The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1903-03-06
|DOINCS OF CONGRESS.

Tuesday, Feb. "a, the house passed
the Philippine currency bill, accepting
the senate bill so far as it relates to the
islands. The committee amendment,
striking out the international none
tary conference, was agreed to. The
contested election case of Wagner VS..
Butler was under consideration for a
time, and the Democrats began a fill
buster which they threaten to continue
If the case is pressed.
Wednesday, Feb. 25, the house adopt
ed the conference report on the army
appropriation bill and sent to the pres
ident. The bill to establish a union
| station in this city also was finally
passed, the house abandoning its amend
ments to reduce the amount to be given
to the Pennsylvania and Baltimore &
Ohio railroads from 81 500 900 each, as
fixed in the senate bill, to 5 1000 600
each, as fixed by the house. Mr.. Can
non and Mr.. Cowherd (Mo.) made the
fight against the motion to recede,
while MI. Morrell (Pa.) supported by
Mr.. Dalzell (Pa.), Mr.. Olmsted (Pa.),
and others, favored the agreement in
the amount fixed by the senate. The
Fowler currency bill was debated in
a desultory way. Mr.. Clayton (Ala.)
delivered a mock funeral Grafton on the
bill. The other speakers were Messrs.
Rugsley IN. W, Shallenberger (Neb.),
and Thompson (Ala.). The speaker
appointed the committee TO represent
the house at the dedication of the
Louisiana Purchase exposition.
The Democrats began a filibuster to
prevent the seating of Mr.. Waggoner
(Rep.) over Mr.. Butler (Dem.) from
the Twelfth Missouri district. They
were unsuccessful, but forced roll calls
on nearly every motion before the
house. A recess was taken until Fri
day.
Friday, Feb. 81, after a stormy ses-
sion, during which the Democrats con-
tinued their threatened filibustering
tactics, all that had been accomplished
was to get the agricultural, sundry
civil, military academy, and postoffice
appropriation bills into conference and
to adopt the conference report on the
Indian appropriation bill.
The house held a four hours session
and put the District of Columbia bill
through its last parliamentary stage in
the face of the Democratic filibuster.
The previous question on the confer
ence report on the Alaskan homestead
bill was ordered and the vote on its
adoption will be taken when the house
at II o'clock Monday. The
Democrats attempted to block legisla-
ton at every stage, and it required six
roll calls to accomplish what was done.
In the house Monday, March 2, the
conference report on the Alaskan
homestead bill and the immigration
bill were adopted. the omnibus public
buildings bill and the general deficien-
cy appropriation bill were sent to con-
ference. The Often bill to prohibit to-
bacco dealers from giving prizes, the
bill to provide for a delegate from
Porto Rico, a bill to advance Maj. w.
c. Gorgas to the rank of assistant sur
geon general, and a bill for the relief
of Lieut.. B. F. Handforth were passed.
The house also adopted the conference
report on the postoffice and agricul-
tural appropriation bills, and shortly
before midnight, al the end of a con-
tinuous session of almost thirteen
hours, took a recess until II o'clock
Tuesday morning.