The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1899-01-13
NATIONAL LEGISLATURE
Proceedings OF the Lawmakers In sensss
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Washington, Jan. 1.-THE senate In.
executive, session yesterday adopted q
resolution offered by Hoar asking for
all the instructions to and correspond
ence with our Paris peace commission
ers. Caffery spoke against expansion.
A bill for the protection of wild birds.
including song birds, was passed. "A
second executive session was held. az
The house passed a bill giving In lieu
Of furiough or leave OF absence two
months extra pay to all officers and
men of the volunteer army. In commit
tee OF the whole the legislative, etc.,
appropriation bill was discussed, and
after a dozen annual attempts the anti
civil service men struck out the appro-
priation for the civil service commits
sion-67 to 81. The friends of the re-
form will demand a record vote in the
house, and expect to reverse this action.
Washington, Jan. 9.-At brief ses-
sion of the senate Saturday the first of
the regular appropriation bills to be re-
ported to that body, the District of CO.
lumbia, was passed. A memorial from a
camp of Confederate veterans in oppo-
sition to pensions for ex-Confederate
soldiers was presented. The house bill
giving extra pay to volunteer officers
and men was agreed to. Mason offered
a resolution to which he will speak de-
claring against governing any people
without their consent
The house was engaged all day in the
legislative, executive, and judicial APP
preparation bill, and completed 1t SUBJ
stantially as reported, except the items
for the civil service commission, which
went over. Grosvenor made a speech
of an hour on current political ques-
tions especially the tariff, which he
said had brought prosperity. An item
of $1,000 for naval charts of the Phil
ippine islands was ruled out on point
of order, the chairman holding that the
Philippines were still foreign territory.
Washington, Jan. 10.-Most of the
senate session yesterday was devoted
to the discussion of expansion, Hoar
making an extended argument against
that policy and Plat of Connecticut
replying briefly. Caffery concluded his
speech against the Nicaragua canal
bill. and an executive session was held.
The house passed bills providing for
the free entry of certain bells present.
ed by Edwin M. Stanton, of the Iowa
Agricultural college, and for the remov-
al of the remains of Major General
John Rawlins from the Congressional
cemetery in this city to the cemetery
at Arlington. Then it reversed the ac-
ton of the committee of the whole in
striking from the legislative, etc, bill
the appropriation for the civil service
commissioning to 119 on record vote.
Washington, Jan. u.-Mason of Illi-
nois made vigorous speech in the sem
ate yesterday against assuming sover-
eighty over THE Philippine islands re-
gardless of the consent of the islanders.
He spoke for an hour and half, and
held the senate's attention all the time,
being warmly congratulated at the
close. 1t was agreed to limit speeches
on the Nicaragua canal bill to fifteen
minutes after Tuesday next. Turley
spoke against the bill and an executive
session was held.
- The house devoted the day to the bill
for the codification of the laws of Alas
ka, finishing all but ten pages of that
measure.