The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-07-23

| over until To-Day.
WASHINGTON, July 16.-No business
was transacted by the House yester-
day. Immediately after the journal
was approved, recess was taken on
Mr.. Cannon's motion until to-day, Mr..
Cannon having giving assurances to
| Mr.. Bailey that in his opinion a par
tial or complete conference report on
the deficiency bill would be ready by
that time.
WASHINGTON, July i5.-The Senate
was in deadlock yesterday for
several hours, with business at a
stands till, while calls of the Senate,
roll calls and other parliamentary eX-
pedients were resorted to. 1t was due
to the effort to secure action on the
resolutions of Mr.. Harris, of Kansas,
designed to prevent the disposal of
the government lien on the Union Pa
cific railway, under the terms of the
alleged agreement There were many
roll calls on Mr.. Harris motion to con-
slider the resolution, quorums appear
| lily anu ulohDlJOll d'Au iiOhh l." W.
o'clock no final vote on the motion
was secured. 1t finally went over
over until to-day.
WASHINGTON, July Is. Represents
tive Simpson of Kansas yesterday in
troduced in the House resolution di-
recting the speaker to appoint com
mittee of five to investigate the sugar
trust The resolution is preceded by
two whereaSes, the first of which de-
clares that it is currently asserted"
shat the American Sugar Refining
company has, in violation of law, Gre
ated gigantic monopoly" and the
second that said corporation, "by the
Use of watered stock, by unfair COM
petition and by illegal combination
has crushed out Legitimate competition
to an extent which gives it the power
to depress the price of the raw mate
rial and to advance the price of the
manufactured article at will, thus
throttllng the cane and beet agricul-
turists with one hand and grasping
the purses of the consumers with the
other"
The committee authorized by the
resolution is empowered to send for
persons and papers, and to investigate
the methods of the company: its effect
upon agriculture and commerce ''as
well as the enhanced cost of one of the
necessaries of life, and the committee
is directed to report their findings,
al, ~ hill in
shutting proceedings by the attorney
general in quo warranto to annul the
cooperative existence of the trust.
WASHINGTON, July IA. The price to
be paid for armor plate for the three
new battleships now in course of con-
Struction was the theme of extended,
and at times, lively debate in the SEN
ate Yesterday Late in the day an
amendment to the deficiency appropri-
atom bill was agreed to, restricting
the price of armor plate to $500 per
ton, or 1925 less than the amendment
reported by the committee and recon-
mended by the navy department as
the minimum rate acceptable to the
armor contractors.
Another amendment inserted in the
bill directed the secretary of the navy
to investigate as to the establishment
of government armor factory and to
report to the next session of Congress.
WASHINGTON, July ia discussion
of Union Pacific railroad affairs oc-
cupied the attention of the Senate
yesterday. The deficiency appropria-
ticn bill was taken up early in the
day, and Mr.. Morgan proposed an
amendment designed to prevent the
contamination of the agreement made
some time since for the settlement of
the governments claims against the
road Mr. Morgan spoke throughout
the day, severely arranging the Pacific
railroad managers. Later in the day
the entire subject was disposed of by
the withdrawal of the paragraph to
which Mr.. Morgan had offered his
amendment.