Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-02-07
DOINGS OF CONGRESS.
House Passed s2 claims Bill. without q
Quorum.
B5rH DAY.

Quorum
18th DAY.
The senate committee on military affairs or
dered a favorable report Foraler's bill APP
to mark the graves OF Confederate soldiers
strength OF the omnibus statehood bill by
roll call on motion TO adjourn. The result
o1o not change the former test vote. Mr.. Quay
again gave notice that he would demand con-
tlnuous session night and day in his effort to
In the debate the rights and wrongs Of Ari-
zonas statehood was made the basis for the
speeches.
The house passed about twenty bills, most of
them OF minor Importance. One was 70 make
ject to the jurisdiction OF such states. The bill
Is designed to prevent evasion under the orig
ton states.
A senate bill passed the house which provides
for an inceease of salary of federal judges. 1t
raises the salary of the chief justices of the
supreme court to $13, 90; the associate justices
judges to 5000; the chief Justice Of the court
OF claims to 800; associate justices to $500
District of Columbia to IS 900
Other bills passed created additional justices
In the southern districts of New York and in
! the district of Minnesota and provided addi-
tlonal circuit judges in the Eighth judicial cir
cult district
36TH DAY.
In a sharp debate in the senrte on the sub
Ject OF court martials in the Philippines. Sen
ator Carmack characterized the change which
he said had repeatedly been made, that the
democrats We're assailing the army, as the
meanest and dirtieSt of any that had been
made against the paaty The statehood bills
hour arriving Sen tor Lo 1ge spoke two hours
and half against it with notice that he would
continue his speech on the following day.
Senator Aldrich attempted to secure division
of the business of the senate with the state
hood BILL but Senator Quay refused to do sc
save on the condition that vote on the bill be
taken. He also offered the statehood bill as
an amendment to two appropriation bills. his
hoI nfY got I'm fTglaT CfafH
hood measure, referred to committee of
which he Is chairman.
The house agreed to the senate amendments
to the bankruptcy bill: The house made oW
progress with the Indian appropriation bill;
Burton of ohio insisted ON an explanation of
eral items. He attacked Indian education il
general.
31TH DAY.
The senate committee on finance has au-
thOrized a favorable report the bill to in
crease the subsidiary coinage.
Senator toraker has introduced an amend
for the admission of fifty Poto Rican children
at the industrial Indian school at Carlisle Pa.
Just before the senate adjourned Senator
Foraker took occasion to say that the propo-
stion of Senator Quay to tack the statehood
binary. Legislation had been placed on APP
preparation bills before by the will of the SEN
ate.
The military academy bill passed the house
wi hout a word of debate
a resolution was adopted calling on the post
mas er general for the correspondence in the
InClanola, Mississippi postofiice case
Representative Patterson, OF Tennessee, in
trOduced an antitrust bill. 1t seeks to ac-
complish the regulation of trusts through the
agency of the Bureau of Corporations in the
proposed Department of Commerce.
Mann, of Illinois. has introduced bill for
the construction of a waterway from the Calu-
met river to the sanitary canal in Illinois, the
cost to the United States not 10 exceed $500,
0UO.
37TH DAY.
Senator Quay reported from his committee
favorably upon the statehood bill as an amend
ment to an appropriation bill.
The senate committee foreign relations
Alaskan boundary treaty and the protocol for
the extension of time for the ratification of the
Cuban reciprocity treaty.
Representative Bristow IN Y introduced a
bill increasing the salary of the president of
the United States to 81 1000 year.
Forty-five private claims bills We're acted
upon favorably. Many of the claims dated
back to the civil war.
what Is known as the Deitrick land leasing bill
is that there are too many conflicting interests
ton of it's passage. They believe that there
should be commission appointed by the presi-
dent to Investigate the leasing aud fencing of
public lands.
The senate committee ON foreign relations
again discus 5ed the Panama canal treaty, but
Ouu not redcn a CONCLUSION IneP discussion
was based entirely upon the amendments to
the treaty which were offered by Senator Nor
gan, but action was not taken upon any of
them.
A house bill was passed appropriating $3.50
for the improvement and care of confederate
mound" in lakewood cemetery, Chicago.
There was not quorum present in the house
and work could not proceed except by unani-
nous consent Thirty-two of the forty-two
private claims bills which had been approved
in committee of the whole were passed. Every
bill to which an objection was raised was kid
aside.
Mitchell Arbitrator
Springfield, ILL.,, Jan. 29.-John
Mitchell, president of the United Mine.