Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1899-02-23

ruling the chair. Should Ifie
be overruled there is no doubt that the !
amendment will command a majority |
Washington, Feb. 15.--The senate
passed the bill thanking Helen Gould
for her services during the war with
Spain and providing gold medal for
her. The bill was passed for
the admission of Oscar w. Deignan of
Iowa, one of the Merrimac heroes, to
the naval academy. The president
sent in the nominations of Samuel
J. Barrows of Massachusetts to be
Librarian of congress; George W.
Wilson of Ohio, now deputy commits
sioner, to be commissioner of internal
revenue; Col. Marcus p Miller, Sd ar
tillery, to be brigadier general
Washington, Feb. 15.-The house
settled the fate of the Nicaragua canal
bill in this congress by refusing to
override the decision of the chair in
committee of the whole, when the
chair held that the canal bill offered
as an amendment by Mr.. Hepburn
(rep., la was out of order. The
friends of the Nicaragua bill were at
first very confident that they would
triumph, but after four hours of de-
bate, the chair was sustained by a
vote of 1877 to 109. The debate through
out the day was exceedingly spirited.
Party lines were not adhered to, the
division in favor or in opposition to
sustaining the chairs decision being
about equal on both sides of the pol
itcal aisles.
After the defeat of the amendment
adding the Hepburn Nicaraguan canal
bill to the sundry civil bill, Mr.. Gros-
venor rep, o. presented resolution
fixing February 20 and 81 for consid-
Grafton of the Hepburn bill, with a
vote on the afternoon of February 81.
Washington, Feb. 1.-Two very SEN
sational and unexpected things hap
pened in the house during the consld-
Grafton of the sundry civil bill. The
paragraph carrying an appropriation
OF $4,000, 900 for payment to Spain I'M
der the terms of the treaty was strick-
en- out upon point of order made by
Mr.. Wheeler (dem., Ky), who declared
that he was opposed to the appropria-
ton on principle, and would resort to
any technically to defeat it. The
point of order was debated for hours,
its determination hanging upon the
question whether the ratification of
the treaty by the senate and its sigma
ture by the president vltalized 1t with
M ha ~ he C.n ,fok
Mr.. Hopkins (rep., Ill), who was in
the chair. sustained the point against
1t, and upon the appeal his decision
was sustained, 149 to Sc Mr.. Cannon
then attempted to have the appropria-
ton inserted by unanimous consent
but Mr.. Wheeler again objected.
Washington, Feb. lin the senate
the military academy appropriation
bill passed without debate, and the
naval personnel bill was taken up. The
bill, however, was not pressed, and af-
ter the bill enabling soldiers who
served in the Spanish war, who had
previously been pensioners, to again
obtain a pension had been re-consid-
ered amended and passed, Mr.. Hawley
| (rep., Conn.,, chairman of the mill
tary affairs committee reported to the
senate the army reorganization bill.
| He said the committee was evenly
divided so that an agreement had been
reached to report two measures, one
by each division of the comml.Cee.
When the peace treaty ratification had
been legislated, he said, the situation
would be serious, as the existing law
gave the president no alternative but
required him to discharge the vol
unteers from service and reduce the
regular army from about $4,000 to 81
600 men. Mr.. Cockrell (dem., MOI
presented written statement in the
nature of minority report The
bill he proposed provided that the
volunteer force now in the service be
mustered out; that the act OF April
26, 1898, be continued in full force till
July 1, 1901; and that the president
be authorized to enroll a military
force of $4,000 men in the islands of
Cuba, Porto Rico and the Philippines
these troops to be Differed as the
president may direct, restricted in SER
vice to their respective islands and
not to be considered part of the per-
manent military establishment Such
an act, Mr. Cockrell said, could con-
,inue the military establishment at
about $4,000 men and in addition
would afford the president an adj
dltlonal force of $4,000 men from the
various islands