The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-02-06
LIST OF SENATOR'S
NOW COMPLETED
Credentials OF Richard r kenney, Of
Delaware, Are Accepted.
FORTY.FiVE STATES REPRESENTED
The House Disposcs of Sixty-one
Private Pension Bills---scverai
Contested Election Cases Are Re-
ported III Favor of the Sitting Mem
bers--Rcport of Military Academy
Appropriation Agreed To.

Washington, Feb. 5.-The vacancy
which has existed in the senate since
the fourth of March, 1896, by reason of
the Delaware legislatures failure
TO elect a senator from that
state was filed today by the
admission of Richard r. Ken
ney. whose credentials, in due form,
We're presented by Mr. Gray Of Della
ware, and We're accepted as prima facie
evidence of his right to the seat. Even
Senators Chandler, of New Hampshire.
and Hoar of Massachusetts, recognized
MIR. Ncnney's right to be sworn in and
to take his seat; suggesting, however,
that the question of whether the Della
ware Legislature which had elected him
was a fraudulent body could be here
after presented to the committee on
privileges and elections. Meanwhile
Mr.. Eenney holds the seat, and the A5
states of the Union are now fully rep
resented in the senate by 80 senators.
The house bill to prohibit the sale Of
Intoxicating liquors in the capitol was
not taken up today. Mr.. Hill, of New
York, stated that it could not he dis
posed of within the morning hour. but
notice was given by Mr.. Morrill,, of YER
mont, that he would move to have it
taken up tomorrow
Mr.. Thurston, of Nebraska, continued
his speech in opposition to the resolu-
tions of his populist colleague. Mr. AL
len questioning the right Of the eXecu-
tive department to consent to a judicial
sale of the property of the Union Pac-
ifc Railroad company. His argument
was to show that that disposition of
the question was the legal and proper
one. He had not finished his speech
when the morning hour expired.
The Nicaragua bill was taken up and
speeches in opposition to it We're made
by Senators Allen, Nebraska, and Caf-
frey, Louisiana.
Afterwards some fifty pension bills,
and some twenty-five other unObjected
house bills We're taken from the calen-
dar and passed and the senate at 6
o'clock adjourned until tomorrow.
BUSINESS IN THE HOUSE.
With a few Interruptions the house
applied itself today to the consideration
of the unfinished business and when
thus engaged disposed of siXty-one pri-
vate pension bills. Among them We're
bills granting pensions of $50 a month
to the widow of General Erastus a.
Tyler; to Edwin c. SDofford, of the
Thirty-tifth MassaC Chusetts infantry;
to Shuball Gould, of the Eighth Iowa
Hans Johnson, of the Twenty
Iowa; to Major General julius A. II.
Stahel; to the widow of General Mat
thew p. Trumbull, and Of $50 a month
to the widow of the late General and
Governor w. II. Stoneman, of Cali
fOrnia.
Reports We're presented and ordered
printed upon the contested election
cases of BenOit VS.. Boatner, from the
Fifth district of louisiana; of Hopkins
VS.. Kendall, from the Tenth Kentucky
district, and of Beattie VS.. Price, from
the Third Louisiana district-all in IA
Vor of the sitting members.
The conference report on the mill
tary academy appropriation bill was
agreed to-
At $50 the house took a recess until
o'clock, the evening session being de-
voted to private pension bills.