The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1898-03-05
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Drancnes OF congress ana all the people
Of the country. He prayed that the
honor and dignity and rights of our
country might be upheld. A joint reso-
luton providing for an estimate of cost
OF making channel through Double
Bayou, east side of Galveston Bay, Tex.
was adopted. At the conclusion of the
morning business the vice-president laid
before the senate the resolution of Mr..
Allen (Nebrasku), which was laid ov r
from yesterday. It provides for the
appointment of five Senators to make
an inquiry into the condition of affairs
in Cuba with a view to bringing the
war.to peaceful end.
FRIDAY. Hon. Henry W. CorbetfS
right to a seat in the senate from Ore
gon was under consideration by the
senate this afternoon for five hours
Mr.. Teller, of Colorado, spoke in
support of the resolution presented bya
majority Of the committee and de'
clared his intention to stand In this
case by the decision reached by the
senate in the Mantle case in 1885,
Mr.. Turley, of Tennessee, q mem
Der of the committee on privileges ana
elections, said the views he held would
compel him to support the majority
of the committee against the seating OF
Mr.. Corbett. He held that this vas
an attempt on the part Of the governor
to fill vacancy at the beginning OF
new term, after the Legislature had he'd
full opportunity to fill the vacancy
and had failed to do so.
STRENGTHENING the greater part
OF the senate's session to-day the right
Of Henry W. Corbett to seat from the
State Of Oregon, was under discussion.
The vote on the case will be taken next
Monday at 8 pm. The senate then at
1886 adjourned.
MoNDAY-Tbis was private bill day
in the house, but little was accomP-
lished owing to the fact that most OF
the time was consumed in tho passage
of private pension bills coming over
from the Friday night session two
weeks ago. The feature of the day was
the spirited contest over the bill to pay
Newberry college, Lutheran iDstitu'
ton in South Carolina, SIS, 900 fol
damages done by Federal troops Il
was finally passed.
TuEsDAY.-Washington's birthday
was celebrated in the house after mo
ton of Mr.. Bailey to adjourn had beer
voted down, with a vast deal of politi
cal speech making, and it was also sig
nelized by tho firing Of the first gun il
opposition to Hawaiin annexation.
WEDNEsDAY-A variety OF subject
occupied the attention of the house to
| day during the consideration OF IL tn
sundry civil appropriation bill. III
Southern members, who have for year
been fighting the appropriation TO
"informers" on illicit distilleries, sue
. ceeded in killing the appropriation
committee of the whole, but Chairma
D Cannon gave notice that he would de
: mand an aye and nay vote in the house
;. A resolution was adopted inquiring
}. the department what has been done b
i the United States to prevent the col
/. yeyance to the Cubans of articles pr
4 duced in the United States; also as
;. the prevention OF filibustering.
e T upsDAY.-The house devoted itse
d strictly to business to-day, and dispose
e of thirty appropriation bills. The ia
u that the government is preparing I.
d contingencies was recognized in II
u house to-day, when Chairman Csnno
le who has been laboripg to keep do7
y appropriations, accepted without wo
}. Of protest an amendment to increase t
appropriation Is care for tho unus
d machinery at the Springfield arsenal.
Q FR1pAY.-A long and somewhat e
" citing debate over the question
n river and harbor appropriations "
9. precipitated in the house to-day du
ri ing the consideration Of tho sund
he civil appropriation bill. Mr.. Berl
r. of Kentucky. succeeded in seourl
ID the adoption Of an amendment incre'
q ing the appropriation for the II
Dy lucky river from $l05, 900 to $3.50, On
q. SAruRDAY.-The house did not 90
in plete the consideration of the sumo
" civil bill to day. but Chairman Cam
ed held the floor with it until adjournme
IN refusing to yield to Mr.. Boutello,
Ise chairman of the naval committee. "
lat was anxious to secure consideration
be the bill reported by his committee
he the relief OF the victims and surviv
nd of the disaster to the Maine.
F. An Inflated Crew.
ras A special to the Times Union q
~, Citizen, Jacksonville, Fla, from +
,at sacola, Fla, says: Wilhelmesen, OF
1or;on howl Harman which