The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1897-01-22
NICARAGUA CANAL.
M. Turpie Speaks Against the Bin
in the Senate.
old SOLDIERS DAT IN THE HOUSE.
Fifty-TwO Private Pension Bills Disposed
et-A Pathetic Incident In Connection
With One Bill-An Agreement on
the Immlgr alton BIZ.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 2O.-The session
Of the senate yesterday was without
incident Senator TuFpie spoke against
the Nicaragua canal bill, and the read
ing Of the legislative appropriation bill
was completed, with the exception of
sections making provision for the con-
gressional library, which were passed
over temporarily in the absence of sem
Rtors interested in the subject,
Mr.. Hale, Of Minnesota, called up a
bill providing for the organization Of a
naval battalion in the District of Co
lumbia. The bill was passed.
a bill was passed for a public build
ing at Altoona, Pa, to cost SIPS, 900 for
the incorporation Of the American in
struetors Of the deaf.
Messrs, Quay, Hale and Blackburn
were appointed as eonferees on the army
appropriation bill, and at 5;45 p. m. the
senate adjourned.
THE HOUSE.
WASHINGTON, Jan. aO~The old sol
diers had a field day in the house yes
terdGy. Under a special order adopted
Monday the whole day was devoted to
the consideration of private pension
bills. OF the 900 on the calendar, So
we're disposed Of during the five hours
session. Among those faYorabIy
acted upon were bills ia grant
pensions to Mai.-Gen. julius Il. Stahl
at the rate of 800 per month, the widow
Of Msj.-Gen. Erastus B. Tyler at SIS,
Hannah f. Rodgers, daughter Of a
revolutionary soldier, at s12, and the
widow of the late Gen. Mathew NJ
TrumbulI, of Iowa, at 500 per month,
There was a pathetic incident in
connection with the first bill
called up. 1t proposed to grant a
pension of Sl2 per month to Margaret
O'Donnell, a volunteer army nurse
who devoted her service from 1866
to 1865 to the wounded of the Twenty
Second regiment of New York light ar
tillery, Her claim has been pending
before congress for several years. Yes
terday when the bill was brought up
Mr.. Thomas, of Michigan, moved that
it be laid on the table. "The reliei
carried by the bill for this poor
woman, said he, comes too late. Ou1
committee has just received word that
the beneficiary Is dead.7
The house disagreed to the Senate
amendments to the army appropriation
bill and agreed to the conference asked
for by the senate. Messrs. Hull Of
Iowa, Parker of New Jersey and ne
Clellan of New York were appointed
cOnferees on the part of the house.
At four o'clock the regular order OF
the calendar was abandoned at the re.
quest of many members so that eRct
could, if recognized, call up any bill il
which he was interested. The result
was that for the rest Of the session the
area in front of the speakers chair re-
sembled an exciting scene in the wheat
pit, a hundred members with hand:
aloft shouted and We'd with each Other
to catch the chairman's eye. MIR. Crisp
the son Of ex-Speaker Crisp, was one o
the fOrtunates, and succeeding in pass
ing his first bill, to pension the widow
of soldier Of the war of 1919. At 5:1l
p. In. the house adjourned.
IMMIGRATION BILL AGREEMENT.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 2O.-The confereet
of the two houses on the immigration
bill reached an agreement yesterday
and the bill as agreed upon viii proba
bly, be reported to-day. Many of tht
provisions of both the senate and thu
house bills were retained, but the
were modified SO as to make it YER
different bin from that which passel
either house.