Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1901-02-08
JOHN MARSHALL DAY
CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION AT
NATIONS CAPITAL.
Effort to Force Ship Subsidy Bill
Pension LegislatIon-Lan.
ham Wants Harmony.

WIS NhOuSh " PdtllClpate
In doing honor to the memory of
that grand old Virginian, John
Marshall, by attending the Joint
session of Congress held in the
hall of the House, taking part in
the interesting exercises of the
centennial celebration of the an.
Pointment of John Marshall to be
Chief Justice of the Supreme
Court of the U. S.
! The Republicans will this week
try to hold night sessions of the
Senate to force the subsidy bill
through. The opponents of the
bill are not practically opposed to
night sessions, but they insist that
at all the sessions when this bill is
being considered quorum should
be present.
Mr.. Mckinley signed the army
bill Saturday, and the hunt for the
thirteen hundred odd commissions
1t places at his disposal, is now in
full cry, and he is already finding
1t several times worse than the
| grip. General Miles has been
promised the Lieutenant General
ship.
Senator Jones, of Ark, doesn't
allow his regret for the failure of
the Democratic senators to act as a
unit IN the program of opposition
to Republican Legislation, and es-
pecially to the ship subsidy bill,
which the whole power of the Re-
publican machine is now trying to
force through the Senate, to pre-
vent his expressing his own opin-
ION. In reply 10 an appeal from
Senator Fry, for vote on the bill,
Senator Jones said: alt is a re-
marllable fact that this subsidy
bill should be pressed upon Con-
gress during the closing days of
the session, when fourteen appro-
priation bills, the bill which looks
to a decrease of the burdens of
taxation, the Nicaragua Canal bill,
and other measures of far-reaching
importance, remain Enacted upon.
There must be no limitation of
debate, and until the minority has
had ample opportunity to consider
this subsidy bill in all its phases, | |
Will not give my assent to any
agreement for a vote" Senator
Teller indorsed the remarks of
Senator Jones, and added a few
sarcastic words for those inclined
to raise a fuss because the right of
debate still existed in the U. S. |
Senate. This does not indi-
cate any early vote on the bill. |
even If the Republicans have nerve |
enough to keep it before the Sen
ate at the expense OF all other leg.
islation, as its steering committee
has decided to do.
Senator Gallinger made some
ugly charges in support of his res
oMtion for a joint congressional
committee to investigate special /
pension legislation. He said that
under the present practice a pen
sion bureau had been established
under the dome of the capitol, and
pension attorneys, he believed for
pay, advised clients that it was ca
sler to get pensions through con-
gressional action than through the
pension bureau. He called atten-
tention to the fact that one Sena-
tor had introduced 162 private
pension bills, and another 1As:
that the total of these bills In this
congress had almost reached 1000.
and he predicted that they would
be doubled in the next con.
gress If something were not
done to head off present practices.
No spec CHI made by Democrat
at this session has attracted more
attention than the appeal of Rep
resentative Lanham, of Texas for
harmony in the Democratic party
~ way of emphasizing his will
ngness TO receive with open arms
hose Democrats who left the regu.
az organization during the last two {
lationa' campaigns, he inserted
his verse in mis- speech:
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