The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1900-03-08
RELIEF FOR PORTO RICO.
Senate Passes the Appropriation Bill
for che Benefit of the Needy
on the Island.
PRESIDENT WILL DISBURSE THE FUND.
ment Is introduced to Give Con-
gress Power to Control Trusts
Daily Summary of Congressional
Proceedings.

aSnlnSuOH MATCH -biiiS "cic
introduced in the senate yesterday re-
quiring railroads to report details of
accidents to passengers and provid-
ing for pensions to government en-
ployes. The Philippine question was
further discussed.
Washington, March 16.-Bills were
introduced in the senate yesterday to
prevent the adulteration of food and
for the opening of libraries in Manila.
The Porto Rico appropriation bill was
further discussed.
Washington, March II. - The senate
yesterday passed the Porto Rico relief
appropriation bill, amounting to
s., 095, 455. and agreed to take up the
Quay case Tuesday, April 3, and to dis
cuss it until disposed Of, made favor
able report on the bill to change the
name of the steamer Paris of the Amer
lean line to Philadelphia, and adjourned
to the 10Th. The text of the Porto Rico
bill is as follows:
BE il enacted, etc. That the sum OF
50 095 ass. being the amount of customs rev.
enue received on importations by the United
ton of Porto Rico by the Spanish forces
on the 18th of October, 1898, to the LIST OF
January, 1900 shall be placed at the dis
posal of the president, to be used Tor the
government now existing and which may
hereafter be established in Porto RICO
and for public education, public works ana
other governmental and public purposes
therein, and the said sum, or so much
thereof as may be necessary, is hereby ap-
nrnnriatp1 the nurpOSpS herein SDeCl-
fled, out of any moneys in the treasury not
otherwise appropriated.
Washington, March 20.--1n the sem
ate yesterday the legislative, ex-
ecutive and judicial appropriation
bill ($24, 1885, 00) was passed, as
was also a measure providing for the
appointment of a commission to adj
Indicate and settle claims of the peo-
pie of the United States growing out
of the war with Spain. Senator Bev-
eridge Und) offered the following
amendment to the Porto Rico govern
ment bill:
"All articles coming into the United
States from Porto Rico or going into Porto
Rico from the United States shall be admit
ted free of duty, but this act shall not be
construed as extending the constitution OF
the United States or any part thereon over
Porto Rico. and 1t is hereby declared that
the constitution of the United States Is
not extended over Porto Rico
Washington, March 81. - A bill for a
cable to Honolulu was favorably re-
ported in the senate yesterday and the
Porto Rican government and tariff bill
was further discussed
House.
Washington, March 15.-The Dis
trict of Columbia appropriation bill
was taken up in the house yesterday,
and under the latitude allowed the
Nicaragua canal, the Philippine ques-
ton and the ACCESSIBILITY of electing
senators by the people were discussed.
Washington, March 16.-ln the
house yesterday a resolution was in
troduced proposing a constitutional
amendment giving congress power to
control trusts. The District of Co.
lumbia appropriation bill, carrying
Sc. COS .37S, was passed. The joint res
olution on trusts is as follows:
"Resolved. etc, That the following arti-
Gle be proposed to the legislatures of the
several states as an amendment to the
constitution of the United States:
Article 1.-THE congress shall have
power to regulate and repress monopolies
and combinations, to create and dissolve
corporation and dispose of their property
to make laws necessary and properly for
the execution of the foregoing powers.
Such powers may be exercised by the
several states In any manner not in con-
hict with the laws of the United States ="
Washington, March H. - The time
was occupied in the house yesterday
in discussing private bills. A special
committee on trusts was appointed.
Washington, March 19.-In the
house on Saturday the members pro-
nounced eulogies upon the late Mon
roe l.. Hayward, senator-elect from
Nebraska. who died before taking the
oath of Office. No other business of
Importance was transacted.
Washington, March 2O.-The senate
amendments to the Porto Rican re-
lief bill were not concurred in by the
house yesterday. The Notifications
appropriation bill ($7,O93, 4ss) was re-
ported and bill was introduced to
make Miles lieutenant general and
Corbin major general.
Washington, March 81. - In the
house yesterday the time was mostly
occupied in discussing the measures
for the correction of the abuses of the
second-class postal rate.