Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1898-02-04
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In the House on Friday there was
parliamentary struggle over the bill fos
the relief of the book publishing company
of the Methodist Episcopal Church South
By shrewd m%aneuvering its opponents
succeeded in preventing action. Previous
to the consideration of this bill the House
passed the bill to extend the public land
laws Of the United States to the territory
Of Alaska and to grant u general railroad
| right of way through the territory. The
urgent deficiency bill was sent to confer
ence after the silver forces, with some
| outside aid, had succeeded in %concurring
in the Senate amendment striking from
| the bill the provision requiring the depos-
itors of bullion at Government assay Of
fees to pay the cost of transportation to
the mints. In the Senate the resolution
| of Mr.. Allen asking the Secretary of the
Interior for papers concerning the dis
| missal from the pension office of Mrs. NJ.
e. Roberts was referred to the Com
mittee on Civil Service and Retrench-
ment, after considerable debatc. The
Senate spert most of the day in executive
session.
Some bills of minor Importance were
passed by the House on Saturday and
the remainder of the day was devoted to
general debatc on the Indian appropriate
ton bill. That the Cuban question is
still uppcrmost in the minds of the men,
hers was cvinced during this debate, much
of which was decotcd to it. Mr.. Hit,
chairman of the Foreign Affairs Commit
tee, submitted a privileged report from
his committee, recommending the passage
of a resolution of inquiry, requesting the
State Department to transmit to the
House all information in it's possession
relative to the military execution of Col.
Ruiz, Il Spanish envoy to the %insurgent
adopted without division. In the Senate
after n speech by Mr.. Stewart in favor
Of the Teller silver resolution, considera-
tion of bills on the private calendar was
begun and Il number We're passed.
In the House on Monday u couple Of
hours were devoted to business relating to
the District of Columbia, and the remain
der of the day was occupied with the
Indian appropriation bill. A lively de-
bate was precipitated by an allusion made
by MIR. Simpson tPOp.. Kan.) to an alleg-
ed interview with the President on the
subject of immigration. Mr.. Grosvenor
took occasion to express the opinion that
The President had never used some of the
language imputed to him. and the debate
driftcd into II general discussion of our
Industrial conditions. In the Senate pro-
posed annexation of Hawaii was some
what extensively reviewed by Mr.. Nor
gan of Alabama while speaking to a ques-
ton of personal privilege. One of the
features of the session was an elaborate
speech by Mr.. Turpic of Indiana in sup.
port Of the Teller resolution. The pension
appropriation bill was debated for nearly
three hours, but was not passed, the SEN
ate adjourning pending the disposal of o
point of order made against an amend-
ment offered by Mr.. Allen of Nebraska
to the pending bill.
Under the parliamentary fiction of dig
cussing the Indian appropriation bill, the
House devoted almost the entire day
Tuesday to n political debate In which
the main question was whether proper
ity had come to the country Us u result Of
the advent of the present administration.
MIR. Smith, the delegate from Arizona.
made an attack on the system of educat-
ing the Indians. and Mr.. Walker moved:
to strike out the appropriation for the.
Carlisle school. No vote was taken ON
the motion. A bill. was passed granting
American register to the foreign built
steamer Navajo. In the Senate the ses-
sion was characterized by a heated. al
most acrimonious, discussion of the fnan-
clal question. For nearly four hours the.
Teller resolution was under consideration.
the principal speeches being made by Mr..
Allison llowa), MIR. Berry (Arkansas) and
Mr.. Hoar (Massachusctts).
Consideration of the Indian appropria-
tion bill consumed the entire day in the.
House on Wednesday,. The debate was
chiefly on e%xtraneous subjects. The mo-
ton to strike out the appropriation for
the. Carlisle Indian school was defeated
after considerable debate, 90 to 65. Ten
pages of the bill were disposed of, The
conference report on the urgent deficiency
bill was adopted. In the Senate the day
was spent in II discussion of the Teller.
silver resolution.
The Indian appropriation bill was pass
cd by the House ON Thursday and the.
political dcbatc which had been raging.
since Monday was transferred to the Dis
tTict of Columbia bill, which followed it.
The only two important changes made in:
the Indian bill as passed were the elimi-
nation of the provisions for the leasing
of the gilsonite mineral lands of the
Kiowa. Comancle, Apache and Wichita.
re- reservations, both of which went out on
points of order. The %eatures of the de-
bate Thursday were the speeches of MIR.
Hartman Silver Republican, Mont.), in
denunciation Of the financial policy of the.
administration, and of Mr.. Dollivcr IRE
publican, Iowa), in reply to the general at
tacks of the opposition. In the Senate.
the day was spent i'll debate on the Teller
resolution.
News of Minor Note.