The Farmington times and herald. (Farmington, St. Francois Co., Mo.) 1902-1905, 1904-04-29
FiFTY-EiGHTH CONGRESS.
tFirst Session.l

sennte-Thc question of additional ac.
commodatiuns Ia the way of office and
committee rooms occupied the attention
of the senate the greater part OF the day
ON the 18th. The subject arose In con
uectiur with the provisions IN the sundry
civil appropriation bill. one for an exten.
sion of the east front Of the capitol
building In accordance with sketches left
by Architect Walters, and the other for
ali outside senate office and committee
building Much variety Of opinion was ex'
pressed. and the question was still under
CONSIDERATION when the senate ADJOURNED
ht j30 H. m..... House after debate
extending through the entire session the
house passed tn" bill providing for joint
statehood Of OklohOma and Indian terri.
uf Arizona ana New Mexico under the
name Of Arizona. In discussing tho ruld
which had been reported BY the commit
tee on rules, providing 10. immsdiats m,,,'aa
the minority leader, declared that no re-:
publican had any idea that the hill would
become law at this session. De egate VII
vored by Delegates Rodey IN Nj and
Mcclure f0kla1 House adjourned at 5:S
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Senatc-The senate. on the 2oth. listened
to n set speech Of almost two hours dura-
ton on the trusts by MIR. Dulliver. and
afterwards completed consideration of the
tundry civil appropriation bill again de-
voting much time to the proEh ions for an
east front Of the capitol and Tor an add
tiOual office building for the senate. Tho
Jf'ice building amendment was agreed 10
Is reported from the committee. but tho
paragraph was so modified as TO prac'
tically provide for plans only the ap-
propriatiun being r. duced to fIo.ob......
House-1'he house. after an extend u de-
bate, sent the nava! appropriation bill
back Ia conference, the on!y disputed
senate amen lmcnt accepted belLS that
providing for the construction IN the ma
val yards uf two culliers i bill prOyid
Ing for the allotment OF lands OF the New
York In 'ians was passed under "A reso'
luton of the committee on rules Tor its
immediate consideration.
Senate The pension appropriation bill
carry ms au appropriation of over NS,
~. and the emergency river and harbor
appropriation bill. which carries S.wp,co
werr passed, on the 2ist, by the senate
leaving only the general deficiency and
the military academy bills OF the entire
tist OF supply measures sull to he consid'
cred hy the senate tn" house bill In.
crcasiug the sizc OF homestead entries H.
western Nebraska to $40 acrcs also received
Favorable" consideration While the river
and hdrhur measure was under consid.
the failure Ia bring IN u general river
and hurhnr hill. Speeches were made on
the pension biIl by Mcssrs NcCumbef
and Scott, the latter declaring that he
favored n service pension Of SO per
month. .... Iluusc--rhe house gave evi.
Hence nf approaching adjournment by
passing Il large number OF bills, among
them being one to provide IA temporary
government fnr the Panama canal zone
a rule was accepted after the democrats
had forced u roll call. for the COnaldcra'
u"n Al any time OF the otil crrating q
commit" TO investigate the merchant
marine ut the United States. and the bill
was then latd aside.
SENATE The general deficiency appro.
priutiou I'LL occupied most of the scnate's
tiInr. on thu I'D but before 1t was taken
a. "A
On thr tArin policy NJ the republican
parry. While the reading Of The drheieh'
g hill whs In progress, Mr.. Cuilom de
NNcTcd "a speech on the house Chinese
exclusion rider. He expressed the opin.
ion that there should be explicit legisia'
tion rv.cHuctinR exclusion laws. but op'
posed the remaining portion OF the house
resolution. and moved to strike II out.
House President Roosevelt was sssailed
bitterly by Claude kitchin N. c., who
mcluird-in his castlgation Gen. GrosNt'
nor, whom hc char; ed with having hu.
initiated Theodore Roosevelt. the Vice
presidential candidate, whom, In recent
speech In the house, he had glorlned AZ
the worthy successor Of Mr.. Mckinley
Senat,--The general deficiency appro.
priatiun bill was passed By the senate, on
the 13d leaving but ono Of appropriation
bills uunctrd upon by that body. large
number of amendments were adopted,
among them one limiting the Chinese ek.
Clusinn legislation 10 reanirmation of
the exclusion law Of lDl and other exist
Ing exclusion laws About 20 private
pension bills were passed during the day,
At j.2} D. IN the senate adjourned ,.,..,
Hnusr-Twu of the heavy weight speak
ers ut the house of representatives held
sway IN that body Incidentally the bill
for "A commission to investigate the ques.
tiun nf ship subsidy was passed. Repre-.
sentative Hepburn Oa) first aroused and
held republican enthusiasm at hiah
pitch After an hour and n half he yielded
the floor which WAS taken posse sson of
hv I9uIrk. Cochran IN ", who brought
from his democratic colleagues thunder.
GUS applause and cheers Mr. Cochran
spoke for two hours, House adjourned At
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