The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1902-06-13
DoINGs IN CONGRESS-.
8uced mt the First Session OF the
\ Fifty-Seventh Body.

/ After transao ting some routine business
on the. 9Th the senate resumed considera-
ton of the isthmian canal bill, Senator
Hanna 20 continuing his argument in
support of the Panama canal. .. General
debate on the anti-anarchy bill closed
In the house. The incident of the day
was speech by Mr.. Richardson (Ala.)
condemning the president in severe terms
for the references in his Memorial day
grafton at Arlington to the epithets ap-
piled to Lincoln and Grant during the
civil war and for his illusions to lynch
fngs. He declared that the president
remarks violated the proprieties of the
occasion The section of the senate bill
providing body guard for the presi-
dent was stricken from the senate bill
as precautfon in case the house substi-
tute failed. An effort was made to strike
from the first section of the substitute
the words limiting the crime of killing
the president to the president in his off,
cial capacity, but the motion was lost,
63 to SO. Only one section had been dis
posed of when the house adjourned. Mr.
Hull Qa.), chairman of the committee
on military affairs, reported back tha
resolution requesting information as to
the salary or other compensation paid
to Gen. Leonard Wood during the occu-
patton of Cuba. The committee recon-.
mended that it lie on the table and by
strict party vote the resolution was
tabled.
After transacting routine business and
discussing the bill to relieve shippers
from the London dock charges, the sem
ate on the 7th resumed consideration Of
the tsthmian canal project, Senator
Mitchell (Ore.) continuing his speech In
opposition to the Panama route. The
house spent the entire day voting upon
amendments to the anti-anarchy bill, but
all failed except one proposed by Mr.. Nc
n Gfr ri Lyo ha ;cf
section the word assault where it is
coupled with killing in the inhibition
against conspiring for the killing of a
chief magistrate of a foreign country.
After the bill had reached the last par
liamentary stage before passage Mr.. De-
Almond (Mo.) moved to recommit. The
quorum failed at this point and the house
was compelled to adjourn without final
action.
An interesting contribution to the dis
cussion of the isthmian canal project was
made in the senate on the 9th by Sena-
tor Harris (Kan.) member of the COM
mittee on interoceanic canals. His dis
cussion of the technical details Of canal
construction was listened to with pro-
found attention. He strongly advocated
the selection of the Nicaragua. route. He
mentioned that 1t was entirely feasible
and practicable from an engineering
standpoint and that some of the diff
were perable-notably, the construc-
ton of the Bohio dam. During the early
part of the session the naval appropria-
ton bill was considered. All of the COM
mittee amendments were disposed of, ex-
cept that relating to the construction Of
two additional battleships, two cruisers
and two >gunboats. The house passed
the bill to protect the president, vice
president, members of the cabinet and
foreign ministers and ambassadors and
to suppress the teaching of anarchy by
a vote of IT'S to 3S. A motion to recon-
NIT the measure with instructions to
strike out certain sections was defeated
n to 123. The remainder of the day
was devoted to the bill to transfer GER
tain forest reserves from the interior
department to the agricultural depart
ment and to authorize the creation in
such reserves of game and fish pre-
serves. Mr.. Thompson (Ala.) introduced
a bill appropriating 100000 for the re-
moval of all the deceased presidents of
the United States except George Wash
ington to the national cemetery at Airing
ton.