The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1902-04-25
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS In BRIEF.
FIFTY-sEvENTH CONGRESS.

In the senate on the 18th, the days
alton of the Chinese exclusion bill, Messrs.
Foraker (O.) and McLaurin IS. CO speak
ing against the pending measure Mr.:
that the right to abrogate treaties was
fully recognized. Mr.. Lodge (MassO gave
notice of an amendment to strike out the
clause prohibiting the employment OF
Chinese sailors American ships. In
the mouse most or the DAY was oe Ni+ u
further discussion of Cuban reciprocity
the conference report on the post Of
flee bill having first been reported.
In the senate, on the 18th, the debate
on the Chinese exclusion bill was contin-
amendments. striking out the definition
agreed to without discussion. The asser-
ton by Mr.. Turner that politics had crept
into the discussion was vigorously denied
Dy MI Spooner, who said the oppoSltIoI
TO the bill was entirely due to its confiict
with the treaty.:.; In the house; with
the leaders announced that all danger OF
the bill being weighted down with unde-
sirable amendments was over, and the
passage of the bill it came from the
committee was assured.
In the senate on the 18th, the drastic
Chinese exclusion bill, originally framed
by senators and representatives, from the
Pacific coast, was defeated, and the sub
stitute measure, offered by Senator FAX
Comm, containing the provisions OF the
present exclusion law, and also applying
that exclusion to all the insular territory
States, Was pa pas sssetf to i. The senate
then made the Philippine civil govern
ment bill the unfinished business. In
the house. a motion to close general De
bate on the Cuban reciprocity bill on the
18th, at p: m, was carried by a vote OF
1853 TO 123. Thirty-three republicans voted
against the motion, and 81 democrats
voted with the great body of repubhcans
I'm favor of it. The general debate on the
bill was featureless.
In the senate, on the 18th. Mr.. Morgan
(Ala.). chairman of the isthmian canal
committee, made n fOur-hours' speech,
comparing the desirability and practca-
5ility of the Nicaraguan and Panama
routes, strenuously favoring the selection
of the former. The Chinese exclusion Dill
passed by the senate was substituted Tor
the house bill. In the house, the dis
cussion of the Cuban reciprocity bill was
continued, the feature of the debate belng
a speech by Mr.. Cushman against the
measure Many other speeches. for and
against the bill, were made. Mr.. Loud
ly Cuba already had cost the United
States one thousand million dollars.
In the senate. the 18th, 50 private
pension bills and few other unimportant
measures were passed, after which the
bill to provide a temporary form OF gov
eminent for the Philippine islands was
read and the committee amendments were
agreed to tentatively, but no action on the
bill was taken. In the house the Gu
ban reciprocity bill was passed by the
ruling of the chair in committee of the
whole on the question of tfls germaneness
of an amendment to remove the defer
entail from refined sugar during the eX-
vided for in the bill having first been over
ruled by a vote of III to 40, and the
amendment adopted in committee, 164 to
1O5. and later III the house by the
publicans voting with the democrats
for the amendment.