The record-union., 1898-02-22
CONGRESSIONAL
PROCEEDINGS.
The Senate Discusses the Bill Pro-
viding for Taking Censuses.
Also Adopts Aliens Resolution for an IT,
vesiiga!On Of Maine Disaster.

81 Au1ne1au AAk SOsASA
Carolina, Fifteen Thousand
Dollars for Damages by Federal
Troops.
WASHINGTON. Feb. 21.-For three
hours to-day the Senate had under dis
cussion the bill providing for the TAX
ing Of the twelfth and subsequent CEN
suses. 1t was so amended as to place
the Census Bureau under the Secretary
of the Interior. but the extended discus
sion which followed disclosed so wide
a divergence of views on the part of
the Senators as to various features of
the measures that no further action
was taken. resolution offered by
Allen directing the Committee on Naval
Affairs to make an investigation of the
disaster to the battleship Maine was
adopted without debate.
The galleries were filled to-day when
the Senate convened, the crowd of
spectators doubtless being attracted by
the probabilities of further debate upon
Cuban affairs or matters connected
with the catastrophe to the battleship
Maine.
The joint resolution providing for the
recovery of the bodies Of officers and
men from the wrecked battleship, and
for the recovery of valuable property
on the ship, which was passed by the
House of Representative last week,
was presented to the Senate and passed.
1t carries an appropriation of 100000.
Hoar of Massachusetts introduced
joint resolution directing the transfer
of valuable historical documents from
the several departments to the National
Library.
Allen of Nebraska introduced the fol-
| lowing resolution
Resolved That the Committee on
Naval Affairs he and is hereby directed
to make a thorough inquiry into the
destruction of the battleship Maine i'll
Havana harbor on the 10Th inst, and
report to the Senate"
The resolution was passed without a
word of debate.
AS no other business was pressing,
the Senate, at the suggestion of Hale
of Maine, began to consider unobje.tel
bills OH the calendar. Among those
passed were the following:
Requiring masters and mates of sail
ing vessels of over 700 tons to have T.
censes issued by United States inspec-
tors; granting to the State of Wyom-
ing 10000 acres of land to aid in the
continuation, enlargement and mainte-
nance of the Wyoming State Soldiers
and Sailors Home and to amend an
Act to prohibit the passage of local
special laws in the Territories, to limit
territorial Indebtedness, etc
AT o'clock consideration of the bills
on the calendar was discussed, and the
measure providing for the twelfth and
subsequent censuses was laid before
the Senate.
Allison thought the Census Bureau
ought not to be made an independent
bureau, but should be placed under the
Department of the Interior, under the
general supervision of the Secretary of
the Interior, and he proposed an amend
ment to that effect
Teller of Colorado offered an amend
ment to Allison's amendment. providing
that the Census Bureau be placed under
the Department of Labor, and that the
commissioner of Labor have general
supervision of the work
The amendment to the amendment
was lost-21 to %.
The question reverted to the amend
ment offered by Allison. 1t was adont.
ed-39 to s.
The bill was not completed at $40 n
nh. when, without action, the Senate
on motion of Carter of Montana. Went
into executive session. and shortly af
terward adjourned
HOUSE PROCEEDINGS
WASHINGTON. Feb. 21.-This was
private bill day in the House. but lit-
tie was accomplished. owing to the fact
that most of the time was consumed in
the passage OF private pension bills
coming over from the Friday night se,s
sion three weeks ago. The feature Of
the day was the spirited contest over
the bill to pay Newberry College.
Lutheran institution in South Carroll
ma, $4,000 for damages by Federal
troops. 1t was finally passed
On motion of Bailey, the Democratic
leader, the House voted, IS to :,5. to
observe Washington's Birthday by adj
Journing over tomorrow, but Dingley
raised the point of no quorum, and be-
fore further action could be taken. the
House recessed under the rule until s
O'Clock. The Republicans desire to go
ahead with the sundry civil appropri-
alton bin tomorrow
Under the arrangement made last
week, while the bankruptcy bill was be-
ing debated, to-day in the House was
given up to consideration or private
bills. Some pension bills favorably acted
upon three weeks ago remained to be
passed before the bills on the calendar
were taken up
After these pension bills. twenty
seven in number. had been passed. the
House went into Committee oil the
Whole on the private calendar.
The first BILL to appropriate $4,000
for damages and injury sustained by
Newberry College, South Carolina.
while occupied by a New York Regi-
ment as a barracks in 1861, after Lees
surrender, was opposed by Dingley.
Dalzell and other prominent Republi-
cans
Dalzell declared 1T was an attempt on
the part of the Democrats and Southern
Republicans TO rob the treasury
Cooper CD of Texas and I4attinler
CD Of South Carolina warmly cham
pioned the bill. The former inveighed
against the spirit of sectionaHsm which
still prevailed in certain quarters.
Mahon (Ro of Pennsylvania. walker
(R) OF Massachusetts and other Re