Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-02-05
WORK OF CONGRESS-
THE WEEKS polhos N.sENATE
AND HOUSE,.
A Comprehensive Digest of tic Pro-
ceedings in the Legislative Cham
bers at Washington Matters that
Concern: tho People.
at Lnbor-.

Ter as the '"Herod of HAVANA: the muir
derer of women and children" and as an,
"indescribably diminutive reptile" These
bitter words were incident to. Mr.. Tur-
pies speech of w hours on the Cameron
Cuban resolutions. MIR. Turpie frequent
ly turned aside from his argument to nav
a glowing tribute to the insurgcnt gov
ernmen and its LEADERS,, After 3 o'clock
the dry was devoted to e~ulogies. OH the
late eN-Spcaker Charles Il. Crisp. EARLY
in the day memorials were presented from
the presidential electors of Delaware ask
ing for n congressional investigation of
alleged fraud and political Irregularities
in that State. After consuming most of
the day in disposing of District of Column
bin business the House took up the Indian
appropriation bill and made fair progress
with it before the hour for adjournment
was reached. The bill carries $7,525, 791..
$366.204 more than the current law and
S246.2i5 more than the estimates. Twen-
ty of the seventy pages of the bill were
disposed of. A bill was passed calling ON
the War Department for an estimate of
the cost of n water route from Galveston
to Houston. Tex. Mr.. Johnston Rep.)
of Indiana took advantage of the latitude
allowed in debate to read a speech in
favor of an early reform of the banking
and currency laws. Mr.. Curtis Nsep.) of
Kansas offered an amendment to the In
dian bill to permit merchants to go into
the kickapoo reservation in Kansas to
collect their accounts. 1t was explained
that this year for the first time merchants
mad been excluded from this reservation
Inc amendment was adopted.
In the Senate Tuesday Cuba. the pro-
posed international monetary conference
and the Nicaragua canal each came in
for a share of attention. The Wolcotti
bill for an international monetary con-.
ference WAS considered for the first time.
No final action OH the bill was taken. The
House amendments to the Senate bill for
Il survey of n water route from the mouth
of the %ictties at Galveston. Tex. to Hous-
ton. were agreed to and the bill finally
passed. The House overrode another of
President Clcvcland's pension vetoes by
a vote of 1871 to 50. The bill p%ensionedi
Jonathan Scott of the Sixth Iowa cavalry,
now living at Oswego, Kan. at the rate
of $I2 n month. Mr.. Cleveland vetoed it
on the ground that the disability for
which the beneficiary was to be pensioned
was not contracted in the service. The
rest of the day was devoted to n continu--
ation of the debate on the Indian appro-s
p%riation bill. About twenty-five pages
of the bill We're covered. A bill to satisfy
n peculiar claim was passed on motion of
Mr.. Turner Dem.l of Georgia. 1t was.
the claim of John +. McIeae. a deputy
United States marshal. for keeping thirty
six African slaves, landed by the ship.
Wanderer at Savannah. Ca, in 1859, UNI
til they could be shipped back to their
homes, in accordance with the provisions
OF the Saws for the suppression of the.
slave traffic. The amount was $462.
A crisis in the debate in the Nicaragua,
canal bill was reached in the Senate We'd
nesday. 1t brought out an energetic state.
ment from Senator Sherman, in which he.
f~oreshadowed a new treaty by which the.
United States could build the canal with
out the INTERPRETATION of a private conces..
sion. The Senator declared that this gov.
ernmental execution IF the project wass
the only feasible one and that ali private.
efforts in that direction had proved fall.
ures Answering Mr.. Morgan's recent
charge that Ehglanu' inspired opposition,
to American contrri of the canal, Mr..
Sherman asserted. that this was q 'tbuga..
boo" wholly without foundation. He.
added n handsome tribute to England and.
her institutions. Tho House adopted the.
conference report-1al the immigration bill.
by IL vote of 13f Ito lis. Tie principal
criticism OF. the measure agreed on by, the.
conferees in, debaSn was based upon the.
extension of. thbr educational test to, fee.
male us well a ss.lale immigrants. on the.
ground that it might divide families. and
to the limitatitxn, to the ability of. an, ime
migrant to read. .rlid write the Englishlan-
guage or the. Language OF their native
country or residence. Mr.. 3xepburn,fReu.
Iowa. closed tfiar debate in supported tie
report. When,lie declaredi that Hundreds
of thousandssof. Americsa1 laborers. were
to-day walE.itrg, the streeas of, -she great
cities hecause'taey had been crowded. out
by the incoming stream - aliens. the. pub
lie gallelieaOff the House fairly siiOols with
acclaim.
The Hcafse. passed thu Indiaa a%pprupria-
tion bill Thursday and entered upon the
consideration of the agricultural appro-
priation> bill, but all Interest in these two
measures. wa oversitadOwed' by two re-
markebie speeches, oae mada.by Mr.. Gros-
yenor' of Ohio, ATTACHING ex-Gow. Altgeld
of Illinois, and tho, other by Nfr. Dear.
mondo Of Missouri. ieapine, ridieufe on Sec
Rotary Morton foG the raaent issue of a
paraphlet entitled 1.-THE. Farmers Inter
est in, Finance" Mr.. Gresyenor's obser-
OA NAS illsSA vi xllluOlS c3C0
Called forth by the ~latter's recent speech,
%, whsch he charged hat Mr.. Bryan had
been defeated by fraud and based his
charge partic llarly an, the enormou in.
crease of the vote in Ohio. where, he al.
legged, 10000 votes. Were illegally cast,
ME-: Grosvea q ~aiaslyzed the Ohio vote
and explained thes causes of it's increase
calling att ,nton &c, the fact that the Dem
esratic vote in the State had increased
proporticostely much more thaa the Re
publican. The Senate. by II vote of Al {,
10, confirmed the nomination of William
s. Forassn OF Illinois to be Commissions
of Inaernal Revenue. Senator Cullon
preseated to the Senate a number of let
ters aDd memorials he had received from
Chicago business firms asking for the mas
sage of the Torrey bankruptcy bill.
T~efegraphic Brevities.
Three different sections of Texas ex
perienced their first snowstorm for thre,
years.
Secretary and Mrs. Carlisle cave a din