Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1897-05-14
ARBITRATION TREATY DEFEATED.
Tariff Bill Reported i'm the Senate
-CongressiOnaI Proceedings.

Tariff Bill Reported in the Senate
-CongressiOnal Proceedings.
| James Hamilton Lewis of the state OF
Washington has fairly won his spurs In
congress. He took the leadership Mon
day of those democrats and populists OPP
posed to the republican poIicy of nothing
| but tariff legislation. He offered reso-
| luton which speaker Reed not be-
lieve any of the opposition would offer,
made a strong, dignifed speech upon 1t,
| and although defeated, has attracted the
| attention of the whole country. Tonight
everybody here is talking about his maid
ell effort, and no speech of a new member
| has created more interest since the free
silver argument made by Mr. Towne of
| Minnesota early in the last congress.
Democrats opposed to Mr.. Bailey are
hailing him as their leader, populists
count him as one of them, and the re-
| publicans say he has given them the first
| real party battle of this season. The leg
! lslation of Mr.. Lewis was: THAT the
| speaker be directed to Immediately APP
| point the committees of the house.
| After a recess covering practically III
day. the senate met Monday with large
accumulation of routine business and sew
eral important questions, including the
Morgan Cuban resolution, awaiting atten-
ton. The attendance was unusually
large. Among the bills introduced was
shire for the issue of certificates of in
debtedness up to $500O0,000 to meet de-
ficiencies in revenue. 1t was referred to
the finance committee. The executive
session was largely devoted to the consid-
Grafton of the Anglo-American arbitra-
ton treaty.
Tariff Bill Reported.
Senator Aldrich presented the tarlH
bill to the senate today and gave notice
that 1t would be called up Tuesday, the
18th instant. The time for the bill to
take effect is made July instead of May
l. as provided by the house: and the
words of the first paragraph cor with
drawn for consumption" stricken out
The bill was reported to the senate to
the surprise of the senators and the pub
lie. All the members of the committee
were present. The democrats examined
the bill for nearly an hour making run
ming comments upon 1t. They announc-
ed that they were against the bill as
whole. They SOON understood that Sen
ator Jones of Nevada was going to vote
with the republicans, and realized that
there was no possibility of changing the
bill. They had no desire to make any
factious opposition, and when motion
was made by the republicans to report
the bill at once, the vote was taken
promptly. All the republicans, with SEN
ator Jones of Nevada, voted for the mo-
it, the vote standing 6 to 5.
A final vote on the free homestead bill
was taken and the bill passed, AZ to IL.
The sundry civil bill was considered, but
was not completed. The item of $2,333, 1888
for continuing the improvements of the
Mississippi from the head of the passes to
the mouth of the Ohio river was amend
ed so as to be Immediately available.
Arbitration Treaty Defeated.
The senate Wednesday defeated the ar
bitration treaty by a vote of 43 yeas, 26
nays-not the required majority of two
thirds required by the rules. The vote
was preceded by a short spirited debate,
introduced by Senator Mills of Texas,
who made a strong appeal to the senate
against ratifying the agreement He as
serted that as amended the document
was most Objectionable, not to say con-
Trajectory, in it's terms. Among those
who waited in the senate corridors to re-
ceive the news was Michael Davitt, who
appeared much pleased at the result
The open session in the senate was de-
voted to the sundry civil appropriation
bill, which was not completed up to the
time of adjournment. Senator Pettigrew
offerd an amendment authorizing the
president to suspend the order of Presi-
dent Cleveland withdrawing millions of
acres from the public domain and con-
shutting them forest reserves. The
ton of $150,O0O for surveys of these lands.
In the course of the debate Senator Alli-
son stated that the main portion of the
amendment had been prepared by the
secretary of the interior under the eye of
the president. Senator Pettigrew added
that assurances had been given-he would
not say from whom-that If the amend
ment was adopted the president would
suspend the order.
Senate Committee Places,
The senate committee changes give
chairmanships to the following: Census,
Carter; coast defenses, Mcbride; educa-
ton and labor, Kyle; university of the
United States, Wellington; to examine
the several branches of the civil service,
Foraker; immigration, Fairbanks; library,
Wetmore; manufacturers, Mason; naval
affairs Hale; privileges and elections,
Chandler; printing, Lodge; public lands,
Hansbrough; relations with Canada,
Spooner; territories, Shoup; transporta-
ton routes to seaboard Plat of New
York. No silver republicans are cared
for in the list. Kyle of South Dakota is
included as though a republican. The
places now held by silver republicans are
left blank.
sundry Civil Bill Passed.
The sundry civil bill was passed by
the senate Thursday with the amend
ments that the forest reserve order be
Improvement of the Mississippi river to
the amount of about $5,OOO000 for two
years in advance of appropriations of
congress; appropriating $4,000 for con-
tinuing the investigation of the fur seal
fisheries and increasing the appropriation
for the Omaha exposition from $500 900 to
S25O,OOO. The republicans of the house
followed up their Endorsement of Speaker |
Reeds policy of postponiug the appoint
ment of committees by establishing the |
policy of bi-weekly meetings through |
the adoption of a resolution reported by
the committee on rules, providing that |
the house shall meet on Mondays and |
Thursdays until further action. On this |
resolution the democrats and populists |
were solidly arrayed against the repub- |
licans, and 1t was agreed to by a vote |
OF 1Ol to So, after partisan debate The |
opposition, led by Mr.. Bailey of Texas,
was based on the ground that the pro-
gram would prevent the consideration of
the banlruntpy Hill