Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1898-03-04

sion to use 100000 in the work Of rails,
ing the battle ship Maine, Friday in the
House was devoted to a continuation Of
the debate or the bankruptcy bill. The
speakers were Messrs. Sulzcr (Dem., N.
", Strobe Nep., Neb.), Connolly (Rep.,
Ill.,, Rixey Dem., Val, Grosvenor Rep.
o., Sayers (Dem., Texas and Ray (Rep.,
n. ~ in favor of the bill, and Messrs.
kitchins (Rep., n. co., Linney (Rep., N.
-, Love (Dem.. Miss.J, BAH CDem., Tex.h
CALI, Bland D 1ssn' MOI. Hail Top.,
Colo.l, De Almond tDem., Mo.), Wheel.
er Dem.. Ala.) and Lloyd (Dem.. MOI
against it. In the Senate the Maine dis.
aster and the Cuban question occupied the
entire day.
After four days of consideration the
House on Saturday passed the bankrupt.
cy bill reported by the House Committee
on Judiciary as IL substitute for the Mel
son bill passed by the Senate at the extra
session last summer The bill is known
as the Henderson bill. and contains both
voluntary and involuntary features. II
is considered less drastic than the meas.
urc passed by tho last House by n vote
Of 151 to 81. The involuntary feature,
however. had but 1G majority. On Sat.
urday n motion to strike out the i%nvolun-
s'AS WIS NNlcittcu Nv I; mlJDTlIy
of 10, and the bill was passed by n majors
ity of 81, the vote standing. yeas l5S,
nays 1875. Eighteen Republicans voted
against the bill and twelve Democrats for
1t. The Populists. with one exception,
voted against it.
Monday was private bill day in the
House. The feature of the day was Il
spirited contest over the bill to pay New
berry College, Il Lutheran institution in
South Carolina, $4,000 for damages by
Federal troops. 1t was finally passed.
On motion of Mr.. Bailey, the Democratic
leader, the House voted-5S to 35-to oh.
serve Washington's birthday by adjourn
ing over until Wednesday,, but Mr.. Ding.
ley raised the point of no quorum and
before further action could he taken the
House recessed. For three hours tho
Senate had under discussion the bill pro-
Nldlng for the taking of the twelfth and
subsequent censlses. 1t was amended
so as 10 place the census bureau, under
the Secretary of the Interior, but the eX-
tended discussion which followed disclos-
ed so wide Il divergence of views as to
the various TEXTURES of the measure that
no further action was taken. A resolu-
ton offered by Mr.. Allen. directing the
Committee on Naval Affairs to make an
investigation of the Maine disaster, was
adopted without debate.
In the House IN Tuesday Mr.. Johnson
OF Indiana made Il sensational speech OBJ
posing the annexation of Hawaii. Polit-
ical speeches occupied the rest of the day.
The sundry civil bill was before the
House. The debate was finished. In the
Senate a bill was passed increasing the
army by two artillery regiments. III eX-
eNutive session the Cuban question was
discussed,
On Wednesday Il variety of subjects
occupied the attention of the House dur
ing the consideration of the sundry civil
bill. Mr.. Mahany of New York made an
attack on the patriotism of some of the
social leaders of New York. who. he said,
held high rcvel while the nation was
bowed down with grief over the loss of
life resulting from the Maine explosion.
The Southern members, who have for
years been fighting the appropriation for
"informers' OH illicit distillcries. succeed
ed in killing the appropriation in commit
tee of the whole, but Chairman Cannon
gave notice that he would demand a yea
and nay vote i'll the House. A resolution
was adopted inquiring of the Treasury
Department what has been done by the
United States to prevent the conveyance
W NAG SuoulAS " uItlClGo UIuuuCGu III CHe
United States; also as to the prevention
of filibustering. In the Senate the entire
day was devoted to debate on the Cuban
question. By u vote of 81 to 5, Mr.. AL
LENS proposition to add a belligerency rid
er to the consular and diplomatic appro-
priation bill was rejected.
Tie House disposed of thirty additional
pages of the sundry civil appropriation
bill On Thursday. The fact that the Gov
eminent is preparing for contingencies
was recognized when Chairman Cannon,
who has been laboring to keep down ap-
preparations, accepted without n word Of
protest an amendment to increase the APP
preparation to care for the unused machin-
cry at the Springfield arsenal. Resolu-
tons which were objected to u few weeks
e for the appointment Of two extra
naval cadets to positions in the engineer
corps of the navy were also adopted. One
of them will fill a vacancy caused by the
death of Lieut.. Merritt of the Maine. A
~feature of the Senate's session was the
speech of Mr.. Spooner (Wisconsin) on the
right of Henry w. Corbett to q seat in
the Senate from Oregon under appoint
ment of the Governor. Mr.. Spooner made
a constitutional argument in favOr of seat
ing Mr.. Corbett. An effort was made to
obtain consideration of the Alaskan home
stead and railway right Of way bill, but
on Il parliamentary technicality it went
over. The resolution offered on Wednes-
day by Mr.. Allen (Nebraska) to appoint a
committee of five Senators to investigate
the Cuban situation was withdrawn by
it's author when it was laid before the
Senate.
Nova ~ Mtuor Nn<a-
Artiicially spotted tobacco raised in
Connecticut is said to be on the market.
A plague hospital at Bombay was de.
stroyed by fire. Three patients died from
shock.
George Duffy, an s-year-old boy, has
confessed to setting fire to houses in Ho.
boken, N. j., with malicious intent.
A bill has been introduced in the Ken.
lucky Legislature which fixes daily rate,
in tirst-class hotels IN IN the state at $3.50;
meals. Die.