Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-03-05
A BUSY DAY.
Senate and House Hold Sessions
Lasting Until Midnight.
MUCH BUSINESS IS TRANSACTED.
Educational Test Closely Considered
-Other Provisions Are Declared
Harsh, Oppressive, Illiberal
and Un-Amcrican.

business went on in the senate Tuesday
smoothly, expeditiously and with very
little discussion. The first bill that
was passed was one for the prevention
of the introduction and spread of con-
tagious and infectious diseases in the
United States, the preamble to it re-
citing "the alarming nature and spread
of the bubonic plague now prevalent in
India and adjacent countries"
The fertilization bill, appropriating
$9,717,141 was passed without word
of discussion except short speech
from Senator Hawley (rep., Conn., crit
icising the fact that the Notifications
on whose efficient arming some $35, oOO,-
600 have been spent are left practically
without garrisons, and that there are
no men trained as artillerists to manage
the splendid steel guns provided by the
liberality of congress.
The house amendments to the senate
international monetary conference bill
were concurred in, without division,
but after several short speeches from
silver senator's Senator Dubois declared
his conviction that the only way to
reach an international agreement was
for this nation to stand out as in 1776
and declare its intention to regulate it's
own affairs. Speeches of somewhat
similar tendency We're made by Sena-
tors Cannon, of Utah; Teller, of Colo
RADIO; Mantle, of Montana, and Morgan,
of Alabama, the latter stating that he
would probably be the only senator
who would vote against the bill.
The remainder Of the days session
was occupied by the general deficiency
bill, which appropriates $1o,334, 1899,
nearly $2,000,000 more than was in the
bill as it passed the house. At $3.50
recess was taken until eightp.m.
Night Session.
Washington, March 3.-When the SEN
ate resumed its session at eight o'clock
house bill imposing heavier penalties
for mutilating coins was taken from
the calendar and passed. 1t increases
the penalty from two to five years i'm
prisonment and makes unlawful the
attempt to pass, the Importation of and
the possession of mutilated domestic
and foreign coin with intent to defraud
AS well as the mere act of mutilation.
A partial agreement was reached on the
sundry civil bill and further confer
ence asked on the amendments vet in
dispute. The conference report on the
Indian appropriation bill was also pre-
sented. After some debate the report
was disagreed to and further confer
ence ordered. Consideration of the de-
ficiency bill was then resumed, the
pending amendment being to strike
out the provision to pay the Southern
Pacific railway $1,310,427. After long
debate substitute for the pending
amendment to strike out was adopted
providing that the money be retained
in the treasury until the final adjust
ment of the debts of the Pacific rail-
roads. The deficiency bill was then
passed and at 1925 the senate adj
journed until morning.
House.
Washington, March 3.-The old con-
troversy between the senate and house
ever the matter of control of the cere-
monies in connection with the inaugu-
ration of president came to the surface
when the house reassembled at ten
o'clock in continuation of Mondays leg
islative session. Mr.. Dockery (dem.,
Mo- offered a resolution, which was re-
ferred to the committee on rules, direct
ing that committee to investigate and
report by what authority the inaugu-
raj stand was being erected wholly in
front of the senate wing of the capitol,
departure from the invariable usage
since the building was erected, and also
to inquire and report whether or not
the house had any control over the in
augural ceremonies.
The naval and District of Columbia
appropriation bills were received from
the senate, the house voted to nom
concur in the amendments made by that
body, and asked conference.
When the house convened for Tues
days session, Mr.. Dalzell (rep., PAP, in
accordance with the promise made
some days ago, replied to the structures
passed upon Justice Shiras by Messrs.
McMillin (dem., Tenn.) and Dearmond
(dem., Mo-, in connection with the
decision of the supreme court upon the
income tax bill. He asserted that the
record of the case gave no ground for
the charge that Justice Shiras had
changed his mind and that it showed
thatJustice Brown had done so. Messrs.
McMillin and Dearmond refused to ac-
cept the statements of Mr.. Dalzell and
reafirmed the charges.
A concurrent resolution was passed
authorizing the printing of 10, 900 copies
Of the hearings before the committee
on banking and currency. A motion to
suspend the rules and pass the bill pro-
viding for settlement by suit or COM
promise of the claims of the United
States against various states on account
of defaulted interest on Indian trust
funds was defeated. Mr.. Aldrich (rep.,
Ill.) endeavored to bring up the bill
prohibiting the transmission of papers
containing illustrated accounts of prize
fights, but the house voted, u to So, to
take recess. At 4:4O p. m. the house
took recess until 1880 p. m.
Evening in the House.
AT the evening session a partial con-
ference report on the sundry civil bill
was presented and agreed to-. The house
voted to insist upon it's disagreement to
the remaining senate amendments, ex-
cept a number which members asked a
separate vote on. All senate public
building amendments were noncon-
CURED in except in the case of Topeka,
Kan, where the amount was reduced
from 100000 to $4,000. The amendment
| to pay sugar bounty claims amounting
to $1,os5,ooo was concurred in by a