The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-02-05
Senate Chaplain Remembers the
Afflicted Statesman
In His Petition to the Throne
of trace.
BRISTOW'S EPOR
Resolution Calling for 1t Favor.
ed by the Committee.
Bill Passed for transportation
of Porto Rico Teachers.

Washington. Feb Sin his prayer at
the opening of the senate today the
chaplain. Rev. Edward Everett Hale,
made reference to the illness of SEN
ator Hanna, saying:
Father. we ask for those who are
in great sorrow;'we ask for those who
are on the bed of sickness: we ask for
those who are ministering to them
that Thou will give them life and light
and love-"
Mr.. Mitchell. from the committee on
postoffices, made a favorable report on
the resolution directing the postmaster
general TO send to the senate the re-
ports made on the irregularities in the
postofhce. deDartme and requested
immediate consideration. The resolu-
ton was adopted without debate 1t
calls for the report upon the investiga-
ton by Assistant Postmaster General
Brlstow, together with the reports of
Messrs. Holmes. Conrad and Charles
Bonaparte, special counsel for the gov
ernment on the charges made by S. w.
Tu1loch, formerly cashier OF the Wash
ington city Dostoffice.
A Dill was passed providing for the
transportation of 600 teachers from
Porto Rico to and from the United
States next summer for the purpose of
study. The urgent deficiency appropri-
alton bill was laid before the senate
the provision for ST. Louis exposition
loan being the immediate question un-
der consideration and Mr. Patterson
(Colo.) took up the political phase of
the question, making a special reply 10
ME-. Foraker. He said that having
noted the want of prosperity on the
part of the trusts and syndicates, the
Ohio senator had introduced a bill,
which, if it should become a Law, would
supply that deficiency. Mr.. Patterson
contended that prosperity was not so
much dependent on tariff laws or the
balance of trade as most people be-
Heved.
On the contrary he found that good
times depended more upon the volume
of currency than on other causes, and
he traced the prosperity of the decade
from 1880 to 1890 to the extension of the
coinage of silver in that period. This
epoch covered Mr.. .Cleveland's first term
but Mr.. Patterson declared that when
Democrats contended that his second
term covered a prosperous period they
did violence to the facts of history.
The panic of 1893, had been the result
of the trade against the greater circu-
lation of silver both in the United
States and elsewhere. He declared that
Mr.. Cleveland'S last term was not n
Democratic administration, in fact but
that it presented the spectacle of a
Democratic president putting Republi-
can policies into execution.
The point or order made by Mr.. Bal
ley against the st. Louis fair appropria-
ton was lost by vote of the senate.
and the amendment was agreed TO. The
urgent deficiency bill was then passed.
IN THE HOUSE.
Washington, Feb. 5.-The house upon
convening today went into committee Of
the whole with Mr.. Powers (He.) in the
chair and began consideration of the
agricultural appropriation bill. Four
hours general debate on the bill was
agreed upon. Mr.. Wadsworth IN. ",
chairman Of the committee on agricul-
ture, explained the provisions of the
bill.