The true northerner., 1900-03-21
RELIEF FOR PORTO RICO.
Senate Passes the Appropriation Bill
for the Benefit of the Needy
on the Island.
PRESIDENT WILL DIsBUHSE THE FUND.
I'm the House n aConstitutionaI me nd
ment Is introduced 10 Give Con-
gress Power to Control Trusts
Daily summary OF Congressionai
Proceedings.


most the entire session of the senate
yesterday Senator Rawlins (Utah) oc-
cupied the floor in speech in oppo-
sition to holding the Philippines.
Eighty-six private pension bills were
passed.
Washington. March 14.-The legisla-
tive, executive and judicial aPpropria-
ton bill was reported to the senate
Yesterday and the Porto Rico tariff
bill was discussed.
Washington, March 15.-Bills were
introduced in the senate yesterday re-
quiring railroads to report details OF
accidents to passengers and provid-
ing for pensions to government en-
ployes. The Philippine question was
further discussed.
Washington, March 16.-Bills were
introduced in the senate yesterday TO
prevent the adulteration of food and
for the opening of Libraries in Manila
The Porto Rico appropriation bill was
further discussed.
Washington. March II. - The senate
yesterday passed the Porto Rico relief
appropriation bill, amounting to
S2,095,455, and agreed to take up the
Quay case Tuesday, April 3. and to dis
cuss it until disposed of, made favor
able report on the bill to change the
name of the steamer Paris of the Amer
lean line to Philadelphia, and adjourned
to the 10th. The text of the Porto Rico
bill is as follows:
"Be II enacted. etc, That the sum OF
g. 095, ass being the amount of customs rev.
enue received on importations by the united
States from Porto Rico since the evacua-
lion of Porto Rico by the Spanish forces
On the 18th of October. 1898, TO the LIST OF
January, 1900 shall be placed at the dis
posal of the president, to be used Tor the
government now existing and which may
hereafter be established in Porto Rico,
and for public education, public works and
other governmental and public purposes
therein, and the said sum, or so much
thereof as may be necessary, is hereby APP
propriated for the purposes herein speci-
fed. out of any moneys in the treasury not
otherwise appropriated.
House.
Washington, March 13.-An urgent
deficiency bill ($l, ,439, ,5SO) was passed
in the house yesterday, and the seat
Occupied by w. A. Young (dem.) from
the Second Virginia district was given
to r. A. Wise (rep).
Washington, March 14.-In the house
Yesterday the conference report on the
financial bill was adopted by vote of
166 to 120 and il now goes TO the presi-
dent for his signature. The law regu-
lates national banks. refunds the ma
tional debt, changes denominations of
paper notes. provides for speedy re-
tirement of treasury notes, makes a
large increase in the circulation in
evitable and confirms the gold stand
ard.
Washington, March 15.-The Dis
trict of Columbia appropriation bill
was taken up in the house yesterday,
and under the latitude allowed the
Nicaragua canal. the Philippine ques-
ton and the advisability of electing
senators by the people were discussed.
Washington, March 16.-In the
house yesterday a resolution was in
troduced proposing constitutional
amendment giving congress power to
control trusts. The District of CO.
lumbia appropriation bill, carrying
$6.6Os.37s. was passed. The joint res
olution on trusts is as follows:
Resolved. etc. That the following arti-
Gle be proposed TO the legislatures OF the
several states as an amendment to the
constitution of the United States:
article 1.-THE congress shall have
power to regulate and repress monopolies
and combinations, to create and dissolve
corporations and dispose Of their property;
to make laws necessary and properly for
the execution of the foregoing powers.
Such powers may be exercised by the
several states in any manner not in con-
fiict with the laws of the United States"
Washington. March II. - The time
was occupied in the house yesterday
in discussing private bills. A special
committee on trusts was appointed.
Washington, March 19.-In the
house on Saturday the members pro-
nounced eulogies upon the late Mon
roe L. Hayward. senator-elect from
Nebraska. who died before taking the
oath of office. No other business of
Importance was transacted.