The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1900-01-17
FIFTY-SIXTH CONGRESS
sena,e.

Senae.
Senator Bcveridge delivers long
Grafton on OUR duty in the Philippines.
He contends that the natives are not fit
ted for self-government and that the
islands are the key to the open door
of all the east Among the many bills
introduced were: BY Mr.. Penrose--
Appropriating S5,ooo.ooo for the con-
struction of public roads in the United
States, the money to be distributed
among the several states in proportion
to the mileage of their roads. By Mr..
misunderstanding the immigra-
ton, contract labor and Chinese exclu-
sion laws of the United States to the
Hawaiian Islands.
NINTH DAY.
The Senate paid eloquent tribute of
respect and affection TO the memory of
the late Vice President Garrett A. Ho-
bart. Mr.. Frye laid before the Senate
the report of Secretary of Treasury
Gage as to the repositories of revenue
funds in various national banks. 1t was
referred and ordered printed. Senator
Allen introduced a bill in the Senate
granting a pension of $io a month to
every soldier and sailor who served in
the civil war fer three months or more.
TENTH DAY.
The report of the committee appoint
cd to nominate the standing committees
of the Senate presented its report, and,
contrary to expectation, it was adopted
by reclamation at once. Husbands de-
relict in duty to their families by failing
to provide for their support, either while
living together or apart, are, under the
provisions of the bill introduced by
Representative Adams, to be deemed
guilty OF misdcmeanor. The penalty
affixed for the guilty is a sentence at
hard labor in some workhouse or coun-
ty Jail, the court having no discretion.
Another bill affecting the marriage re-
laton by the same author makes de
mentia for twenty years and insanity,
with confinement in asylum for ten
years, grounds for divorce.
ELEVENTH DAY.
The House OF Representatives dodg-
ed n direct expression of sentiment on
the resolution expressing sympathy for
the Boers. Mr.. Brumbaugh made an
eloquent appeal for its adoption. The
resolution OF Senator Dodge providing
for the printing and distribution of o.
900 sets of Howe's History of Ohio,
calling for an expenditure OF SI4,ooo,
was adopted The Elmer bill authoriz-
ing board OF education to issue bonds
in $35o.ooo to complete two high
school buildings in Cleveland was pass
ed.
There were again four or five witness
cs before the Senate committee to-day
in connection with the attack on the
right of Senator Clark, of Montana to
his seat in the Senate. About the last OF
January the Philippine commission will
submit their full report to the president.
President Schurman was at the White
House Thursday TO announce that pro-
gress was being made and that before
February the work of the committee will
be completed. In the full report each
commissioner will deal with a separate
subject. 1t has been suggested in the
Congress by both Senators and Repre-
scntativcs that a Joint committee OF
members might be named for that pur-
pose. 1t would be very popular and al
so very expensive, but it is insisted that
it would be better way of preparing
Congress for legislative action than the
plan of making up commission out
side OF Congress and expecting mem
bcrs OF both Houses to read their report
after it had been made in order to be-
come informed.