Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-01-14
CONGRESSIONAL.

Jan. 5.-Senate passed House bill abolish
Ing the death penalty except in following
cases. Treason, criminal assault murder,
and two offenses applicable to the army and
navy. In all other offenses hard labor tor
life is substituted as maximum punishment
Mr.. Call Dem.) of Florida introduced reso-
lutlOns calling for information as to the
condemnation of Julio Sanguily at Havana
to life Imprisonment, and also directing the
secretary of state to demand Sanguily's Inc
mediate release Mr.. PETER Poppy of KAN
sas delivered speech in support of his res
olution for a national monetary commission,
The House discussed the Loud bill to
amend the laws relating to second class
mail matter all day Mr.. Loud the author
of the bill, led the debate, and Mr.. Quigg led
the opposition.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 6.-The Oklahoma free
homestead bill was debated vigorously In
the Senate for two hours Senator PETITE
grew of South Dakota, chairman OF the
committee on Indian affairs, and Senator
Carter of Montana, were It's especial cham
pions. Mr.. Call made his promised speech
on his resolution concerning the condemna-
ton of Julio Sanguily at Havana At the
close of Mr.. Calls speech the Senate agreed
to his resolution asking the secretary Of
state for all the correspondence In the case
of Julio Sanguily.
The Senate then went into executive SEES
sion.
The Loud second class mail matter bill
passed the House by the vote of 144 to 106
1t amends the laws relating to second class
mail matter so as principally to deny to
newspapers the sample copy privilege" and
deny to books sent through the mail as seri-
ais, the newspaper pound rates
JAN 7.-Aiter a number of unimportant
bills had been disposed of progress was
made on the bill for free homesteads on In
dian lands, but final vote was not reached
Mr.. Plat opposed the bill in a lengthy
speech, pointing out that 1t would cost 4
government loss of many millions It was
disclosed during the dly that Representa-
tive-elect Edward F. Robbins was the author
of the letters from Havana read in the
Senate by Mr., Call The other Cuban de-
velopment of the day was joint resolution
offered by Mr.. Mills, Democrat of Texas, de-
clartng that the power of recognizing new
republic resides in Congress; recognizing
the independence of Cuba and appropriate
ing 10000 for United States minister 10
the republic of Cuba. Mr. Mills will speak
on the resolution next Monday. Mr.. Sher-
man of Ohio sought to secure the passage Of
bill directing the secretary of agriculture
to establish uniform standard of grain
and all classes of cereals, to be known as the
United States standard, but there was sharp
opposition and the bill went over.
The house begun general debate on the
Pacific railroad funding bill. There were
only four speakers-Mr. Powers, Republican,
of Vermont the chairman of the Pacific
railroad committee, who opened with an
exhaustive two hours argument in support
of the bill, Mr.. Hubbard, Republican, Of
Missouri, the minority member of the COM
mittee, who has charge of the opposition,
and Messrs. Grow, Republican, of Pennsyl-
vania, and Bell, Democrat, of Texas, who
spoke respectfully for and against the
measure.
Jan. 9.-The Pacific railroad refundlng
debate was continued all day in the House.
Johnson, Republican, of California the only
member of the delegation in favor of the
bill, made a bitter personal attack on Editor
Hearst of he San Francisco Examiner, and
Mayor Sutro Mr.. Cooper of Wisconsin said
It was the most disgraceful attack In the
legislative annals of the United States The
other speakers were: Patterson, Democrat,
of Tennessee; Arnold, Republican, of Penn
sylvania, and Hepburn, Republican, of Iowa,
in favor of the measure; and Messrs. Har-
rison, Democrat, of Alabama; Boatner,
Democrat, of Louisiana; Swanson, Demo-
crat, of Virginia; Mccall, Rpublican, of Mas
sachusetts; Wheeler, Democrat, of Ala
bama; Cooper, Republican, of Wisconsin;
Shatroth, Republican, OF Colorado; Bell,
Populist, of Colorado, and Parker Repub-
lican, of New Jersey, against it.
Jan. 9.--The debate In the House on the
Pacific railroad funding bill came to close
at o'clock Mr.. Broderick, Republican, Of
Kansas, offered an amendment extinguish-
ing the Union Paciflc's right-of- way through
the Delaware and POttawatomie Indian
reservations in Kansas. The amendment
was accepted by Mr.. Powers and agreed to. |
During the day Mr.. Northway, of Ohio, of |
tered an amendment to the Harrison sub
stitute. providing for national commission
to effect a settlement, which, on being ap-
proved by the president, shall become
operative.