The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1899-03-10
CONGRESSIONAL.

In the House on March 2 the move
to GUST General Wheeler and several
other members who held commissions
in the army, was lost by vote of 146
to II. An agreement was reached by
which the House should have an OPP
portunity to pass upon the Senate ar
NOR plate and Gathmann dynamite
gun amendments before the conferecs
rejected these propositions, and with
this understanding the Senate amend
ments were disagreed to and the bill
sent to conference.
The Senate rejected the proposition
to continue the territorial prohibition
law in Alaska. Nearly all appropria-
ton bills have been passed. The SEN
ate committee are considering the
army appropriation bill and have rcs
ported the deficiency bill
The House spent the entire time of
the seven hours session on the 2sth
passing the public building bills fav-
orably acted upon by the committee of
the whole ten days ago. SiXty-one
bills in all were passed, carrying 3d.
$4,000. A frenzy of bill passing was on
the Senate. The bills passed were prin-
cipally public building measures, and
at times during the day and night the
scenes in the Senate were remarkable
Senators usually staid and dignifed,
sticklers for order and decorum in the
chamber, clamored for consideration
of bills providing for the erection of
government buildings in which they
were Interested Bills carrying an
aggregate of $4,000 oo or $40, 900, 900
were passed.
The Senate passed the army reor
ganization bill by vote of IS to
10 on the eth. The House
was - session seven hours and sent to
the senate two more appropriation
bills-the army, which has been under
consideration for several days, and the
Notifications The former carried
about $40, 900, 900, and the latter APP
proximately S4,7o0, 900. The only
amendment of Importance attached to
the army bill was one giving two
months extra pay to enlisted men in
the regular army who served beyond
the limits of the United States during
the war with Spain, and one months
extra pay to those who served in the
United States. Mr.. Dockery, Demo
crat, of Missouri, the leading Demo
crat on the appropriations committee,
asserted that the appropriations for
this Congress would reach 81, $780,
0OO, 900.
The House continued work on the
army appropriation bill on the 25th,
but failed to complete it. Considera-
BILE luminosity was developed during
the debate, and there were sharp pass
ages between Mr.. Grosvenor and Mr..
Cannon on one hand and Messrs.
Simpson of Kansas, and Cochran, OF
Missouri, on the other. Mr.. Simpson
rose to question of personal privilege
to answer the statement of Mr.. Cannon
that if he Simpson, had made his speech
in Manila he would have been court
martialed and shot Perhaps this
might be so, said Mr.. Simpson, deris-
vely, adding: But to be shot at Ma.
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an old muzzle-loading brass cannon.
He was thankful, he said that the
time had not come when men were
shot for expressing their views, He
had not, he declared, criticised the
soldiers for he gloried in their hero
ism. But the blood of those brave
soldiess from Kansas and elsewhere
who had fallen at Manila was on the
head of the President, as commander
in-chief of the army.
After two hours devoted to consids
Grafton of bills on the calendar, the
Senate, at l o'clock, began the consid-
Grafton of the army reorganization
bill. Speeches in support of the bill
were delivered by Mr.. Hawley of Con-
necticut, Mr.. Cockrell of Missouri Car
ter of Montana and Smith of New
Jersey, and against it by Mr. German
of MARYLAND and Mr. Allen of Ne