Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1897-04-01
IN SPECIAL SESSION.

The Fifty-Fifth Congress Assemblies In Re-
Spouse to President McKinley's Procla-
| nation.
IN the senate on the 25th the Torrey bank
| ruptcy bill was read nj length and Senator Nell
son Mimi offered o substitute, differing In q
number OF particulars from the committee bill.
There was no debate on tho subject The
amended credentials OF John W. Henderson,
appointed by the governor Of Florida to MT
Calls seat, were referred to the elections COM
mittee. The senate then went into executive
sessions for two hours on the arbitration
treaty In the house the four days general
debate on the tariff bill was closed at night and
the flve-minute rule entered into force, Messrs
Simpson and Curtis Kan.) and DeArmond MOI
were among those who made speeches on the
subject Mr. Callahan (Ok) introduced two
bills One Is TO authorize persons who have
made homestead entries In Oklahoma to COM
plcte their entries OF 100 acres, where they
were unable to do so by reason Of the fact that
their lands were surrounded by Indian allot-
ments The other is TO enable the citizens
band OF Pottawatomie Indians TO obtain patent
TO their lands.
A BRIEF discussion OF civil service rules oc-
Cured in the senate on the Goth, Senator Gal
linger IN. HI showing that the commission re-
quired applicants for typesetters TO be able to
hop on one foot for IL feet resolution was
adopted asking the president for information
as TO the death Of two American sailors in
Cuba; also resolutions asking Attorney-Gen-
eral McKenna for information Of any propo-
sltlon to sell the Union Pacific railroad.
Among the bills introduced was one imposing
q penalty on companies charging passengers
more than three cents a mile for transporting
them through the territory OF the five civilized
tribes Another bill authorized the president
m 1a IN AZ %,
lie works The arbitration treaty was taken
up In the executive session. :. In the house the
tariff bill was thrown open for amendment UNI
der the tive-minute rule, but during seven
hours OF work only nine pages OF the 1852 pages
OF the bill were disposed Of. All the amend
ments offered by the democrats were rejected.
THE senate was not in session on the 27th...
The house worked ON the tariff bill and, during
the discussion on free hides, Mr.. Simpson
(kan) said that duty on hides would be Of
more Importance to the farmer than oil the
other duties in the agricultural schedule, but
Mr. Payne IN. " insisted that imported hides
did not come into competition with American
hides rs the former were used almost exclu-
sively for sole leather
A RESOLUTION was agreed to in the senate
on the Goth asking the secretary of the interior
for information relating to Mr. Cleveland's Or
der establishing forest reserves. Senator Allen
(Neb) introduced resolution declaring that
tariff taxes on necessaries should not be laid so
as TO enrich one class at the expense Of the
masses, The bill to prohibit the exhibition Of
prize fight pictures was reported favorably
from the judiciary committee and placed on the
calendar. A joint resolution appropriating
S25OCOO for the immediate improvement Of the
Mississippi was passed. ... The house had an
exciting incident over the debate on the tariff.
Inhngnn Ind \ nd a,yiryn
against the irrelevant discussions with which
the time Of the house was being taken up and
20 times the irate Indianian was admonished to
take his seat by the presiding officer and finally
Speaker Reed had To be hurriedly summoned
to enable business to 60 on, Mr. Spaulding
(Mlch,) introduced joint resolution providing
for the annexation of Hawaii and making 1t
into a state. The senate resolution appropri-
ating money for the mississippi river was
amended and passed,
SENATOR ALLEN (Neb.) made an argument
in the senate on the 3Oth on the demonstrations
atty of tariff taxes beyond those requisite for
revenue, Senator Foraker (O,) introduced
pooling bill designed to meet the objections
raised by the supreme court in its recent de-
Cislon In the Transmssouri Freight associa-
ton case. The house amendments to the Joint
resolution appropriating $3.50 coo for the saving
OF life and property along the Mississippi river
were agreed to. Senator Morgan (Ala.) pre-
scented resolution asking the president wheth-
or he or his predecessor had received any let
ters from Maxine Gomez, the Cuban insurgent
general, In the house political speeches were
wedged into the tariff debate at every oppor-
tunity, but the ways and means committee
held the floor with their amendments about
80 being offered and adopted. 1t was the last
day Of the debate, an attempt to have it ex-
tended having failed.