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the Lewis resolution calling ON the state
for q draft Of the Hawaiian
annexation treaty and for information as
to what constitutional way the president
had to contract for the payment Of the
Hawaiian debt Of $40 900 ont Of the /
public treasury. Mr.. Hit explained that
as the treaty had been made public there |
was no necessity for the passage Of the |
resolution. MIR. Bailey created q furry |
by rising to a question Of personal privi-
lege in connection with his controversy
with Speaker Reed At the close Of the
Cuban debate last Thursday. Bailey made
a long explanation and reviewed the en-
tire controversy, and in conclusion reit
Grated several times the statement that
the agreement he had made with MIR. Hit
had been violated. The speaker, from the
chair, reafirmed his statement that no
agreement had been made. The house
then took up the Indian appropriation
bill
The Teller resolution. providing that
bonds Of the United States may be paid
in silver, was laid before the senate, and
in accordance with the notice given, SEN
ator Stewart tpOp.l Of Nevada, addressed
the senate. He said disregard OF q reso-
luton. which is already the law OF the
United States, had brought many ealami-
ties upon the land, and the result Of such
disregard had been disastrous and Ia
mentable Senator Spooner Of Wisconsin
presented the following as substitute
for the Teller resolution: THAT it is to
be the declared financial policy OF the
I United States that, until we shall have
| obtained an international agreement with
the leading commercial nations Of the
world for the free coinage of silver, which
agreement the United States Is hereby fur
Their pledged to promote, the faith, honor
and credit of the United States are SOL
emily pledged to preserve the existing
gold standard, and all silver and paper
currency shall be maintained at parity
with gold, and all obligations Of the
United States shall be maintained invio-
Iably at the present standard
Industrial Conditions.
The house spent two hours Monday
transaeting business relating TO the Dis
trict Of Columbia, and the remainder Of
the day on the Indian appropriation bill
During the consideration Of the last nam
ed a lively debate was preeipitated by ar
aIlusiou made by Mr.. Simpson Of Kan
sas relative TO an alleged interview with
the president on the subject Of immigra
ton. Mr.. Grosvenor took occasion to ex
press the opinion that the president haC
never used some of the language imputeC
10 him, and the debate drifted into q gen
1 eral discussion Of our industrial eondi
tons, in the course Of which the strike il
$ New England, the high prices Of wheat il
E Kansas and the defaulting republican Of
: ficials in Nebraska successfully playet
/ their paTtA Messrs. Dingley, GrOne ant
Meyer Of Nebraska, GrosvenOr Of Ohio an.
q Simpson Of Kansas participated
Political Debate.
Under the parliamentary fiction of dis
eussing the Indian appropriation bill tn
house devoted almost the entire sessiol
of Tuesday to political debate in whiel
: the main question was whether prosper
ity had come to the country as a result
! of the advent Of the present administers
ton. As speeches were limited to five mir
utes, many members participated and tn
V partisan spirit kept the interest keyed I
a high pitch The aerimouy which usr
ally eharacterizes such debates was q
most entirely absent. and although goot
natuTed, some hard knocks were give
and received. Mr.. Smith, the delegat
ID from Arizona, made an attack on the syl
tenn of educating the Indians, and NJ
Walker moved to strike out the appr'
. pTiation for the Carlisle school. No voi
= was taken on the motion during the da,
:. Indian Appropriated Bill.
!. Without preliminary business Ii
house Wednesday went into committee
!. the whole and resumed consideration
70 the Indian appropriation bill. The PEN
- ing amendment was to strike out the al
10 preparation for the Carlisle Indian sehoo
or Mr.. Sherman, republican, Of New Yorl
m in charge of the bill, defended the work
IN Carlisle school, which he said was d
greatest industrial school in the countr
L. Everything was being done, he said. whie
was necessary to make the Indians sci
C. supporting citizens anywhere in Il
ks world. His observation was that the be.
Indian schools were those which were NJ
IN on the reservations. He said that IL
Is Carlisle football eleven had placed 500
in the treasury Of that college during q
y past season. The conference report on Il
~ urgency deficiency bill was submitts
X and agreed to. The senate also agreed [
re the conference report on the urgency a
preparation bill, and then continued ii
TX discussion of the financial question.
Capital of view Mexico.
In the house Thursday the senate bi
u granting an American register to the ba
Ed kentine Sharpshooter of san Francisco wi
rs passed The bill was passed making SAINT
VI Fc the permanent capital Of New Mexie
/, Mr.. Hit, chairman Of the foreign afFai
committee, reported from his commit,
with recommendation that it lie on n
- table. the Lewis resolution calling upo
- the president for authority in the eonst
n tuition under which he negotiated II
a. treaty that will bind the treasury 10 IN
n. 4GOO.DO0 TO Hawaiian bondhoIders. TT
~ democrats manifested desire to discu
he the report, but the question was not d
batable. The house then went into con
vt mittee Of the whole and resumed consi,
er alton Of the Indian appropriation bill
es Representative Hartman got the floor an
T. for 10 minutes held the attention Of n
house in a speech deDouncing the repul
liean party for its position ON the final
he cial question. The senate. continued n