Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1902-06-07
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On Thursday in the Senate -
ference report On the river and \.
bill was agreed to and the ras t I'd I'd
day was devoted to the PhjFnn;1o
Ihe House passed the subsidiorr"
coinage bill, the bill for the imnrou. n
and care of the Confederate ,no,
Oakwoods Cemetery, Chicaco on-
bill to reduce the schedule a. n0
banks to cities of $4,000 inhabitants sA
cepted the conference reports on N,
nibus public building and fortifao
appropriation bills, named Messrs n
cell Pa.), Cannon Uu.) and Ricbo,
(Tenn.) to confer with the Senato
mittee upon the action of the Hons
instructing its conferees upon the -
appropriation bill, and Adjournment 81
til the next Monday was then taken
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Consideration of the Philippine cova
ment bill was resumed in the Spnato IS
Saturday and Mr.. Spooner CWisl D.
cluded his speech in favor of tbo md
ure. For a considerable portion of 81
time that he was on the floor he wes s.
gagged in a keen interchange of VIII -
| satire with Senator Hoar of NASSAU &.
setts. Hoar made his way into the H.
troversy on account of an old statute
the colony Of Massachusetts Offer
prizes for the scalps of Indians ~
brought up by Mr. Spooner, who forI
in it precedent for Gen. Smiths famd
massacre order in the Philippines, D1
ing the course of Spooner's speech. "a
mack Tenn.) interfered with the WI
consin Senator. and made a sighting Il
mark in regard to the soldiers in Il
Philippines, which brought out a voey
| Kisses from the galleries. which was sII
pressed by the chair. Carmack of I'd
nessee occupied the floor at the MD
session in opposition to the plilippil
bill.
In the Senate on Monday debate md
the Philippine bill, with the cUstomaI
executive session, again occupied the
tire day. In the House by a vote Of |,
| to 46 the rules were suspended and jol
resolution was adopted extending Il
thanks of Congress to Secretary of Sta
Hay for his address on the occasion
the Mckinley memorial exercises Ia
February. Unanimous consent for d
consideration of this resolution was d
| jected to by Mr. De Almond lMo) son
time ago, and Mr.. Clark (Mo,) made
twenty minute speech in opposition to
| adoption on the ground that Mr., Hay hi
abused the occasion by injecting ~
publican stump speech into the addrcE
Gen. Hooker (Missl, a one-armed Cd
federate veteran. delivered an eoqud
defense of Mr.. Hays address, denyI
that it contained anything that was
iectionable from a political st1ndpoIT
Special orders were adopted for the q
sideration of the anti-anarchy ellI, AZ
the bill to transfer certain forest
serves to the Agricultural DepartmeF
| The Senate bill to retire Surgeon Gd
| eral Sterrberg and the House bill
| encourage salmon culture in Alaska we
defeated on motions to pass them una
suspension of the rules.
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The Senate on Tuesday passed t
| Philippine bill and took up the canal bI
The House resolution thanking Secret3
Of State Hay for his Mckinley memoir
address was agreed to. In the ho0
consideration of the anti-anarchy bill "
begun. The House committee reported
substitute for the Senate measure, NJ
Ray On. ", chairman of the Jndlcia
committee, who was in charge OF the d
argued that the Senate bill was IN"
stitutional, Mr.. Lanham CIeNas) So
ported the feature of the bill to eAcId
anarchists. but opposed that making II
particular offense to kill the President
anyone in the line of the presidential S0
cession. He argued that every man "
equal before the law, and that eA''lI
laws were ample to punish the A'III"5 ~
ATTEMPTED killing of the President IL
conference report upon the river ana lid
Dor bill was agreed to.
In the Senate on "Wednesday the
authorizing the promotion and reliren[ u
Of the present senior major genera oL u
army, Maj. Gen. John Il. BROOKE VI VI
passed, as was a bill providing lna' u
Postmaster General may extend Tree
livery to cities of 5000 inhabitants iI@ ..
$4,000 gross income, instead oil lo'000 H.
habitants, as at present. y ]oln. Ie S,o.
ton empowering the State OF MIn" ',,,,
TO file selections of indemnity school IAN,
in Minnesota otherwise undlspooS,eIG -, y
after the survey thereof in the neIa "a -
prior to the approval and ming u ~ g."
plat of survey thereof, was "pplo' y
Senator Morgan occupied the resi- resi-. ~ u =
day with a speech on the cana! Dn lano,
the House the debate on the antl-"n ..i,-1,
bill continued all day. 1t was "'5' -
sensational features, being conHns .u4;t -
most entirely to the legal ana 60, 70,
tional phases of the question, WI c %,
kins CWis.) and Mr.. Parker n. 90 'G +,
tended that the bill dld hoL ss,:.7or
enough; that the killing Of the rI'a 5os+
should be made punishable BY 0' VI
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