Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-03-27
IN SPECIAL SESSION.

The Fiftx-Fifth Congress Assemblies In Re-
Spouse to President McKinley's Procla-
nation.
A LARGE number Of bills were introduced in
H) proposed an amendment to the constitution
prohibiting legislation on behalf of any reli-
gious denomination Senator Turpie Qnd)
gave notice of speech ON the election of sena-
tors by popular vote and introduced resolu-
ton proposing an amendment to the constitu-
ton for the purpose Senator Gear
Qa-) made report from the COM
mtttee Pacific railroads favoring
the bill for an adjustment of the Pacific rail-
road debt by commission consisting of the
secretaries of the treasury and the interior and
the attorney-generaL The senate then went
into executive session for an hour and after
wards adjourned - In the house Mr.. Hender-
SON Qa-) announced that the ways and means
committee was not ready to report the tariff bill
and an adjournment was taken, the house only
being In session for 10 minutes, which was taken
up in reading the journal
In the senate on the 10Th resolution for the
preparation of a comparative statement on rev.
enue questions was agreed to- A resolution by
Senator Pettigrew Is d. for committee of
five senators to look into Pacific railroad ques-
tions was referred Several nominations were
confirmed. amongst them being John Hay to be
ambassador to Great Britain and Horace Porter
to be ambassador to France "A special order
was adopted in the house that night sessions
should be held the tarln bill and that the
measure should be passed on March 81 The
Sundry civil bill was then taken up. 20 minutes
being allowed for debate either side, and
finally passed Next came the general def
cheney bill and, after the 40 minutes allowed
for debate had expired, that, too was passed
and the house adjourned The sundry civil bill
carried S53, IA, 551 and the general deficiency
bill IS, 1876, PA.
IN the senate the goth Senator Vest (Ndo)
introduced bills fixing the salaries of the
United States marshals and court clerks of
Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma and the Indian
territory The house passed the Indian APP
preparation bill 1t carries SIS, 600 for the
penses of the Dawes commission and not only
extinguiSheS the tribal courts, but gives the
president veto power over the acts of their
council. Mr.. Maxwell CNeb.) introduced a bill
for a beet sugar bounty.
THE Anglo-American arbitration treaty
advanced considerably in the senate on the
I'D, all the amendments recommended by
the committee foreign relations be-
ing agreed to. The four appropriation bills
the agricultural, the sundry civil the Indian
and the general def1ciency-which failed in the
last congress, were received from the house and
referred to the appropriations committee A
resolution was agreed to calling on the preSi-
dent for all correspondence relating to the i'm
prisonment and death of DR.. Ruiz in Cuba The
nomination of Powell Clay ton, of Arkansas, to
be minister to Mexico, was confirmed were
several other nominations 80 Two hours were
spent in the house in having the tariff bill read,
after which Mr. Dingley, the chairman of the
ways and means committee, opened in an hours
speech for the republicans Mr.. Wheeler (Ala.)
then spoke behalf of the democrats and
afterwards Mr. Bell (Col.) took the floor on be-
half of the populist party Mr.. Bailey (Tex.)
presented the minority report on the tariff bill