The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1904-12-22
THE fIfry.EIeHrH CONGRESS-.


washington, Dec. 15.-Senate.--Tne
senate, which under the constitution
is made the trial court in impeach-
ment cases, Wednesday received ofh.
cial notice of the determination OF the
house Of representatives to present
impeachment charges against Hon.
Charles Swayne. federal Judge In the
northern district of Florida. The mat
ter was brought to the senate's atten.
tion by house committee and the sen.
ate appointed committee to prepare
the details of the proposed trial. The
senate considered the Philippine gov
ernment bill and the pure food bill.
Mr.. Foraker presented tariff amend.
ment to the Philippine bill, but on com.
plant of Mr.. Dubois and other sena-
tors that this provision had not been
contemplated when the senate entered
into an agreement to vote on the bill
next Friday 1t was withdrawn. A
number of semi-public bills were
passed.
House.-Further action on the i'm.
peachment proceedings against Judge
Charles Swayne, of the northern dis
trict of Florida, was taken in the
house Wednesday by the appointment
OF the committee of seven provided for
by resolution adopted Tuesday to
draft the charges for presentation to
the senate and by the reception of the
report of the committee of FIVE to no
tify the senate of the impeachment.
who announced that they had per-
formed their duty and that the senate
had responded that "Order shall be
taken" The urgent deficiency bill
and several other bills of public ma
ture were passed.
Washington. Dec 16.-Senate The
senate spent practically the entire day
discussing the Philippine administra.
tive bill A number of amendments
were suggested and debated among
them being provisions relating to rail.
road bonds. mining locations and tar
iff rates Under unanimous agreement
the vote on the bill will be taken FRI
day and the disposal of all amend
ments will occur at the same time. A
formal order to enter or the Swaync
impeachment proceedings was adopted
but 1t did not fix q day for beginning
the work
House, of the bill "To
improve currency conditions" was re-
sumed in the house Thursday. but
throughout the session its advance.
ment was beset with obstructive tao
tics by the democrats, led by Mr. Will
liams (Miss), the minority leader.
The democrats mustered sufficient
strength to force Speaker Cannon to
break tie in order that the bill be
taken up. the democrats assuming
their attitude of antagonism because
Mr.. Hill (CtD, in charge of the bill,
refused to postpone its further consid-
Grafton in consequence of the illness
of Mr.. Bartlett (Ga.). leader of the
opposition. The house made little pro.
eress on the measure.
Washington. Dec. 17.-Senate. The
senate Friday. by a vote of Al to 23.
passed the Philippine civil government
bill The final vote was preceded by
the presentation of many amendments
and general discussion of them. as
well as of the provisions of the bill.
The discussion was confined quite
generally to the merits of the meas.
ure. Mr. McCumber was the only re.
publican who voted with the demo
Gratis against the final passage of the
bill The most notable change made
during the day was the lowering of
the rate of interest on railroad bonds
TO he guaranteed by the Philippine
government from to per cent The
bill as passed exempts from taxation
all bonds issued by the Philippine and
Porto Rican governments: authorizes
the Philippine government to incur a
bonded Indebtedness of $4,000 900 for
improvements at ~ per cent. inter-
est; authorizes the Philippine govern.
ment to guarantee the payment of in
terest on railroad bonds at the rate
OF per cent. per annum; provides for
the administration of the immigration
laws by the Philippine authorities; es.
tablishes system for the location and
patenting OF mineral, coal and saline
lands; fixes the metric system for the
islands and gives the civil governor
the title of governor general.
House. = Fridays session Of the
house was given over almost exclti.
sively to consideration of bills on the
private calendar dozen or more be-
ing passed The senate amendments
to the urgent deficiency bill were
agreed to, and adjournment taken un.