Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-02-18
CONGRESSIONAL NEWS.

| Washington, Feb. 8.-An Intellectual
effort was made in the senate to
secure an agreement upon time for
| the final vote upon the shipping bill.
| Vigorous protests were made by OPP
ponents of the measure against any
such agreement, even for date in
the indefinite future. Senator Prit-
chard (rep, N. CO. spoke for the ship
ping measure. The high water mark
made in the fifty-irst congress re
garding private pension bills was al
most reached when 1874 bills passed,
against 1877 passed at a single session
| in a former congress. The general
pension bill was passed to restore to
the pension rolls widows of soldiers
Of the rebellion who subsequently
married and became widowed or
divorced. By the terms of the bill,
however, it's benefits are limited to
widows of soldiers who married be-
fore the close of the rebellion and
who are now dependent upon their
own labor for support.
Washington, Feb. 11.-Shortly after
the senate convened the naval appro
priation bill was passed. The shipping
bill was then taken up and kept before
| the senate during the remainder of
the legislative day. Senator Caffery
| (dem,. La) occupied the floor through
out the session. A resolution offered
! by Senator Spooner was passed call
ing upon the secretary of the treas
ury to furnish the senate the number
and tonnage Of vessels engaged in
foreign commerce, the number now
| engaged in coastwise trade that could
enter foreign trade under the pending
| bill, also the amount of subsidy each
vessel would receive under the bill
The resolution also calls for the mum.
Der of foreign-built vessels authorized
to come under the American registry
by the bill and the amount of subsidy
each would receive and the number
of foreign ships registered as con
tracted to be built under the provi-
sions of the bill Senators Aldrich,
Allison and Jones (Ark.) were ap-
pointed conferees on the war reve-
nue. bill.
In the house a very interesting de-
bate over the constitutional limitations
on the power of the senate over
revenue legislation initiated by the
house was precipitated when Mr.,
Payne, chairman Of the ways and
means committee, brought in a reso-
luton to disagree to the Substitute
proposed by the senate amendment to
the war revenue reduction act, and to
ask for conference with the senate
Senator Tawney championed the CAUSE
of the house and it's paramount rights
over revenue legislation. The house
voted 233 to SO to ask for a confer.
ence. Later in the day, during the
consideration of the diplomatic and
consular appropriation bill, an impas-
stoned pro-boer speech by Mr. Sulzef
of New York drew from Mr.. MahOn of
Pennsylvania the recital of the rails
ing of fund of $1,000 for the bene.
fit of widows of boer soldiers at q
meeting at which Mr.. Sulzer presided.
He declared that after ''the terrapin
and cold bottles got in their work"
only SIS was left for the boer widows.
Mr.. Sulzer said he had no connection
with the expenditure of the fund, to
which he had contributed SITS, and a
very lively row followed, the climax
of which was reached when Mr.. Sui
ger read an anonymous letter which
made a sensational personal attack
upon Perry S. Heath, late assistant
postmaster general, who was secre-
tary of the republican national com
mittee during the recent campaign
charging him with being Neelys spon.
sor, and then denying it after the ar
rest Of Nicely; also making allegations
against Heath in connection with the
government deposits in the New York
bank Mr.. Knox (Mass.) declared that
it was contemplate to attack a gen.
tleman who could not reply through
the medium of an anonymous letter
and moved that the infraction of rules
be reported to the house and stricken
from the record. Mr.. Sulzer declared
that he fathered every word of it. The
letter goes in the record.
Washington, Feb. 12.-During the en-
tire session of the senate the agricultu-
raj appropriation bill was under consid-
Grafton The house passed the army
appropriation bill and entered upon
the consideration of the sundry civil
bill, the last but one Of the big money
bills. The debate on the army bill
was confined largely to a discussion of
the question of passing bills to remove
the charge of desertion against sol
diers. It was made notable by state