Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-03-03
FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS-.
WASHINGTON, March 3.
SENATF.

SENATE.
The Senate passed the outage bill
amending the Internal revenue laws
relating to distillers; also the Washing
ton and Gettysburg railroad bill.
The Senate agreed TO partial re-
port on the sundry civil bill. 1t was
then sent back to conference with in
structions to insist on the Senate
amendments in dispute.
Senator Pettigrew made a violent
speech against the proposed Hawaiian
cable. He declared it was not good
policy to annex these islands, and he
for one did not want the Hawaiian PEG.
pie connected with this country by
cable
Bills incorporating the National
White Gross Society and to purchase g
site for the Washington Free Library to
be built by Mr.. Carnegie were passed.
The Senate decided not TO consider
the conference report on the river and
harbor bill until the general deficiency
and the army appropriation bills are
passed and sent back to the House.
MIR. Allison suggested the arrange
ment and said unless 1t was carried out
some Of the appropriation bills would
certainly fail and cause an extra ses-
sion.
AS the report on the river and bar
Dor bill is complete agreement, MIR.
Frye accepted the proposition to defer
action.
The Senate went into executive
session, presumably to confirm the
nomination of Dewey to be admiral OF
the navy.
HOUSE.
Mr. Burke, of Texas, informed the
House of the death OF Representative
Crawford at Providence Hospital last
night, and offered set of resolutions
appropriate TO the occasion.
On account Of the brief time remain
ing for Congress to conclude lis laoora,
Mr.. Burke said that he would not make
the usual motion to adjourn out Of re
spect to his dead colleagues memory.
A debate OF half an hours duration
was preclpitated by motion for sus-
pension OF the rules made by Mr.. Dial
| zell, of Pennsylvania, to appropriate
$4,000 for a pedestal to a statute OF
1 Hahneman, founder of homeopathy.
The statue is offered to the city OF
Washington by the great physicians
followers if the government furnish
the foundation.
| Mr.. Dockery of Missouri, an sllopath-
r ic physician in active practice for
many years before be entered politics,
led the opposition to Mr.. Dalzell's mo
ton. Mr.. Bailey, OF Texas. and Mr.
Handy, of Delaware. also fought the
appropriation, claiming that public
money should be spent on statues OF
only those distinguished men who have
been in the public service.
Mr.. Handy said that Dr.HahnemanD
never saw America, that he lived and
died in Saxony, and that it will be well
enough to erect statues to distinguished
foreigners after we have honored Gil
our own great men.
Mr.. Cannon made G speech in favor
of the appropriation, saying he was
glad TO honor the memory of great
genius in any walk Of life and OF any
nationality.
The vote on the measure was 81 in
favor to 73 against, and the measure
was therefore lost.
The Speaker appointed committee
to attend the Crawford funeral at Sui
phur Springs, Texas.
| Mr.. Walker, of Massachusetts, made
q speech on the currency question.
Mr.. Walker attacked the members OF
the banking and currency committee OF
which he is chairman because they
have refused for years to adopt his
ideas on currency reform and gave q
| history of his attempts TO bring about
the changes he believes best for the
country's financial health. He ended
up by saying that the nation seems TO
believe that the time has not yet come
for currency reform and is willing to
continue to lose the seventy or eighty
millions annually that the present fl
nancial laws entail.
After Mr.. Walker had consumed
about half an hour upon mis- financial
address, Mr.. Barrett rose and demand
ed that Mr.. Walker keep the compact
made between them. This agreement,
Barrett said, was that after Walker had
half an hour, ne, Barrett, would be
given thirty minutes to speak. 1t vas
upon this understanding only, Barrett
asserted, that he had allowed Walker
10 have unanimous consent TO speak.
81 want TO know If that agreement was
not made between US yesterday and
this morniDg?" cried Barrett.
"That is substantially the fact yes
terdav but not today" replied Walker.
That is the most unmitiGated false
hood eyer heard" shouted Barrett.
Mr.. Walker smiled serenely ana OK
planned that he understood the agree
ment somewhat differently.
Mr.. Johnson, OF Indiana, created
some excitement by attacking the Pres
idents procrastinating policy. IF
William Mckinley was true TO MS psr'
ty he would call an extra session Of
Congress to give the country needed
financial legislation. But ne is not. He
intends to have nine months of freedom
with no Congress present to stay his
hand to work out his expansion views
in the Philippines. The man that
stands as the most brilliant antilhesis
| to Patrick Henry's remark 'I'd rather
he right than be President cares not
whether the pledges of mis- party are
| kept or whether or not the country Is
pledged into amending European com
plications l have been accused OF
being an enemy to my party be-
have attempted 10 keep the republi-
Gan party from following blindly in Nc
Kinley's footsteps. .,.o