The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1900-05-05
WHAT CONGRESS IS DOING.
Proceedings of Our National Lawmakers
from Day to Day In Condensed Form
RESOLUTIONS ard Isills.

The entire time of the senate on the
24th was devoted to the debate upon the
question of seating Matthew S. Quay,
who was appointed by the governor of
Pennsylvania as senator from hat state.
At four o'clock a vote was taken on the
pending motion of Senate Chandler to
strike out of the resolution declaring
Senato Quay not to be entitled to a
seat the word mot" The vote stood 30
ayes to 80 nays and Mr.. Quay was de-
MED a seat....The house adopted the
Foraker emergency resolution to continue
the present officers in Porto Rico in office
until tn Fir successors are appointed.
About 2t pages of the post office appro-
~priation bill were disposed of, the only
substantial amendment adopted being
one to give extra compensation to letter
carriers who work in excess of As hours
a week.
After a brief debate on the 25th the
senate agreed to the conference report
on the Hawaiian civil government bill.
A resolution was adopted calling on the
secretary of the treasury as to the num-
Der. location and cost of public buildings
being constructed. Consideration was be-
gun of the agricultural appropriation
bill. AS reported 1t carried 81, 959. 100. The
bill after some amendment, was passed.
THE house considered the post office
appropriation bill, the provision for the
pneumatic luDe StTNlCt Dtlhb NiAthNh
out, Mr.. Moody (Mass.) creating a sem
sation by assailing the methods of the
Pneumatic Tube company in making
presents of blocks of stock to certain
influential persons whom he would not
name.
Almost the entire session of the sem
ate on the Goth was devoted to the con-
sideration of the fight of Nathan b.
Scott CIV. Va to retain his seat. Tit
paSa finally went over without action.
Senator Mason Qll.) introduced a joint
resolution requesting the president to
withdraw the forces of the United States
from Cuba so as to turn the government
of that island over to the Cubans by the
next Fourth of July. ..After four days
of discussion the house passed the post
office appropriation bill. The bill to in
crease the salary of the director of the
census and of supervisors of census was
passed. The final conference report on
the Hawaiian government bill was pre-
but not acted upon owing to the
absence of a quorum.
The senate on the 9th voted on the
resolution declaring Nathan b. Scott to
be entitled to his seat from West Vir-
ginia. The number of votes in the mega
tive was only three. The Alaskan civil
code bill was hen taken up.....The house
broke ali records by passing 81 private
pension bills. Among them was one to
pension at the rate of $40 a month the
widow of the late Col. John NJ. Stotsen-
berg, of the First Nebraska, who was
killed in the Philippines. The confer
ence report on the Hawaiian government
bill was also adopted.
Senat Pettigrew SD IN the 18th
called up in the senate his resolution of
sympathy for the Beers in their war
with Great Britain, but on a call for a
vote on a motion to refer 1t to the COM
mittee on foreign relations it was found
that there was not a quorum and an
adjournment was taken. Previous to
hat "a resolution was adopted providing
that the exercises appropriate to the ac-
%ceptance from the q. A. r. of the statue
of Gen. Grant. to be erected in the cap
itol, be made the special order for Sat
urday, May 10, at four p. m.....The house
passed a number of bills of more or less
The bill for a commission
to adjudicatc the claims of American
citizens against Spain consumed consid-
cradle of the session. but it was finally
~recommitted.