The San Francisco call., 1897-02-06
aoUsE pRoCEEDINGS.
Contested Election Cases and Penstoi
Bills Passed Upon.

Contested Etecfo7, Cases and FenstoN
Bills Passed Upon.
WASHINGTON, d. c., Feb. Sin they
House to-day, Johnson (R.) OF Indiana
presented the unanimous report OF Elec-
tions Committee No. 2 upon the contest
of Alexander Benoit vs. Charles j. Boat
ner. from the Fifth District of Louisiana,
fin favor of Mr. Boatner. Upon contest
or the seat subject to the election in 1894
the seat was declared vacant ty the
House and q special election held TO Ill
the vacancy. Benoit again contested, ana
the committee finds that he had no case.
Daniels (R.) of New York presented the
report of Elections Committee No. upon
the contest of n. t. Hopkins against Jos
seph NJ. Kendall from the Tenth District
OF Kentucky in favor OF Kendall. Royse
(R.) of Indiana and Linney (R.) of North
Carolina dissented from the conc iusion of
the ma jority.
The House then entered upon the con-
sideration of private pension bills, which
have been acted upon by the committee of
the whole. A bill was passed granting a
pension OF $50 month to the widow of
the late Major-General Erastus B. Tyler.
A message from the President was re-
ceived transmitting the final report of the
president of the Board of Commissioners
of the Worlds Fair, the material of which
filled five large boxes. 1t was referred to
the Committee on Appropriations.
The conference report on the Military
Academy bill was presented and agreed
to. II reduces by 1000 the total amount
OF the bill as it passed tue Senate and in
creases the House total by $4,000.
The report from Committee on Elec-
tions No. upon the contest of Taylor
Beattie against Andrew Price from the
Third Louisiana District in favor of Price,
the sitting member, was presented.
Johnson (R.) Of Indiana and Long (R of
Kansas dissented and recommended that
the House declare the seat vacant.
A bill was passed granting a pension OF
$12 month to Amanda M. Way, now a
resident of California, who in the years
following the war was prominent tenn
perance and female-suffrage worker in In j,
diane. Her services were those of volun-
teer army nurse.
A bill was also passed granting PEN
sion of 500 a month to Hans johnson,
Twenty-seventh Iowa Volunteers.
When the Senate bill to pension the
widow of the late General and Governor
w. 81. Stoneman of California had been
passed, with an amendment reducing the
rate from $50 10 $50 month, Loud (R.) of
California called attention to the dis
crepancy between the terms of that bill
and those OF others pensioning widows of
brigadier-generals.
General Stoneman," he said, "was no
ordinary general commanding a brigade,
but served with great distinction in charge
of important separate commands in the
Army of the Potomac, and later in the
West. trust that when the bill gets into
conference the mem bers of the Committee
on Pensions will see that the same meas
ure of justice is meted out to Mrs. Stone
man that the committee has accorded to
the widows of other general officers, many
OF whom we never heard of before. To be
sure, General Stoneman was Democratic
Governor of my State, but | hope that no
political bias has influenced the action of
the committee"
Thomas (R.) of Michigan, acting chair
man OF the Committee on Invalid PEN
sions, said he approved every word the
gentleman from California mad uttered.
Sixty-one bills were disposed of, when
the House took the usual Friday recess
until P. NJ.
On motion of Loudenslager of New Jer-
sey the House at to-nighps session
adopted a resolution that private pension
bills shall be considered only when their
authors were present and responded to
their names The purpose of the resoIu-
ton was to insure the attendance of MEM
bers having bills on the calendar, or cause
such bills TO lose their legislative right OF
way. Only three bills under the order
were passed over, and when the House
adjourned at 10:30 twenty-three bills had
been considered and laid aside with IA
vora bic recon- mendation.