Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1898-02-05
PROCEEDINGS OF CONGRESS
DISCUSS THE NATIONS AFFAIRS
Leaders in Both Branches of the Ma
tiOnaI legislature Consume Time
in Talk as Well ns Transact Some
Public Business-What Has Been
Done. e#st

Public BuSiness-What hhs beeh
Done.
4 The house Monday buried the Teller
resolution. declaring the bonds of the
/ United States payable in silver under an
adverse majority of 80 votes. The repub-
leans were solidly arrayed IN opposition
with two exceptions-Alr. Linney of
North Carolina who voted with the dem
ocrats and populists, and MIR. White of
North Carolina, the only colored member
of the house, who answered present
when his name was called, The assertions
from the democratic side were Mr.. Nc
/ Aleer of Pennsylvania and Mr.. Elliott of
South Carolina. Both voted with the re-
/ publicans against the proposition. Speak
or Reed. although it is not customary for
/ him to vote, had his name called, and
/ amid the cheers of his followers, went on
record in opposition TO the resolution.
/ In the senate two of the general appro-
priation. bills-that of the army, carrying
! 1913 ,243. 492, and the legislative, executive
and judiciary departments, carrying $2l.-
/ 65S ,520--wcrn passed the latter consist
ing of }2l pages and occupying the atten-
ton of the senate during the greater part
of the session. John McLaurin was sworn
in as senator from South Carolina to fill
the unexpired term of the late Senator
Earle, ending 1903. s.
The CiNiI Service.
The military academy appropriation
bill was reported to the house Tuesday.
The anti-civil service reformers won Il
slight victory when MIR. Perkins of Iowa
presented a resolution for printing the
hearings before the civil service commits
sion. Mr.. Grosvonor antaeonized the res
olution He said the hearings had taken
an x-parte turn and he desired to submit
some facts in refutation of certain state
ments before the hearings were printed.
bill was passed authorizing the secre-
tary of the treasury to build on purchase
d suitable vessel for revenue cutter sev-
ice on the Yukon river to cost not eX
ceeding $4,000. At 4 p. m. the debatY
drifted into politics. Mr. Simpson of KaII
sas attempted to show from clippings
from Maine papers that there had bee1
no return of prosperity in the lumber ny
dustry in that state. He also attacked
New Jersey as the home of the trust. Mr..
Dingley in reply declared that the Maine
papers were full of evidences of the inn
proVements in the lumber industry The
clipping was an exception 1t was, he
said, another proof that the other side
could see the speck on the barn door, but
eSuld not see the door.
The condition in the senate respecting
the Hawaiian annexation treaty has
greatly improved and the friends of the
treaty. including Senator Davis, chair
man of the foreign relations committee,
are confident that 60 senators, whose
votes are necessary for a two-thirds ma
iority. will vote for ratification.
Senator White of California continued
his speech in opposition to the Hawaiian
annexation treaty i'll the executive SEES
sion of the senate Wednesday amid many
Interruptions and much cross-tire. His
speech was a continuation of the argu-
ment on constitutional lines but he also
took up questions of practical purport III
today's speech and undertook to show
that for reasons of commerce and defense
the ACQUISITION of the island would be
unwisc. Senator HaWley secured the
adoption of resolution instructing the
secretary of the interior to furnish the
senate the total per capita cost of cdn-
eating Indian children at certain Indian
schools. Senator Culom of Illinois of the
appropriation committee called mp the ag-
rcultmal bill As it passed the house
it carries $3360902. As reported to the
senate the bill carried S3.5l2,2 POP, an in
crease over the house bill of 1851 300.
Senator Warren of Wyoming offered an
amendment to establish division of IL
rigation and reclamation of arid lands at
cost of $1,000 and providing for investi
cations of the methods of building and
operating irrigation canals and of IA meth
cd of storing and distributing water in the
reclamation of arid lands at a cost not
exceeding $4,000. No action was taken
on the amendment.
In the house the army appropriation
bill was sent to conference. Hull, repub
lican of Iowa, Marsh. republican of Hi
nois, and Cox, democrat of Tennessee, be
ing appointed conferecs. The house then
went into committee of the whole and
resumed consideration of the District OF
Columria appropriation bin.
Italian Warships Meet at Hayti