Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1900-06-12
WORK OF CONGRESS.
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CoIumltted crimes IN Cuba from the United
States 20 the island. the criminals to be
punished under the laws of Cuba as admin
lstered by Cuban. courts. Passed the last
OF the appropriation biIIs-the general de-
hciency-aS also the emergency river and
harbor bill providing for numerous surveys
and for certain other public works. Mr..
! Clay and Mr. Stewart addressed the Senate
| at length on the question involved in the
government of our insular possessions. The
! session was concluded with eulogies On The
j late Representative Green of Nebraska.
Monday, June 4.-Extended speech on the
philippine question made by Mr.. Teller.
| Resolution declaring Clayton Bulwer treaty
abrogated reported by Mr.. Morgan, who will
! call 1t up Tuesday. At night session speech
on Philippine question made by Mr. Petit
grew. Number of bills the calendar
| passed. none Of them Of general interest
Tuesday: June 5:--Heated partisan debate
! between Measrs. Hanna, Carter. Foraker,
| Bacon and Pettigrew marked the session.
! BY 4 vote of 43 to 20 sent the House anti
| trust bill to the judiciary committee. ADOPT
! ed the conference report on the Alaska code
| bill. By a tie vote of 33 to SO rejected the
nomination of w. d. Bynum as general APP
| the conference report on the bill to pro
| vide better facilities for the deposit Of pub
! lie moneys in the nations new island pos
| sessions.
| Senate over the armorplate amendment
| grew personal at times and produced some
exciting climaxes. Mr.. Tilnan of South
! Carolina termed the proposed amendment
a scandal as Infamous as any in cur his
! tory The proposition which Mr. Penrosr
of PENNSYLVANIA made, leaving the purchase
Of armOr il the discretion of the secretary
! Of the navy at any price that to him seems
reasonable. and making it mandatory for
linn 70 construct an armor-plate plant
nble price. threw the Senate back into it's
old field OF discussion and materially pro-
! Ion Sed the session. Nothing new was dis
closed by the discussion, the OLD straw be-
! ing beaten again; but upon roll call slim
| majority was shown in favor of receding
! from the Senate's position and accepting
! the House amendment. This cleared the
! way f0r agreement between the houses,
| and & recess was taken at both ends of the
! capitol to permit the cOnfereeS to further
| consider the bill.
Thursday. June tn the Senate at 4:30
O'Clock the President announced his sigma
ture to the navaf appropriation bill. The
committee reported from the President that
he extended TO Congress his calculations
the great amount of work accomplished in
so short , time and replied that he had nc
further communications to make. reSO-
luton of thanks to Mr. Frye. president pro
TEN. Of the Senate, adopted. At
O'Clock the Presidents gavel fell and Mr..
Frye declared the Senate adjourned sine die.
HOUSE.
Saturday June 2-Passed the bill amend
Ing the Sherman antitrust law by vote
of 273 to I, Mr.. Mann Iil.) voting against il.
Monday. June 4.--Agreed TO Senate amend
ment to sundry civil bin appropriating So
100000 fer st. Louis exposition. Also
mississippi river. with an amendment re
ducng the amount 10 $3.50. 600. Bill sent
again to conference. Agreed 10 conference
report on District Of Columbia bill.
Tuesday juno 5.-Hcard Mr.. Cummings
On. W read letter froIn W. j. Bryan de-
nying he had stated Il constitutional amend
trusts. Mr.. Len tO.l and Mr.. Hull la:i
engaged III a bitter clash over an attack
by the former on Adit.-Geu. CGrhin. Adopt
ed the conference report on the Alaska code
Refused
amendments to the military academy appro-
priation bill. providing for The promotion Of
Gems Miles and COrbin and sent the bill
to conference.
"Wednesday, June G.-The Honse repudI-
ated the action Of its coufcrees on the naval
appropriation bill and Representative Foss
OF Chicago refused to serve longer on the
committed. FC was accused Of betraying
the House and resented tue charge in bitter
lar, took off his necktie and hit the con
ferees sledge-hammer blows. while the
crowds i'll the galleries chcered the veteran
in his attack. The House, excited and
CRY. named c0nfereCS 10 carry out the
policy of no surrender, and then adjourned
to 10 O'Clock Thursday. The deadlock is on
the ocean-surVCy item. in which the House
conferccS surrendered to tie Senate.
Thursday. June 1.-THE principal feature
of the closing day in the House was the
reversal Of its action last night in turning
DOWN the conferees on the naval bill for
yielding on the item relating 10 ocean sur
veys. Over night the sentiment of the
day the members voted by large majority
TO accept outright the Senate amendment,
which goes much further than the compro-
mise which the cOnfereeS offered last night.
The new conferccs. led by Mr.. Cannon, who
had brought in q compromise which they
considered more satisfactory, were igno-
mniOuSly pushed aside. il was q distinct
victory for the old conferees-Messrs. Foss
of Illinois, Dayton of West Virginia and
Cummings OF New York. The closing day
was the course Of Mr.. LentZ of Ohio III
hooking nD1ItimOOS- LEGISLATION.
three days he has objected to bills because
the majority would not allow the testimony
in the Occur d'Aene investigation to be
printed. and he maintained his position to
tie end.
Record Of the Session.
Thursday, June 1.-Congress adjourned
sine die this afternoon at . o'clock, the
House in scenes Of excitement, the Senate
scdate and decorouS
This Congress will go into history as one
of the most industrious on record and this
session as the shortest long session on
record. In 137 working days both houses
have passed 1915 bills, Of which 2S3 are
public acts of general Importance and 932
private acts granting pensions, paying
claims and giving relief to people who nave
been injured suffered damage in some
way or another through the government.
large number of the private acts were pen
sions growing out of the war with Spain.
The best previous record was 723 bills in
During the session 1852 bills have been
introduced, so that lO per cent. of them
have been enacted into laws, which is an
other remarkable record. The bulk of this
business exceeds tie work Of the four pre-
vious congresses combined during their
long sessions.
Of course, SO many bills could not be
passed without Il great deal Of debate, and
the Congressional Record for this session
will make ten big volumes of 700 large
pages, with two columns of tine type to the
page.
The two most important bills that have
failed of passage are those for the
struction of the Nicaragua canal and to
tax oeomarSarine. The House passed the
Nicaragua bin, but it was held up in the
Senate until the Clayton Bulwer treaty
could be amended. That treaty pledges the
United States not to build canal across
the isthDus. Several of the best lawyers
IN Congress believe that the treaty is dead.
but there is SO great Il difference of opin-
ion that the President instructed the secre-
tary of state to negotiate for the formal
revocation CO the canal item. TO which Eng
land promptly aSScntcd, but the Senate re-
fused TO ratify the new treaty for fear of
antagon5ng the Irish vote. 1t will be rati-
fled after election. however and the canal
bill made speca! order for the 10th of
December.
In the meantime the secretary Of state
will have an opportunity to negotiate trea-
tics with Nicaragua and Costa Rico secur-
ing for the United States right of way