Arizona republican., 1897-12-10
PREVAIL
Both Houses Of Congress Con-
 slider the Bill
X PATRIOTIC DEMOCRAT
Says it Cannot Include too
 Much to Suit Him
Private John Alien Wants Certain War Widows Excluded From It's Provisions-Ths Work Cut Out in the Senate for Next Week.

Provisions-Ths Work Cut Out in
 the Senate for Next Week. Washington, Dec. 9.-The house to- day entered upon the consideration of | the pension appropriation bill and 1 stirred up a debaIte that promises to continue for several days. Several of the southern democrats offered crIti- cisms of the various classes of pen sious and John Allen of Mississippi, who led the assault in a speech Geplstp with his characteristic humOr, pre- sented a series of amendments, de signed, as he said, to correct some ct the most glaring evils. They prohibit the granting of pensions to widows whose applications were not filed dur ing their widOwhood and the granting of pensions to widows whose appldcar tions were based on marriages con- Iuracted after the passage of this act. and to permanently insane and idiotio minors who had reached their major ity.
 The northern democrats, however, vied with the republicans in their pro fessions of friendship for the soldiers. and one of them, Mir. Norton of Ohio, declared that the republicans could not make the bill too large for him. Ii was admitted on both sides of the house duTfng the discussion that the S14O, ,00O, ,OOO carried by tihe bill for psr sions would not cover the expendl- ture, but as congress would be in seH sion, Mir. Cannon said, dit would be easy to make good any deficiency thai might occur.
 THE SENATE.
 Washington, Dec. 9.-The senate did a considerable amount of business to- day, although no very importam measures were considered or passed. and there was very little debate. Sen ator Gallinger, chairman of the com mitHee on pensions, called attention to the increased demand for private pen sion legislation and requested sena' -.-s to be careful in the future to see that thekr bills for private pensions we-e meritorioms before they were intro duced.
 An attempt was made by Mir. Nc Bride to secure am appropriation for the relief of the Klondyke miners, but the net result was resolution, calling on the secretary of war for all infor- nation he had on that subject. -E4- An hour was devoted ito the consideration of private pentsjon bills and torty-five were passed. A resolution of the Pacific railroads committee asking in- formation regarding the sale of ihe Kansas Pacific was passed, which gave Senator Gear of Iowa and Senator Thurstom of Nebraska an opportunity to make short speeches congratu,atine the country upon the settlement of the Pacific railroads question.
 l Some work was laid out for nexl week, Senator Garter securing the right of way on Monday and Tuesday l fom his census bill, and Senator Lodg; l had the immigration bill made un : finished business during the week. | Senator Hoar presented a monster | protest from native Hawaiians agans the ammekation of Hawaii to tht 1 Unhtbed States. The protest filed 70' pages of foolscap paper and was for warded by Enoch Johnson and Lilia llalio, secretaries respectively Of thu Hawaiian Patriotic league and tn Hawaiian Woman's Patriotic league who made certificates that the sigma tures we're all genuine. Of 21,269 sig natures, 10,30O we're women and 1,60 were foreigners. The petition wa printed i'm the English and Hawaiian language and was very brief, nnerel protesting against annexation to tn ,, United States in amy shape or form.
 FOREIGN AFFAIRS. Washington, Dec. 9.-Much interes was shown in the fh1itial meeting C the foreign affairs committee today
 as it was felt that 1t might bring a indication of the general line of pol
 icy toward Cuba and other subject , before it. Except, however, in the al
 ncmncement of the Cuban and Hs } wtaiian sub-committees, no referenC
 was made to either of these subject
 as the time of the committee wa
 given to the question of sealing in tf
 Behring sea. On this question col siderable discussion occurred, whlt
 
 . restricting American sealers only Il case Great Britain adopts the san
 restrictions.