The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1900-05-09
HUhK DONE N congress
Measures of Importance Passed and
Others Are Discussed by the
Two Houses.
SUMMARY OF TIE DAILY PROCEEDINGS.
Senate Refuses to Pass Resolution Of
sympathy for the Boers-House
Passes the Amended Porto Rico
Government Measure-Other Mat
ters Under Consideration.

Washington, May 1. - The senate
Yesterday refused to consider a resolu
tion of sympathy with Beers. The con-
ference report on the amendatory Por-
to Rico bill was agreed to and the bill
appropriating $4,000 to enlarge and
improve the public buildings at Bur-
lington, Ia, was passed.
Washington, May .. - The Alaska
civil code bill was passed in the senate
yesterday and the army appropriation
BILL carrying supplies for the military
establishment of more than $114OO0,-
900, was discussed.
Washington, May 3. - \ bill was
passed in the senate yesterday for the
creation of linked memorial parks on
the battlefields of Fredericksburg
Charlottesville, the Wilderness and
Spottsylvania, in Virginia. The army
appropriation bill was further dis
cussed.
Washington. May 4. The army APP
preparation bill, after spirited de-
bate, was passed in the senate yester-
day and the naval appropriation bill
(S63, ,616) was reported. Private
pension bills passed included bills to
pension Mrs. Julia Mac V. Henry, wild
ow the late Gen. Guy V. Henry; Gen.
James Longstreet, Mrs. Margaret NJ
Badger, widow Of the late Commodore
Badger, and Mrs. Harriet Gridley,
widow of the late Capt. Gridley, of the
navy.
Washington, May 5.-The senate
yesterday passed the army reorgani-
cation bill, which practically revolu-
tonnes the present staff arrange
appropriation bill, carrying s7,733,62s,
and the bill to create the rank of
lieutenant general and make the adj
jutant general major general. Adj
journed to Monday.
Washington, May 7. - The senate
amendments to the army appropriation
bill were disagreed to in the house on
Saturday and the bill was sent 10 con-
ference. The sundry civil appropria-
ton bill was passed. The general de-
ficiency and military academy appro-
prition bills are now the only general
supply bills Enacted on by the house.
House.
Washington, May /. - In the house
yesterday the bill to enlarge the pow
ers of the department of agriculture
and to prohibit interstate commerce in
game killed in violation of local laws
was passed, and bill was introduced
to permit national banks to lend mon
ey on real estate securities. A joint
resolution for a constitutional amend
ment to disqualify polygamists for
election as senators or representatives
was referred 10 the judiciary commit
tee. The amended Porto Rico bill was
passed.
Washington, May 2. - The entire
dayi the house yesterday was devoted
to the consideration of the Nicaragua
canal bill.
Washington, MAY 3.-In the house
yesterday a bill providing for the con-
struction of a protected but not a
fortified Nicaragua canal was passed
by vote of 225 to 80 and the sundry
civil appropriation bill. the most inn
portant of the general sundry bills
and the last on the list. was reported.
1t carries SCI, 5s6.715. \ bill was in
troduced for the Organization of In
dian Territory under the name of JEFF
ferson.
Washington. May 4. - The "free
homes" bill granting patents TO bona
fide settlers on lands purchased from
Indians was passed in the house yes
terday and the sundry civil appropria-
ton bill was further considered
Washington. MAY 5.-In the house
yesterday % of the 1872 pages of the
sundry civil appropriation bill were
completed. President Mckinley sub
mtted his first veto II was on bill
to open a part of the Navajo Indian
reservation TO settlement under min
ing laws. Mr., Baker (Md.) introduced
a bill repeating the Chinese exclusion
laws and making the general immi-
grafton laws applicable TO Chinese.
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