The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1898-03-03
SEVERAL BILLS,
Unobjeeted to, Passed in the
Senate Monday.
The Census Bureau to Be Placed Under
the Interior Department.
Agitation Of Matters Relating to Cuba OF
the Maine Disaster In the House to BE
Prevented-Bill Providing for a Ter
ritorial Government for Alaska.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 22.-As no other |
business was pressing the senate at
the suggestion of Mr.. Hale (Me.) be-
gan to consider unobiected bills on the
calender Among those passed were
the following: Requiring masters and
mates of sail vessels of over 700
tons, to have licenses issued by United
States inspectors; granting to the
state of Wyoming SO, 900 acres of land
to aid in the continuation, enlargement
and maintenance of the Wyoming state
soldiers and sailors home; authoriz-
ing the White & Black River Valley
Railroad Co. to build bridge across
the Black river in Arkansas; to re-
quire patents to be issued to land
actually settled under the act entitled
san act to provide for the armed occu
patton and settlement of the unsettled
part of the peninsular of Florida. APP
proved August H. 1s42," and to amend
an act to prohibit the passage of local
or special laws in the territories, to
limit territorial Indebtedness, etc.
At 2 o'clock consideration of bills on
the calendar was discontinued and the
measure providing for the twelfth and
subsequent censuses was laid before
the senate. Mr.. Allison thought the
census bureau ought not be made an
independent bureau, but be placed un-
der the department of the interior, un-
der the general supervision of the Sec
retary of the interior, and he proposed
an amendment to that effect.
Mr.. Teller (Col.) offered an amend
ment to Mr.. Allison's amendment pro-
viding that the census bureau be plac-
ed under the department of labor and
that the commissioner of labor have
general supervision of the work. The
amendment to the amendment was lost,
2l-29 The question then reverted to
the amendment offered by Mr.. Allison
1t was adopted, 39s
The bill was discussed until $40 p
m., when, without action, the senate
on motion of Carter Nlont.) went into
executive session, and shortly after.
wards adjourned.
Monday morning Secretary Long
sent telegram as follows to Capt Eu-
late:
Commanding officer of the Spanish
cruiser Vizcaya, Tompllinsville, N. Y.
II have the honor to acknowledge
the receipt of your telegram of con-
dolence for the loss of the Maine and
to thank you for the expression of
sympathy"
A similar response was also made to
Vienna expressive of sympathy for the
terrible disaster to the Maine.
1t was stated Monday that it will be
the policy of the house leaders to pre-
vent, as far as possible, any agitation
of matters relating to Cuba or the
Maine disaster in the immediate fu-
ture. Pending the result of the Of
fetal investigation, they believe it is
wise and the part of good public pol
icy to maintain silence. AS Chairman
Hit, of the foreign affairs committee,
is confined to his home by bad cold +,
it is probable that no meeting of that
committee will be held until he re-
turns to his seat in the house. 1t is
understood that the report of the
state department to be made in answer
to the house resolution of inquiry re-
garding the situation in Cuba will not
be made for a week or ten days. 1t is
explained that the work of preparing
the consular reports which will be
transmitted will require considerable
time. Besides these reports it is stat
ed must be conned by Assistant Secre-
tary Day in person and the demands
upon his time at present are very
great and he has little leisure to give
| to this work.
Senator Carter, from the senate
committee on territories, Monday re-
ported the bill providing government
for the territory of Alaska. In a re-
port presented it is stated that the
reason for making three divisions of
| the one judicial district is the absence
of surveyed lines in the territory,
which would cause confusion in the
matter of jurisdiction.
Senator Hansbrough Monday gave
notice of an amendment he will offer
to this bill prohibiting the manufac.
ture, importation and sale of liquors
in Alaska and making the offense
punishable by both fine and impris.
Onment.
| WASHINGTON, Feb. o.. The senate
has passed the house joint resolution
appropriating $500, 900 for the recovery
of the Maine, and it will now go to the
president for approval.
Mr.. Allen (Neb.) introduced the fol
lowing resolutions:
Resolved, That the committee on
naval affairs be and is hereby directed
to make a thorough inquiry into the
destruction of the battleship Maine in
Havana harbor on the 18th instant and
report to the senate"
The resolution was passed immedi
ately without word of debate.
The appropriations committee of the
house has agreed upon the sundry civil
appropriation bill, and it will be re
ported to the house. 1t appropriates
S44, TAO, 1898, being $lS,sa4,54l less thar
the regular and supplemental esti
mates, and Ss, s6l, 500 less than the ap
preparations for the current fsca
year.
The bill carries s225, 900 for the deeI