The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1899-02-24
PROCEEDINGS IN CONGRESS.
ington During the Closing Days OF
the Fifty-Fifth Session.

AT no time on the 18th was quorum OF the
senate present, a majority Of the members
being snowbound at their homes; and for the
Hrst time in many years no invocation was
pronounced at the opening of the session. no
minister being able 10 reach the capitol The
bill to create Rear Admiral Dewey an adm!ra'
was passed. was also the agricultural appro
priation bill The bliZzird caused practically
a suspension Of business at the house. Speaker
Reed did not appear and sent word that he
thought it inadyiSable to hold a session. but
the 80 members who had managed to get TO the
capitol determined to hold a session and Mr.
Payne IN u. was elected speaker pro tenn
The house then, on motion, went into commit
tee of the whole Mr.. Hopkins QlL) in the
chair, and resumed consideration of the sundry
civil bill After completing SO pages Of the biz
the committee rose and the house adjourned
THE senate on the 18th debated the McEnerJ
resolution for 3I hours Senator Bacon Gal
offered an amendment, disclaiming any inten-
tion OF the United States to exercise permH-
ne0t sovereignty over the Philippine islands
The vote on the amendment was a tie-29 to &c
and Vice President Hobart cast the deciding
vote against the proposition. The McEnerJ
resolution was then adopted by vote of 2d tt
p The resolution declares that it is not the
Intention to make the Filipinos citizens of the
United States nor to permanently annex the
islands an integral part of the territory of the
United States, but to establish such govern
ment as will promote the interests of the citi'
Zens Of the United States and the inhabitants OF
the islands ... While the sundry civil appropria-
tion bill was under consideration by the HOUSE
the Nicaragua canal bill was offered as ar
amendment, which caused warm parliamen.
tary debate on points of order which was nos
concluded at adjournment
IN the senate on the 18th Senator McEnery
(La) denied that his resolution. adopted the
previous day, was introduced in the interest OF
the sugar growers OF his state. bill wfss
passed extending the cordial appreciation" of
congress to Miss Helen Gould for her patriotic
services in the recent war and authorizing the
president to present her with gold medal
The post Office appropriation was reported and
bill was afterwards passed providing for the
admission of Oscar w. Deignan, one OF the
Merrimac heroes, into the naval academy as a
cadet. After four hours of debate over the
attempt to amend the sundry civil appropria-
tion bill by tacking on the Nicaragua canal bill
the tail end the chair ruled the amendment
out of order, and, on an appeal to the house, the
chair was sustained by a vot3 of 127 TO 1O9
About ten pages of the sundry civil bill were
disposed Of Mr.. GroSvenor (O) then present.
ed resolution fixing February 20 and 21 for
the consideration of the Hepburn Nicaragua
canal bill with a vote February 2I at four p.
THE army reorganization bill was reported
to the senate on the 10th by Senator Hawley
Conn., chairman of the military affairs COM
mittee, who gave notice that he would move to
proceed to its consideration at the earliest pos
SlOlc time Senator COckrel mo J, presented
a minority report against the bill The naval
personnel bill was taken up and read. but no
effort was made to consider it The military
academy appropriation bill was passed. The
post office appropriation bill was then con-
sidered but was not disposed Of Senator
Cockrell (do) succeeded in getting the apprO-
priation for the fast mail from Kansas City TO
Newton, Kan. reinstated in the bill ....T The
house considered the sundry civil bill and the
appropriation of S2Q OO) 90 to pay Spain for the
Philippine islands was stricken out under
point of order made by Mr. Wheeler C1y.).
After the bill had been completed and reported
to the house. Mr.. Hepburn Ia-l moved to re-
commit it with instructions to report it back
with the Nicaragua canal bill incorporated in
it After parliamentary debate an adjourn
ment was taken, leaving the question to be
taken up the next day.
AREsOLUTION A of coincidence with the French
republic for the death of President Faure was
adopted in the senate on the 18th. The per-
sonnel bill was passed and about "A private
pension bills also The Alaska code bill was
then read and adjournment taken--.. The
house passed the sundry civil appropriation
bill The speakers ruling that the motion to
recOmmit the bill with instructions to incor-
porate in it the Nicaragua canal bill was not in
order was sustained by vote of l55 to 96 The
naval appropriation bill was then taken up and
half the bill was completed The census bill
waSsent to conference. Two bills were intro
duced to pay Spain the i20, 100000 for the Phil
ippine islands. The evening session was de-
voted to private pension legislation.