Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1897-02-18
DAILY DoINos OF CONGRESS-.

that measure Tor the present session
of congress and thereupon it was dis
placed by the bankruptcy bill. Mr..
Morgan gave notice that he would re-
new his advocacy of the bill at an early
day of the coming extra session. He
bitterly criticised British opposition to
the canal. The agricultural appropria
ton bill was passed, at 3,255, 500, but
ii led TO a lively debate in which Sec
rotary Morton was sharply criticised
by Senators Vest, Chandler, Tillman
and others 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 Tillman and
the bill were bitterly condemned by
several Senators. HoUsE-The House
passed the Senate bill prohibiting the
carrying of obscene matter by express
companies. JoINT SEssIoN-The Sena-
tors at the close of their session
marched over to the hall of
representatives. and the two houses
of congress then assembled in joint
session and with much formality pro-
ceeded with the count of the electoral
vote of the United States. Following
is the vote as officially announced:
Mckinley, 27l electoral votes; Bryan,
176; vice-president, Hobart, 97l; Sew
all, 149; Watson, %.
SENATE-45th day-The arbitration
treaty in executive session occupied the
major portion of another day, and
Senators Turpe, of Indiana, and Nor
gan, of Alabama, advocating and OPP
| posing the measure, respectively, filled
| in the executive session. HoUsE-The
Notifications appropriation bin was
passed and some Roadway was made
with the postoffice appropriation bill
But the larger portion of the day was
consumed in political debate on the
financial question, which was precipi-
tated by an innocent provision in bill
providing for funding the debt of the
territories. The bill aroused the oppo-
sition of Mr.. McMillin, of Tennessee
because it provided for gold bonds and
the payment of interest in gold or its
equivalent. After a lengthy discussion
Mr.. McMillin's amendment, making
the territorial bonds outside of the
| gnu dilthtiN lSSuCd
| by Arizona, payable in lawful money
of the United States was adopted by
a vote of 149 to :, and the bill passed.
SENATE-46th day-A resolution pre-
sented by Mr.. Hill, of New York, was
passed, requesting the secretary of
state To use his good offices in behalf
of Correspondent Scovel, imprisoned by
the Spanish in Cuba, to secure his re-
moval TO Havana and Ito insist that
he shall have all the rights and privi-
leges secured to American citizens by
treaty between Spain and the United
States" Mr. Morgan, of Alabama, in
troduced joint resolution to the effect
that the Clayton Bulwer treaty be-
tween Great Britain and the United
States be abrogated. The discussion
of the arbitration treaty in executive
session occupied the rest of the day.
HoUsE-The postoffice appropriation
bill was passed, carrying sos, 435,7l4.
SENATE.-47th day.-The arbitration
treaty was before the Senate all day
| to the exclusion of other matters.
HoUsE.-The sundry civil appropria-
ton bill was under consideration and
afforded Messrs. Sayers, Of Texas;
Dockery, of Missouri, and other Demo
cratic members an opportunity to ar
raign this congress for the enormous
appropriations which have been made
and which, they predict, will aggre-
gate 81 $50, 000. 900. Speaker Reed was
eXonerated from all responsibility i'm
the matter and political debate was
occasioned which took up nearly the
entire day. Rep. Cummings, of New
York, introduced resolution request
ing the secre tary of state to give any
information he may have regarding
the stripping of three lady passengers
on board the u. 5. mail steamship
Olivetta in the harbor of Havana by
! Spanish soldiers and detectives Mr.
Cummings said: If an English woman
on an English vessel had been stripped
by Spanish officials as it has been al
| legged that an American woman was
stripped, within AS hours Moro castle
would come down or some apology
would be made for it.
SENATE-4sth day-Mr. Morgan, of
Alabama, called up his resolution to
/ bhO Way
Mr.. Sherman tried to prevent it, and
ce-President Stevenson maintained
| Mr.. Sherman's points of order. Then
Mr.. Morgan declared he was being
! ''victimized" by the chair and a lively
tilt ensued, but Mr. Morgan carried his
| point. The Senate went in to xecutive
session for three hours after which the
bankruptcy bill was under considera-
| ton for time. The conference report
on the legislative, executive and judi
cial appropriation bill was agreed to.
A further conference on the agricultu-
raj appropriation bill was directed.
HoUsE-The sundry civil appropriation
bill-carrying 50,644, 743-was passed
under suspension of the rules. Several
| other bills were passed in the same
way, notably, appropriating s250,0oo
| TO close the crevasse in the Pass lOutre
at the mouth of the Mississippi river
which threatened to destroy navigation
at that point; to equip the National
Guard with uniform Springfield rifles,
As caliber; authorizing the secretary of
the navy to transport from the Pacific