The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1900-12-13
CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS
The House of Representatives Passed tn
Army Reorganization Bill by
Vote of 188 to 133.

Washington, Dec. 5.-The pro-
gramme of the senate leaders for a
business session was taken up in ear
nest Tuesday and material progress
was made. What is popularity known
as the SHIP subsidy bill was made the
unfinished business of the senate. in
stead of the Spooner Philippine meas
ure. and the discussion of it was
opened by Mr.. Frye. tMe.) chairman
of the commtte on commerce, from
which the measure was reported.
Bills on the calendar were passed as
follows: To authorize the use OF
dispositions before naval courts in
certain eases, with an amendment re-
stricting it's operation to dispositions
taken at the instance of the accused;
to authorize Captain n. NJ. Brooks.
superintendent of foreign mails. to
accept the decoration of the Red En-
gle of the third class from the en-
peror of Germany: to authorize Hon.
John d. Meiklej john to accept a dec
Grafton of the first class from the
government of Sweden and Norway:
to encourage the holding of an in
terstatc and West Indian exposition
in Charleston. S. c.. in 1901. The
measure appropriates s25O,OOO and adj
mits exhibits free of duty.
The session of the house Tuesday
was brief. The real work began on
Wednesday. when the house took ur
the consideration of the army rcnr.
ganiration bill. which Mr. lIull. the
chairman of the committee on mil
'ary affairs. reported Tuesday.
Washington Dec. 6.-.Wh,n f.
session of the senate opened Wednes-
day The credentials of Snmuc' T. W.
Emery and Murphy j. Foster. as SEN
ators from Louisiana. and George T.
Wetmore. from Rhode Island. were
received Bills were passed perm T.
ting Capt. b. II. McCalla and tom
mander w. C. Wise, of the United
States navy, to accept decorations
from the emperor of Germany.
Washington. Dee. 6.--Thc house de
voted the day to the army reorgani-
zation bill. which was brought up
Under a special order adopted at the
pDCning of the session. which limited
General debate to two hours on n
Washington, Dec. 7.-The house of
""prescntatiycs Thursday. It the end
of Il long sitting, passed the army re-
Quite a number of amenGm, u':.
Hcre placed upon the bin ber ~ i
was passed. The liveliest fight Wa
made on substitute offered by Mr.
Littlefeld tMe.) for the canteen sec.
ion. The substitute absolutely pro-
hibited the sale of intoxicants at
military posts.
The senate was in executive ses-
sion for more than four hours. the
entire time being devoted to the dis
russion by Senator Morgan of the
ilay-Pauncefote treaty for the abro-
cation of that portion of the Clay
ton-Bulwer treaty which relates to
the Nicaragua canal.
Washington, Dec. S.--The house
Friday passed the Grout oleomargar-
inc bill by,a vote of 196 to o. The
substitute offered by the minority
committee Oh agriculture. which i'm
posed additional restrictions on the
| sale of .oleomargarine to prevent it,.
| fraudulent sale as butter. and in
creased the penalties for vioators.
was defeated by vote of 113 to rs.
The bill as passed makes all ar
ticles known as oleomargarine. but
terine. imitation butter or imitation
cheese, transported into any state or
territory for consumption or sale
subject to the police power of such
state or territory. but prevents any
state or territory from forbidding tho
transportation or sale of such prod.
uct when produced and sold free from
coloration i'm imitation of butter. The
hill increases the tax on oleomargar.
inc colored in imitation of butter
creases the tax on oleomargarine un.
colored from cents to "a of cent
per pound
4 bill was introduced to bring about
federal prohibition of polygamy by
Representative Taylor, of Ohio.
No business of Importance was
transacted in the senate Friday il
open session. Practically the entire
legislative day was consumed by al
executive session.
Washington. Dec. 1O.-Senate-The
senate was not in session Saturday.
House-A resolution was introduced
calling on the secretary of war to d
rect the United States engineers il
charge to make a survey of the Greer
and Barren rivers, Kentucky. to ascer
tain the practicability and cost of Sc
curing six-foot depth of water a
pool stage.
Author of "FanchOn" Dead.
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