Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1901-01-24

vania came to Washington by the hun.
ored to witness his induction Into Of
nee and they brought with them floral
offerings literally by the carload. While
Mr. Quay's desk and the desks of other
senators adjoining his were banked
with costly and beautiful floral pieces,
scarceiy an appreciable quantity of the
PERCUSSION or flowers his friends had
provided could be displayed in the sem
ate chamber. The demonstration &C
corded MI. Quay when he entered the
chafnper to an ovation.
Whlle he was receiving the congratula-
lions or friends on the floor, the hun
dreds or persons who thronged the
galleries arose as one and applauded
him unanimously. Mr.. Quay appre-
ciated this distinctly personal tribute.
He glanced smilingly around the GAL
leries. nodding Familiarity to friends
whom he recognized here and there.
The brief ceremony of administering
to him the oath Of office passed without
special event, the president pro tenn
having warned those in the galleries
that it was against the rules of the
senate for spectators to express either
approval or disapproval.
During the days session the army re-
organization bill was discussed at
length by Mr.. Money of Mississippi,
Mr.. McComas Of Maryland and Mr..
Bate of Tennessee. The Mississippi
senator devoted some attention to the
practice of hazing at West Point,
which he bitterly denounced.
In the House.
Yesterday was an exceedingly dull
day in the house. The entire day was
spent upon the bill to revise and codify
the postal laws, which is to be the con-
tinuing order, not, however, to inter
fere with appropriation bills or confer
ence reports, until disposed Of. 1t is a
bill of 221 pages and is simply a revis-
ion of existing laws.
Washington, Jam. 19.-Just before 6
o'clock last evening the senate finally
disposed Of the army reorganization
bill. The vote stood 43 to 20. While
party lines were draw on the measure
four Democrats voted for ID, Senators
Lindsay OF Kentucky, McLaurin OF
South Carolina, Morgan Of Alabama
and Sullivan of Mississippi. Senator
Hoar Of Massachusetts, who was de-
tanned at his home by illness, was
paired against the bill with Senator
Spoonet Of Wisconsin.
The bill has occupied practically the
entire attention of the senate since the
3D. of January, and while the opposition
to it at all stages was vigorous, 1T never
was bitter. Numerous amendments
were made to it but in general the com
mittee was sustained and the measure,
with the exception Of the elimination of
the canteen clause, is not widely diff
ferent from that reported to the SEN
ate. A determined effort was made to
amend the bill so as to provide against
the sale of liquor in the Philippines,
and to prohibit the importation Of any
kind of intoxicants into the islands, but
1t was defeated. Every effort TO prevent
the increase in the strength of the
army was defeated by a decisive ma
Sority.
In the House.
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 Phila-
delphia, for alleged damages due to the
delay of the government in furnishing
armor plate and material for the bat
tleships Massachusetts and Indiana
and the cruisers New York n Column
bia. The claims aggregate 81, 367,2 44.
The bill has been conspicuous at every
session of congress for several years.
1t met with the and deter
mined opposition OF a portion of the mi
nority under the leadership OF Mr.. Nc
Dermott OF New Jersey and Mr.. Robb
of Missouri. A filibuster was finally
begun, but it's friends at length sue
ceeded in having the previous question
ordered upon the bill. The house then
adjourned. The ordering OF the previ-
Gus question gives the bill a technical
advantage in parliamentary way, which
~insures a vote on it whenever 1t is
called up again.