The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1900-06-01
WHAT CONGRESS IS DOING.
Proceedings of Our National Lawmakers
from Day to Day In Condemned Form
-Resoluti0us and Bills.


from Day to Day In Condensed Form
RESOLUTIONS and Bills.
In the senate on the ed Senator Plat
Comm spoke on the Bacon resolution
for an investigation of financial affairs
in Cuba. He favored the adoption of
the resolution, but deprecated what he
declared was cheap effort to make po-
litical capital out of a shameful condi-
ton of affairs which the republican par
ty needed no prodding to induce it to
probe to the bottom. Senator Spooner
CWis) then continued his address on the
Philippines question. Afterwards the
conference report the army appro-
priatiOn bill was agreed to- The house
passed the bill to extradite Nicely for al
legged postal frauds in Cuba. A resolu-
ton to allow the committee on ways and
means to sit during the recess of con-
gress for the purpose of framing bill
for the reduction of the war revenues
and a resolution for a sine die adjourn
ment June were also adopted.
Soon after the senate convened on the
oath Senator Bacon (Ga.) began an eX-
tended reply to the speech of Senator
Platt delivered the previous day. His
speech was largely supplemental to that
which he delivered several days ago de-
manding an investigation of Cuban finan-
cial affairs. His resolution under the
rules went to the. committee on contin-
So
then concluded his speech on the Phil
ippine question. The debate which he
aroused took a turn decidedly political.
He charged the sO-called ani-imperial-
lists with creating an issue which was
not legitimate. Senators Allen (Neb.)
and Pettigrew IS. d. controverted many
of his statements and the controversy at
times became almost personal. Senator
Chandler On. h presented a petition
from Is ministers of South Carolina, de-
claring that the colored residents of South
Carolina are disfranchised. a bill was
passed for the investigation of the his
torical archives and public records of the
state and territories and of the United
States with view of their preservation
by publication. THE house devoted al
most the entire day to the consideration
Of the Alaska civil government bill, but
progress was slow. The conference re-
port on the Indian appropriation bill
was adopted.
Discussion of the Spooner Philippine
bill was continued in the senate on the
18th by Senator Morgan (Ala.). On the
general question of the ownership and
government by the United States OF
the Philippine islands he was in ac-
cord with Senators SDooner and Lodge,
but he regarded the pending bill as IN
wise and dangerous legislation, because
Of the great power it placed in the hands
of the president. Senator Allison Ga.)
priaticn bill, 90 of the 157 pages being
disposed of. Speeches in memory of Dan
iel Ermentrout, late representative
from Pennsylvania, closed the day..
The house devoted two hours to the
construction of the Alaskan civil govern
ment bill without completing it. The ses-
sion then from noon until adjournment
was devoted under the rule to private
pension bills, 100 bills being favora bly,
acted upon in committee of the whole.
The senate on the 26th agreed to the
resolution for investigation by the
committee on Cuban affairs of the Gu
ban postal and other Irregularities, au-
thorizing the committee to visit Cuba
if necessary to pursue the inquiry. In
the house, Mr. Cooper (Wis.) chairman
of the committee on inSuiar affairs, pre-
scented a favorable report on the Hay
resolution calling upon the poStma steI
general for certain information regard
ing the reports of E. G. Rathbone, direc-
tor of posts in Cuba, and the resolution
was adopted without division. Another
resolution from the same committee, in
PRODUCED by Mr.. Jones (Va) calling upon
the secretary of war to report in detail
the payments made. and to whom. from
the revenue of Cuba and Porto Rico was
also adopted.
Senator Wellington (Id.) made a
speech IN the senate on the 18th in favor
or the adoption OF resolution express
The resolution went over. The reaulns
OF the sundry civil appropriation bill was
completed, but not all the committee
amendments were disposed Of There
was a lively debate .precipitated over the
proposition to continue the life of the
industrial commission until October Il
1901, charges being made that the commas
sion was being used as republican
campaign machine and that important
testimony had been suppressed. Tia
proposition, however, was agreed to.
The Alaskan civil government bill was
passed in the house and some odds and
ends OF legislation were cleaned up. Mr..
Bailey CKan-) introduced a bill to retail
late upon Germany by putting additional
duties on exports from that country If
Germany places a prohibitive duty on
meat products from the United States
The bill was referred to the ways and
means committee. The Seminole treaty
bill was passed under suspension OF
rules.