The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-05-28
CONGRESSIONAL CHAT
OMAHA GETS WAREHOUSE
FOR INDIAN SUPPLIES.
Senator Allen Successful in Securing It
Hanna's Senatorial Aspirations and the
Tax on Beer-Senators Allen and Till
man and the Chapman Case.
WASHINGTON, D. c., May

special correspondence.
Nebraska was fright in it," this
week, and the little surprise which
Senator Allen sprung when the Illinois
contingent wasn't looking, was COM
pleted in the house Thursday when
hat body voted to adopt the report of
the conference committee on the sun
dry civil appropriation bill, which car
ried with it an appropriation of $4,000
for the establishment and maintenance
at Omaha of q warehouse for Indian
supplies. Senator Allen is directly re-
sponsible for the legislation. When
the bill came to the senate for consid-
Grafton, he succeeded in having the item
tackled on as an amendment. Congress-
maj Mercer fought for the bill in his
usual vigorous style and was ably as.
sisted by Representatives Simpson and
Curtis of Kansas. Many republicans
and democrats and all the populists
voted for the bill. New York and Chi
cago combined to defeat the item but
were unsuccessful.
In the senate Thursday, Senator AL
lens resolution to bring Elverton R.
Chapman. the broker convicted of con-
tempt for refusing to give testimony,
before the bar of the senate, was dis
cussed. Senator Tillnnan enlivened
the debate somewhat by referring to
the fact that several press correspond
ents had charged that when the new
tariff bill was reported with u change
in the schedule, three senators had
specialized in sugar stock. 1--WE have
another stencil on our hands" he said,
land instead of it being a ditferential
in favor of the trust of a third of a cent
that was, it is now t~wo-thirds in favor
Of the trust. y y y x We do not
want Chapman. We want Havemeyer.
We want the man who bought your
men, if they were bought. We can
call on Haveneyer and the sugar trust
grandees and make them answer, or
put them in Jail for contempt. Either
investigate so as to find the truth and
punish the criminal, or hush"
Senator Allen, in opening the discus
sion on his resolution, said: AS the
representatives Of 10000, 900 people
we cannot afford to permit Mr.. Chap
man, the representative of 4 powerful
organization, which it has been charged
exercises great influence over this
body, to 60 unwhipped."
The resolution was referred to the
judiciary committee.
There is trouble ahead of Marcus
Aurelius Hanna in his ambition to be
elected senator by the next legislature
of Ohio. and the increased tax on beer
in the senate bill is the little straw
that is liable to break his back. The
brewers of the country are sending in
protests by the sackfull, and about the
first batch was from the Brewers asso-
citation Of Cleveland, which comprises
all the brewers Of C%uyahoga county,
where Mr.. Hanna lives. They say
sentiment is with them. The matter
of the increased tax was the subject
of thoughtful consideration by the
president and Senators Allison and
Aldrich, at a conference to which Mr..
Hanna was invited, and it is assumed
he acquiesced in the decision Of the
committee. But it will have an impor-
tant bearing on Marks fight for the
senate this fall, and will in all proba-
bility make certain the election of a
democrat, favorable to a moderate tax
and free coinage.
If the state of Maryland should de.
eide to place in the hall of statuary at
the capitol a statute of Chief Justice
Roger d. fancy, of bred Scott-decision
fame, as it's contribution to the national
gallery of illustrious men, there is
aikely to be another episode. While
Judge fancy was probably the ablest
man Maryland ever produced, yet his
assertion hat the negro has no rights
which a white man is bound to respect
and his decision in the bred Scott case,
has made him, to the majority of the
people, infamous. And yet the most
peculiar part of this mans character
was his nobility and generosity in
libcrating his w slaves, to whom he
was always kiad.
The secretary of the navy has or
dered the construction at the Wash
ington navy yard of a great tank, 500
feet long and fifty feet across, with a
depth of fourteen feet of water, for
the purpose Of testing models of new
ships that are hereafter to be con-
structed for the United States navy.
The cost will be about $1O0, 900. "A
model from ten to twenty feet long
of every new ship will be built and
tested before the designs are finally
adopted.
The secretary of state has instructed
the consular representatives of the gov
eminent in Cuba to furnish him the
names of American citizens who are