The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1898-03-25
FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS.
First Regular Session.

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| Gettysburg, Pa. to cost $4,000, the statue to
J be erected by q commission composed Of the
| secretary of war, the commander of the army,
the governor of Pennsylvania and the COM
mander of the G. A. R.; to prohibit railroad
! companies from charging more than three cents
per mile for carrying passengers through the
| Indian territory; to authorize the construction
| of a gunboat on the great lakes to take the
| place of the United States ship Michigan, and
to cost, exclusive of armament not to exceed
$3.50. 600 At . o'clock the consideration Of the
| national quarantine bill was resumed. The
! conference report on the agricultural bill was
! adopted. After a brief executive session the
| senate at 4:30 adjourned until Monday.
| HoUSE-No political questions were dis
! cussed in the house Thursday. The whole ses-
sion was devoted strictly to the post Office APP
! propriation bill which was taken up for amend
ment under the five minute rule. The ques-
tions which consumed the major portion of the
! time related to the allowance for clerk hire at
post offices and to rural free delivery. The
! house increased the allowance for rural free
| delivery from $780, 900 to 100000 and defeated
! the proposition for increased clerk hire.
WASHINGTON, March 19.-SENATE- in
session.
HOUSE-The house spent another day on the
post Office appropriation bill, but only disposed
| of two pages of the bill. Most of the day was
devoted to a debate on the merits of the pneu-
matte tube mail service in New York, Boston
and Philadelphia, and the adViSability of con-
tinuing the existing contract An effort to
| strike out the appropriation of S225, 900
was defeated but the opponents of the
| appropriation succeeded in securing the
adoption of an amendment providing that no
additional contracts should be made. An
! amendment was adopted making it a INSIDE
meanor for any person to pad the mails dur
| ing the period when the mails are being weigh
ed to determine the compensation to be paid to
the railroads for their transportation. The
| amendment was recommended by the depart
! ment
WASHINGTON. March 22.-SENATE--After the
! transaction of some routine business Monday,
! Mr. Bacon Ca introduced an amendment which
! he announced he would offer to the resolution
| providing for the annexation Of the Hawaiin
Islands to the United States. The amendment
| provides that the resolution shall not be effec-
| tive until the question of annexation shall have
| been submitted to the qualified electors of Ha-
| wall and passed upon at1irmatlvely by
them. The amendment is the same which Mr..
Bacon offered to the Hawaiian treaty and
which is still pending. Mr.. Allen (NIeb) Sc
cured the passage of a resolution calling upon
| the secretary of the interior for information
as to the number of all classes of pensioners,
| including the percentage of men and women
and children, carried the pension rolls.
Several bills of minor Importance were passed.
HoUsE-The house Monday passed the bill
| the Maine disaster. The bill reimburSes the
| surviving officers and men for the losses they
| sustained to an amount not TO exceed year S
sea pay and directs the payment of a sum equal
| to a years pay to the legal heirs of those who
! persisted. There was quite a spirited debate
! over an amendment suggested by Mr.. Cannon
! to give the survivors each a years pay out of
| hand instead of attempting to reimburse them
! for actual los SeS. Some old alleged scandals
! in connection with the reimbursement of
| the survivors of the Samoan disaster
was raked up, but the debate in the
| end WIS saved from a rather sOrdid tone by a
| beautiful tribute paid to the gallant dead by
| Mr.. Cousins Qa) in short but eloquent
| speech He aroused the. galleries to spOntane-
| Gus applause when he said that while the Vult-
ures might be watching over the dark waters
! of Havana harbor for the belated dead above
| all the eagles piercing eye was watching for
| the truth. The remainder OF the day was oc-
! cupied in the consideration of the old claim of
| John Roach, the ship builder. for 1881, 600 No
action was taken upon the claim.
| WASHINGTON, March % -SENATE-Senato
CullOm Tuesday introduced a bill which had
| been sent to him by the National Business
| liens league. The purpose of the measure is
| to provide gold income for the United States.
feature of the senate proceedings Tuesday
was an extended speech by Mr.. Cafery Ga
! in support of the pending national quaran-
tine bill In the course of his argument Mr..
| Gallery said that he wanted the whole quaran-
| tine power in the hands of the United States
| government, the only authority which could
make quarantine effective. Among the bills
passed was one to raise the age of protection
for girls in the District of Columbia and in the
territories to Is years.
USE-Representative Tawney (AIinn), a
member of the sub committee of the commit
tee on ways and means, Tuesday submitted a
substitute for the bill introduced by Mr. earce
(AIo.) relating to adulterated -four. The sub
stitute has been drawn to meet objections to
| the Pearce bill The naval apprOpria-
ton bill was reported to the
| house Tuesday, but as it had not been printed
the contested election case Of Thorpe VS.. Ep-
pes, from the Fourth Virginia district, was
taken up and debated until o'clock, when the
house, owing to the illness of Mr.. Shea, of Ken
lucky, who was to speak Tuesday afternoon,
adjourned until Wednesday.
WASHINGTON March 24-SENATE-In the
senate Wednesday Mr.. Carter (Mont.) called up
the bill making further provision for civil
government for Alaska and resumed his speech,
begun Tuesday, upon the measure. After
a brief discussion of the bill by Mr..
Carter, Mr.. Perkins (CaL) offered a
long amendment to the measure, providing
for the placing of a license upon al
most every kind of business and for the taxing
and regulation of the liquor traffic. The tax on
a wholesale liquor establishment is fixed al
s., 900 per year; upon barroom or saloon in any
town of more than 1500 inhabitants 81, 500 q
year, and upon any retail liquor saloon in COM
munities of less than 1900 inhabitants 81, coz
per year.
HOUSE--R. 7. Thorpe was Wednesday given
the seat from the Fourth Virginia district.
Sydney E. Eppes, who obtained the certificate
of election, was unseated by a party vote
Mr.. Thorpe was given the seat by a vote of
Isl to 40. The republicans without
break voted for Thorpe and the demo
Gratis and populists, with the exception
of Mr.. Howard (Ala.) a populist, voted
for Eppes. Representative Berry Wednesday
introduced a bill to pension, at $50 month
Capt. j. W. Hardeman, of Covington, KY.
Twenty-third Regular volunteers. Capt. Har-
deman was postmaster at CovingtOn during the
Harrison administration, and an unsuc-
cesSful candidate when Reynold was appointed
by President Mckinley.
His Neck Was Broken