The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-02-07
Several other Measures Passed I'm
der Suspension of the Rules,
and a Number Defeated.
APPROPRIATION FOR SPAIN
s2O,OOO,OOO ITEM PUT IN THE sun
DRY CIVIL BILL.
Public Building Measures to BE Con-
sidered To-Day and Tomorrow
-WashingtOn Miscellany.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 6.-This was sus-
pension day in the House, and quite a num-
her of bills were passed, several of them
of Importance. The census bill, prepared
by the House committee, went through by
a vote of HIP. The bill differs in several
essential features from the Senate bill,
particularly in that it makes the Census
Bureau entirely independent of any exist
ing department.. and Chairman Hopkins
stated on the floor the expectation was that
the Senate would accept the House bill.
A bill was passed to extend the anti-con-
tract labor laws over the Hawaiian islands,
and another Bill was passed to refer forty
four war claims for stores and supplies to
the Court of Claims. They are the claims
reported from the war claims committee,
and aggregate $212,0 900. a bill was passed to
create a national military park on the site
of the battle of Vicksburg; also to grant
$1,000 ages of land in Alabama to the Girls
Industrial School, of that State. Senat
resolutions were adopted authorizing cadets
from Costa RIGA and Colombia to enter
Annapolis.
Mr.. Crow (Rep, Pa.9 offered a resolution
for a constitutional amendment providing
that peace treaties shall be ratified by a
majority of the Senate. With the simple
statement that it was very singular that a
majority of the two houses could make
war while the two-thirds of the senate
were required to make peace, he asked that
the resolution be referred to the committee
on judiciary. 1t was so referred.
Mr.. Grosvenor (O.) moved the passage
Under suspension of rules of a bill to pay
James and Emma S. Cameron $4,000 for
fuel used by General ROsecrans's army near
Chattanooga in 1863.
Mr. nnOK6TV nOam MOI declared that
the passage of the bill would open the way
to the payment of countless claims Tor
| damages incident to the movement of our
troops during the civil war. The bill was
defeated-34 to SO.
A bill was passed to authorize the widow
of General Hiram Berdan TO sue the gov
eminent in the Court of Claims for royalties
due her husband on inventions used by the
government between 1869 and 1881. +.
Tomorrow and Wednesday were set
apart for the consideration of public build
ing bills.
Mr.. Griffin (Rep, Wis.) moved the pas
sage. under suspension of the rules, of the
bill for the employment of women nurses
in the military hospitals of the army. In
the gallaries when Mr.. Griffin made the
motion were many Daughters of the Amer
lean Revolution and other organizations In
terested in the bill. After a short debate
the vote resulted-12 to So; not the neces-
sary two-thirds to suspend the rules
The President to-day sent these nomina-
tons to the Senate: Alonzo A. Armstrong,
of. Arizona, to be agent for the Indians CT
Fort Apache agency. A. T. Marine corps:
Capt. r. H. Harrington. to be major; First
Lieut.. Charles H. Lauchheimer, to be cap
tain. Also some minor promotions in the
marine corps and appointments in the rev.
enue-cutter service.
The sundry civil appropriation bill, COM
pleted this noon by the House committee on
appropriations, carries $2O,OCO,000 ito carry
out the obligations of the treaty between
the United States and Spain" Outside of
this the bill appropriates $42, 927, 5ol. The
provision for the payment of twenty mil
lions is as follows:
'For the purpose Of carrying out the OBJ
legations of the treaty between the United
| States and Spain, concluded at Paris on the
10th of December 1898. to become tmmed1-
ately available upon the exchange of the
notifications of said treaty, twenty millions
J of dollars"
1t was not until to-day that the House
considered this treaty item and the action
now taken is without suggestion from the
executive branch and without any formal
estimate being submitted. The committee
simply determined to take cogniZance Of the
existing conditions, making the SA0,O0O,OVO
Immediately available on the exchange of
with the treaty. In other respects the bill
carries many important items, including
$S,91S, 1877 for river and harbor work under
contracts and So, III. 943 for various public
items is indianapolis. 81, OO.0OO; United
States pen%itentiary at Atlanta, Ga, $5OO,OO.
Five additional cases Of smallpox here,
nearly all colored persons. have been re-
ported to the Hea4.n Bureau since Satur-
day. Most of them are of a mild character,
but their occurrence gives some concern to
the officials, as the mildnesS of the disease
too often deceives the patient and those
with whom he comes in contact. Sugges-
lions have been made of a quarantine
against Alexandria, where the disease has
existed some time. although doubt is ex-
pressed of the authority of the commission
ers to do Inls without executive authority.
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To-day's statement of the condition of the
treasury shows: Available cash balance,
$273. 9S1, 269; gold reserve. S227, $50, 400.
Maj. Henry o. Heistand, of the adjutant
generals department, has been detailed as
military attache of the United States COM
missioners to the Paris exposition. He is ex-
pected to leave Washington about the first
of June for Paris.
Miss Frona Eunice Wait, a member of the
State Board of Horticulture of California,
was given an informal hearing to-day by
members of the House committee
on the interest wine growers of the Pacific
coast have in the construction of the Mica
raguan canal France, she said, imports
| $4,000 go gallons of wine every year. paving
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year in and year out, while California wine
makers obtained only Z or 8 cents a gallon
for their product. She asserts tbs the
ordinary California wines outclassed the
best Spanish red wines. The canal, she
said, would enable the Pacific coast wine
growers to land their wines in Bordeaux at
a good profit in season for blending pur-
poses.
Representative Stallings, of Alabama, has
introduced in the House a bill to authorize
the President to appoint General Wheeler
a major general in the regular army.
The war investigation commission held
ar alI-day session, considering its report,
which it is now said will be ready for
transmission to the President about
Wednesday of this week. The reports of
the chemical experts have been received on
the analysis Of the beef samples submitted,
but it is intended to call the chemist them
selves to identify their reports, and, if nee
essary, amplify them by verbal testimony.
This will necessitate another day Of open
session, at least, before the work of the
commission is completed. The commission
adopted appropriate resolutions on the
death of Colonel Sexton.