The Bemidji pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Beltrami County, Minn.) 1896-1917, 1901-01-10
WORK OF CONGRESS


Washington, jan 4.--Without a MUIR
| muir OF dissent and without a wsrd OF
comment the senate yesterday dis
placed the shipping subsidy bin from
Its privileged position as unfinished
business and substituted for 1t the
army reorganization bill. Since the
second day of the present session the
shipping bill had been the unfinished
business with the understanding that
II should not interfere with the army
reorganization bill or appropriation
bills.
| When the senate convened in its
first session of the twentieth century
the army bill was taken up with g.
view to pressing IL to a final vote as
| soon as possible. It's consideration pro-
ceeded until 2 o'clock, the end Of the
| morning hour when the subsidy bill
was laid before the senate. Mr.. Petit
grew of South Dakota then objected to
a request for unanimous consent to
continue the discussion of the army
bill. by vote of the senate the milf
tary measure was continued for consid-
Grafton, thus making 1t the unfinished
business and sending the subsidy Dill
back to the calendar.
J. 4
| measure the opposition senator's indi-
Gated that their line Of attack upon.
| the bill would be against the creation
lpf large, permanent standing army.
| There was intimation that objection
would not be offered to q temporary
measure TO provide an adequate force
| to maintain the authority Of the Unit
| ed States in the Philippines. Beyond
| this point the days proceedings de-
lyeloped nothing.
| The House.
| The radical element among the house
Republicans who favor cutting down
the representation from the Southern
States in which franchise is abridged,
[suffered defeat because a number OF
their colleagues refused to act with
them. The action was precipitated
quite unexpectedly, The leaders had
agreed that the reapporticnment bills
| should be taken up yesterday but be-
| fore 1t could be called Mr.. Olmsted OF
\ Pennsylvania offered as a matter OF
privilege a resolution reciting the al
| legged abridgment of the suffrage In
Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina,
North Carolina, and directing the COM
mittee on census to investigate and re-
port the facts to the house in order
THAT constitutional basis of repre-
sentation could be established for those
states. The resolution created sem
sation 1t was surprise even to sew.
teral of the Republican leaders. The
Headers on the Democratic side sought
lin vain to head off the resolution with
points of order but the speaker ruled
iagainst them They, then began fili-
4 buster, openly avowing they would
tight every proposition looking to the
production OF representation from the
Southern states to the bitter end. Sew
eral OF the Republicans were secretly In
i sympathy with them, and their in
/ difference to the fate Of the Olmsted
resolution in the end gave the opposi'
ton the victory. Many of them quietly
4 paired with absent Democrats, leaving
their absent colleagues impaired. AS
result when the question of privilege
was raised against the resolution y
Twas defeated--S1 to SO. The vote was q
i strictly party one. Two Republicans,
4 Landls of Indiana and Mann of Illi-
nois, answered present. but did not
i vote. The story of the defeat Is found
in the absentees on both sides who
were impaired Thirty-two Republic
ans were absent and impaired against
| sixteen of the opposition.