The Taney County republican., 1900-04-12
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS.

CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS.
IL the senate. on the goth: the entire
the Puerto Rican bill. Several speeches
were delivered. and considerable progress
mcrous speech by Mr.. Pettus (AIa.( was
the feature of the day.-----In the house
BIZ to remunerate the British Cable Co.
foc expenses incurred in repairing the
Manl M oabn ca c;,zan eu1 by f erfnin border comn
ties o. Pennsylvania which suffered losse;
during the various incursions Of rebI
forces into that state during the w;r
were defeated. Several minor claim bills
were passed.
III the senate, on the s1st; action upon
completed. with the exception of two.
which were laid over until the I'd by re-
pend,ne peed ameadments and ID the @ bill Ip at four
o'clccF on the Sd. The feature of the sej-
sion was an exhaustive speech on the
pending measure by Mr.. Fairbanks Ind'
who unrequivocally supported the bill l--.:.
In the house the fortifications appropri-
alton bill, carrying sI,O93, ass, was passed
without a single amendment having been
offered to the measure as reported from
committee. A resolution was adopted =
re-elect the present board of managers OF
the National Soldiers home
In the senate. on the I'd, more than sew
en- hours of vigorous debate before gal
ler.cs that were crowded from opening
and % government %sS % b bill. h The speeches p We're
bright and lively. The near approach To
the hour at which the final vote should
b. taken lent dramatic interest to every
word that was uttered. In the house
a resolution, presented by Mr. Payne. the
foo: leader of the majority. and which
foTeShadowed a possible reduction of the
present war taxes. was adopted. Undei.
Suspension Of the rules bills were passed
the Fort Hall Indian reservation and 3
so. SOC acres in Oklahoma, and dividing
the northern judicial district of New York
into two districts.
he ho yafd
res,o he'd on the Puerto Rican tariff and
civil government bill, which was adopted
sy of & the he voting apen
arlcnGments. which preceded final action.
only committee amendments were adopt
have the Spooner bill made the unfinished
business, involving the displacement of
te Ga debaf n bnnr an bfpe d
jcUrnment. In the house. in committee
OF the whole, consideration of the substi-
tute for the senate Hawaiian territorial
bill was taken up under a special order
which would bring the question to vote
on the 5th. at four o'clock.
IN the Senate on the 4th the session
ol,ened with a lively and interesting dis
rL;sion OF the Quay case, in the course of
which Mr., Wolcott apologized for Ian
euasc used by him Oh the day previous.
Lisclaimirg any intention of being offen-
sive to anybody, and. least of all. to ms
up the Quay case on the 5th, and the
Srop1er bill was made the uniini~hed bus
iness In tn, the House INA, many ,S speeches We're
them entirely irrelevant. The most excit-
ii,g episode of the days proceedings was
NyD, and Mr.. Wheeler (dem. KY, dur
iTg Il discussion of the Kentucky situa-
tion. Mr.. Fugh accused Mr.. Wheeler of
Iui.repres senting facts, hut afterwards dis
claimed any charge of personal intention
to dist facts.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL
On the 4th Mr.. Lacy, of Iowa. intro
1uced d bill authorizing the sale and
use of timber on unlDpropriated and
Unreserved public lands.
On the Ath Mrs. Ada Lawrence died
at her residence i'll Quincy. Ill. She
was the leading lady with Edwin
Booth. and had also acted with Juni,ls
Booth, John Mccullough. Joseph JEFF
ferson and other trage.lians and COM
edy stars Of the first pagni.ude
On the 4th Hon. f. II. Moore, aged IS.
died at Athens, O. He was 4 former
congressman from the Fifteenth Ohio
district, and was the father of Dr. ID.
H. Moore, Of the Western Christian
Advocate. Cincinnati.
published statement that Emper-
or William sent to Mr.. Leyds an ex-
preston of regret at the death of Gen.
JGubert, is pronounced in Berlin to be
absolutely erroneous.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Kansas City's magnificent auditor;-
uIi. completed a year ago, in which
the democratic national convention
vas TO have met July 4, was totally
destroyed by fire on the 4th. 1t caught
H.'e about 1 p. M, and burned with
such fury that in fifteen minutes moth
ing remained but a mass of ruins. The
second Presbyterian church, the La
ihIop school and a number of adjacent
dwellings were also destroyed. Loss,
100000.
On the 4th passenger train No. 3,
kI,owI: as the ST. Louis cannonbaI.
cn the Omaha & ST. Louis road, was
wrecked just east of Silver City, la.
The passengers were al badly shaken
up, and many more or less injured,
but only two seriously.
The Pekin correspondent of the Ber-
liz National Zeitung describes the
growing stubbornness of the tsung-li-
yamen Chinese foreign office) toward
all the powers, Russia included,'' and
he mentions the fact that Russia finds
herself unable to obtain the consent
CT the Chinese government to rail-
way from Mukden to Pekin-