Woodville Republican., 1903-02-21
DoIEes IN CONGRESS.
Bills. Resolutions aud Message. Before the
senate and House and How They
are Disposed of.

he charged that murders in the philip.
pines by American soldiers had become
SO common that they would not bear tho
INVESTIGATION and that this answer was
ehtrey satisfactory Ito our noble. gen
efous and humane secretary OF war"
He also criticised the president for never
haVing heard Of the Capt. Brownel case,
AIter having announced his intention OF
probing crimes I'm the Philippines" Sem
atof kean IN. - spoke on the eetata.
hood bill for a short time, when he
welded TO various senators who indulged
In debate over the question Of the inter-
Terence Of the Mormon church IN politics.
Senator Harris CKan) introduced a bill
authorizing the free Importation of thors
oushbred live stock for breeding pur-
poses, 1.-THE house spent practically the
entire day upon two District OF Columbia
bills. one to authorize the government to
advance s6,tQ0,e00 10 the district and the
other the conference repors on the union
station bill The former was defeated
and the latter sent back 10 conference.
Mr.. Aplin (Mich.l introduced bill grant
ing a peitslon nf si2 a north to all SOL
diers and sailors who served at least one
year in the civil war. bill introduced
by Mr.. Marshall On. d. permits the free
transmission through the mails OF pens
sion papers mailed by pensioners to PEN
sion agents.
The statehood bin again came up In the
senRte on the 10th and Senator Morgan
(Ala) spoke on II for some time. In the
course Of his remarks he referred TO bills
| regarding trusts, which he said have been
kept back and will be kept back until
II 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
statehood bill, when more important
measures were awaiting action. The con-
| ference reuort on the general staff bill
was agreed to- A number of other bills
were passed. Senator Burton (l[an.) in
| troduced a bill providing that Sl2 shall
be the minimum pension allowed. 9enaa
! tor Mason Uli,) also introduced one to
| pay bounty of $50 to all soldiers or
two-year regiments who enlisted prior to
July p, 1887. The house adopted the con.
ference report on the department Of coma
| merce bill by vote of 251 to TO- The res
mainder of the day was devoted to the
sundry civil appropriation bllT Mr.. Cam
non Qll.), chairman of the appropriations
committee, gave notice that at the proper
time he would have two amendments, one
to provide for the purchase of site and
| the erection of a three-story 400-room
office building for members, TO be con-
nected with the capitol by a subway and
to cost s3,S00o00, and the other, an ap-
| preparation of $2500,000, to carry out the
original plans for beautlfying nnd en-
1 larging the main wing of the capitol.
| Mr. DeArmond (NIo) In brief but exs
ceedlngly sarcastic speech relative to the
bill recently introduced by Senator Hanna
| (O) to pension the ex-slaves, precipi-
tated quite an interesting debate. At the
end Of 1t MIR. Cannon Ull) stated with
| emphasis that in his judgment the bill
I In rAprcfpn fr r-Ggnvac crtsld MT bp nuagrn
Senator Hanna (O.) on the 18th called up
| in the senate the confere ee report on
the department OF commerce bill and 1t
was agreed to without debate. Senator
| Morgan (Ala.) almost Immediately after
the opening OF the session. resumed his
| remarks on the statehood bill but
branched off on the subject of the pro-
i posed treaty with Colombia. Senator De-
pew IN W then spoke in opposition to
the statehood bill. The house made fair
progress with the sundry civil appropria-
tion bill, covering s6 of the $50 pages Of
the bill. The amendments OF which Mr..
Cannon Ull.) gave notice on the 10th for
the completion of the east front Of the
capitol and the erection of an Office build
ing for members were adopted, points Of
order raised against them being over
come by the adoption of a special ruie
making them in order
With the exception of few minutes
during which some routine business was
transacted the session of the senate on
the 18th was behind closed doors, the
Panama canal treaty being considered
most of the time. Senator Frye (Me.)
introduced a bill providing fines of $1,000
for persons engaged in riots at sea- A
bill providing for postal checks in place
of all bills of less than IS was introduced
by Senator Penrose (Pa.) )....The house
made slow progress with the sundry civil
bill covering only q pages and leaving
40 pages still to be disposed of The de-
laws were occasioned by a rather pro-
tracted discussion of the item in the bill
for the maintenance of the white house
and considerable debate upon the item
appropriating 100000 for the relief OF
distress IN the Philippines.
An immense crowd was attracted TO the
senate on the 18th to hear the invocation
of Gen. William Booth, founder and COM
mander-in-chief OF the Salvation army
When the statehood bill came up Sen-
ator Depew IN. " resumed his remarks
He attacked the Mormon church because
he said. no believed Its members still
cling 10 the practice Of polygamy. Sen
ator Rawlins Utah replied that II the
Morfnons were not interfered with they
would work out their own destiny. I'm
der the operation Of a special order Will, !
cut off the opportunity to offer amend
menta the house by vote of Al 10
passed the Elkins bill to prohibit rebates
"a SINNERS The six members who voted
against the bill were democrats. The
nresident transmitted to the house copy
~ the treaty entered into between the
United States and Great Britain relative
| - tha Aiaekan boundary line.