The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1900-05-04
|QDAY LOSES SENATE SEAT
BY a Majority of One Vote the Claim
of the Noted Pennsylvania
Is Rejected.
THIRTy-THREEAGA ,THIRTY-TWo FOR
priation Bill and Discusses the
Post Office Appropriation Measure
Daily summary of the Proceed
ings I'm Congress.

tuBb IN tOhBEcsS'
Washington, April 23.-The Quay
resolution was taken up in the senate
on Saturday and Senator Perkins
(Cal.) spoke in favor of seating Mr..
Quay as a senator from Pennsylvania
on the appointment of the governor.
No action was taken.
Washington, April 24.-The senate
yesterday began a two-days' debate
on the right of NJ. S. Quay to seat
as senator from Pennsylvania. The
committees report favoring unseat-
ing Senator Clark, of Montana, was
received, as was also the appointment
of Frank L. Hitchcock as assistant
secretary of the interior.
Washington, April 25.-Matthew s.
Quay was yesterday refused sea: in
the senate on the appointment of the
governor of Pennsylvania by a vote
of 33 to 80. The entire time of the
| session was devoted to debate upon
| the question.
The vote on Senator Chambers mo-
ton was as follows:
Yeas-Allison, Baker, Carter, Chandler.
Clark CWyo.), Cullom, Daniel, Davis. De-
Doe, Foraker, Frye, Gear. Hansbrough,
Jones (Nev.), McComas, McLaurin, Mason,
Morgan, Nelson. Penrose, Perkins, Platt
! IN. ", Scott, Sewell, Shoup, Spooner,
| Stewart, Sullivan, Taliaferro Warren, Wet
| more, Wolcott-32.
| Nays-Allen, Bacon, Bard, Bate, Berry,
Burrows Butler, Clay, Cockrell, Culber-
| son, Hale, Harris, Heitfeld, Hawley, Jones
| (Ark.), Lindsay, Mcbride, McCumber. Nc
Emery Mcmillan, Martin, Money, Platt
| Comm, Proctor, Quarles, Ross Simon,
| Teller, Tillman, hurley, Iurner' vest
| Wellington-33.
Pairs were announced as follows, the
| first named in each instance being ia
| yorable to Mr.. Quay and the second
opposed to him:
Pritchard with Gallinger; Depew with
| Hanna; Foster with Kean; Lodge with
| Thurston; Kenney with Caffery; Elkins
| with Chiffon; Fairbanks with Mallory;
Hoar with Pettus; Kyle with Rawlins.
The following senator's were I'M
paired:
Aldrich, Beveridge, Clark (Mont.)
and Pettigrew.
Washington, April 26.-After brief
debate the senate yesterday agreed to
the conference report on the Hawaiian
civil government bill, the provisions re-
lating to the right of franchise and i'm
prisonment for debt having been elm
mated. The agricultural appropria-
| ton bill was passed, carrying little
over 100000.
Washington, April Ex-senator Ma
son 0ll.) introduced resolution in
the senate yesterday to withdraw
troops from Cuba on July and turn the
government over to the people. The bill
to increase the powers of the inter
state commerce commission was report.
| ed unfavorably. The right of Nathan
B. Scott, of West Virginia, to retain his
seat in the senate was discussed, but
no action was taken.
Washington, April 2s.-The senate
yesterday ratified the treaty with
Spain extending for six months the
time in which Spanish residents OF
the Philippines may become citizens.
Nathan B. Scott, of West Virginia.
was declared entitled to his seat.
House.
Washington, April 23.-The naval
appropriation bill, which provides fol-
two battleships, three armored cruis.
ers and three protected cruisers, was
passed in the house on Saturday.
Washington, April 24.-In the house
yesterday the post Office appropria-
ton bill was discussed, and May and
2 were set aside for the consideration
of the Nicaragua bill.
Washington, April 25.-The senate
resolution to provide for the contin.
uation in office of the present mill
tary administration in Porto Rico un.
til the appointments are made under
the civil government act was passed
in the house yesterday and the post
Office appropriation bill was further
considered. Secretary Gage reported
$1s3, 4O5,O 900 collected in internal rev.
enue under the war tax act.
Washington, April 26.-In the house
Yesterday the time was occupied in dis
cussing the post office appropriation
bill, and the item of SIPS 900 for the con-
tinuance and extension of the pneu-
matte tube service was stricken out.
Washington, April 27.-The post of
fee appropriation bill was passed in
the house yesterday, as was also bill
to increase the salary of the director
of the census to $500 and the pay
of the supervisors two per cent.
Washington, April 2s.-The house
yesterday passed 81 private pension
bills, among them one granting $50
per month to the widow of COL Stot-
senberg, of Nebraska. killed in the
Philippines, and adopted the confer
ence report on the Hawaiian govern
ment bill and sent it to the president.
Coin for Porto Rico.
New York, April 26.-William p.