The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-01-15
WANTS IO INVESTIGATE.
Matt Quay Wants twenty-five
Thousand
TO AvENGE SEMINOLES
Proposal to Change Inaugural
ton Day.
TO AYENGE SEMINOLES

Washington, Jan. 14.-After the trans
action of some routine business in the
senate today Mr.. Hoar (Mass.) present
ed the following joint resolution pro-
posing an amendment to the constitu-
ton:
THAT the following article be propos-
ed to the legislatures of the several
states as an amendment to the consti-
ton of the United States:
The term Of Office Of president and
the Fifty-sixth congress shall continue
until the Both of April, in the year 1899,
| at noon. The senators whose existing
term would otherwise expire on the 4th
day of March in the year 1899, or there
after, shall continue in Office until noon
of the 30th day of April succeeding such
expiration"
The resolution was referred to the
| committee on privileges and elections.
Mr.. Quay Pa.) offered the following
resolution, which was referred to the
committee on Indian affairs:
Resolved, That the secretary Of the
interior shall be and is hereby instruct
1
the recent alleged atrocious burning to
! death of two Seminole Indians by a
mob in Oklahoma Territory, and make
report thereon to congress.
THAT the sum of s25, 900 or so much
thereof as my be necessary is hereby
| appropriated out Of any money in the
| treasury not otherwise appropriated,
| for the investigation, apprehension and
| punishment of the guilty parties, to be
expended under the direction Of the sec
rotary of the interior"
Mr.. Lodge (Mass) offered a resolu-
ton, which was agreed to, calling on
| the secretary of agriculture to supply
| the senate with information as to the
amount of sugar imported into the
| United States: the amount of beet
sugar produced in the United States;
with what sugar, imported or domestic,
| the beet sugar comes into opposition;
and what effect the Hawaiian sugar
has or can have upon the beet sugar
| production in the United States
| Mr.. Tillman Is. Co. announced that
on account of the absence of his col
league, Mr.. McLaurin, he would ask
that the eulogies upon the late Senator
Joseph A. Earle, which were to have
been presented today, be postponed I'M
| til some later date to be announced
hereafter. The request was granted
The senate then, at 1890 p. M, on
motion of Mr.. Davis, went into execu-
| tive session.
| The executive session continued until
4:50 q. m. When in the open session a
message from the president transmit
ting his approval of the award of the
Bering sea commissioners was receiv-
ed and read.
Consideration of bills on the pension
calendar was then begun and nineteen
were passed.
Mr.. Mcbride introduced a bill grant
ing pensions to the survivors of certain
Indian wars.
The senate then, at o'clock, on mo-
ton of Mr.. Quay, adjourned until Mon
day.
MR.. HOAR'S MISTAKE.
Washington, Jan. IA clerical error
| in the resolution introduced by Senator
Hoar in the senate today, changing the
time for the Inauguration of presidents
from March to April placed the date
when the change should take place
1889, when it was Senator Hoars inten-
ton that the date should have been
1901, which would extend Mr.. McKin-
ley's term for a little more than a
month, instead of shortening, as would
have been the result if the resolution
as first introduced had become a law.
Mr.. Hoar afterwards changed the reso-
luton in accordance with his intention