The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1899-01-27
poINos OF CONGRESS.

The committee on foreign commerce
having the right of way in the house
succeeded in passing quite number of
bills of minor importance, most OF
which authorized the construction of
lighthouses, etc. Then the bill to
grant the Pacific Cable Co. a subsidy
of 500, 900 year for 20 years for the
construction and operation of cable
was called up and and a very spirited
debate followed The opposition was
headed by Mr.. Corliss (Rep., Mich.),
who advocated the construction of a
government cable. No conclusion was
reached at the hour of adjournment,
but it is stated on reliable authority
that when the bill comes up again it
will receive blacb: eye.
The river and harbor bill has been
completed. 1t carries appropriations
for the ensuing fiscal year aggregating
$12, 500, 1913, and in addition TO this con-
tinuing contracts are authorized ag-
gregating S16,791, 53s. Other condi-
tional appropriations contingent upon
securing certain results, amount to
S770, 900, but the payments on these
would probably be postponed beyond
the ensuing year. OF the above amount
Michigan gets So, OBS, 175, which is di-
vided as follows: Cash for harbors,
S573, 900; new continuous contracts for
three harbors, S615, 600; cash for rivers,
1894, 500; new continuous contracts for
Hay lake and Detroit river 81 ,055, 615.
The house coinage, weights and
measures committee has made a favor
able report on the substitute for Rep.
Hills bill to fix the standard of value
in the United States and for other pur-
poses. The bill provides in substance
that the standard of value in the
United States shall be the gold dollar,
that all contracts existing and in the
future shall be computed in reference
TO that standard, that there shall be
established in the treasury n depart
ment of issue and redemption, that the
greenbacks shall be retired and upon
retirement that gold bills shall be sub
stituted therefor
BY request of the secretary of the
treasury the war department has or
dered the American officials in Porto
Rico to enforce the Chinese exclusion
laws of this country in Porto Rico.
Under this regulation no Chinaman
can be admitted TO Porto Rico without
compliance with the laws of the United
States. Cinnamon will be allowed to
go backward and forward between this
country and Porto Rico without re-
striction. They will not be allowed
TO go from Cuba to Porto Rico.
Gen. Leonard Wood told the senate
committee on military affairs that he
estimated it would require 50,O sol
diers TO be kept in Cuba. He says the
climate causes so much malaria and
other sickness that not over 35 to 40
per cent of the force would be capable
of effectual aggressive action. In the
Cuban army GO per cent is frequently
disabled.
The senate spent one whole day in
executive session wrangling over the
promotion of Sampson and Schley and
other naval officers engaged in the
Santiago campaign. The main talk
was over the policy of advancement,
and the navy department and the
whole system was attacked, but moth
ing only talk was accomplished.
The first assistant postmaster-gen-
eral has issued an order increasing the
salaries of all the regular free delivery
carriers who provide their own horses
or other modes of conveyance, from
$500 to $500 per annum, beginning
January 1 last. This applies TO all
free delivery Offices.
A resolution offered by Mr.. Caffery
Ua.), requesting from the President
any information he may have received
from agents or representatives of the
so-called Philippine republic relative
to conditions in the Philippine islands,
was adopted.
There was no obstruction and PEN
sion bills were passed with great dis
patch. In all exactly so, most of them
senate bills, were passed. No promi-
nent people were benedciaries.
A house joint resolution was passed
re-appointing James d. Angel, OF
Michigan, as one of regents of the
Smithsonian Institution.
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