Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-02-12
DoINGS OF CONGRESS.
Committee on Agriculture Determined 20
Aid the Omnibus Statehood Bin.


4-TH DAY.
There is opposition to the Panama canal
treaty that may prevent its ratification. 1t
comes from Senator Morgan and other oppo-
nents Of the treaty who are prepared to OBJ
struct and defeat, if they can. the ratification.
The senate considered the house army ap-
preparation blu including the creating of a gem
eral staff for the army: also an appropriation
OF $2,DOO,0O0 to supply and equip the organized
militia of the several states. The bill went
over one day: The statehood Till gave way for
this as it will for other important administra-
Senator wellington has introduced mems
ure with the purpose of changing the constitu-
ton SO as to prohibit an individual from hold
ing fortune exceeding $ln,h0,0 o; the over
plus to be forfeited to the United States treas
The senate committee on agriculture agreed
to place the omnibus bill on the agricultural
appropriation bill.
The house passed about 40 bills under suspen-
sion of the rules. Among them was the senate
bill appropriating l,5O0, y for new depart
ment of agriculture building. Also a bill to
authorize new negotiations with Great Britain
for the preservation of fur seals in Alaskan
waters.
lsT DAY.
The senate passed without discussion the
bill to further regulate railroad rransporta-
tlon. The army appropriation BILL which Went
passed The provision establishing general
staff was eliminated, but later the same thing
was passed as an independent measure, after
amending it by placing the chief of staff exclu-
sively under the jurisdiction of the president.
joint resolution was passed by the senate
requesting state authorities to cooperate with
the census office in securing uniform system
of birth and death registration.
senate joint resolution was passed author
izing the secretary of war to furnish con-
demned cannon for life size statue Of Gen.
Henry Leavenworth at Leavenworth, Kansas.
The house spent most of the day upon claims
bills. Mr.. Payne the floor leader of the ma
jority, fought them all but succeeded in de-
feating only three bills.
There was general debate on the postoffics
appropriation bill, and speech was made OF
the trust question.
Mr.. Hemenway, of Indiana, introduced bill
to pension old soldiers and sailors who served
at least ninety days of the civil war, at the
rate of sl2 per month, and widows of such sol.
diers and sailors who were married prior to
A joint resolution in the house proposes an
amendment to the constitution prohibiting
polygamy.
render certain corporations in Indian Terri
tory liable for damages sustained by employees
as result of negligence on the part Of cor
poratlons.
The senate has passed without discussion the
EllCins bill to further regulate railroad trans
portation. 1t is one of a number of measures
presented in this congress concerning corpora
tons and has particular reference to rail
roads.
The house committee pensions reported
| favorably on the senate bill to increase the
pensions of all Mexican wariveterans from IS to
$l2 per month.
GRAFTON of the Littlield nti-trust bill. 1t will
| be brought in Immediately after the postoffice
| appropriation bill is disposed of, and provides
| for ten hours general debate and three hours
under the five-minute rule, at the end of which
| time the previous question is to be considered
as ordered on the bill and pending amend
ments.
The annual attempts to strike out the appro-
| priations for special mail facilities between
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| and Newton, Kans., was led by Mr.. Talbert, of
| South Carolina, without success.
Ard DAY.
| Senator Hanna introduced bill granting
| pensions and bounties to all ex-slaves who
were freed by the proclamation of President
Lincoln. The pensions and bounties to be
| graduated according to age
A resolution was adopted by the house COM
| mittee on military affairs recommending the
appointment of Senator Quay as member of
to fill the existing vacancy.
A Texas member introduced a bill which au-
thorizes and directs the president to send three
army and navy medical officers to Mexico to
| Investigate the disease prevalent there. The
bill appropriate S50,0j0 to aid Mexico in stamp
| ing out the plague.
The antitrust bill debate which opened in
| the house did not develop much animation.
| There was large attendance in the galleries.
| 44TH DAY.
The senate passed a bill incorporating the
American academy IN Rome, an institution to
promote the study of the fine arts
| The president has been informed by senators
| with whom he has had several conferences
that the Alaskan boundary treaty will not be
ratified; that the opponents of the treaty will
| not permit it.
The senate committee on agriculture is with.
| holding the agricultural appropriation bill
! until it may seem impossible to pass the omni-
| bus statehood bill separately; the committee
having decided to connect the two measures
| if necessary.
A concurrent resolution introduced in the
| house provides for committee of eleven mem.