Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1897-02-18
ELECTORAL VOTES.
Both Chambers In Joint Session
Formally Count Them.
NICARAGUA CANAL BILL WITHDRAWN
Senator Morgan VIII Bring 1t Up Again
During the Extra Session. Agricultural
Appropriation Bill Passed Re-
lating to Obscene Matter.

WASHINGTON, req. ll.-Sehdtot NUT
gan, the champion OF the Nicaragua
canal bill, announced in the senate yes
terday his abandonment Of that meas
ure for the present session of congress,
and, thereupon, it was displaced by the
bill. The senator gave no
tice that he would renew his advocacy
of the bill at an early day Of the COM
ing extra session. Mr.. Morgan bitterly
criticised the British opposition to the
canal, and, addressing himself directly
to Mr.. Sherman, declared that If the
next secretary Of state permitted him
self to be fed on the anodynes OF fiat
terry OF Great Britain, the people would
not support him. The bankruptcy bill
succeeded to the advantageous position
of unfinished business but the de-
bate went over until to-day, The ag-
ricultural appropriation bill was taken
up late in the day and an amendment
BY Mr.. Thurston, of Nebraska, was
agreed to appropriating $1,000 for con-
tinuing experiments as to beet sugar
production. The bill was passed. 1t
appropriates ss,s55,5OO 1t led to a
lively debate, in which Secretary Nor
ton was sharply criticised by Senators
Vest, Chandler. Tillman and Others
The house bill was passed, extend-
ing the time for complying with the
requirements of the act FORGETTING rail
road lands. Mr. Mcbride, of Oregon,
explaining that the bill applied to
lands along the Northern Pacific route.
Mr.. Tillman, of South Carolina, called
up the bill limiting the effect Of the
federal laws on the liquor traffic, SO as
to give each state absolute control OF
the subject. Mr.. Platt, Of Connecticut,
thought it was measure requiring an
explanation, and Mr.. Tillman pro
ceeded to explain in detail. He said
the bill was designed to give each
state the right to control the liquol
traffic in its own way, without inter
ference from the federal judiciary OF
any other source. Mr.. Mills opposed
the bill as step backward, allowing
as it does, said ne, interference with
interstate commerce. He considered Il
a very dangerous precedent Mr. Yes
also opposed it on the same ground
The bill was, he said, intended to main
tain the South Carolina monopol.
under the dispensary law. The discus
sion was cut off at 1850 p. m, the tim
fixed for the senators to proceed to tn
house of representatives and partici
pate in the count of the electoral vote
THE HOUSE.
WASHINGTON. Feb 1.-THE electora
votes of the As states Of the union wer
formally counted at the joint sessio
of the house and senate held yesterda,
for that purpose, and Vice Presiden
Stevenson proclaimed the election G
Mckinley and Hobart as president an
vice presidentrespectively. Adetail G
hlue.coated, brass-buttoned polio
hedged about the senators as the
marched over to the house, preceded b
Vice President Stevenson and Mr.. Cox
secretary of the senate. with the re
turns locked in Il cherry-colored box
The count itself was of a very formf
character. Vice President Stevenso
sat at the side of Speaker Reed an
presided over the joint session. Sent
tors Lodge and Blackburn, on the par