The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1898-05-12
THE SENATE.

MAY I'd. .-lle Senate passed tue
emergency war deficiency bill, carry
ing $50, 72O, 945. Hawley, chairman Of
the military affairs committee, secured
the passage of bill providing for tho
enlistment of a volunteer brigade OF
engineers, and of 10, 900 men i'll the
South who are immune to yellow fever,
these cnlislments to be IN addition to
those provided for in the President s
call for l25, 600 volunteers. The men
will enlist 'for the war;" Two other
war measures were passed, one sus-
pending for the duration of tile war the
restrictions placed by existing laws
upon the quartermaster' department
of tie army, in order that supplies may
be purchased without the present form
alities. and providing that owners OF
mining claims shall not forfeit them for
not performing assessment work upon
them, provided they enlist for the war.
The resolution presented by Butler, OF
North Carolina, declaring there IS no
necessity existing for issuing bonds to
provide funds for the war, and in favor
of the levying OF an income tax, was
laid before the Senate, and after short
statement by Butler in support of 1t,
was referred to the finance committee.
At p. m. the Senate went into execu-
tive session. At 2:35 p. m. the doors
were opened and a recess was taken
until to await the arrival of the emer-
gency war appropriation bill from the
House. 1t was given immediate con
sideration and passed. The Senate then
at 4 o'clock adjourned until the 4th.
MAY 4TH. In the Senate the confer
ence report on the fortitication appro-
priation bill was presented and agreed
to. Stewart, of Nevada, offered an
amendment as substitute for the loan
and bond sections of the war revenud
bill which provided for the issuance oil
$500, coo, 900 of Treasury notes. Tie
following resolution to the con-
stitutjoE, relating to the success
sion Of the Presidency, was adopted:
"In all cases not provided for by arti-
Gle second, clause fifth, of the Constl-
tuition, where there is 10 person entitled
to discharge the duties of the Office of
the President, the same shall devolve
upon the Vice-President. The Con-
gress may by law provide ior the case
where there is no person entitled to
hold the Office of President or Vice
President, declaring what officer shall
act as President and such officer shall
act accordingly until the disability
shall be removed or President shall
be elected" Mills, of Texas, proposed
an amendment in the shape of new
section intended to authorize Congress
to lay tax on incomes in such form
as to meet the requirements of the de-
cision of the Supreme Court, but it
was defeated by vote of 80 to 29.i
NAY 9TH. The Senate had under
consideration the postotfice approprla-
tion bill. The measure carries $685.
224, 800. being very mach the heaviest
of all the appropriation bills. The
most important action taken upon the
measure was the adoption of an amend
ment offered by Tillman, of South
Carolina, reducing the number of de-
liveries of mail in oil cities TO mum.
ber not exceeding four each day. The
amendment waa sharply artagonized as
blow to business interests in the
large cities, but the feeling of the
Senate wss such, that, despite
the vigorous opposition, it pre-
vailed by a decisive majority.
The appropriation of $500, 900 for rural
mail delivery was stricken out. Just
before adjournment the Senate passed
an important war measure authorizing
the President and officers of the army
to supply the Cuban insurgents with
arms and munitions of war, and em-
powering officers of the army serving
in Cuba to supply the needy inhabi-
tants of the island with medicines and
subsistence.