Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-02-22

The unanimous consent agreement
reached by the Senate on Saturday to vote
Tuesday afternoon on the resolution of
Mr.. McEnery Dem, La) 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 ii was adopted
26 to -. The Nicaragua canal bill was
ofere'. in the House as an amendment to
the s,tndry civil appropriation bill by Mr..
Hepburn Of Iowa. chairman OF the COM
mittee that reported it, and the leaders
on the respective sides are engaged in a
desperate struggle which involves the fate
of the measure at this session
The House on Wednesday settled the
fate of the Nicaragua canal bill in 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 mendment 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-
tion of the Appropriations Committee. Az
ter completing ten additional pages of the
bill the committee rose and the House
adjourned. A bin extending the cordial
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 gold
medal was passed by the Senate. A bill
was passed providing for the admission to
the naval academy as a cadet Of Oscar w.
Deignan, one of the Merrimac heroes.
The army reorganization bill was re-
ported to the Senate ON Thursday. The
naval personnel bill was taken up and
read, but no effort made to proceed fur
ther with its consideration. Soon after
the Senate convened 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 30 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-
sonnel bill before the Senate did not press
and Mr.. Gallinger IN. H. called up the
bin enabling soldiers who served in the
Spanish war who had previously been
pensioners again to obtain their pensions
the bill that applicants for pensions
should file their claims within year was
stricken out and the bill was then passed
Consideration was begun Of the postofiice
| appropriation bill. Practically the only
obstacle encountered by the bill was the
committee amendment providing for spe-
cial mail facilities on the trunk lines from
! New York and Washington to Atlanta
and Npy. A,1, T.. ~.
| Mo, TO Newton, Kan. In the House the
| proposition 10 include the item of $20,000,-
| 600 to be paid 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 Uowa), the champion of the
| Nicaragua canal bill. moxed to recommit
it, with instructions to report il back with
the canal bill incorporated in it. The
motion was promptly declared ont of or
der by the Speaker, whereupon 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 97 yeas to 81 nays.
The House on Friday finally passed the
sundry civil approF. .iation bill, to which
it had devoted over a week. No impar-
tant amendment had been adopted The
| Speakers ruling upon the motion to re-
commit the bill, with instructions to in
corporate in it the Nicaragua canal
| amendment, was Sust taned-IJ5 to 90. A
bin was passed authorizing the President
to appoint five additional cadets at-lnrge
to the naval academy The evening ses-
sion was devoted 70 private pension legis-
latiou The naval personnel BILL for
which the Navy Department has been
contending for so many years, was passed
by the Senate. 1t was under discussion
for several hours, but was passed prac-
tically in the form in which il was re-
ported by the Senate committee. The re-
mainder of the days Session was devoted
to passage of bills on the private pension
calendar, seventy -four in number, and to
the reading of the Alaska code bill.
The Senate spent most Of the day Satur-
day on the postoffice appropriation bill,
but called to complete it, An echo of the
old star route Developments was heard
wh,n several Senators criticised the meth.
od by which a combination of spectators
secured the star route contracts. Sever
al bills of minor Importance were passed
early in the day. Tbc House spent two
hours upon the naval appropriation bill
without making any progress. The re-
mainder OF the session was devoted to
eulogies upon the life and public services
Of the late Representative Northway, Of
Ohio. The paragraph in the bill relating
to the naval academy, against which Mr.
Mudd rep Md raised point of order,
was stricken out, the point Of order being
sustained Mr.. Mudd then moved addi-
tonal appropriations of $4,000 for the
completion Of the buildings at the acad-
envy authorized in the last naval bill.