Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1898-06-16

The war revenue Deli was advanced q
| step further. It was received in the House
| as amended in the Senate, and the lower
| branch Of Congress accordingly became
| the center of legislative interest. Mr..
| Dalzell, from the Committee ON Rules,
| presented a resolution introduced by Mr.
| Dingley providing for an immediate vote
| upon general non-concurrence and sending
| the bill to conference. After some debate
| the vote was taken upon the resolution
| Mr.. Bailey demanded the yeas and nays
the roll call resulting: Yeas, 137; nays
| 106. 1t was 4 party vote. The House
| then voted to non-concur and agreed to
| the conference and the Speaker named
Messrs. Dingley, Payne and Bailey as
| conferees. Under suspension of the rules
the Senate bill ratifying an agreement
| between the Dawes commission and the
| Seminole Indians providing for the allot-
ment of the latter's lands, was passed
| Beyond the passage of an urgent defcen-
cy bill, made necessary by the war with
| Spain, the Senate accomplished little. The
| deficiency measure carries appropriations
for abe war and navy establishments ag-
gregating ST., 745,O 600.
The Senate on Tuesday passed the bill
| for the allotment in Severalty Of certain
| lands to the Indians of Indian Territory,
| the payment of interest claims to the
| Chickasaw Indians, and the ratification
| of the agreement effected with the In
| dams by the Dawes commission. Sec
| ton &c, which provided for the segrega-
! ton of 157. 800 acres of land purchased
| by the DeIawares from the Cherokees,
/! 1GO acres of the land to be allotted to each
! registered Delaware, and the remainder
4 20 ho ortc oS a1
| registered DelawareS, was stricken from
the bill. Consideration was resumed of the
| measure providing for the taking of the
! twelfth census. After disposing of the
| urgent war deficiency BILL as passed, with
amendments by the Senate, the House
| considered the conference report upon the
sundry civil bill. The report. so far as it
embodieS agreements, was adopted and
! the House then began voting Seyerally up"
on the Senate amendments upon which
no agreement had been reached in confer.
ence. OF these there are forty-tive. The
House considered eight of these, acting
favorably upon three and rejecting the re-
mainder. The House adjourned pending
disposition of q measure to enable voun-
teer soldiers to vote at congressional cleo
tons during the war. 1t involved consti-
tutional questions. The Senate resolution
was passed authorizing the President to
waive the one-year supervision from promo
ton and order denomination in the army
| in certain corps during the existing war;
A bill providing for the taking of the
twelfth census was passed by the Senate
on Wednesday after debate which occu-
pied the greater part OF three days. The
House disposed of the Senate amend
nents Of the sundry civil bill and agreed
to further conference. The conference
report upon the postofice appropriation
bill was adopted without debate. bill
was passed authorizing the construction
of high bridge across Rock river on the
Illinois and Mississippi Canal in Illinois.
After five hours devoted to the consid-
GRAFTON of the bill to enable volunteer SOL
diers to vote. in congressional elections,
the conference report upon the war reve
nue. bill was presented to- the House on
Thursday. Consideration was interrupted
by a recess to 8 o'clock in the evening,
when the report was taken up again, and
after three hours debate, involving a wide
range of subjects and some sensational
features, it was voted upon and adopted
154 to 107. The Senate passed without
division bill providing American registry
for the steamers Olympia, Victoria, Ia
coma, Columbia, Arizona and Argyle of
| the Northern Pacific Steamship Company.
The OMNIBUS claim bill" carrying over
Sc, 100000, forty private-pension bills and
several measures from the general caen-
dar, were passed. Bills were passed as
follows: Permitting Col. Arson Mills.
Third United States cavalry, to accept
and exercise the Office of boundary COM
missioner between the United States and
Mexico; to amend an act establishing
court of private land claims, requiring
claims to be filed before March 3, 1901,
to amend an act for the relief and ciyiIiza
ton of the Chippewa Indians in Mime
| sofa.
Shortly after 4.o'clock Friday afternoon
| the conference report on the war revenue
bill was agreed to by the Senate, after
discussion lasting four hours. The debate
upon the measure was without special
| incident and was entirely devoid of acr-
monious features 1t was Il foregone con
clusion that the report would be agreed to
and the only question of interest involved
was how soon a vote could be reached
| The report was agreed to by the decisive
| vote of 43 to %. The feature of the days
| session of the house was the scoring OF
| an agreement to consider and vote upon
| the Newlands resolution to annex HAWAII
| The bill to enable volunteer soldiers 10
vote at Congressional elections was
| passed, and a number of minor measures
chiefly of a private nature, were constr
cred.
The session of the House on SATURDAY
was devoted to debate upon the Hawaiian
resolutions. The Senate amendments 10
| the bill organizing the naval hospital corps
| was ooacurred in.
Evolution of-the Peach.
The peach was originally a poisoned
i a1r,,orad fr-,1&A1r rte 11-o,.o mood 70