The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-02-05
THE HOUSE ROUTINE.
Eli Passed Regarding Disposal of
Spanish War Claims.


The House yesterday adopted a substi
tute for the Senate bill, AUTHORIZING the
/ appointment Of commission to settle the
| claims Of citizens of the United States for
loss of. and damage to, property in Cuba
which sent those claims to the Court of
| Claims for adjudication. II refused 10
suspend the rules and pass bills to
ratify the treaty with the Crow In
| dians for the cession of million
| acres of land aim their Montana
reservation and to authorize the redemption
| of Hawaiian silver coinage in the coins Of
| the United States. The Indian Appropria-
] ton bill was sent 10 conference and the
| Sundry Civil and Army Appropriation
! bills were reported. These complete the
| list Of general appropriation bills Tor this
session, save the Deficiency bill.
The House met at 12:15 o'clock, and
after PRAYER by the Chaplain and the
reading of the journal. a recess was
taken until ! o'clock. to admit of the re-
moval OF chairs which had been used dur
ing the Marshall centennial ceremonies.
When the House reassembled the uniin-
ished business-'an act 10 carry into
effect the stipulations of Article VII of the
Treaty between the United States ana
Spain. concluded on the 10th day of
December, 1885 was brought up for con-
sideration. This is the Spanish War
Claims bill.
The bill had been reported with an
| amendment to refer the claims to the
Court of Claims, that action having been
taken in accordance with the Instructions
OF the House when the bill was recon-
mitted at the last session.
Mr.. Haugen, in charge of the bill, asked
the House TO vote down the amendment
and pass the original bill This course
led the opposition, under the lead of Mr.
| Underwood, last week to charge that the
consideration of the bill had been agreed
1 TO under Misrepresentation.
| Mr.. Grosvenor argued in favor of the
| passage OF the original Senate bill.
! Mr.. Underwood urged that the amend
ment should be adopted
Section s of the Senate bill. restrict
! ing the admission of evidence. was
/ stricken out and a vote taken on the sub
! stitute, sending the claims to the Court
| of Claims. This was agreed to, 1913 to
So. and the bill as amended passed.
| Mr.. Ray of New York, Chairman of the
Committee on the Judiciary, reported the
findings OF the committee on the law and
facts relating to the pay of Mr. Richard
son, the successor of Joseph Wheeler as
Representative from the Eighth Alabame
distriet-that there is due hiua salary
from the date of General WheeIer's res
ignation, April &c 1900. not for the fun
| term from the 4th of March. 1899.
Under suspension of the rules a bill
was passed to authorize the Comptroller
OF the Currency to extend the charters of
national banks for second period Of
twenty years. The law Of 1882 provided
for one extension Of that period only.
motion TO suspend the rules and pass
the Senate bill to ratify treaty with the
/ Crow Indians of Montana. by which the
Indians cede about million acres of their
reservation for 81, 100, coo, led to an in
/ teresting discussion of the land policy of
the Government Mr. Cannon character
/ lied the treaty, as similar ones had
proved, q gold brick" and he was on
posed to its ratification. After agreeing
to buy lands from Indians, under the
guise Of selling them 10 settlers. Con-
gress had passed a law giving them TO the
settlers at cost of thirty or forty mil
lions. He said the two sides OF tk:; House
had run race in the matter. He would
not say that Senatorships hung trembling
in The balance but he thought the prac-
tice should stop.
Ex-Speaker Grow, The father of the free
homes law. said that the trouble lay with
the policy OF the Government II was
wrong to treat the Indian as owner Of
the land he had no more title to it fe-
cause il was covered with his moccasin
tracks than the agents of the hudson BAY
Company who had in like manner ira
yersed the whole Northwest
The motion to pass the bill failed, 81 10
49,
In the consideration Of bill to redeem