The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1900-03-31
WHAT CONGRESS is DOING.
Proceedings nj Our National Lawmat..
from Day to Day in Condensed Form
--Resoluti0ns and Bills.

Discussion of the Puerto Rico povar.
ment and tariff bill was resumed in ~.
senate on the 10Th. senator Morgan al"
maintained that, as the treaty of Pari..
was the supreme law of the land, it was
impossible for the United States to ahan
don either Puerto Rico or the Philipn,na.
THE house entered upon the consider1
alton of the Loud bill to restrict N.
character Of publications entitled ~
pound rates as second-class mail matter
Mr.. Sulzer IN. ~ delivered a denuncia.
ton of the administration in Gomez
ton with his resolution of inquiry callino
upon the war department for information
as to what Notifications were being
erected on the Canadian border. Tbs
resolution was laid on the table.
enato Turner (Wash.) made a state.
ment in the senate on the 2lst that he
had heard that concessions for gold min
ing in the bed OF the sea near Nome
Alaska. had been granted by the secre.
tary of var and he moved a resolution NJ
inquiry into the matter which was agreed
to. The additional urgent deficiency hin
was then passed. The house debated the
Loud bill relating to second-class matter
in the mails. Mr.. Lane Qa.), introduced
a bill providing for an exposition at ST
Louis in 1903 to celebrate the Tooth ami
versary of the purchase of the Louisiana
territory. Mr.. Dinsmore (Ark.) intro
duced a resolution requesting information
from the secretary of state concerning
the alleged British opening O correspond.
ence addressed to Charles Macrum, late
United States consul in South Africa.
Almost the entire session of the senate
on the ed was spent In the discussion
of the conference report upon the Puerto
Rican appropriation bill. Senator Cock
rell (Mo.) introduced a bill for an expo
sition at st. Louis in 1903 to commemorate
the Louisiana purchase. 1t appropriates
$5,00o.000 to the exposition. The house
recommitted the Loud bill relating to Sec
ond-class mail matter by a vote of Jas
to &c. with 16 present and not voting. IL
IL unlikely that the bill will appear again
his session. Mr. Fitzgerald (Mass.) IN
troduced a bill allowing $50 to the family
or representatives of a soldier dying in
the service and 800 to the family of an
officer dying under similar circumstances
to cover the funeral expenses of the de-
| ceased.
The senate on the sd adopted the con.
ference report on the Puerto Rican relief
bill by a vote of IS to Is. practically a.
strict party expression. The time of dis
cussion was consumed principally by
Senator Tillman Is. c., who made a
fierce attack upon the measure. A num-
Der of private pension bills and a meas
ure to prevent dangers to navigation
from RATS on the Pacific ocean were
afterwards passed. 80. The house passed
12 pension bills. The conference report
on the Puerto Rican appropriation bill
was then presented by Mr.. Cannon. He
asked for immediate action. but It was
finally arranged to take a vote the next
day.
A measure was passed in the senate on
the oath providing for the appointment
by the president of a commission to In
vestigate the trade and of the
orient with a view to the extension Of
American commerce. Senator Fairbanks
(Ind.) presented a resolution accepting
a statue of Oliver P. Morton from the
state of Indiana, ard providing that II
be placed In statuarv hall. 1t was agreed
to....After a spirited debate the house
took the last congressional step in com.
pfeting the Puerto Rican relief bill, agree.
ing to the conference report by a vote Of
1871 to 81. The bill turns over to the pres.
ident, for the use of Puerto Rico, over
$50 900 of the customs receipts collected
or Puerto Rican goods. A bill wa:
passed a~ppropriating sl0.c0 for design.
for q suitable memorial In Washington
to Ulyssus s. Grant. A resolution wa
also passed asking the secretary of stat
for information on the .open door, ne
gotiatiors concerning China.