Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-03-12
AND NOTES.
A Summary of Important Events.
FiFTY-SEvENTH CONGRESS.
Second SESSION.

The senate, on the I'd, passed the gem
eral deficiency mill. When the Aldrich
financial bill was taken up MI. Teller con-
tinued his remarks begun Saturday. He
the course of the day the conference re-
port on the fortiticatiCns bill and the
Alaskan homestead bill were agreed to.
The immigration and omnibus public
building bills were sent to conference.
In the house the conference report on the
Alaskan homestead bill and the immigra-
tton Dill were adopted. The Often bill to
prohibit tobacco dealers from giving
from Porto Rico, a bill to advance Maj.
W. {. Gongas to the rank of assistant
surgeon general, and a bill for the relief
of Lieut.. b r. Handforth were passed.
Since last Thursday, when the fllbuster
was inaugurated by the der7ocrats, there
nave been over sixty roll calls, as against
81 for the entire long session, lasting from
December l. 1901, to July 3, 1902.
The senate, on the Sd, displaced the
Aldrich financial bill for the Philippine
bill, practically defeating the Aldrich
measure. For the first time in two years
Delaware was represented in the senate.
J. f. Alice and l.. II. Ball, elected for the
long and short terms respectively, were
sworn in. In the course of the debate
Mr.. Elkins declared that the republican
party had been false to its pledges in
three successive platforms with respect
to statehood for Arizona. Oklahoma and
New Mexico. he declared that upon the
republican party rested the responsibility
for the defeat of several important
measures. .....ln the house the actual
business done during the eight hours of
the day session consisted of the adop-
ton of the conference reports on the i'm
migration, public building and sundry
civil bills, the reference of the presidents
veto message of a Virginia claim bill to
the committee ca war claims. the adop.
ton of a resolution to correct clerical err
rors in the immigration bill, and the
passage of a senate bill to authorize the
treasury department to coin souvenir
coins for the Thomas Jefferson Memorial
association.
At noon. on the 4th, the Fifty-seventh
congress expired by limitation. The bit
ter partisan feeling that sprang up in the
house Turing the past week reached a
pitch which prevented the speaker from
receiving the unanimous approval of the
house when the usual resolution of
thanks and courtesy was offered. More
than this, the resolution had to come
from the republican side, and while this
has occurred before, it is not the usual
custom. The usual resolution of thanks
to President Pro Tempore Frye was
unanimously adopted in the senate. AS
all the important supply bills had passed
before the two house took a recess
Wednesday morning, no legalisation was
necessary and none was attempted. The
bills which had passed and reached the
stage of enrolment were all signed by
President Roosevelt, who, with members
of his cabinet, occupied the presidents
room in the senate wing of the capitol.
Senator Mason, whose term expired,
talked an unimportant bill to death, but
in his valedictory he lectured the senate |
for its unlimited debate which allows
bills to be killed In that manner, and he |
also made a final plea for the freedom of /
the Filipinos.
In obedience to the presidents procla-
the senate of the Fifty-eighth |
convened in extraordinary SEES
sion on the 5th. Echoes of the Fifty
seventh congress had not died away when |
Pro TEN. Frye called the body
to order, and the senators who !
were reelected and those who were to
AXE their seats for the first time, with
the exception Of Mr.. German, were
sworn in. One of the features Of the
opening session was the reception to MIR. !
Mr.. Cannon's speech in the |
house on Wednesday in which he charged
the senate conferees had resorted to
legislative blackmail and attacked the
rules Of the senate, formed the subject of
some fervid remarks by Mr.. TiIlman and
by the senate conferees, Messrs. Hale, |
Allison and Teller. In executive session
the senate referred all the pending treat
les to the committee on foreign relations.
at BIS, adjournment was taken to
Monday.