The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1903-01-09
FIFTY-SEVEATH CONGRESS.
Second Session.


ly discussion began regarding the
coal situation. Mr.. Lodge prefaced his
introduction of a bill suspending for
80 days the duty on coal with the
| statement that in New England there
was much distress owing to the scare
ity of coal and that unless relief was
afforded at once a number of factories
would have to shut down. Mr.. Cul-
| hertsOn followed with a resolution
providing for the removal of the duty
on anthracite coal and asked its i'm
mediate consideration Mr.. Plat
| CCt) objected, saying 1t was his I'M
| derstanding there was no duty on an
thracite coal. Mr. Vest took eXcep
ton to this statement and said that
the board of general appraisers and
President Roosevelt had decided that
such duty is imposed. A resolution
bearing on the subject of coal, intro
duced by Mr. Jones (Ark), recited the
| charge of w. r. Hearst that there was
an illegal combination among certain
! railroads to control the shipment of
anthracite coal and called on the at
torney general for the evidence which
it was alleged had been secured by
him. 1t caused a lively debate.
| House--The house resumed work
Monday after a recess of two weeks.
but within two hours the machinery
broke down for lack of quorum. The
| bill to create a general staff in the
army was the issue An attempt was
made to pass it under suspension of
the rules, which requires a two-thirds
majority
Washington. JAN -Senate-The
day in the senate was eventful because
of a notable speech by Senator Hoar
on his bill regulating trusts and an at
tack by Senator Vest on protected in
dustries through the operation of the
Dingley law. Senator Hoars utter
aRces were listened to with marked
attention. He said that nearly all
| thoughtful men in this country are
agreed that some legislation, state or
national, ought to be had for the regu-
lation and control of what are called
trusts" and of large masses of CAPT
tai accumulated by corporations or ar
tificial persons holding property and
conducting business without individual
| liability
| HOuse-The house Tuesday passed
the bill for the creation of a general
staff for the army by a vote of 153 to
So. BY the terms of the bill it be-
comes the duty of the general staff to
prepare plans for the national defense
and for the mobilization of the army
in time of war to investigate and re-
port on all questions affecting the eff
cheney of the service and to render
professional aid to the secretary of
war and to general officers and other
superior commanders. The general
staff corps is to consist of one chief of
staff and two general officers, all to be
detailed by the president from officers
of the army at large, not below the
grade Of brigadier general; four colo
uels, six lieutenant colonies and II ma
jOrs, 20 captains to be detailed from
officers of the grade of captain or first
lieutenant who, while so serving, shall
have the rank pay and allowances of
captains mounted All officers in the
general staff shall be detailed therein
for periods of four years While serv-
ing in the general staff corps, officers
may be assigned temporarily to duty
with any branch Of the army Upon
being relieved they shall return to the
branch Of the army in which they hold
permanent commission, and no officer
except a general officer shall be eIigi-
bic to a further detail in the general
staff corps until he shall have served
two years with the branch of the army
in which commissioned. except in case
of emergency in the time of war.
Washington, Jan. S.-Senate-Th
senate Wednesday discussed the bill
for the reorganization of the militia
and also the statehood bill. Mr. NAL
lory (Fla) led the democratic senators
in opposition to the section of the mi
litia bill providing for a reserve force
of trained men. the contention being
that it not only infringed the rights
of the several states, but also increas-
ed the standing army by hundred
thousand men. When the statehood
bill came up Mr.. Beveridge had read
number of resolutions adopted at a
recent convention in Oklahoma favor
ing single statehood with Indian terri
tory. Mr.. Quay, who is leading the
fight for the admission of Oklahoma,
Arizona and New Mexico. criticised
the resolutions, saying the people who
adopted them had not acted intelli-
gently because the single statehood
bill had been withdrawn
House-The session of the house
lasted little more than two hours.
The senate bill for the redemption of
the silver coinage of the Hawaiian is
lands and its recoinage into United
States coin, was passed after an hours
debate. 1t provides for the redemp-
ton OF silver coins by being received
either in Hawaii or the United States
in the payment of dues. Standard sill
yer coins of the United States may
be exchanged for coin Of Hawaii at
Lneir face value. Hawaiian silver
coins will be legal tender until Janu-
airy 1, 1904, Hawaiian silver certiti-
Gates shall be redeemed before Janu-
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