Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1901-01-10
WORK OF CONGRESS
Tn n senate.

washington, Jan. 4-Without q u
muir of dissent and without a woro OF
comment the senate yesterday dis
placed the shipping subsidy bill from
its privileged position as unfinished
business" and substituted for IT n
army reorganization bill. Since tho
second day of the present session the
shipping bill had been the unfinished
business with the understanding that
il should not interfere with the army
reorganization bill or approprlatioh
bills.
When the senate convened In It's
first session of the twentieth century
the army bill was up with a
view to pressing 1t to a final vote as
soon as possible. It's consideration pre-
| ceeded until 2 o'clock, the m or the
morning hour, when the subsidy Dill
was laid before the senate. Mr.. Petti-
grew of South Dakota then objected 10
a request for unanimous consent o
continue the discussion or the army
bill. BY a vote of the senate the mill
tary measure was continued for consid-
Grafton, thus making 1t the unfinished
business and sending the subsidy bill
back to the calendar.
During the discussion of he army
measure the opposition senators indi-
Gated that their line of attack upon
the bill would De against the creation
of a large, permanent standing army.
There vas intimation that objection
would not be offered to a temporary
measure to provide an adequate force
TO maintain the authority OF the Unit
ed States in the Philippines. Beyond
this point n days proceedings de-
veloped nothing.
The House.
The radical element among n house
Republicans who favor cutting down
the representation from the Southern
States in which franchise is abridged.
suffered defeat because a number or
their colleagues refused to act with
them. The action was precipitated
quite Unexpectedly. The leaders had
agreed that the reapportionment pilis
should be taken up yesterday. but be-
fore II could be called Mr.. Olmsted OF
PENNSYLVANIA offered as a matter or
privilege a resolution r~eciting 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 a constitutional basis of repre
sentation could be established for those
states. The resolution created a SEN
! sation. 1t was a surprise even to sew
eral OF the Republican eaders. The
leaders on the Democratic side sought
In vain to head off the resolution with
points of order. but the speaker ruled
against them. They then began a fill
buster, openly avowing they would
fight every proposition looking to the.
reduction of representation from the
Southern states to the bitter end. Sew
eral of the Republicans were secretly in
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
paired with absent Democrats. leaving
their absent colleagues impaired AS a
result when the question of privilege
vas raised against the resolution 1t
was defeated-S1 to SO. The vote was a
strictly party one. Two Republicans.
Lands Of Indiana and Mann OF Illi-
nois, answered present, but did not
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.