Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1898-03-03
care for the unused machinery at the
Springfield Arsenal.

amendment was lost.
After completing 80 pages of the
bill. the committee rose.
At 5:15, the house adjourned.
A feature of the senate's session
was the speech of Mr.. Spooner tWis.).
on the right of Henry w. Corbett 10
a seat in the senate from Oregon un-
der appointment of the governor. Mr..
Spooner made a constitutional argu-
ment in favor of seating Mr.. Corbett
and had not concluded when the senate
adjourned.
An effort was made to obtain con
alteration of the Alaskan homestead
and railway right of way bill. but on
a parliamentary technicality it went
over. The resolution offered yesterday
by Mr.. Allen (Neb.) to appoint a COM
mittee of five senators TO investigate
the Cuban situation was withdrawn
by its author when il was laid before
the senate.
Washington, Feb. 26. - A long and
somewhat exciting debate over the
question of river and harbor appro-
priations was precipitated in the
house during the consideration of the
sundry civil appropriation bill. 1t
was practically agreed by all those
who participated that there would be
no river and harbor bill at this SEES
sion of congress, ami this led Mr..
Moody TO attack the contract items
carried in the sundry civil bill. He
selected an appropriation of S350,000
for Isocklapd, Me-, which is in Mr..
Dingley's district, and his remarks in
lenunciation of what he termed favor
itisni approached the sensational. Mr..
Dingiey denied that be had ever sug-
gested the appropriation to the COM
ulittee on appropriations or to any in
diyidual members OF the committee.
1t was animated that there was a plan
to defeat all the items i'm the bill so as
to force the consideration of n general
river and harbor bill. but the intima-
ton was not borne out by the vote on
the amendment upon which the de-
bate rested. Mr.. Berry Of Kentucky
succeeded in securing the adoption of
an amendment increasing the appro-
priation for the Kentucky river from
100000 10 $4,000. The senate
amendments 10 the army appr0pria-
ton bill were agreed to without de-
Ddtt. w bth III lkCiil DDlODlldtAh
$500, 900 for San Pedro, Cal, was
reached there was some debate, after
which the item was passed without
amendment. An unsuccessful effort
was made to secure consideration of
the bill passed by the senate for two
additional regiments of artillery, but
on objection from Mr.. Cox Of Tennes-
see it went over. An amendment APP
rropriating $150,000 for Yaquina bay,
Oregon, was pending when the house,
at 8 O'Clock. recessed until 8. The
evening session was devoted to pen
sion bills.
In the senate.
Hon. Henry w. Corbett's right to a
seat in the senate from Oregon vas
under consideration by the senate for
five hours. Mr.. SpoOner of Wisconsin,
In a few words, concluded the speech
which he began Thursday In favor of
Mr.. Corbett, and was followed by Mr..
Teller of Colorado. Senators Allen.
Turner and Turl,y participated in the
general debate which followed. A bill
permitting the building Of a dam be-
tween Coon Rapids aid the north lim-
its Of Minneapolis across the Missis-
sippi river was passed. Early In the
session an attempt was made to get
up the Alaskan bill but 1t failed. At
5:15 the senate went into executive
session and at 5:25. adjourned.
Washington, Feb. %. = During the
greater part of the senate's session the
right of Henry w. Ccrbett to a seat
from Oregon was under discussion.
Mr.. Thurston of Nebraska, in an ex-
tended speech opposed the admission
of Mr.. Corbett. while Messrs. Foraker,
Kyle and Mantle supported Mr.. Cor
belts claim. The vote on the case, 1t
has been agreed. Will take place to-day
at 3 p. m..-<fhe pension calendar was
cleared by the passage of several pri-
vate pension bills. A few bills of a
general character were also passed.
Mr.. Hansbrough of North Dakota Sc
cured the adoption of a resolution call
ing upon the secretary of the navy for
the reason why he shipped certain
freight over the Canadian Pacific rail
road to Mare Island. CAL, and asked
whether the freight was offered to
railroads running entirely within the
United States. Mr.. GaIinger of New
Hampshire introduced and had adopt
ed a resolution requesting the presi-
dent. IL not Incompatible with the pub
lie interests, to send TO the senate
copies Of all reports and ~communica-
tions received by the state department
since Feb. "A, 1895, from Tomaso Els
trada Palma or any agent Of the Gu
ban insurgents which relate to the
state Of war In Cuba, or such parts of
said documents as it may be deemed
advisable and proper to communicate.
In ths. South.
The house did not complete the con-
sideration Of the sundry civil bill. but
Chairman Cannon held the floor with
1t unit adjournment. refusing to yield
to Mr.. Boutelle. chairman of the naval
committee, who was anxious to secure
consideration for the bill reported by
his committee for the relief Of victims
and survivors Of the Maine disaster.
About twenty pages of the sundry civil
bin were disposed OF. Many efforts
were made by different members to in
iect river and harbor items into the
bill, three of them being successful.
Mr.. Lewis Of washington created
something Of a sensation by offering
this resolution as an amendment:
Resolved, That congress disaD-
proves of Minister Woodford rendering
a banquet to the Spanish cabinet I'm be-
half OF the United States, and express