The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-05-17
MANY BILLS PASSED.
A Large Amount of Business Dispos-
ed of by the senate.


In the Senate yesterday the House bill
repeating the provision of the law allow
ing merchandise arriving in the United
States from any foreign country to be
transported without payment Of duty, so
far as the Mexican free zone is concerned
was reported and passed.
The Senate bill appropriating $10,3S3 in
full satisfaction of the claim of the estate
of James Young for the use of lands by
the United States military forces near
Middletown. Pa, was passed.
The House bill authorizing the con-
struction of. wagon toll bridge across
the Red River of the North, between Min
nesota and North Dakota, and the bill
relating TO settlement on public lands and
providing that where an unmarried
woman has settled on a tract of land and
marries before making an entry, her right
shall not be forfeited by her marriage,
were passed.
Senate bill to facilitate the entry of
steamships in the coasting trade between
Porto Rico, Hawaii. and the United States,
was passed. The bin extends to Porto
Rico and Hawaii the act of June 5, 1894,
as follows:
That the master of any steamship trad
ing between foreign ports and ports in
the United States and running in a regu-
larly established steamship line, which line
shall have been in existence and running
steamers in the foreign trade for not less
than one year previous to the application
OF the privilege extended by this act,
arriving in a port of entry may make pre-
liminary entry of the vessel by making
cath or affirmation to the truth of the
statements contained in his manifest and
delivering said manifest to the customs Of
fcer who shall board said vessel. where
upon the unloading of such vessel may
proceed upon arrival at the wharf under
such regulations as the Secretary OF the
Treasury shall prescribe, but nothing in
this act shall relieve the master Of any
vessel from subsequent compliance with
the provisions Of existing laws regarding
the report and entry Of vessels at the
custom house. Customs officers acting as
boarding officers, and any customs officer
who may be designated for that purpose
by the Collector Of the Port, are hereby
authorized to administer the oath or ar
firmation herein provided for
The Senate bill to reimburse Theodore
]. Arms Assistant Paymaster of the
Navy s2.915 for loss through the robbery
Of his safe in Porto Rico in 1899, was
passed
The following bills were passed during
yesterdays session.
Senate bill to create an additional l:fe-
saving district and authorizing certain
changes in the serial numbers of exist
ing districts; Senate bill giving
pension OF 800 a month to the widow of
General Lawton; Senate bill appropriating
1920. 900 for public building at East St.
Louis, ILL.,; Senate joint resolution for a
monument to the soldiers who fell in the
battle of Talladega, Ala, on November
2, 1873; House bill in relation to railroad
line through the Choctaw and Creek Ia
tons, Indian Territory; Senate bill in
creasing to $4,000 the limit of cost for
the public building at Newport, VT; SEN
ate bill to ratify an agreement with the
Irr1ians of the Grow reservation in Mon
tana; Senate bill relinquishing title to GER
tain land in San Francisco for a sailors
home; Senate bill appropriating s250,Ooo
for a branch soldiers home at Johnson
City, Tenn; House bill appropriating g.
500 to pay certain judgments against John
c. Bates and Jonathan A. Yeckley, captain
and first lieutenant in the United States
Army. for acts done by them under orders
OF their superior officers: Senate bill re-
lating to the exclusive jurisdiction OF
courts in the United States in cases in
volving diplomatic and consular officers;
Senate bill appropriating $50, 900 for pub
lie building at Florence Ala: Senate bill
in reference to the civil service. and ap-
pointments Hereunder, giving precedence
and privileges to discharged soldiers and
sailors of the civil war, and of the war in
Cuba and the Philippines; Senate bill for
the rebuilding Of the Navy Yard Bridge.
in Washington. at cost not to exceed
$275. GOO; Senate bill fixing at sos month
the compensation of surfmen employed in
the life saving service, House bill relating
to taking dispositions de beneesse.
After a short executive session the Sem
ate at $50 adjourned until today.