The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-01-15
SESSION OF THE SENATORS.
-, HoAR PROPOSES A CHANGE IN
INAUGURATION DAY.

Duonoses to Have the Presidential
T.rm End on April 30 Instead of
v,rch 4-WOuId Also Have the
ro.,s of the Vice President, Sena-
.ors and congressman Expire on
tho same INSTRUMENTATION of
~, 1oosting Alive of the Indians
called For.
1,-asbinpton Jan. 14.-After the trans
lion of some routine business in the
corate to-day Mr.. Hoar, Rep, of Massa-
-t,sotts presented the following amend
,r+ nroposing an amendment to the con-
atit,,+ion. THAT the following article be
,,ro-oeed to the legislature of the several
st,+es as an amendment to the constitu-
ZION of the United States:
THAT the term of office of the President
and the term of the Fifty-sixth Congress
-,,ou continue till the Both day of April
=, the wear 1899 at noon. The senator's
,.,oea existing term would otherwise ex-
,,,re ON the 4th day of March, in the year
800 ar thereafter, shall continue in Of
Goo until noon of the 30th day of April
.,,o.ee,7ing such expiration, and the 90th
Sa,. Of April. at noon, shall thereafter
Va pa' INSTITUTED for the 4th of March as the
announcement and termination Of the
r Of President Vice President, sena-
tors and representatives in Congress.
~ r5e resolution was referred TO the com
,nitrae on privileges and elections
~ Ouav of Pennsylvania offered the
showing resolution, which was referred
~ ,oo committee on Indian affairs:
- "2esolved. That the Secretary of the
7...,,ior shall be and is hereby instructed
- investigate the facts attending the re-
eort alleged atrocious burning to death of
40 seminole Indians by mob in Okla
boma Territory, and make report thereon
10 ..T maj the sum of $4,000 or so much
.,,ore,,p as may be necessary is hereby app
',ir,nrizted out of any money in the treas
~. not otherwise appropriated for the in
.rastiration. apprehension and punishment
- the guilty parties, TO be expended. I'M
9ar the direction of the Secretary OF the
Interior -,.....
nod a resolution, which was agreed to,
ppanine on the Secretary of Agriculture To
sipny the Senate with information as to
the amount of sugar imported into the
United States, with what sugar, imported
or domestic, beet sugar comes into COM
petition and what effect the Hawaiian
sugar has or can have upon beet sugar
production in the United States.
Mr. Tnlman, Dem, of South Carolina.
announced that on account of the absence
Of his colleague, Mr.. McLaurin, he would
ask that the eulogies on the memory of
the late Senator Joseph B. Earle, which
was to have been made to-day, be post
poned to some other date to be named
hereafter. The request was granted.
The Senate then, at 1890 O'Clock. on mo-
ton of Mr.. Davis, chairman of the COM
mttee on foreign relations, went into ex-
ecutive session.
The executive session continued until
$40 o'clock, and then the Senate adjourn
ed. While in the executive session a mes
sage transmitting the Presidents appro-
val of the award to the Boring Commis>
sioners was received.
Consideration of the pension bills on the
calendar was then begun and nineteen
were passed.
Mr. Pettus of Alabama then secured the
passage of a bill to regulate the duties
of United States judges in the District
Courts in Alabama.
The Senate then adjourned until Mon
day next.
clerical error in the resolution intro
duced by Senator Hoar changing the time
for the Inauguration of Presidents from
March until April placed the date when the
change takes effect at 1892 when il was
Senator Hoar's intention that the date
should have been 1901, making an extension
OF President McKinleys term for little
over month, instead of shortening it as
would have been the result, had the first
form become law