The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1897-04-06

seal was taken. After the amanfmor+
IN Ills .o-uay as the date on which tha
~ SHOULD go into effect had hoon
Iuopted against the protests of A.
Dehlocrats, who contended that Il was
ietfoactlVe and therefore unconSti+1,
.loha!, the last three hours were talxon
up win short speeches, most Of which
were made for the benefit of tbe oal-
leIleS ana the constituents of fha
speakers. The Democrats had Welded
1ile question OF long debate over tba
0IosNenor amendment in the hone that
ciiousu progress might be made with
4 tne OH TO permit the house to reach
the sugar schedule, but ONLY two more
pages were read, leaving 40 unconsid-
efetl II committee of the whole. The
motion to recommit with instructions
TO amend the bill so as to SUSPEND the
duties on articles controlled by trusts.
upon which they based their principal
nope OF breaking through the Repub
llcah ranks, failed of its purpose. Every
Republican voted against it. There
Was great demonstration on the
moor and IN the galleries when the bill
was finally declared passed.
In the Senate.
Ihe open session of the senate last
ed less than half an hour. 1t was nro-
ductive Of another Cuban resolution
by Mr.. Mills of Texas, calling on the
committee on foreign relations for a
report on the obligations assumed by
the United States in insisting that
Cuba should not be annexed to any
european power and should remain
subject to Spain. Mr. Hale's objection
sent the resolution over. The Morgan
resolution calling OF the president for
LOTT leo
The rest of the day was spent in ex-
ecutive session on the arbitration
treaty.
Washington, April 3. The Guam
question was revived in the senate
after a long period of comparative
calm -Four distinct Cuban resolutions
were brought forward in rapid success
sion. The last and most important one
came from Senator Morgan of Ala
bama. 1t declares that a state Of war
exists in Cuba ana announces the pol
icy of the United States is to accord
both parties to the conflict full recOgni-
tiOn as belligerents. Mr.. Morgan gave
notice that he would call up the reso-
luton at the next meeting of the SEN
ate, with the expectation of securing
final action. Of the other resolutions,
two were agreed to. One of these, by
Mr.. Morgan, calls on the president for
the letters of Gen. Gomez to himself
and Mr.. Cleveland and for other infor-
nation On Cuban affairs. The other,
by Mr. Mills of Texas, instructs the
committee on foreign relations to re-
port what obligations the United States
has assumed by compelling Cuba to re-
main subject to Spain. Both reSolu-
tionS were passed without opposition.
Still another resolution came from Mr..
Allen OF Nebraska, and proposed a pro-
test against the repOtred purpose of the
Spanish authorities to try Gen. Ruiz
Rivera, the Cuban officer, by military
drumhead court martial. This led to
an animated controversy between Mr..
Allen and Mr.. Hoar The latter criti-
cised ''infammatory resolutions and
declared that the freedom of Cuba had
been retarded mainly by the prod
ding and ''goading" resolutions di-
fected against Spain. The resolution
went over, to come up with the resolu-
ton for the recognition of Cuban bel
ligerency at the next meeting. The
senate adjourned to Monday.
Washington, April 3.-The Republic
an members of the senate committee
on finance are continuing their work
on the tariff bill with the intention Of
reporting it to the senate at the earliest
possible day. They are not yet pre-
pared to give out any of the results of
their lvestigations, and say when ap-
preached upon the subject that they
have not as yet reached any con-
illusions upon any schedules of the bill.
There is, however, a well defined i'm
preston about the senate that the bill
will be generally remodeled and the
rates considerably reduced in many OF
the schedules. A member of the COM
mittee is quoted by another senator as
authority for the specific statement
that carpet duties would be cut. There
is also general belief among Western
senators that there will be material
changes in the rates on woods, especial
Nv on those of the third class.