The Flagstaff sun-democrat., 1897-03-04
WORK OF CONGRESS.
What Our Senators and Representatives
 Are Doing at the National Capitol.

What Our Senators and Representatives
 Are Doing at the National Capitol.
 THE senate on the 22d listened to the reading of Washington's farewell address by Senator Daniel Va) and then took up the Indian ap- propriation bill. The clause directing tempo rary contracts for sectarian schools was agreed to, q provision being added that 1t was the set tied policy of the government hereafter to make no appropriations whatever for tho sup port of sectarian schools. .... The house passed the general deficiency appropriation bill after long debate over the item of $l 300 00o for the payment of the claim of the Southern Pacific railroad, the house refusing to strike 1t out A warm discussion was also raised for an appro- D riation to pay members who had their salaries docked for absence during the last congress, but the members who wanted the appropriation were beaten by l22 to 96. The naval bill was then taken up and l6 of the 4S pages were com pleted
 THE senate on the 23d disposed of only one item of the Indian bill, that directing the open ing of the Uncompahgre Indian reservation in Utah. Several senators sharply criticised the presidents recent order withdrawing from the public domain some 2l, 900 900 acres of land for forest reservations. A resolution by Senator Mills Crex.) was adopted, asking the president for information as to the death of Dr. Ruiz, in Cuba. Senator Morrill, (Vt) announced that he would soon deliver Cuban speech The house during debate over the bill to permit the governors of territories to appoint certain officers without the consent of the legislative councils got into Q political discussion on the subject of civil service reform, MT. Bailey CTex.) saying that on March there w02,d be 350,OOO republican office-seekers and 60 900 offices. MT Grosvenor (O) ridiculed civil service reform and predicted that the tide was rising which would sweep the law out of existence and give the young men chance. Mir. Brosius (Pa.) de- nied that the law was antagonistic to young men and that the merit law gave them . chance to aspire to office without begging at the feet Of bosses. The naval bill was afterwards passed with little opposition
 IN the senate on the 24th Senator Morgan (Ala.) introduced q resolution from the com mittee on foreign relations calling for the im- mediate release of Julio Sanguilly, imprisoned in Havana. Senator Allen (Neb) introduced Q resolution calling on the president to send bat tleships to Cuba and effectively protect Ameri- can prisoners there Senator Hill (N Y) in troduced a resolution calling on the secretary of state for all correspondence with Consul General Lee relative to Americans imprisoned in Cuba. The Indian bill was then taken up. but so little progress was made on it that Sem ator Allison Qa) warned the senators that the status of appropriation bills was most danger ous and it was agreed that the senate should sit from now on until midnight. The feature of the house was the ovation given to William J. Bryan, who appeared on the floor the con- fusion being so great that Speaker Reed was forced to call for order. Most of the day was devoted to District of Columbia business. The conference report the bill to define the rights of the purchasers of the Atlantic & Pa- ciic railroad under the foreclosure sale was adopted.
 THE senate on the 18th irdulged in an excit- ing debate over the Cuban resolutions intro- duced the previous day. Senator Allen (Neb.) severely arraigned Spain for cruelties against women and children. Senator Morgan (Ala.) followed in a speech reciting the breach of treaty rights in Julio Sanguilly's case, and Sem ator Daniel (Va-) spoke of the outrages to American citizens and insults to American offi- cials committed by Spaniards in Cuba. The gallery several times applanded and the vice president was powerless to restrain it. No final action was taken on the resolutions. At the evening session the Indian bill was taken up. In the house Mir. SulZer (N. Y.) intro
 iuced bill declaring war between Spain and the United States and for issuing letters of marque to armed vessels of the United States against Spanish vessels The conference re- port on the bill to amend the act for the repeal of the timber culture laws, so as to permit set tiers on the Sioux reservation in South Dakota to commute their entries and receive title upon paying S1 per acre, and the conference report 
 agreed to.
 THE senate on the 2eth gave little evidence of the excitement over the Cuban resolutions of the day before Senator Frye (Me.) said at the outset that as Julio Sanguilly had been pardoned by the queen regent of Spain 1t was useless to waste any more powder on the caso and the resolution went to the calendar. Sen- ator Morgan (Ala) secured the adoption of an- other resolution, calling for information as to the imprisonment of George Washington Aguirre A resolution by Senator Call Fla.), calling on the president for information on the death of Dr. Ruiz in Cuba, went over. Senator Quay (Pa.) endeavored to get the bill for a com- mission to investigate labor problems taken up, but objection was made. The Indian appro- priGtion bill was then discussed and at 1:3O ?. m passed ... . In the house the senate interna- tional monetary conference bill was passed by Q vote of 279 to g. The bill to provide for tho arbitration of differences between the carriers of interstate commerce and their employees and the bill to prevent the importation of impure tea were also passed.