Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1897-03-04
NATIONAL SOLONS
REVIEW OF THEIR WORK A.
WASHINGTON.
Detailed PrOceedings Of Senate ana
House-Bills Passed or Introduces
in Either Branch-Qucstions of Nh.
The Legislative Grind.

Representative Sulzer. of New Vol.
Thursday introduced bill in the Honss
declaring war between Spain and b..
colonies and the United States. A raso
luton calling on the President for nj, IN
formation concerning the treatment -.
American prisoners in Cuba was adontoa
The Senate was stOrm-swept by such ms
sionate debate, such extraordinary dars
onstrations in the crowded galleries ons
such frantic personal exchanges betwaar
the conspicuous figures of the Senate a.
to make the day one of the most memor.
BILE in the annals of the upper branch ~
Congress. Cuba was the theme md !.
seemed to call forth all the pent.up emo
tons of months. 1t brought abont tho
complete displacement of appropriated
bills. threatening their failure, and tn,
advancement of the Cuban question to th.,
very front of Senate business.
Cuba was again a topic in the Sen,t.
Friday, from l to 4:3O o'clock; but tho
debate upon the Sanguily and Acquire
resolutions was comparatively spiritless
and resulted in no definite action Thn
first half hour of the evening session was
given to private pension bills. the pension
calendar being cleared. Among the hin,
passed was that pensioning Gen. Cassius
NJ. Clay of Kentucky at $50 a month. A.
3 o'clock the considerati ton of the Indian
bill was resumed, the amendment re]at.
ing to the five civilized tribes being die
cussed at great length. The amendment
as finally agreed to gives the United
States exclusive Jurisdiction over all civil
and criminal cases. abolishing the native
courts. Two additional judges are pro-
vided for the territory. The bill was then
passed. The House passed the Senate
International monetary conference bin nv
vote of go to 3. 1t was supported alike
by Republicans. silver Republicans. gold
Democrats and silver Democrats. Bills
were also passed to provide for the arbi-
tration of differences between the carriers
of interstate commerce and their employees
(known as the Erdman bilD, and the Sen.
ate bill to prevent the importation of i'm.
pure tea.
There was a majority Of three to one
against ticket scalping when vote was
taken in the House Saturday on the bill
reported from the Committee on Inter.
state and Foreign Commerce. Mr.. Sher-
man. chairman Of the Committee on In
dian Affairs. moved that the House nom
concur in the Senate amendments to the
Indian appropriation bill and agree to a
conference. The motion was carried and
the bill was sent to conference. In the
Senate Mr.. Daniel presented certified
copies of the naturalization papers of Julio
Sanguilly, and had them printed, with ex-
tracts from the law showing their regular
ity. Mr.. Chandler made statement an
to the Loud bill. saying the committee
had concluded that it was impossible TO
have any legislation on the subject ut the
present session, and that commission
should be created to investigate second
class mail matter. The usual Sunday
quiet of the capitol building was disturb
ed by session of the Senate, made nee
essary to pass the appropriation bills. The
attendance of Senators was even greater
than that through the week. BY par
liamentary fiction the session was part
of the legislative day beginning Saturday.
Il recess having been taken at go
O'Clock in the morning until 3 p. m. The
sundry civil appropriation bill received its
finishing touches. and was passed The
Senate, by unanimous vote. has added
an amendment to the bill. counteracting
the Presidents recent order withdrawing
II 100000 acres of land from the public
domain and establishing it as forest re-
serves. e;
When the naval appropriation bill first
came up in the Senate Monday after
noon Mr.. Chandler stated that he would
move later to increase the appropriation
for torpedo boats or decrease the number
provided. All the other items were agreed
to without comment cxc"pt that relating
to cost Of amor. establishment Of Govern
ment arnlor plant. ETC., which occasioned
extended debate. The Chandler amend
ment reducing the price of armor plate to
$500 ton was adopted without divis-
ion. Another, to reduce the total Of CON
tracts authorized to $2.4O7 800, to corre-
spond with the reduction per ton. was
adopted. The amendment authorizing the
Secretary of the Navy to establish a Gov
eminent armor plate factory at a cost OF
x1.jU,OOO if he failed to make contracts
was lost. The naval bill was passed ut
midnight, and although Mr. Chandler
tried to call up the international none
tary conference bill the Senate adjourned.
In the House the bill to prohibit the trans
mission Of detailed accounts of prize fights
by mail or telegraph led to very lively
skirmish, in which prize fighting was de-
nounced on all sides. But the bill met
with most strenuous opposition on the
ground that it would tend to establish
censorship of the press, and was finally
sidetracked. A bill was passed to pro-
vide for the transmission to Washington
OF presidential election returns by mail.
The bill abOlishes the system of messen-