The Bourbon news., 1897-03-05
FIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS


WASHINGTON, Feb 26-SKNATE-With an;
| apparent disregard of whether the appropria-
| ton bills, still unacted on by the senate are
! to bepassed at the present session, or to be
1 relegated to the house in extra session. the
senate Friday by vote of 40 to 27 laid aside.the
| Indian appropriation, which had already oc-
| cupied three days and took up the joint reso-
| luton which had, been reported Thursday
| from the committee on foreign relations for
| the immediate and unconditional release of
| Jose Sanguilly from a Cuban fortress. A long
discussion Of the matter took place., but no
| action was taken
| HOUsE-By vote of 144 to 46 the house
| after two hours debate, passed the bill of
Mr. Johnson (rep, Ind }, authorizing national
banks to make out circulation o the par value
OF the bonds deposited to secure it an increase
OF 10 per cent over the limit now allowed.
Early in the session bills were passed to fix
and determine the number OF justices of the
| supreme court OF Oklahoma, who shall consti-
| tute majority of the bench and to confer upon
| post ONCE inspectors in the enforcement OF
i the postal laws the same powers pos
| sessed by marshals and sheriffs in the several
| states Conference reports upon the agricul-
| tural appropriation bill and upon the bill for
the relief OF settlers upon the Sioux reserva-
| ton in South Dakota were presented and
| agreed to. I
| WASHINGTON Feb b27-SENATE-The senate
had the Indian appropriation bill before it
| throughout all the days session, but that fact
did not prevent Cuba and the Sanguilly case
1 from being fought over even in a more angry
and excited manner than it had been
| on Thursday.
HoUsE-Senate bill providing for the repre-
| sentation of the United States at any inter-
national conference to be held for the purpose
| of reaching an agreement to fix the relative
value of gold and silver, after an animated
discussion, was passed. The operation of the
| rule permitting motions to suspend the
| rules and hills h6Dan
| run Friday for the remainder of the
| session and under that rule the following
| measures were passed: Setting apart site in
| the city Of Washington for a memorial build
| ing to be erected by the Daughters of the
American Revolution: providing for arbitra-
tion of labor troubles between the managers
| of Interstate commerce carriers and their
| employees; prohibiting the i'm rtation of i'm
pure and unwholesome tea.
WASHINGTON. March L-SENATE-The SEN
ate Saturday gave almost the entire day to
the post office bill The debate on the post
Office bill was mainly on the question of an in
| vestigation into the cost of carrying the mails
on the railroads. 1t brought out much criti-
cism of the alleged extravagant charges for
! this mail carriage The senate sat until mid
night The senate held ses sion Sunday aft
| ernoon. Several amendments to the sundry
| civil appropriation bill were passed.
| HoUsE-The house. after five hours strug-
| gle Saturday, passed the anti-railroad ticket
scalping bill by vote of 142 to 81 The ad-
versaries of the measure resorted to flibust-
eriug tactics, but they were defeated oy an
| overwhelming majority. The Indian appro-
priation bill was sent to conference. The
senate amendments to the bill to allow the
bottling of distilled spirits in bond were
agreed to.
WASHINGTON, March 2-SENATE-The SEN
ate Monday, in the space in about one hour
and an hour passed the District of
| Columbia annrOnrafiOp hill carrViur ~ 444 =
677, being excess of 81, ,655 900 over the bill,
as it passed the house. Half of the amount is
to be paid out of the treasury and half out of
the revenues of the District of Columbia
Then the naval bill was taken up. 1t
carries $35 72S, 1884, little over three and
a half millions more than the bill
containe when it left the house. Two mil
lion and a half were added for the purpose OF
establishing government armor factory.
HoUsE-The house Monday passed a num-
ber of bills of private character, defeated
the economic post bill. discussed and left
pending the bill to prohibit the extensive
publication by newspapers and periodicals
the details of the doings of prize fighters and
accounts of prize fights. The last named
measure was warmly discussed and a
motion to lay it the table was
agreed to- Mr.. Aldrich (rep ,uL) demanded
the yeas and nays on the question His re-
quest was carried, one-ffth of those voting
on the motion to table, voting for roll call
WASHINGTON. March 8. = SENATE-Bills
passed: For the prevention of the introduc =
tion and spread Of contagious diseases in the
United States; fortifcation bill, appropriat-
ing S9,7l7,l4L The house amendments
to the senate international mon
etary conference bill were concurred in
without a division. The remainder of the
session occupied by the general def
cheney, which appropriates $40, 1889, nearly
$1,000 600 more than was in the bill as it
passed the house. At $50 recess was taken
until p m.
HOUSE--A concurrent resolution was passed
authorizing the printing of 1000 copies of the
hearings before the committee on banking and
currency. motion to suspend the rules and
pass the bill for a settlement by suit COM
promise of the claims of the United States
against various states on account of defaulted
interest on Indian trust funds was
defeated Mr.. Aldrich (R, ILL
endeavored to bring up the
bill prohibiting the transmission of papers
containing illustrated ac counts OF prize fight
ing, but the house voted u to 33 to take a re-
cess The evening session had not adjourned
at o'clock Wednesday morning.
WASHINGTON March 4 SENATE-The bus
mess OF the senate w ednesday was principal
ly in connection with the conference reports
The first to be presented was on the appro,
priation bill for the District of Columbi .. It
was not a final report. however, as the con-
ferees had failed to reach an agree
u1SuG On Inc SERIES OIL SENATE amend
ments appropriatlng various sums for
the charitable institutions of the city The
partial report was agreed to, and further
conference was ordered The next conference
committee was on the bill to amend the laws
relating to navigations. The conference re-
port finally was made on the post office ap-
preparation bill and was agreed to, without
any question or discussion In the interim
between action the conference reports
house bills on the calendar, unobjected to-,
were taken up, and quite number of them
were passed At O'Clock the senate took re-
cess until p. The senate was still in ses-
sion at a. m Thursday. All the appropria-
tion bills except two were disp posed Of
HoUSE-When the house reassem bled at
1880 o'clock. Mr. Sherman rep n. W C. lied
up the conference report on the Indian bill,
which the senate rejected Tuesday When
the house took a recess at 6:40 it was under
stood that the conferees had agreed as to
all the amendments except two. A hotly con-
tested fight was nude to secure concurrence
in the senate amendment to the general def
cheney bill providing for payment of Bowman
act claims for supplies furnished the union
army. adjudicated by the court of claims, but
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