Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-05-18
HOUSE TOOK NO ACTION.
Made a Party Issue of the ApproprIn-
tion for Cuba and Adjourned
to Thursday.

Washington. May 1.-THE house con-
fronted the Cuban question to-day made
party issue OF IT, and adjourned without
taking any action. President Mckinney
message was received without demonstfa-
tion and or its heels Mr. Hit asked unan-'
imous consent for consideration of bill
in response to the presidents request. Mr.
Bailey. of Texas. asked for consent 20 con-
slider. in connection with the bill. an
amendment embodying Senator Morgan
resolution for recognition OF the tubdHS
as belligereuts. Mr.. DingleN would not
consent 10 consider tho amendment nor
Mr.. Bailey to consider the bill without the
amendment so. for the time. the question
was sidetrac cked. Then the house devoted
two hours to debate on the conference re
port on the feature of the Indian appro-
pTiatiOn bill opening to settlement she GIL
sOuite lands on the UnCompahere lndlan
reservation in Utah, refused to accept the
compromise agreed on by the confereeS,
and asked for another conference with the
senate on the bill. In the meantime. the
senate resolution. practically identical with
Mr.. Hits bill. had been sent to the house
and Mr.. Hit asked unanimous consent for
its consideration. The deadlock between
and while Mr.. Bailey was endeaVoring TO
get consent for the consideration OF the
two Cuban propositions together MT
Dingley put in a motion TO adjourn. This
motion was carried by party vote. the
Republicans voting for it and the Demo
Gratis and Populists. against. the total being
80 to 60. thirteen answering present. Under
the rule for bi-weekly sessions recently
adopted. the adjournment carries the ques-
ton over to Thursday.
Action by the house on President Nc
Kinley's recommendations for the relief of
American citizens in Cuba. which was pre-
vented to-day by the rules under which
the house is operating. doubtless will be
taken up at the next meeting of the ho1Se
on Thursday. The committee on rules will
present a rule fixing time for debate on the
resolution adopted by the senate to APP
propriate S500O0. Mr.. Bailey. the Demo-
couple Senator Morgan's resolution for
recognizing the belligerency of the msur-
gents with the bill for an appropri lui01.
proposes to secure vote on the question
by presenting a minority report from the
committee on rules which will make II i'm
order TO offer the substance of the Nor
gan resolution as an amendment.
IL is not unlikely that Speaker Reed will
declare a minority report out of order
The Democrats. however are determined
to bring the house to a vote on the gues-
tion of recognition of Cuban belligerencv
willing to meet that question again. al
though they adopted resolutions declaring
themselves in favor of il in the last house
They do not intend. however to COM
phcate a simple resolution for an app-opri-
alton with the question~of bsligerency he
says. -~
Mr. Bailey said to-day that the Republic
ans did not want TO meet the question with
Republican president who would be nut
in the position of enforcing or disregard
ing the recommendation of congress- He
added. when asked If a minority report
would be tempted to repeat the scenes of
the F1fty-first congress IF the speaker re-
fused 10 allow consideration of such a re-
port from the committee on rules.