Worcester morning daily spy. (Worcester, Mass.) 1888-1898, 1898-01-15
NO CUBAN DEBATE.
Senator Hoar's Resolution for
Amendment to Constitution.
Extension of Term of Office OF President
and Congress Proposed-ouay Calls
for investigation of Seminole
Outrage.


and Congress Proposed Calls
for investigation of Seminole
Outrage.
Washington, Jan. Alt was the in
tention of the house managers to proceed
with the diplomatic and consular APP
preparation bin today, but owing to the
excited condition of affairs in Havana
and the wildly exaggerated reports
afloat, they decided to avoid the posi-
bility of opening up a Cuban debate by
relinquishing the day to the committee
on claims in charge Of bills on the
private calendar. Before this order
was entered upon the agricultural bill
sumed in a filibuster against a bill to
pay the publishing house of the Metho-
dist Episcopal Church south. at Nash
vile, 1888, 600 for the seizure and use
of the property of that corporation dur
ing the war. The opposition consumed
time until O'clock, when the house adj
journed.
When the house adjourned last night
the amendment to the agricultural APP
preparation bill providing for the publ
cation of another edition Of the Horse
book" was pending.
Today the friends Of the amendment
compromised with the appropriations
committee by agreeing to a reduction OF
the number to be printed from 100000
to $4,000. as amended, the amendment
was adopted and the bill was passed.
The resolution accepting the invita-
ton Of the government of Norway to
participate in the international fisheries
exposition, at Bergen, from May TO
September, 1898, was adopted.
Another resolution was adopted on
motion of Nj. Perkins, rep, Ia, direct
ing the director of the geological survey
to prepare and have printed 10000 copies
of a map of Alaska showing the most
feasible routes to the gold fields.
a bill for the payment of ST, 600 to
VIM. S. Grant of Gardiner, Me. for sup
plies designed for the United States, but
confiscated by the confederate govern
ment at the opening of the rebellion,
was favorably acted upon.
IN THE SENATE
Washington, Jan 14-After the tram
saction of some routine business in the
senate today, Mr.. Hoar, Massachusetts,,
presented the following joint resolution
proposing an amendment to the consti-
tuition:
''That the following article be pro-
posed to the legislatures of the several
states as an amendment to the consti-
tuition of the United States.
'"The term of Office of the president
and Of the 56th congress shall continue
until the Both day of April in the year
1899, at noon. The senators whose ex-
listing terms would otherwise expire on
{ the fourth day Of March, in the year
1899, or thereafter, shall continue in Of
flee until noon of the 30th day of April
succeeding such expiration; ard the Both
day of April at noon shall thereafter be
substituted for the 4th of March, as the
commencement and termination of the
official term of the president, vice pres
ident, senators and representatives in
congress"
The resolution was referred to the
committee on privileges and elections.
| Mr.. Quay Penn) offered the follow
ing resolution, which was referred to
the committee on Indian affairs:
Resolved, that the secretary of the
interior shall be, and is hereby instructed
to investigate the facts attending the
recent alleged atrocious burning to
death of two Seminole Indians by mob
in Oklahoma Territory, and make report
thereon to congress. An appropriation
of $4,000 is made 10 pay the cost of the
investig ation. Mr. Lodge, Massachu-
SETS offered a resolution which was
agreed to, calling upon 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, impor-
ted or domestic, the beet sugar comes
into competition, and what effect the
Hawaiian sugar has or can have upon
beet sugar production in the United
States.
Mr.. Tillman, S. c.. announced that on
account of the absence of his colleague
Mr. McLaurin, he would ask that the
eulog1es upon the late Senator Joseph A
Earle, which We're to have been present.
ed today, be postponed until some later,
date, to be announced hereafter. The
( request was granted. The senate, then,
at go, on motion of Mr.. Davis, chair
man of the committee on foreign rela-
| tons, went into executive session.
SENATOR HoAR's CLERICAL
ERROR.
Washington, Jan. 14.-A clerical error
in the resolution introduced by Senator
Hoar in the senate today, changing the
time for inauguration of presidents from
March until April, placed the date when
the change should take effect in 1899
when 1t was Senator Hoar's intention
that the date should have been 1901
which would extend Mr.. McKinley,s
term for little more than a month. in
stead Of shortening it, as would have
i been the result if the resolution as first
introduced had become a law. Mr.. Hoar
afterwards changed the resolution in ac-
4 cordance with his intention
SEALING AWARDS.