The Red Cloud chief., 1898-01-28
CONGRESSIONAL CHAT
WEEKS DOINCS OF NATION
AL LAWMAKERS.
A General Resume Of the Most Import
ant Labors of the House and Senate
Executive and Departmental Actions
Motel Briefly.

FOR the transfer of the IT. Omaha mill.
tarv reservation TO the state of Ne
braska as a place of rendezvous and
military instruction for the nationl
guard OF the state was reported from
the senate committee by Senator War
rem.
Senator Plat of New York has in
troduccd a bill providing for the with
holding of pensions of ex-soldicrs en-
ploycd in the civil service under the
law favoring them for such positions
in cases where their salaries exceed
81 200 per annum.
Tuesday in the senate Senator Nor.
gan made an appeal for Hawaiian an
ncxation. He made the prediction
that If the United States did not take
the present opportunity to annex the
islands there would be war between
this country and some other power
within ten weeks.
There is an old soldier in Washington
seeking a pension who is Z feet . inches
long. lie says that he is suffering
from chronic bronchitis, due to a cold
he acquired during the war, for which
the government of the United States is
directly responsible because the com
missary department was not able to
find an overcoat to fit him, and the
blankets were TO short.
Senator Allen has introduced a bill
granting increase Of pension to Rob
ert I. Deakins of Auburn. The SEN
ator's resolution directing the commit
tee on pensions to inquire and report
by what authority the secretary of the
interior or the commissioner of pen
sions issued the order prohibiting the
calling up of claims for increase until
a year after the allowance of the claim
was reported and agreed to.
The executive comittce of the Ameri-
can bimetallic union met in Washing
ton Tuesday. Since the currency re-
form question has been brought
promptly before the country the com
mittee feels ii should be promptly met
and what they regard as the fallacies
OF the plan suggested by Secretary
Gage and the monetary commission
will be pointed out in literature to be
prepared upon this special subject.
The president has recommended the
appropriation of S., 900 to be paid the
government of Mexico to be distribut-
ed to the heirs of Louis Morena. a
Mexican subject lynched at Yreka.
Cal, in 1895. The Mexican govern
ident says he makes the recommends
ton out of humane considerations and
without reference to the questions of
liability of the United States in the
premises.
Representative Mercer has intro
duced a bill providing hat the court
for the district OF Nebraska may order
special terms thereof I o be held at
such times in said district AS the court
may designate. provided that no speci-
ial term of such circuit court shall be
appointed. except and with the con-
currence and consent of "a circuit Judge:
and a grand or petit jury for this may
be directed to attend special term by
an order to be entered of record fifteen
days before the day on which such
special term is TO convene.
A warm time was experienced IN the
house Tuesday last over the Cuban
question. The democrats mustered
strength and for a time il looked as IL
the rules would be overridden and the
senate resolution recognizing the in
surgents as belligerents would be at
tached as a rider TO the diplomatic and
consular appropriation bill. Mr.. Col
son, republican, Kentucky, warned
his republican friends hat unless his
party acted on the Cuban question
soon, he would join any revolutionary
tactics in order TO cast his vote for Gu.
ba independently. The republicans
won out by a strict party vote.
The announcement from the post
Office department Of a material reduc-
tion in free carrier delivery in various
cities throughout the country raised a
storm in congress this week which will
probably result in a deficiency APP
preparation warranting the p~ostofice
department in continuing the service
as it now exists. The decision of the
p~ostoffice department to cut down the
carrier service was based upon the fact
thai congress had not appropriated
sufficient funds to maintain the service
rs now carried on.
VIM. Il. Curtis in Chicago Record: Il
see that the people of Grand Island,
Neb., have signed a petition asking
Senators Allen and Thurston to vote
to ratify the Hawaiian treaty. This is
particularly significant for the reason
that Grand Island is the center of the
b~eet-sugar industry and the seat Of the
factories owned by Mr.. Oxnard, who is
the most violent opponent of annex
alton we have seen here. and who
bases his OPPOSITION upon the ground
that the poor farmers in his region who
are raising beets will be ruined by
Hawaiian competition. The people of
Grand Island and the farmers who
raise sugar bects are doubtless CRATE
full for Mr.. Oxnard's anxiety for their
welfare, but they doubtless would be
glad to have him demonstrate it in n
more practical manner. lie and his
brother were induced Il establish a
sugar factory at Grand Island by the
offer of a bonus in money! have for
gotten the sum, but is was sufficient
to pay the interest upon the invest
ment for many years--and the gift of
q large tract Of land upon which the
factory could be erected. and a certain
amount OF beets raised for its supply. -
The propoScda annexation ~ Hawaii