Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1899-02-24


After a good deal O .debate In the Sen.
ate on Saturday, the legislative, executive
y judicial appropriation bill was pass
A bill to amend an act entitled. IAN
act to reimburse the Governors of States
q Territories for expenses incurred by
them in aiding the United States to raise
and organize and supply and equip the
volunteer army of the United States In the
existing war with SPAIN was nassed.
The House passed several bridge bills
ano otner measures of minor Importance
At no time during the session of the
senate on Monday was a quorum present.
a majority of the members being snow.
bound at their homes. A sharp debate
over tue unanimous consent agreement
reached saturday afternoon to vote ON the
MAcsSnery resolution was precipitated
early IN the session. The agricultural nm.
preparation bill was called up, considered
and passed with only n few unimportant
amendments. a bill removing the disa.
bilities of certain persons engaged in the
civi! war was passed. The raging bliz.
sard caused practically a suspension of
business Mt the House. At 1905 Clerk
Mcdowell called the House to order.
There were about sixty members ON the
1oor. On motion of MIR. Grosvenor Rep..
% MIR. Payne of New York was elected
Speaker pro ten. amid an outburst Of
applause. In executive session the sun.
dry civil bill was again taken up. After
having completed fifty-ninc pages of the
bill the committee rose, and the House
adjourned.
The unanimous consent agreement
reached by the Senate on Saturday to vote
Tuesday afternoon on the resolution of
Mr.. McEnery (Dem.. Lao declaring the
policy of this Government in the Philip
pines was not vacated. In accordance
with that agreement the vote was taken
ON the resolution. and it was adopted
2G to %. The Nicaragua canal bill was
offered i'll the House as an amendment to
The sundry civil appropriation bill by Mr..
Hepburn of Iowa, chairman of the COM
mittee that reported it, and the lenders
on the respective sides are engaged in q
desperate struggle which involves the fate
of the measure at this session of Com
grcss. Thu debate lasted two hours and
was not concluded.
The House on Wednesday settled the
fate of the Nicaragua canal bill i'm this
Congress by refusing to override the de-
cision of the chair, occupied by Mr.. Hop
kins. in committee of the whole, when the
chair held that the canal bill offered as
an amendment by Mr.. Hepburn was out
of order. The reading of the sundry civil
bill was continued. The appropriation
for the deep waterways commission was
increased from 100000 to $4,000 on mo-
ton of the Appropriations Committee. Az
ter completing ten additional pages of the
bill the committee rose and the House
adjourned. A bill extending the scordial
appreciation" of Congress to Miss Helen
Miller Gould for her patriotic services
during the recent war and providing that
the President should present to her a gold
medal was passed by the Senate. A bill
was passed providing for the admission to
the " academy as a cadet of Oscar w.
Deignan, II of the Merrimac heroes.
Senators Cullom, Sewcll and Teller were
named as conferccs OH the legislative an.
preparation bill.
The army reorganization bill was re.
ported to the Senate on Thursday. The
naval personnel bill was taken ND and
read, but no effort made to proceed fur
Their with its consideration. Soon after
the Senate convened a House Joint reso.
luton authorizing the Secretary of the
Navy to pay certain laborers, workmen
and mechanics at United States navy
yards and naval stations SO per cent addi.
tional for work performed in excess Of
eight hours per diem was called up and
adopted. Mr.. Hale having gotten the per-
sonnet bill before the Senate did not press
and MI. Gallinger IN. H.) called up the
bill enabling soldiers who served in the
Spanish war who had previously been
pensioners again to obtain their pensions
and had it reconsidercd. The proviso Of
the bill that applicants for pensions
should file their claims within a year was
stricken out and the bill was then passed.
Consideration was begun of the p~ostofice
appropriation bill. Practically the only
obstacle encountered by the bill was the
committee amendment providing for spe-
ciai mai facilities on the trunk lines from
New York and Washington to Atlanta
and New Orleans and from Kansas CITY,
Mo-, to Newton. Kan. In the House the
proposition to include the item of $2O.OOO..
100 to be pnid Spain for the cession Of the
philippines. in the sundry civil bill shared
the same fate as did the Nicaragua canal
bill rider the day before. The ruling
of the chair was preceded by an extended
debate. After the sundry civil bill had
been completed and reported to the House
Mr.. Hepburn Nowa), the champion of the
Nicaragua canal bill, moxcd to recommit
1t, with instructions to report it back with
the canal bill Incorporated in it. The
motion was promptly declared out of or
der by the Speaker, whcreupon Mr.. Hep
burn appealed and Mr.. Payne (New York;
moved to lay the appeal on the table. Up
on the latter motion the vote was taken,
and the result was % yeas to 60 nays.
Notes of Current Events.
The army appropriation bill this ycar
calls for 500, 900. 900.
At Gen. Brooke's suggestion, the collec.