Kootenai County Republican. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1899-1903, 1900-02-23
DoiNGs AT THE NATIONAL CArIroI.
weeks Proceedings in Congress Presented
IN Condensed Form

weeks Proceedings in Congress rre,ent.,
In Condensed Form.
WASHINGTON. Feb. l9.-The seq
ohd stage OF the financial legislation
py TINS congress was reached when the
senate passed the republican finance
OH 10y Il healthy and substantial ma
Jority. The bill passed is a substitute
Tor the bill passed earlier in the ses.
sion by the house. Both bills will now
go To conference committee. com
posed OF senators and representatives.
which Will decide which bin will be
il'laiiS put through, or hct her il wi i'll
be more advisable To make Il composite
pill, composed OF parts of each There
are differences in the bills, but mas
much as they both have the same Oh
lect in view il will not he yer, difficult
Tor the conferces to reach an agree
ment, and there is no doubt that when
an agreement is reached. ii will be
promptly ratified by the house and
senate.
Chairman Payne of the house WAYS
and means committee, has given no.
tlce that the Porto Rican tariff bin
will be called today and kept before
the house until disposed Of. The demo-
Gratis are busy circulating rumors OF
republican opposition To this bin, but
the most careful search has failed to
find Single republican member of the
house vino will say that he will vote
against it. The bin will pass.
Senator Davis, chairman of the SEN
ale committee on foreign relations
which is still considering the Nicara-
guam canal treaty, never expresses an
opinion without knowing what he is
talking about. Therefore, when he
expressed the opinion that the treaty
would be ratified. it carried more
weight in Washington than the stories.
circulated largely by paid lobbyists, to
the contrary. The stories OF the
strength Of the opposition To he treaty
alleging that President Mckinley con
templated withdrawing the treaty
from the senate. and the last had alb
Solutely no foundation. President
Mckinley believes the treaty is "A good
one, and that ii will be alitied
representative GroSNenor Of Ohio,
~, al
merchant marine and fisheries, which
has charge OF the shipping bill, gave
out statement concerning the numer-
Gus fakes published about this bill, in
which he said: 1T proposes to put
American vessels in the foreign trade
on an equality with the foreign vessels
now doing our carrying. When that
is done we expect TO see American
shipyards turning out the shipping
that is needed to do our foreign carry
ing. There are some people who are
50 afraid that this bill will give a
chance to American ships To secure q
share of our foreign carrying that they
can't sleep nights, and these are the
ones who are hGtching up the rumOrS,
false and partially false, with which
the people are being RECALLED IN Me on
position and free trade press, don't
find any of the American free trade
papers denOuncing the subsidies and
bounticS the foreign ships in COMPETE
ton with our own receive. They re-
serve their dcnunciaii0nS for the sug
gestion that American ships bc put
upon an equality of conditions. II IS
the same Kind Of a situation that wc
have confronted several times on the
tariff bin, and the country hasn't
been ruined by that. believe there
is no bill before congress today that
means 50 much of material benefit 10
the nation and to the people in every
part as this shipping bill.
There seems to be al almost unani-
nous sentiment in congress in favor of
ending the session before the national
conventions meet, and unless some
thing not now expected shall turn M,
and cause an extension of the session.
adjournment viii probably take place
about the Isl of June.
Senator Allison WIS paid a high con-
plimcnt when he WIS chosen by the
republican caucus 10 be chairman If
tile steering committee Of seven.
charged with arranging and controil-
ing he legislative program in the ser
ate for the remainder Of the session,
and authorized 10 choose the other six
members of the committee; bat the
republican senators knn. senator Alli-
sons sterling qualities: that his cA-
perencc fitted him for Ire place given
him. and also for choosing the right
mon as Ms associates.
TIE house last Weeh took up ard
passed the legislative, executive and
judicial appropriation bill As usual
the discussion Of Ills Till. which car
ries money for pay 81 civil employees u
the government. provoked seyera