Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1898-12-26
CONGRESSIONAL NEWS.

Washington, Dec 15.-The Nicara-
guam canal bill held its place as prin-
cipal subject before the senate again.
Speeches were made by Messrs. Harris
(dem., Tenn), Money (dem., Miss.),
Stewart (rep., COLI and Morgan (dem.,
Ala.). Mr. Money urged postpone
ment of the question in order to per-
nit an opportunity for negotiations
with Great Britain for the modifca-
ton of the Clayton-BulWer treaty and
Mr.. Morgan antagonized the PROPOSE
ton. Other questions before the
senate were: The governments
pension policy and the bill re-
garding the registry of foreignbuilt
vessels wrecked on the American coast
Mr.. Vest (dem., MOI precipitated the
pension discussion. He called attention
to the private pension bills and en-
tered a protest against their passage
without due consideration, as he said
that the senate was falling into the
habit of doing He called attention to
the fact that Notwithstanding Illinois
had furnished $4,000 more soldiers
than Indiana, the pension roll for In
diana exceeded that of Illinois by ST.
100000. He accounts for this fact OH
the ground that Indiana is a pivotal
state politically, saying that it was no
torious that the commissioner of pen
sions, who was an eX-uniOn soldier,
had granted pensions to almost every
applicant in political districts which
were close.
Senator Hale reported the army de-
ficiency bill. Among the amendments
are appropriations of 100000 each co
be expended for the army and navy
under the direction of the president
The signal service gets $350,000. The
total amount carried by the Indian ap-
preparation bill, also reported, is ST.
1854.
Washington, Dec. 15.-The house for
the second time during this congress
refused to consider the Lodge immigra-
ton bill. At the last session an at
tempt was made to take it from the
speakers table, but it was defeated by
a large majority. Mr.. Danford (rep.,
o., chairman of the immigration COM
stronger after the elections were over,
but when he tried again to secure
consideration the house declined, by a
vote of 100 to 103, to take it up.
An interesting but brief debate on
the rules was precipitated during the
session by Mr.. Grow (rep., PENN dur
ing which Mr.. De Almond (dem., Mo-
made a speech on the decadence of the
privilege of debate in the house and
held Mr.. Reed responsible for the fact
that the house had had no opportunity
to adopt new system of rules tnis
session. The speaker replied with a
sarcastic speech, in which he said: cit
so happens that in the house there are
many members and while in theory
every man can occupy all of the time
in discourse, in actual practice he has
to occupy it in sub-OrdinatiOn to the
rights of every other member, to the
rights of the body itself, and to the
prosecution of public business. In act
ual practice the house may have no
ticed, however, the despotism eXer-
cised by the rules; yet were this not as
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above or the earth beneath that would
not be discussed, even in this present
congress. Now, if the gentleman will
turn to the annals of congress, away
back in 1916, during the period of liO-
erty such as he thinks he desires, he
will find that John Randolph, who GER
tainly was heard enough to become IA
NOUS for a century, complaining about
the despotism Of the rules of that pc
riod, and also complaining that even
the arch inquisitor himself would have
been satisfied with the wickedness of
them. So you see human nature is the
same in all time"
Mr.. Cooper (rep., Wis., introduced