Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1903-02-21
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| An immense crowd was attracted to
| the Senate Friday to hear the invocation
| of Gen, William Booth, founder and
| commandments of the Salvation
| Army. The resolution of Mr.. Morgan
| calling for the correspondence of naval
officers regarding the military occupation
of the bays of Panama and Colon, was
| agreed to, When the statehood Dill came
| ND Mr.. Depew resumed his remarks. lie
| attacked the Mormon Church, because,
| he said. he believed its members still
| cling to the practice of polygamy. MI
| Rawlins replied, saying that IT the Nor
| mons were not interfered with they would
work out their own destiny. The Elklns
| bill to prohibit rebates to shippers was
nassed by the House by vote OF 24l
| to 6. those voting in the negative beng
| Democrats. The remainder OF the SEES
sion was devoted to the sundry civil APP
propriation bill, which. was practically
| completed No effort was made to pass
| it. as there was no quorum present.
| -
| The Senate listened to the reading or
! the Indian appropriation bill on Saturday
| and spent some time in the consideration
| of that measure. 1t was not, however,
anally disposed Of. The greater part OF
| the remainder of the day was given over
to eulogies of late members of the House
| of Representatives, including Charles ".
Russell of Connecticut Joshua $. Salmon
| of New Jersey, Amos j. Cummings OF
| New York, and r. 0. Crump OF Mlchl-
| gan. The House passed the sundry civil
| bill, and then broke all records III the
| matter of private pension legislation. 1t
| was the last opportunity of passing Yen
| sion bills at this session, and the calen-
| dar was cleared, not only Of House but
of Senate bills, 325 in all being passed.
| Three hundred and twelve is the highest
| previous record, made in the tGfty-hrst
| Congress.
| There was no debate on the statehood
| bill in the Senate Monday. The Indian
appropriation bill and the Philippine cur
rency bill both were passed. Mr.. vest
| while the Indian bill was up, called atten-
| ton to q point of order which had been
made against one of it's provisions on
| the ground that it was new legislation.
| The Senate, he said, had passed the Phil
| ippine government bill as rider to the
| army appropriation bill, and yet ruled
other provisions out. All rules, he SAID,
were violated when a majority was III
| favor of any measure. The House dis
posed of a number of bills under slspen-
| sion of the rules, defeating two. The
most important measure passed was the
| Senate bill to amend the railroad safety
| appliance law. A special order was adopt
| ed which practically will make the Row
| ler currency bill continuing order Tor
| the remainder of the session, not, how
ever. to interfere with conference reports,
appropriation bills, and other privileged
matters.
The Senate agreed to the conference
report Oh the army appropriation bill
Tuesday. Discussion of the statehood
bill was resumed, and Mr.. Depew con-
tinued his remarks in opposition to it.
Toward the end of the session Mr.. Teller
declared that himself and the country
had been insulted by some of Mr.. De-
pew's references to the unequal repre-
sentation in the Senate. Mr.. Hoar, from
the Committee on judiciary, reported the
Lttlefeld antitrust bill as amended. Mr..
Platt (Conn.) of the committee, stated
that it was not a unanimous report, and
that he was opposed to the measure. The
House began consideration of the naval
appropriation bill under the operation of
a rule which made the new legislation
relative to the increase of the personnel
of the navy and for the increase of the
naval academy in order. The general
debate on the bill was without special
feature. The paragraph in the bill pro-
viding $25O,00O for naval station on
the great lakes went out on a point of
order. On completing thirty of the sixty
five pages of the naval appropriation bill
the committee rose The Senate amend
ments to the Indian appropriation bill
were disagreed to, and the bill sent to
conference.
There was lively debate in the Sen
ate on Wednesday over Senator Quay's
resolution declaring it to be the sense
of the Senate that there should be a vote
on the statehood bill before the adjourn
ment of Congress. TO this proposition
Senator McComas reoffered Senator
Platt's closure resolution introduced two
years ago, and a motion was made to
refer the whole proposition to the Com
mttee on Rules. This was pending when
tho Sonata went into executive session