The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1898-05-05
WAR REVENUE BILL.
The House Passed the Measure
With the Bond Feature in It.
The NAVAL APPROPRIATION BILL.
The senate Agreed to the Conference Re
port-SeveraI Minor Bills Passed. but
No business of General In,por-
lance Was Transacted.

WASHINGTON, April 30.-The house
yesterday passed the war revenue bill
/ with only the amendments agreed
I upon by the republican mem bers of
/ the ways and means committee added.
/ In order to accomplish this a parlia-
mentarv maueuver was necessary As
the whole time for amendments was
| exhausted by the minority in irving to
| amend the bond feature of the bill.
/ Mr.. DingIey offered as a substitute an
| entirely new bill containing these
! amendments after the bill had been re-
| ported to the house. This was an old
| parliamentary trick frequently resort
! ed to years ago. The Morrill, tariff
/ law was passed in this way in its orig
| inal form after 1t had been loaded
| down with amendments in committee
| OF the whole. Many amendments were
| offered to the bond feature of the bill
| ranging from a proposition for the
| substitution of an income tax pro-
| vision to an authorization for an
| issue of $50. 600, coo green backs. But
all We're voted down. At the last min
| ute the democrats decided to offer
| the motion to recOmmit with instruc-
| tions to report back the income tax
proposition as an amendment to the
bill instead of as a substitute for the
bond proposition. This was due to the
fact that q number of democrats de
clined to vote to strike out the bond
provision. The motion was defeated.
1874 to 173. Four republicans voted
with the democrats and populists on
this vote. But on the final passage Of
the bill (Which was carried, Isl to 1917
the democrats and populists, with six
exceptions, voted solidly against the
bill.
Mr. Boutelle, of Maine, chairman of
the committee on naval affairs, pre-
scented the conference report on the
naval bill. Mr.. Cannon, of Illinois,
made the point of order that the con-
ferees had exceeded their jurisdict
in that they added over $500 900 above
the differences between the two houses
and had also added provisions which
were not in conference. With the
point of order pending he moved an
ad journment, which was carried.
Delegate Callahan introduced bill
to authorize the Kansas, Oklahoma 81
Gulf Railway company to construct
and operate a railway through the
Chilocco Indian reservation in the In
dian territory and also through Okla
homa territory.
THE SENATE.
WASHINGTON, April 3O.-At yester-
days session of the senate the report
of the conferees on the naval appro-
priation bill was presented and agreed
to. The measure as perfected carries
n little more than S57, 600, 900. No other
business of general Importance was
transacted.
bill granting permission to the
Chattanooga Rapid Transit company
to cross the Dry Valley road and ex-
tend its lines to Chickamauga national
park was passed.
Senator Pettigrew, OF South Dakota,
called up bill for the restoration of
annuities to the SisSetOn and Wahpeton
bands of Dakota or Sioux Indians.
Senator Allison, of Iowa, was opposed |
to the measure, and said he was not |
prepared to have a bill considered in
volving several million of dollars on |
short notice Senator Pettigrew ex-
planned that the government had paid |
the Indians between $500, 600 and $780, |
600, and that the amount involved in /
the bill was less than s., 000 000 On |
objection the bill went over.
Several unimportant bills were passed /
and a 1855 p. m, on motion of Sena- |
tor Allison, the senate went into exec |
utive session and at 1:45 p. m adjourned !
until Monday