The Tomahawk., 1904-05-05
4 WEEKS RECORD
All the News of the Past Seven
Days Condensed.
HOMIE AND FOREIGN ITEMS
News of the Industrial Field, Personal
and Political Items, Happenings
at Home and Abroad.
THE NEWS FROM ALL THE WORLD
CONGRESS AT WORK.
HOME AND FOREIGN ITEMS
THE NEWS FROM ALL THE WORLD
CONGRESS AT WORK.
Daily Proceedings of the Senate and
House Briefly Told.

Daily Proceedings of the Senate and
House Briefly Told.
In the senate on the 22d the general
deficiency bill was discussed. Senator
Gallinger spoke on the tariff policy or
the republican party, and Senator Cul-
lom delivered a speech on the house
Chinese exclusion rider. In the house
Mr.. Kitchen IN. c. delivered scath-
ing address in which he bitterly as
sailed President Roosevelt. He de-
clared the president had insulted the
south, and charged him with being an
advocate Of lynch law, unfit to hold Of
flee, and dangerous man.
In the senate on the 23d the general
deficiency appropriation bill was
passed. Among amendments adopted
was one limiting the Chinese exclusion
legislation to reaffirmation OF the eX-
clusion law of 1902 and other existing
exclusion laws In the house the SEN
ate amendment to the pension appro-
priation bill was agreed to, and the
conference report on the naval bill was
adopted. Bourke Cochran repelled
charge made by Mr.. Dalzell, in debate,
to the effect that the former was paid
for making republican speeches in 1896.
In the senate on the 25th several
senators counseled delay in the consid-
Grafton of the battleship provided for
in the naval appropriation bill until
the war in the far east demonstrates
the comparative utility of the big sea
fighters. The military academy bill,
the last of the general appropriation
measures, was discussed. The house
passed large number Of bills. includ-
ing the Alaska delegate bill.
In the senate on the Goth the Military
academy appropriation bill, the last Of
the supply measures, was passed. In
the house Mr. Dalzell renewed his charge
that Bourke Cochran accepted money
for making republican speeches in the
campaign of 1896. Mr.. Cochran indig-
nantly denied the accusation, and pre-
sented a resolution to create a commits
sion to investigate the charges. No ac-
tion was taken on the resolution, point
of order being raised against it, and
Speaker Cannon asked for time to con-
slider the point.
DOMESTIC.
The contract by which the owner
ship of the Panama canal passes to the
United States is signed. sealed. deliv-
cred and complete. The title to the
canal route Is now vested in the gov
ernment of the United States.
Sheriff Barrett, of Chicago. has be-
gun an agitation to change the law SO
as to have all Illinois hangings in the
states prison at Joliet. He may ask
the substitution of the electric chair.
Three firemen were killed and Is il
jured at Newark. NJ j., by the caving
in of a roof from which they were
fighting a fire in the factory of Wei
mer & Co.
The general conference of the Meth
odist Episcopal church opens at Los
Angeles, Cal, on May 3. and probably
will continue for month.
In the house during the special and
regular sessions of the Fifty-eighth
congress there were 1898 bills, S49
resolutions, 152 joint resolutions and
81 concurrent resolutions introduced. Of
these 1883 passed the house. In the
senate there were 5,645 bills introduced.
A total of over 400 bills have become
laws.
A severe tornado struck Mcpherson,
Kan, demolishing six residences and
causing more or less other damage to
property. Three persons were injured.
1t is reported from Warsaw that IS
conspirators have been hanged after
their trial in connection with Polish
revolutionary plot
Everything is in readiness for the
opening of the Louisiana Purchase eX-
position in st. Louis April 3O
Western vaudeville managers have
formed a trust and will operate thea
ters in 12 western and southern cities
Farmers of eastern Washington con-
troll all of the wheat crop remaining
unsold, aggregating 100000 bushels
They are holding for higher prices.
DR.. Edward Henry Lee, Of Chicago.
surgeon and clubman, fell from the
ninth story to the first floor of the Chi
cago Athletic association clubhouse
and was killed.
lHTSe DdSSDdll play dHN III &C
scorecard men were arrested to make
a test case of Sunday games in Brook
lyn.
In the circuit court at Belleville, ILL.,,
Mike, alias "Duck" Roach, and George
A. Clegg were respectively sentenced
to 80 and 20 years in the penitentiary
for the murder of John Keith, street
car conductor
Frank Mcnamara, who shot and
killed Capt George R. Jennings, presi-
dent of the Jennings Adjustable Shade
company at Brooklyn, pleaded guilty
and was sentenced to life imprison-
ment. p
Mining schools and other scientific
institutions were praised by witness
in the Smoot case, who said that Nor
mon schools easily rank witt. the best
institutions of learning in the country.