Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-06-19
ADJOURN BY JULY |
SENATORS SO BELIEVE REGARD
ING CONGRESS.
pending Business-What Beet
Sugar Men and Opposition Propose
to Do Regarding Course Towards
Cuba.

Washington, June 17.-Several sena-
tors who have knowledge OF he
condition of business in the senate
said yesterday that congress would adj
journ by July /. One earnest advC-
cate of reciprocity with Cuba said ad
journment would be taken whether it
would reach an agreement or not. AG
yocates of reciprocity say when It is
known just what the republican NELL
bers of the committee offer it is eA
pected it can be definitely determiner
how many republicans can be counted
for and against it. They believe the
measure to be presented will CON-
mand majority in the senate within
the republican party.
Beet sugar men say that in the re-
publican confer6tce 1S or 10 senators
will announce each for himself, that he
will not vote for the reciprocity bill
and will vote for any amendments
which will help defeat it. They will
vote against taking up the bill forcol-
sideration, thus forcing the friends Oh
the measure to rely on democratic
votes and make their first allia lc7
with democrats, after which the beet
sugar men will vote with the democrats
to secure amendments to defeat ne
bill They say the French reciprocity
treaty is being put in shape to be ger
name as amendments to the recipro-
city bill when brought forward.
Talk is revived about the treaty with
the Cuban government. Senator
Foraker some days ago suggested this
to the president as a way out of he
difficulty. 1t also was one of The
propositions of the beet sugar men to
republican members of the committee
on relations with Cuba, and was re-
jected. Beet sugar men say 50 repub-
licans would support such a treaty
and 1t is expected enough democrats
can be secured to ratify it. Leaders
of reciprocity say the treaty would
mean the defeat of legislation at this
session as there is not time enough to
negotiate and pass it before adjourn
ment
In the House.
The house transacted some misccl-
laneous business under suspension of
the rules. 1t included the adoption of
resolutions apprOpriating $4,000 for
preparations for plans for a memorial
in this city to Abraham Lincoln; $780,
900 toward the erection of monument
TO prisOn-ship martyrs who died eff
Brooklyn as a result of cruelties they
were subjected to by the British 1ur-
ing the revolutionary war and $4,000
tor the erection of a monument al
Fredericksburg, Va, in memory OF
revolutionary war. A resolution was
adopted to carry out the authorization
made for this purpose in 1877 by the
continental congress. Two bills were
passed to amend the general pension
laws; one to provide for restoration to
the pension rolls of widows of soldiers
who subsequently married and were
again widowed and one to increase the
pension of those who have lost limb
or totally disabled while in the ser
vice. The latter bill also carried al
important provision to increase tac
pension of soldier under the Deepen
dent act of 1890 from $12 to $50 per
month, when such pensioner requires
frequent or periodical attendance. A
resolution calling on the secretary of
war for the reason for the dismissal
of Rebecca J. Taylor, clerk in the waJ
department, was laid on the table, 100
to 81. Three republicans voted on this
question with the democrats. The b;ti
to authorize the secretary of war in
mis- discretion to favor American-buil
ships in the transportation of govern
ment supplies to the Philippines was
defeated.