The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1901-12-06
FIRST WORK IN SENATE
Shortly After Convening Senate Will
Listen to Mckinley Memorial.
THE MESSAGE DELAYED ONE DAY
Resolution in Honor of Late Chief
Magistrate in Upper House-MlsceIIa-
neous Washing gton Matters.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 2.-One of the
| first measures of natural interest
which will be introduced in the senate
at the session which begins today will
be resolution looking to public
action concerning the death of Presi-
dent Mckinley. This will be present.
ed on Tuesday either by Senator For
aker or by Senator Hanna, probably
the former, and after it's introduction
the senate will adjourn as mark of
respect to the memory OF the dead
president.
The annual message of President
Roosevelt will not be received until
Tuesday and on this account the ses-
sion today will be exceedingly brief.
It is not now expected that anything
will be done beyond the announce
ment of the death of Senator Kyle,
following which the senate, in accord
ance with custom, will adjourn for the
day. On Tuesday the presidents
message will be read and, after it's
reading, the announcement of the
death of President Mckinley will fol-
low at once, whereupon under the
precedent established when Presidents
Lincoln and Garfield died, resolutions
providing for the appointment of
committee to act with a similar COM
mittee of the house of representatives
to take appropriate action relative to
the matter and then calling for i'm
mediate adjournment for the day will
be adopted. Heretofore committees
have been appointed to arrange the
details of public exercises and it is
understood that plan will be pursued
in this instance and that later in the
session some public man of distinction
the capitol.
Wednesday and Thursday will be
devoted to the introduction of new
bills and, as usual, there will be a
flood of them. Among the first bills
of Importance to be presented will be
the ship subsidy bill, which will be
introduced by Senator Frye, and the
Nicaraguan canal bill, which Senator
Morgan will present. Senator Frye
has not entirely completed his bill,
but he said it would be different in
many details from the old bill of last
session. That measure was framed by
former Senator Edmunds. Senator
Frye himself is the author of the new
bill. Senator Morgan's canal bill will
be a duplicate of Representative Hep
burns bill on the canal question.
Other early bills of Importance will
be one looking to the construction of
a submarine cable from the western
coast to Hawaii and another provid-
ing for the establishment Of a new
executive department to be known as
the department of commerce. On
Tuesday the senate will adjourn until
the following Monday. The general
opinion among senators is that very
little real work will be done before
the Christmas holidays.
The first subject demanding atten-
tion is reciprocity. Various treaties
are now pending in the senate look
ing to commercial agreements between
the United States and other countries.
Senator Aldrich will renew his efforts
to have these treaties, which have al
ready been reported from the commit
tee on foreign affairs, committed to
the committee on finance, On the
ground that they deal with tariff
questions.