Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1897-01-14


Mr.. Pattigrew offered a resolution
which was agreed TO, asking the sec
Rotary OF the treasury for information
g to the Boring sea seal fisheries,
and particularly asking information
as to why only 81 900 was yielded TO
the government in 1895 for the privil-
eye OF taking $4,000 seal skins,
Mr.. PETER then addressed the SEN
ate, reading from manuscript, on h-
| resolution for a national monetary
commission. The resolution reciles
| that the result OF the recent election
did not show majority OF voters ia
vorable to any one monetary policy
that a commission of five members be
created to investigate the entire mon
etary subject and report within, 2
year
A message from the president was
received transmitting the report of
the secretary Of state concerning the
death of Charles Goying in Cuba.
Washington, Jan. BIN the house a
resolution was ado-ted on motion Of
Mr. Broderick directing the secretary
Of the interior to report the cause Of
the omission to issue patents To lands
embraced In the grant to the Union
Pacific railway company and the
authority under which the land officers
pretend to act In permitting homestead
entries TO be made.
Then the house went into COM
mittee of the whole and began
consideration of the Loud BILL which
amends the present law in several
particulars, the principal ones of which
deny to newspapers the sample copy
privilege" and deny to books sent
through the mails as serials the news
paper pound rates. II was debated
for one day before the recess. Mr.
Quigg rep, N. Y.) took the floor 10
reply to Mr.. LIQUIDS arguments favor
ing the bill He characterized the
hill as revolutionary and reactionary
and said it proposed to deny the people
privileges they had enjoyed for half
century and If passed would inflict
a blow on every occupation engaged
in the printing and publishing Of books
and newspapers, and in their distri-
button. Mr.. Kyle (dem.. Miss.) and
Mr.. Burton rep. Ohio supported the
bill. Mr.. Johnson trep,, Cali made
characteristic speech in opposition to
the bill. He said that every country
newspaper and every cheap magazine
in the country was opposed to the
pending BILL Mr.. Bromwell (rep-,
Ohio a member of the committee
-Yhich prepared the bill, advocated its
passage on the ground that the post
office should be run within its
income. Mr.. Cummings, dem,
N. W In vigorously antag-
onizing the measure, denied that
the newspapers favored the bill.
He presented petition signed by over
| 1000 news dealers in New York
against the bill,
Washington, Jan. 6.-Senator Calls
speech in the senate served
as a medium for making public 2 LETT
ter giving a graphic description of the
Cabanas fortress at Havana and the
surroundings of American citizens
there. The ,et.er which came from
a public man Of high standing in the
United States, dealt with the immedl-
ate present and described a visit made
by the writer and General Lee TO the
fortress December 80. II told
of the pitiful condition of the prison.
ers, some of them Americans, includ-
ing Julio Sanguily and young man
who was a companion Of Charles Co
win, the American newspaper cores
pendent killed in Cuba. The recital
Of these prisoners was given in full
The writer also gave the particulars
Of another arrest. He said that while
at Lees Office the Monday previous
December PSI he saw the son OF Dr..
Betancourt, an American citizen who
has been practicing dentistry at Ha-
vana for the last year. The son is
also an American and said that his
father mysteriously disappeared Sun
day night. He was traced to the Cab
anas fortress where the son OH paying
5 GEMS to Spanish official was al
! lowed to send a cot to his father,
| Senator Call refarred also to letters re-
ceived from the Hlre OF one & the
sailors on the ship Competitor, now
imprisoned in Havana At the close
nf the speech the senate agreed TO
Senator Calls resolution requesting
the secretary OF state for all cores.
pondence relating TO the c1Sc OF julio
SangIilly The other resolution. de-
manding Sangmlly's immediate re-
lease. was referred to, the committee
on foreign relations.
The senate bill to amend the act re-
pealing the timber culture laws was
taken up and passed after an explana-
ton by Senator Pettigrew that II APP
Piled only 10 the new lands OF the great
Sioux reservation
Mr., Cullom rep, Ill., reported adj
yersely from the committee on foreign
relations the bill To grant $1,000 to the
wife OF Consul Waller. the United
States representative to Madagascar.
and the bill was indefinitely post
poIed