The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-04-05
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There was no session of the Senate
Saturday. Hazing at the Annapolis nav
al academy was dealt with by the House
in the passage of a Senate bill with a
House substitute. An amendment, max
ing it the duty of cadet officers to report
infractions of the rules was accepted.
The bill repeats that portion of existing
law which makes it compulsory to dismiss
midshipmen guilty of hazing in any de-
gree and substitutes punishment accord
ing to the nature of the offense. Pension
bills were taken up and go were passed.
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Discussion OF the rate bill occupied
most of Monday in the Senate. NJ.
Overman spoke at length in support o.
the measure and Mr.. Teller declared
against undue haste. Senator Foraker
offered an amendment prohibiting the is
suance of passes Mr.. Scott one to COM
pei roads to make connections. and Mr..
Culberson one prohibiting interstate roads
from making campaign contributions. Mr..
Tillman presented a letter from Millard
+. Snyder of C~larksburg. w. Va. protest
ing against discrimination by the Balti-
more and Ohio railroad against indepen-
dent coal mine operators. Mr.. Platt,
chairman of the committee on printing.
presented the report of the committee to
reform printing and binding. Several bills
of local Importance were passed. Sew
eral resolutions intended to prevent the
wasteful printing of public documents
were passed by the House. District OF
Columbia legislation occupied most of the
day. Numerous bills of local Importance
were passed.
The Senate Tuesday listened to Messrs.
Tillman and McCumher. Mr.. Tillman
made special inquiry concerning the
status of his resolution relative to the use
of national bank funds in politics and
touched on the Insurance and Beef cases.
Mr.. McCumber devoted himself to the rate
bill, finding many flaws in the measure,
but announcing that he would vote for it
if it was properly amended. The joint
resolution regulating the allotment of doc
uments in the government printing Office
and aiming to prevent unnecessary print
ing and binding, passed Monday by the
House, was adopted. A bill amending the
law fixing fees and expenses of witnesses
in the federal courts in the Western
States was passed. The House witnessed
a most unusual scene when Speaker Can
non arose on the floor in the midst of a
spirited discussion on reciprocity and
tariff revision to reply to en- attack by
Mr.. Shackleford. The urgent deficiency
bill was passed and a few paragraphs Of
the Legislative appropriation bill were con-
sidered, Messrs. Prince and Hardwick
continuing to defeat many provisions by
nnfnf ~ orlor Kill -o-r,,ft,,. +ho
building Of a dam across the st. Joseph
river in Berrien county, Michigan, was
passed.
Mr.. Knox made his first set speech IN
the Senate Wednesday, his subject being
the railroad rate bill, and he dealt al.
most exclusively with the legal features
of the problem. The conference report
OF the bill regulating the final DISPOSE.
tion of the affairs Of the Five Civilized
Tribes of Indians was taken up, and
much objection was expressed to many Of
the changes. Messrs. La Toilette, Clark
(Wyo.) and TilIman voiced d~isapproval
of the provision authorizing the Secretary
of the Interior to lease the coal lands.
The matter was still under discussion
when the Senate, at 5 ID p. m, went into
executive session, to adjourn a few min.
utes later. In order that the legislative,
executive and judicial appropriation bill
might be considered without being subject
to limitless points of order, the House
passed a rule prohibiting that method OF
fighting the measure, by a vote of 100 to
100, twenty Republicans voting with the
minority. This appears to nave been the
first special rule ever reported from the
committee on rules directly affecting an
appropriation bill. The remainder of the
day wa devoted to the consideration oil
the measure, and more progress was made
than in all the days heretofore given to it.
At 5 p. m. the House adjourned.
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The Senate Thursday listened ia
speeches on the railroad rate bill BY
Messrs- Clay, Carmack and Newlands.
All indicated a purpose to support the
measure, but Mr.. Clay favored a limited
court review amendment. The bill pro-
viding for the reorganization Of the med.
ical department of the army by authoriz
ing the appointment of officers to take
the place of contract surgeons was passed
by a vote of AZ to 5. Among the other
bills passed was one authorizing a dam
across st. Joseph river at Berrieu
Springs. Mich. Mr.. Lodge presented the
conference report on the consular raor.
ganization bill, which was agreed to. Con.
siderable progress was made with the leg.
~islatiye, executive and judicial appropria-
ton bill in the House. The committee on
appropriations suffered a defeat in CON-
mittce of the whole, when, by a vote of Sc
to %, a paragraph relating to the division
of the railway mail service was cxpunged
from the measure, on the ground that il
was properly a part of the posto0icc bill.
For confidential agents Of the Interior
Department to aid in ferreting out land
frauds $4,000 was allowed. The confer
ence report on the consular bill was
adopted.
There was no session of the Senats
Friday. The House passed the legisla-
tive, executive and judicial appropria.
ton bill, carrying $3O,OOO,OOO, after con-
sidering the measure two weeks. The
paragraph creating an age limit for gov.
eminent clerks, which had caused much
controversy. finally was eliminated. Eff.
forts to discontinue the so-called s'post.
age stamp agency" and the services of
special agents to investigat. trade condi-
tions abroad failed.
. National Capital Notes.
Senate will amend Hepburn rate bill
so as to provide a court review feature
and president will agree.
Many Senators admit that they are
confused ON the rate bill, so many plans
of settlement being offered.
Juan Francisco Sanchez, late minister
of foreign affairs of San Domingo, under
The Morales administration, called at the
State Department to see Secretary Root.
but was unable to see him. He SAYS he
is here on a mission for Morales which
he cannot discuss until the mission is ac-
romplished.
The State Department received from
the Christian Herald, through the Red
Cross and has forwarded to the American
embassy at Toxic $4,000 for the relief
of the japanese famine victims. This is
q total of $4,000 which the Christian