Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-01-24
THE WORK OF CONGRESS.
Condensed Proceedings from Day to Day
of the Closing Session of the Fifty
Sixth National Legislative Body.

At the opening of the senate's session
on the 18th Senator Gallfnger IN. HI Sc
ported the pension appropriation bill and
it went to the calendar Speeches in op-
position to the army bill were delivered
by Senators Allen (Neb.), Teller (Col-)
and Butler On c.. Senator McCumber
On. ID made an argument in support of
the measure. The feature of the debate
was the denunciation of the practice Of
haZing at the West Point military acad-
envy. The river and harbor appropria-
ton bill passed by the house prac-
tically as it came from the committee.
1t carries slightly less than s6O,0OO.OOO.
When Senator Quay Pa.) entered the
senate chamber on the 18th to be sworn
in he received an ovation and his desk
was covered with flowers The army bill
was then discussed. in the course of which
hazing at the West Point military acad-
envy was bitterly denounced by Senator
Money CMiss.). Senator Morgan (Ala.)
gave notice of an amendment he will pro-
pose to the ship subsidy bill providing
for an income tax. Senator Lodge (AfaSs.)
introduced a bill providing for the amend
| ment of the immigration law so as to
exclude insane, idiotic and epiIeptic per-
sons. The entire day in the house was
spent upon the bill to revise and codify
the postal laws. Mr. William A Smith
| (Mich.) offered an amendment to increase
the pay of letter carriers of the first
second, third and fourth classes respec-
! lively to $1,000, $1,000, $500 and 5000. The
amendment went over. Thirty-three
pages out of the 221 of the bill were COM
| pleted before adjournment.
The senate disposed of the army bill on
| the 18th. The final question was not upon
| its passage, but upon agreeing to the SEN
ate amendments They were agreed to by
a vote of 43 to %. While party lines W ere
drawn on the measure, four democrats
| voted for it. Senators Lindsay (ky.),
| McLaurin Is. Co, Morgan (Ala) and
| Sullivan CMiss.). A determined effort
was made to amend the bill so as to pro-
| vide against the sale of liquor in the
| Philippines and to prohibit the importa-
ton of any kind of intoxicantS into the
| islands, but it was defeated. Every eff
fort to prevent the increase in the
| strength of the army was defeated by a
| decisive majority. The house spent the
| entire day on the bill to refer to the court
| of claims the claims of the William
| Cramp & Sons Shipbuilding company. of
| Philadelphia, for alleged damages due
| to the delay of the government in fur
nishing armor plate for certain battle
| ships. The claims aggregate 81, 1857 PA.
| a filibuster was finally begun, but it's
| advocates at length succeeded in having
| the previous question ordered on the bill
| Under a special order the senate de-
| voted the greater part of it's session on
| the 18th to eulogies upon the late Senator
| John H. Gear, of Iowa, who died lag
| July. The session of the the house was
| devoted chiefly to the postal codification
| bill, which about half completed.
| The discussion turned mainly on the
proposition to compel star route con-
uous to the route, but the proposition
| was defeated after an extended debate
The navy appropriation bill was reported
| 1t carries $77,016.635.
No business of special Importance was
| transacted by the senate on the 21st in
open session. An executive session OF
| more than two hours duration was held
and sc pages of the legislative, executive
| and judicial appropriation bill were com
pleted before adjournment. The senate
confirmed the nomination of James S
| Harlan to be attorney general of Porto
Rico. The final vote stood 43 to q ir
favor of confirmation. The house, after
devoting some time to District of Column
bia business passed a number of bills un.
| der suspension of the rules. They were
to provide a home for aged colored peo-
pie out of the fund now in the treasury
to the credit of deceased colored soldiers
to establish branch soldiers home al
Johnson City, Tenn, and to increase the
salary of the commissioner of education
of Porto Rico from $1,000 to $4,000.