Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-03-05

feared 1t will exclude French Can
adian labor.
House.-The democrats Of the house
today carried out their threat made
yesterday, that II Mr.. Butler was un.
seated they would do everything in
their power to block legislation from
now until congress expires March 4.
The result was another stormy session,
prolonged from IL o'clock this morn
ing until almost o'clock this even
ing. Roll call succeeded roll call and
at every pause party passion mani.
tested itself in bitter and acrimonious
denunciation. Two special rules were
brought in to expedite appropriation
bills and continue the legislative day
of yesterday in order to reduce as
much as possible the minority's power
to obstruct legislation. It was agreed
on both sides that the present situa.
| ton sounded the death knell Of prac-
tically everything except the appro
priation bills. The friends of the
omnibus public building bill. who yes
terday we're threatening to defeat the
| rules II they were not modified to In
clude their measure were placated by
| promise, which 1t was understood
was given that their bill would be
covered by a special rule to be
| brought in later. Even with the
special rules in operation, getting ap
preparation bills into conference was
| a tedious and laborious process, an
| eight-hour session and thirteen roll
calls being necessary to get the agr.
cultural, sundry civil, military acad-
envy and postofice appropriation bills
into conference and to adopt the con-
| ference report on the Indian appro-
priation bill. All overtures from the
republican side to the democrats to
| induce the latter to abandon their
| filibuster have been fruitless and
| there is every Indication that they will
continue their present tactics to the
end of the session.
J Washington, Feb. 2S.-Senate-The
senate today passed the fortification
appropriation bill and the house i'm.
migration bill with amendments. The
general deficiency bill, the last OF the
| appropriation measures to- be consid-
cred, was reported from the commit
| tee. The greater part OF the day was
given up to the consideration OF the
| Aldrich bond deposit bill, which was
| debated at length, but mon which a
vote was not reached. While the bill
was under discussion Mr.. Aldrich said
that the republican party would under
| take the reduction of the revenue at
| the next session of congress provided
| there was a surpls.
House-The democrats stuck to
their fllibustering programme In the
house today and even under the OPP
Grafton of the special rules adopted
Yesterday the majority progressed
with appropriation bills and confer
ence reports was exceedingly slow
and lsborious. The democrats fore.
ed a roll call on every proposition
and compelled a reading in extenso
of everything presented. Every par
liamentary expedient was seized to
delay matters, and at the end OF the
session of over nine hours the house.
! completely worn out, at sos o'clock
| tonight took a recess until tomorrow
noon Sunday. There was no sign
Of the democrats abating their oppo-
sition. The reading clerks tonight
were exhausted by the days strain
of trying to make themselves heard
above the ceasless din and confusion
on the floor. There were fifteen roll
calls and two calls of the house! the
feature of the day was the passage
of the senate omnibus public building
bill with house amendments, which
latter increased the total carried by
the bill to over s6,000,0OO. The
leaders who opposed the bill did rot
| attempt to defeat it and it passed
EOS to &c, under suspension OF tho
rules. Mr.. Mann (rep) of Illinois.
took occasion during the debate upon
IL to charge "collusion" between tho
architect and the contractor of the
Chicago public building. Mr.. Gaines
(dem.) of Tennessee during the dis
cussion of a conference report bitter
ly arraigned the authorities for sell
ing "the sacred relics" of the White
mouse, including, he said, sideboard
which, he said, had been presented 10
Mrs. Hayes by the w. G. T. u, and
which he declared, was now reposing
in a Washington brewery. Mr.. Gros'
yenor (rep.) of Ohio denied these
charges, saying that nothing but sec
ond hand furniture" had been sold
The result of the days session was
the sending to conference of the nav.
al and Notifications appropriation
bill. the postoffice, the omnibus pub
lie building bill and the bill to settle
the accounts of officers during the
Spanish war and the adoption OF tho
senate amendments to two other com.
paratively unimportant measures.
Washington, March 1.-House.-The
house of representatives held four.
hour session today and put the Dis.
trict of Columbia appropriation bill
through it's 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 tomorrow.
That was the net result of the Sun
day session Although it was Sunday
by the calendar, II was still Thursday,
February &c, according to parliament
tary fiction. The democrats put a
block in the legislative wheel at every
opportunity and 1t required six roll
calls to accomplish what was done to-
day.
At Iowa City jury awarded $4,000
damages against the Rock Island rail-
road company for negligence resulting
in the death of Samuel Shelladay,
while constructing bridge over the
Iowa river. The attorneys were Mil
ton Remley. former attorney general
of Iowa, for the plaintiff. and Carroll
Wright of Des Moines for the Rock
Island Railroad company.
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The other day Senator Hanna was
entertaining some friends in tho
marble room of the capitol at Wash.
ington, ID. c., when 1t occurred to him
that he had been long time absent
| from the senate climber. Il must sec
what is going on inside" he explained.
and hobbled to the door. Senator
Beveridge was speaking on statehood.
and the Ohio senator smiled and re.
marked as he returned to his friends,
ITS all righ-. the Wabash Is still
| overlooking its banks"