The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1900-06-07
F1FTY-sIXTH CONGRESS.
Summary Of Leading Event.

Washington, May 2s.-Senate-The
reading of the sundry civil appropria-
ton bin was completed, but not all OF
the committee amendments have been
disposed of. A lively debate was pre-
cipitated over the proposition to- con-
tinue the life of the industrial COM
mission until October 81, 1901.
House-The Alaskan civil govern
ment bill was passed. Other bills
passed were: Authorizing the presi-
dent 70 appoint ten first lieutenants
of the signal corps, whose commits
sions shall expire June 30. 1901, and
to provide six additional officers in
the subsistence bureau of the war de-
partment; to ratify the agreement of
the commission to the five civilized
tribes and the Seminole Indians; to
restore to the public domain small
tract of White mountain Apache In
dian reservation, Arizona; to ex-
change gold bars for gold coin.
Washington, May 29.-Senate-- AN
amendment appropriating $5,O0o.000
for the Louisiana purchase exposition
to be held in st. Louis in 1903 was
added to the sulldry civil appropria-
ton bill on condition that $10,O00,000
in addition be raised by the exposi-
ton expressing sympathy for the
Beers was referred to the committee
on foreign relations by vote of 30
to 26.
House-The conference report on
the post office appropriation bill was
agreed to. 1t carried $225,000 for
pneumatic tube service. The bill now
goes to the president.
Washington. May 3O.-Senate-Not
in session.
House--An unsuccessful effort was
made to get the antitrust resolution
before the house. One hundred and
ninety private pension biiis were
passed.
Washington, May 31.--Senate-The
suudry civil appropriation bill was
passed. 1t carries an appropriation
of $5,OOO,OO0 for the Louisiana pur-
chase exposition to be held in St.
Louis in 1903, and 100000 for the be-
ginning of the work on the memorial
bridge between Washington and Ar
lington cemetery, to be erected in
memory of the dead of both the union
and confederate armies. The project,
it is expected. will ultimately cost
about S5.0OO.000.
House-The entire session was
taken up discussing the resolution
reported from the judiciary commit
tee proposing a constitutional amend
ment to lodge in congress the power
to "define, regulate, control, prohibit
or dissolve trusts, monopolies or COM
binations."
Washington. June 1.-Senate-rhe
military academy appropriation bill
was passed. 1t carries amendments
making Gen. Miles and all of the fu-
ture commanders of the army lieuten-
ant generals and Gen. Corbin ma jor
general. Consideration of the last of
the appropriation bills, the general
deficiency, was begun, but was not
completed.
House-The joint resolution pro-
posing constitutional amendment
empowering congress to regulate
trusts was defeated. It requires a
two-thirds vote under the constit,l-
tion to adopt an amendment to the
constitution. The vote stood ayes
154, nays 131. The bills to ratify the
treaties made by the Dawes commits
sion with the Cherokee and Creek In
dians were passed.
Washington, June 2.-Senate-The
last of the appropriation bills, the
general deficiency, was passed, as was
also the emergency river and harbor
bill, providing for numerous surveys
and for certain other public works
and the bill providing for the extradi.
ton of persons who have committed
certain crimes in Cuba from the Unit
ed States to the island. The bill pro.
vides that the alleged criminal shall
be punished under the laws of Cuba
as administered by Cuban courts.
House-The Littlefeld trust bill
was amended by the democrats so as
to except from the provisions of the
bill all labor organizations and
unions, and then the measure was
passed, only one vote being cast
against it.