devoid
of humor. The galleries were crowd
ed to suffocation. Even the executive
and diplomatic galleries, which are
usually empty even Oh big days, were
7 we'll filled. Many prominent person
ages were present. On; the floor every
seat was taken. After the amendment
fixing to-day as the date on which the
bill should go into effect had been
adopted against the protests of the
Democrats, who contende6 that it was
retroactive and therefore unconstitu-
tiOnal the last three hours were taken
Z up with short speeches, most of which
+ were made for the benefit of the gal
leries and the constituents of the
speakers. The Democrats had yielded
the question of a long debate over the
Grosvenor amendment in the hope that
enough progress might be made with
The bill to permit the house to reach
the sugar schedule, but only two more
pages were read, leaving 14O unconsid-
cred in committee of the whole. The
motion to recommit with instructions
to amend the bill so as to suspend the
duties on articles controlled by trusts,
upon which they based their principal
| hope of breaking through the Repub-
| iican ranks, failed Of it's purpose. Every
| Republican voted against it, There
| Was a great demonstration on the
| floor and in the galleries when the bill
| was finally declared passed.
| In the Senate.
| The open session of the senate last
ed less than half an hour. It was pro-
ductive Of another Cuban resolution
by Mr.. Mills of Texas, calling on the
committee on foreign relations for 4
report on the obligations assumed by
! the United States in insisting that
! Cuba should not be annexed to any
j European power and should remain
/ subject to Spain. Mr. Hale's objection
i sent the resolution over. The; Morgan
resolution calling on the president for
lssGen. Gomezs letters also went over.
The rest of the day was spent in ex-
ecutive session on the arbitration
treaty.
Washington, April 3. The Guam
question was revived in the senate
after long period of comparative
calm. -Four distinct Cuban resolutions
were brought forward in rapid success
sion. The last and most important one
came from Senator Morgan Of Ala
bama. 1t declares that state Of war
exists in Cuba and announces the pol
icy of the United States is to accord
both parties to the conflict full recogni-
tion as belligerents. Mr. Morgan gave
notice that he would call up the reso,
luton at the next meeting of the SEN
ate, with the expectation of securing
final action. OF the other resolutions,
two were agreed to. One of these, by
Mr.. Morgan, calls on the president for
the letters of Gen. Gomez to himself
and Mr.. Cleveland and for other infor-
nation on Cuban affairs. The other
by Mr. Mills of Texas, instructs the
committee on foreign relations to re.
port what obligations the United States
has assumed by compelling Cuba to re-
main subject to Spain. Both resolu-
lions were passed without opposition.
Still another resolution came from Mr..
Allen OF Nebraska, and proposed a pro-
test against the repotred purpose of the
Spanish authorities to try Gen. Ruiz
Rivera, the Cuban officer, by military
drumhead court martial. This led to
an animated controversy between Mr..
Allen and Mr.. Hoar. The latter criti-
cised ''infiammatory resolutions and
declared that the freedom of Cuba had
been retarded mainly by the prod
ding and :'goading" resolutions di-
rected against Spain. The resolution
went over, to come up with the resolu-
ton for the recognition of Cuban bel
ligerency at the next meeting. The
senate adjourned to Monday.
4 Washington, April 3.-The Republic
! an members of the senate committee
on finance are continuing their work
\ on the tariff bill with the intention OF
reporting it to the senate at the earliest
possible day. They are not yet pre-
pared to give out any of the results OF
their investigations, and say when ap
preached upon the subject that they
have not as yet reached any con
illusions upon any schedules of the bill
There is, however, a well defined i'm
preston about the senate that the bill
will be generally remodeled and the
rates considerably reduced in many OF
the schedules. A member Of the com