The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1900-03-08
NEWS FROM washington
A Daily Record of the Work Beirg
Done by Lawmakers in tie
Fifty Sixth Congress.
IMPORTANT BILLS UNDER CONSIDERATION
Senate Shelves Resolution Favor
ing the Election of Senator'S by the
PeOpIe-House Committee Prepares
Two Drastic Measures That Are
Directly Aimed Mt Trusts.

Washington, April I'm the SEN
ate yesterday bill for a Pacific cable
from San Francisco to Honolulu and
the District of Columbia appropria-
ton bill were passed.
Washington, April Ex-senator Bur-
rows (Mich.) spoke in the senate yes
terday against the seating of Senator
Quay (Pa.), and bill was introduced
to increase the pay of employees in first
class post offices.
Washington, April 1.-THE senate
was not in session yesterday.
Washington, April 16.-Eighty-th
private pension bills were passed in the
senate on Saturday and the Alaska
civil code bill was considered.
Washington, April II. - The senate
yesterday referred the house resolu-
ton for the election of United States
senator's by the people to the commit
tee on privileges and elections.
Washington, April IS. - Senator
Hoar (Mass.) addressed the senate yes
terday in opposition to the policy of
expansion. A bill was passed granting
Mexican war veterans pension of $12
per month.
Washington, April 12.--The house
yesterday passed the Porto Rican bill
by vote of 161 to 153.
Washington, April ia resolution
was adopted in the house yesterday au
thorizing the secretary of the treasury
10 designate repositories in Porto Rico,
Cuba and the Philippines for govern
ment funds and a bill was passed to
give dependent mothers of soldiers and
sailors of the Spanish war the benefit
of the general pension law.
Washington, April IA. - In the
house yesterday resolution for
constitutional amendment providing
for the election of United States sem
ator by popular vote was passed by
vote of 240 to Is. Several private pen
sion bills were considered.
Washington, April 16.-Fifty-three
private pension bills were passed in the
house on Saturday and eulogies were
pronounced on the late Gov. Oliver p.
Morton of Indiana, in connection with
the acceptance of his statue, which has
been placed in the statuary hall at the
capitol by the state which he served.
Washington, April II. - In the house
yesterday the naval appropriation bill
($61, 200, 0CO) was considered. Two
drastic measures for the regulation of
trusts were decided upon by the judi
ciary committee The first gives con-
gress full power to deal with them.
The second revises and galvanizes the
Sherman antitrust law. Its main pro-
visions are:
81 Requiring the branding or marking
of trust made goods shipped out of
state, so as to be easily identified as the
product of a trust.
- Prohibiting the interstate traffic of
trust-made goods not so branded. and
making them subject to seizure and con-
demnation.
IS. Requiring corporations having cap
ital of over 100000, or doing an annual
business of 100000, to file a report of their
affairs with the secretary of state.
"A. Providing the process of injunction
against combinations sending trust-made
goods from state to state or to foreign
countries.
20 Prohibiting the use of the mails to
concerns and their officials proved to be
trusts.
Washington, April is. - General
debate on the naval appropriation bill
was closed in the house yesterday. A
bill was introduced to require payment
of interest on government deposits.