Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1903-02-14
D0InGs IN CONGRESS.
bills. Resolutions and Messages Before tho
Senate and House and How They
Are Disposed Of

Are Disposed Of.
For a time In the senate on the 9Th II
looked as II the question of construction
of an isthmian canal would be discussed
In open session. Senator Morgan (Ala.)
spoke on his resolution calling on the sec
rotary Of the navy for correspondence re-
| garding the military occupation of Pan
anna and Colon. He had not proceeded
far. however. when Senator Cullom Qll.),
who had been following him closely. in
terrupted him with q motion for an exec
utive session, which Senator Morgan re-
sisted. The chair overruled Senator Nor
gan's objections and the doors were
closed The resolution finally went to the
calendar. Senator Kean IN. J) then re-
sumed his remarks in opposition to the
omnibus statehood bill and soon after the
senate adjourned out Of respect to the
memory of the late Representative
Moody az. C).... General debate on the
antitrust bill closed in the house, the
closing speeches being made by Mr.. De-
Almond (Mo.) and Mr. Littlefield (Me.).
The statehood bill claimed the greater
share of the senates attention on the
1th. A large number OF bills to which
there was no objection was passed,
among them being one providing for the
holding Of United States court at Kansas
City, Kan. Senator Gallinger IN. H.
submitted part report of the conferees
on the bill increasing pensions to ex-
soldiers who have lost limbs. 1t was
adopted and further conference or
dered. The house by a unanimous vote,
245 to 0, passed the Littlefeld antitrust
hill. The senate amendments to the army
appropriation bill were concurred in. Mr..
McRae (Ark.) introduced bill providing
for the annexation to the western
boundary of Arkansas of a strip of land
40 miles wide and about 300 miles long.
1t Is alleged the land was illegally taken
from Arkansas and given to the Indians.
The house held a memorial session on
the Sth to pay tribute to the memory of
the late Senator William J. Sewall and
the late Representative Joshua S.. SAL
mon, of New Jersey. Chairman Hep
burn, Of the committee on interstate and
foreign commerce, laid before the house
the report of the conferees on the de-
partment of commerce and labor and II
was ordred printed.
In the senate on the 9Th Senator Car
mack CTenn.) spoke on the Rawlins reso-
luton calling upon the secretary of war
for reports from certain courts-martial.
He charged that murders in the Philip
pines by American soldiers had become
SO common that they would not bear the
investigation and that this answer was
entirely satisfactory ''to our noble, gen.
erous and humane secretary of war"
He also criticised the president for never
having heard of the Capt. Brownell case,
after having announced his intention of
probing crimes in the Philippines" SEN
ator Kean IN. j. spoke on the setate-
hood bill for short time, when he
yielded TO various senators who INDUCED
in debate over the question of the inter-
ference of the Mormon church in politics.
Senator Harris (lNan.) introduced a bill
authorizing the free Importation of thor
oughbred live stock for breeding pur-
poses. The house spent practically the
entire day upon two District of Columbia
bills, one to authorize the government to
advance s6,00O.0O0 to the district and the
other the conference report on the union
station bill. The former was defeated
and the latter sent back to conference.
Mr.. Aplin (AIich.) introduced bill grant
ing a pension of S12 a month to all SOL
diers and sailors who served at least one
year in the civil war. A bill introduced
by Mr.. Marshall IN. d. permits the free
transmission through the mails of pen
sion papers mailed by pensioners to PEN
sion agents.
The statehood bill again came up in the
senate on the 10Th and Senator Morgan
course of his remarks he referred to bills |
trusts, which he said have been |
kept back and will be kept back until |
1t Is too late for discussion regarding |
them. The time of the senate was be-
ing wasted on account of what he termed
"a peaceful political blockade" on the |
bill, when more important
measures were awaiting action. The con-
ference report on the general staff bill
was agreed TO. A number of other bills
were passed. Senator Burton (Kan) in
troduced 4 bill providing that Sl2 shall
be the minimum pension allowed. Scna-
tor Mason Qll) also introduced one to
pay a bounty of $50 to all soldiers of
lwo-year regiments who enlisted prior to
July p, 1851. =. The house adopted the con-
merce bill by vote of 251 to TO- The re-
of the day was devoted to the
sundry civil appropriation bill. Mr.. Can
non Qll.l, chairman of the appropriations
gave notice that at the proper
lime he would have two amendments, one
70 provide for the purchase of a site and
he erection OF q three-story 400-room
,ffice building for members, to be con-
,ected with the capitol by a subway and
o cost $3,S00000, and the other, an ap-
,ropriation of S2.50O,000, to carry out the
original plans for identifying and en-
arghg the main wing Of the capitol.
Mr.. DeArmond (Mo) In brief but ex-
sarcasticSspeech relative to the
ill recently introduced by Senator Hanna
o. to pension the ex-slaves. precipi-
md of It Mr.. Cannon Qll.) stated with
Emphasis that in his judgment the bill
o pension ex-slaves could not be passed.