Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1898-04-15

Friday was to have been private bill
day In the House, but the rules were sus-
pended and private bills will be heard
Tuesday. The naval bill was then taken
up. After several hours Of wrangling,
during which all sorts of amendments
were offered and voted down and many
speeches were made. the vote vas taken
upon the Cannon substitute to reduce the
number of battleships to one and to in
crease the torpedo-boats and t~orpedo-boat
d~cstroyers to twelve each. 1t was defeat
ed. 1S-124. Mr.. Underwood Dcm.) of
Alabama offered an amendment appro-
priating $4.000,000 for the establishment
OF a governments armor plate factory. The
amendment was ruled put on n point of
order. An amendment to reduce the price
OF plate to $500 per ton was de-
feated. This completed the bill aud it
was reported to the House and passed.
Then, at q y. m.. the House adjourned
until Monday. The Senate spent almost
the entire day in the discussion of the res
olution reported Thursday from the Sen.
ate Committee on Foreign Relations for
the acquisition of the West India islands
owned by Denmark and the session was
closed by the practical withdrawal of the
resolution by Senator Lodge. its author.
Nuie tiiere WIS no atteGlSt to force
consideration for Il resolution regarding
the Cuban situation in the House ON
Monday. there was one brief outbreak
in which the warlikc temper of the GAL
lerics was manifest. 1t came over a bill!
to authorize the President to erect tenn
porary Notifications in case Of emergency
upon land when the written consent of the
owners was obtained. The bill was pass-
cd Tho rN,n0in1or of <ho xl,~, ne. ....A
in the transaction Of District Of Columbia
business. In the Senate prepared speech
cs upon the Cuban situation were deliver.
ed by Messrs. Perkins of California. CLAW
Of Georgia. Mantle of Montana and Raw
Inns of Utah. The sundry civil appropria.
ton bill was then taken up.
The whole of Tuesday in the House
was spent on the private calendar, with
the result that several bills were passed.
among them one to pay the heirs of John
Roach, the shipbuilder, $780, 900 on a
claim which has been pending a dozen
years, and another to pay O. G. Bosby-
shell, superintendent of the Philadelphia
mint, $4,000 extracted from the gold
vaults by a weigh clerk. At 5 o'clock
the House recessed till 8 p. m. The even
ing session was devoted to private pension
bills. In the Senate speeches upon the
Cuban crisis were delivered by Senator
Chandler u. H.J. Mr.. Turpie (Ind.), Mr..
Harris (Kan.). and Mr.. Kcnney. N)el.), all
Of whom took strong grounds for vigor-
GUS and instant action by the United
States.
The House on Wednesday took up the
consideration of the army reorganization
bill. The request of the President that
action on the Cuban question be delayed
until after receipt of his message the
next Monday VAS granted. TIE minutes
after the Senate convened consideration
of the sund.y civil bill was resumed. and,
with he exception of eight minutes con-
sumed by the executive session. in which
Senator Davis announced that no mes
sage would be sent in. almost the entire
session was consumed by the appropriu-
ton committee.
Almost no routine business whatever
was transacted by either branch of Con-
sress on Thursday. Congressman and
Senators a.:kc devoted most of their time
and attention to Cuban %nffnirs. Efforts
were made in both houses to decide upon
some pan of action when President Nc
kinley's message should have been sent
to Congress OH the next Monday. The
bill for the reorganization of the army
was under consideration in the House. 1t
was opposed by Mr.. Su!zcr IN. W. and
Mr.. LEM tChiol. the latter making II Sc
we're onslaught upon the administration
on account Of it's course IN Cuban affairs.
The administration was defended by Mr..
Grosvenor of Ohio.