Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-12-24
Our National Law Makers and What
They Are Doing for the Good of the
Country Various Measures Pro.
posed, Discussed and Acted Upon.
Daily Report.

S'sso A1N'SGO vi .Nl.iSSuCt3uSSItS 10
submit some remark upOr it. Following
this was an executive session and adiourn-
meilt for the day.
llous%-Welnes'iay, Dee. Is: The house
spent the day in the consideration of the
, Legislative, executive anil judicial appr0-
prial'on bill. Eighty-nine of the 112
pages OF the bill were covered and only
one amendment of importance was
adopted. The civil service question was
the chief tOpl: of discussion and the prop
.osiiion of Assistant Secretary of the
Treasury VANDERBILT to retire clerks was
made the text for dcnunciation by Mr..
Moody Of Mississippi and Mr.. johnson of
Indiana, both of whom are defenders of
the civil service law. A resolution for a
holiday recess from December Is to jan
uary 8 was adopted. Adjourned.
SENATE-Thursday, Dec. Is: Senator
WolcOtt of Colorado, chairman of the COM
mission appointed by President Mckinley
to secure, IT possible, the corporation of
foreign countries in an international cor.
ference upon tho silver question, said in
the senate that the commission had not
yet made q report to the president and
1t was uncertain when a report would be
made. A resolution directing the secre-
tary OF wal 10 send supplies to American
and other sufferers in the Kl0ndike region
was passed. Senator Frye, of the COM
MERGE committee favorably reported and
the senate passed a bill directing the Sec
rotary Of the treasury to purchase or con-
'struct a suitable vessel for revenue cutter
service on the Yukon River, Alaska,
to cost not to exceed $4,000. Sem
ator Allison OF the appropriations COM
mittee reported favorably the house joint
resolution nrpyiHinr fnr. N ,aoocc Df oor-
gress from December Is, 1897, to January
y, 1898. The resolution was adopted.
Senator Pettigrew secured the adoption of
, resolution directing the secretary of the
interior to furnish the ena an itcmized
statement of the receipts and expenditures
of the Central Pacific Railroad for each
year, from 1871 to 1897, the statement also
TO show the subsidies paid to steamboat
companies. Senator Aliens resolution
calling upon the president for information
about the Instructions given to the inter-
national monetary commission and the re-
port made to him by the commission came
up and went over till the 18th of next
month by agreement.
HoUsE-Thursday. Dec. Is: The house
passed u bill appropriating $175 900 for the
relief of the people who are in the Yukon
River country, and also the bill passed by
the senate Wednesday to prohibit pelagic
sealing by American citizens. The former
bill encountered practically no opposition.
AS passed the sum carried by it is to be
expended under the direction of the Sec
Rotary of war for the purchase, t%ransp0rta-
tion and distribution of subsistence stores.
1t provides that these subsistence stores
may be sold at prices fixed by the secretary
of war, or donated where the people are
N1nnhIa In 1nys fnt flrnSS, IL an -, ,,,a 1:,>.
to purchase RENDERS and employ drivers
not citizens of the United States, and after.
wards dispose of the RENDERS.
SENArE-Friday, Dec. II: A debate
wa precipitated in the senate by the SUBJ
mission of Senator Plat of Connecticut, of
the report of the sub-joint committee of
the seuate and house of representatives
appointed to investigate the use of alcohol
in the arts. 1t developed that a wide
divergence of opinion exists among sena-
tors as to the practicability, from the point
of government revenue, of reducing the
present tax on alcohol used in the arts.
A joint resolution accepting the invita-
ton OF Norway to participate in the inter-
national fisheries exposition next year was
passed. Under a special order 1873 private
pension bills were adopted. At the sug-
gcstion of Senator Hawley, chairman Of
the military affairs committee, the bill
passed by the house for the relief Of the
miners in the Klondike region was taken
up at once. The senate bill was substi-
tuted for that of the house and a confer
ence ordered, with Messrs. Hawley, Car
ter and Cockrell as conferees.
HoUsE-Friday, Dec. II: The house
completed the consideration of the execu-
tive, legislative and judicial appropriation
bill, excepting the paragraph relating to
the civil service. By agreement debate on
this latter paragraph went over until
after the holidays. Two amendments
were adopted. The bill as reported abol-
ishes the assay Office at Deadwood, s. D.,
and the minis at Carson City, New, and
New Orleans. Representatives from the
two former states made q vigorous
and successful fight to continue sppro-
priations for Deadwood and Carson
City. The appropriation committee
was beaten in . each instance.
The house then went into committee Of tho
whole and resumed the consideration Of
the legislative, executive and judicial bill.
On motion Of Mr.. Mercer, Republican, of
Nebraska, q bill was passed to increase the
cost of the government building at tho
Trans Mississippi Exposition 3l2,50O, and
the cost of the government exhibit Q like
amount.
Different Views oft.
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