The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1898-01-15
MAKE THE DATE
APRIL TH|R7|EIH
SeR0|0T H00T Proposes On Amend
nenl 10 IhG Constitution.
LODGE RESOLUTION INQUIRIES ABOUT SUGAR
Quay Proposes TO Investigate The Mob Out
rage on Seminole Indians.
nutIer Secures the PEssnse of n BilIto
Erect hlonunients Two Esevoius
tionnry IIerocs-ConsIdernti OF
Diplomatic and Consular Appro~
priatIon Bill Deferred TO avoid a
Cuban nte-AgrIcuIiurnl BIZ
Passed.
)DGE RESOLUTION INQUIRIES ABOUT SUGAR
Quay Proposes to Investigate The Mob Out
rage on Seminole indians.
washington, D. c., Jan. Ii, 1898.

Washington, D. c., Jan. H. 1898.
After the transa ctlon Of some rou-
tine business in the Senate to-day Mr..
Hoar, Of Massachusetts, presented the
following 5oint resolution proposing an
amendment TO the constitutions:
THAT the following article be pro-
posed to the Legislatures of the seve-
raj States as an amendment to the
constitution of the United States:
THE term Of office OF the President
and OF the Fifty-sixth Congress shall
continue until the 3Oth day of April,
In the year 1901. at noon. The Sena-
tors whose existing term would other
wise expire on the 4th day of March,
in the year 1899, or thereafter, shall
continue in office until noon of the
S0th day of April succeeding each ex-
piration; and on the 30th day of April,
at noon, shall thereafter be substituted
for the 4th Of March as the commence
ment and termination of the official
term Of the President, VicePresident,
Sena tors anG Representatives in Con-
GreSS-"
The resolution was referred to the
SOihLllllCG Oil IllNueSSS anu IIleCllUHS.
MIR. Quay, of Pennsylvania. offered
the following resolution, which was
referred to the Committee on Indian
Affairs:
Resolved, That the Secretary of the
Interior shall he and Is hereby in
structcd to investigate the facts at
tending the recent alleged atrocious
burning to death OF two Seminole In
dams by mob in Oklahoma Territory
and make report thereon to Congress.
That the sum of $4,000 or so much
thereof as may be necessary is here
by appropriated out of any money in
the Treasury not otherwise appropriat-
ed for the Investigation, apprehension
and punishment of the guilty persons.
to be expended under the direction OF
the Secretary OF the Interior"
Mr.. Lodge, of Massa achusetts. offetad
a resolution. which was agreed to,
calling upon the Secretary of Agricul-
ture to supply the Senate with infor-
nation as to the amount Of sugar inn
ported into the United States; the
amount OF beet sugar produced In the
United States, with what sugar, i'm
ported or domestic, the beet sugur
comes into competition, and what ef-
feet the Hawaiian sugar has or can
! have lipon beet sugar production in
the United States"
Mr. Tillman, OF South Carolina, an
nounced that on account OF the absence
of , his colleague, Mr.. McIhurin, he
would ask that the eulogies upon the
late Senator Joseph y. Earle. which
were to have been presented to-day,
be postponed until some later date.
to be announced hereafter. The re-
quest was granted.
The Senate then, at 1890 p. m. on
SsssSsiOn Of Mr.. Davis chairman of the
CGfsaa;lttee on Foreign Rela tions, went
into executive session.
y: The executive session continued until
4;30 p. m, when in open session n mes
sage from the President, transmitting
his approval OF the award of The Ber-
ing Sea Commissioners, was received
and read.
Consideration OF bills on the pension
calendar was then begun and nineteen
were passed.
Air. Butler {N. c. secured the passage
pf n Joint resolution ITO carry into ef-
feet two resolutions of the Conrinenta,
Congress, directing monuments To be
erected to the memory of General Fran.
els Nash and William Lee Davidson.
of North Carolina. the cost Of each
to he $1,000.
The Senate then, at sos p. m, on mo-
tion of Mr.. Quay, adjourned until Mon.
day.
HOUSE.
IT was the intention Of the House
managers to proceed with the Dipil-
matte and Consular appropriation hill
to-day but owing to the excited con.
dition of affairs in Havana and the
wildly exaggerated reports afoat they
decided 10 avCid the possibility Of omen
ing up Cuban debate by .reIinoushing
the day 10 the Cnnmnittee Claims in
charge of bills of the rrivat ; calendar.
Before THIS order was entered upan
the Agricultural bill was passed. Most
of the day was consumed in n ilibuster
ngainSt bill to pay the publishing
house of the Methodist Episcopal church
South at Nashville, Tenn, S2SS, ,0O0 for
the seizure and use of the property of
that corporation during the war ,rhn
opposition consumed the time until :
O'clock, when the House adjourned.
When the House adjourned last night
the amendment to the Agricultural nm.
propriation hill providing for the pub-
Ncatton Of another edition of the Horse
Book" was pending. To-day the friends