Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1902-03-14

Considerable important business was
disposed Of by the Senate Saturday.
What ID known as the omnibus claims
bill and the measure providing tor the
irrigation Of arid lands were passed. the
conference report on the Philippine tariff
bill was agreed to and the shipping hill
was made the unfinished business. The
following bills were passed: Appropriate.
ing $211.000 for the establishment OF
lighthouses at the entrance OF Boston
harbor: authorizing the President to nom
mate II. NJ. G. Brown. at present lteu-
tenant commander of the navy. on the
retired list: confirming title OF the Mate
1T Nt''-aska to certain selected indemnity
schr .ands: appropriating S25.OOO for q
fish culture station at Mammoth Springs.
Ark: a joint resolution providing for the
printing Of $500 copies Of the Schley
court of inquiry.
The House on Monday hogan consid-
.ration Of the bill to classify the rural
free delivery service and place the car.
riers under the contract system. Only
W. speeches were delivered. MI. I.ond
tCal.l. chairman OF the committee on
postoficcs and post roads. made the open
ing argument in favor of the bill. speak
ing for two and a half hours. Mr.. Swan
son (Va.D led the opposition. The debate
was interrupted before the close OF the
session by the presentation of the confer
rnce report upon the Philippine tariff bill.
Mr.. Payne. the majority leader. declined
to allow the minority more than thirty
minutes in which to discuss the report.
and this offer was rejected. A 6libuster
followed. and the House adjourned after
the previous question on the adoption OF
the report had been ordered. The Senate
began consideration of what is popularity
known as the shipping biTl-a measure
to provide for ocean mail service between
the United States and foreign ports and
the common defense: to promote CON-
merce and to encourage deep-sca fisher
les. Mr.. Frye (Mc.D. chairman of the
committee on commerce. made the open
ing statement in support of the bill. He
occupied the floor for nearly W hours.
Prior to the consideration Of the shipping
bill many minor measures were passed.
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The House spent Tuesday in discus.
sion of the bill to classify the rural free
delivery service and place the carriers
under the contract system. No vote was
reached. The speakers were Messrs.
Smith lDem.. Ky.). Gardner IN. ~ and
Williams tMiss.D. in favor. and Messrs.
Lands Nnd.p. Maddox tGa.) and Hill
Comm against the measure. Before de-
bate began the conference report on the
Philippine tariff bill was adopted. The
vote was on party lines. except that
Messrs. Mccall tMass.l. Littlefeld tMe.J
and Heatwole GMinn., voted with the
Democrats against adopting the report.
The ship subsidy bill was further dis
cussed in the Senate by Mr.. Frye. No
other Senator desiring to speak. the bill
was laid aside and a number of minor
hills were passed. including one appro-
priating $4,000 to construct a lighthouse
keepers dwelling at Calumet harbor.
Lake Michigan. Illinois. and another au-
thorizing the erection OF buildings by
the international committee Of Young
Mems Christian Associations on military
reservations of the United Suites.
When Senator Frye. in charge of the
l,endins shipping bill. cndcavored on
Wednesday to secure an agreement for
the time of taking a vote. March IL was
mentioned as being satisfactory to the
minority members of the COM
mittee. Senator Clay Ma.) addressed
the Senate in opposition to the bill. espe-
cially on its general subsidy feature. and
had not concluded when the Senate adj
journed. Early in the session the Senate
passed the legislative. executive and jul
dicial appropriation bill. the second Of the
big supply measures to be acted on at
this session. The House continued the
debate on the bill to classify the rural
free delivery service. but without actio-
adjourned early out of respect to the
memory Of Representative Polk Of the
Seventeenth Pennsylvania District,
whose death occurred suddenly at Phila-
delphia the previous night. Messrs. Sims
lTenn.D and Smith Nll.) spoke in favor
of the bill and Messrs. Underwood (Ala.).
Sperry Comm. Foster (Vt.). Gaines
tTenn.) and H. G. Smith (Mich.) against
it. The conference report on the pension
appropriation bill was agreed to.
Senator Hanna as the champion of the
pending shipping bill was the feature of
the day Thursday in the Senate. He
urged its passage both from a patriotic
standpoint and as u measure in behalf of
American labor. Early in the session
Mr.. Frye. in charge of the bill. obtained
an agreement that the Senate should
vote on the measure and all pending
amendments Mt 3 p. m. Monday. March
IL. that time being entirely satisfactory
to those opposed to the bill. Before con.
sideration Of the hill was resumed there
vas an extended debate on the measure
providing for the protection of the Presi.
dent of the United States. Mr.. Bacon
took the ground that in Its present shape
the bill was an invasion of the jurisdic-
ton of the States and that it ought to be
amended radically. MIR. Patterson. while
he agreed to the general proposition of
the bill. urged that 1t ought not to pass
in it's present form. No action was TAX
en-. The House devoted another day to
debate on the bill to classify the rural
free delivery service and to place the
carriers under contract.
Washington Notes.
Mrs. Roosevelt entertained the dele.
gates to the Mothers congress.
President Roosevelt is against civil ser.
vice provision in bill creating permanent
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