Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1906-04-18
DOINGS in CONGRESS
What is Being Done Day Sby Day By
the National House and Senate.
Election Of Senators :by tss People.

A resolution providing the cleo
tioi Of Senators by direct vote of the.
people has beeii favorabl lS aeted upon
by the House committee on election
Of President. The resolution which
was introduced by Mr. NoFiss Of Ne
braska, makes the term member
ship of the house four years instead
of two. Both proposition aTe:sto Ebe.
accomplished by amendments ito the
constitution. -
Reason why the term members.
should be four years are stated to be
because no party cali :inatiglifate its
policy Iii 1.-Two years.
Deliberations Tams
The deliberations Of thes sH0nse were
tame as compared with tfss .swoS pre-
yious days; which may be bttributed
in a measure to the fact fhat there
was no discussion of thesast mail
appropriation for the benefit tsof the
Southern Railway. No one subject
has engendered so much bad feeling
in the House in a long time, aud t;has
not been coniined 10 eithefs Of the
parties. s
There is much speculat thomas to the
outcome of the vote, predictions Of
victory being made by advocates of
both sides. a ypte NAV Ele sached
soon, though iii order to $50, the
regular order, will have tosbeS Sdisplac-
ed.
All of the North Carolina ,nembers
will be present unless Repress ntative
Blacburn, who is in Greensboro, re-
mains at home. Representatives. Pou
and Gudger got back to tie city and
Representative Small will be- back.
Representative Small and $GdlgerEare
committed to the appropriation and
Representatives, Page; fterson;
Webb, Thomas and the two itchens
will vote against it: S55
Some doubt has been expressed as
to how Representatives Pou and
Blackburn will vote. Mr. Poua has
voted against the appropriation in the
past, while Mr.. Blackburn has voted
for it. Representative w. W.. Kitchin
hopes to be able to get iii under the
fiyc Mute rule to reply to statements
that have been made i'll debate:
I ~
Discussion Near Its End. 81
In the Senate Mr.. Aldrieh express
ed the opinion That Tie end Of the
general debate on The railroad rate
bill would become apparent before
the end of the present week, aildtshEat
then an agreement upon day for q
vote could be reached. The statement
was made in response to q requsstsby
Nh. Tillman for such an agreement.
There was no other discussion of the Els
rate bill during the day, owing the dlls
fact that no senator was PREF TO g,
speak. 1t was annohlee eetl 8: s.
Spooiler oulds reply to sssF g 8
speech.
The session was almost entirely de-
tied to the consideration Of the con-
ference report on the bill providing
for the final settlement of the affairs
of the Five Civilized Tribes of Indians
and in connection with that report
there was sharp controversy over an
amendment inserted by the senate
which provided FOR The ratification OF
the disbursement of $1S6,0OO of tue
Lloyd Seminole fund made by Special
Agent j. E. jenkins and Administra-
tor A. j. Brown. The debate turned
upon the exceptional fact that the
house was insisting upon the reten-
ton of a senate amendment frop5
which the senate was apparently anx-
ious to recede. The debate was
characterized by numebr of spirited
passages between Mr.. Tillman on the
one side and Messrs. Teller and Clapp
on the other. The South Carolina
senator contended that the Indians
had been defrauded, while his oppon-
ents urged that if they had been the
proposed legislation did not deprive
them Of their rights under the law.
No conclusion was reached.
Some Lively Discussions.
After a brief speech by Mr.. Lati-
mer in support of the House railroad
rate bill, Mr.. Foraker took the floor
on the measure and consumed practl-
cally all Of the remainder of the days
session. He spent some time IN the
discussion of some Of the amendments
he has suggested to the bill and then
entered upon the consideration Of the
entire question of railroad rate legu-
lation, urging again the uneonstltu'
tionality of the pending bill from va
rious points Of view. He was Ire
ouently interrupted by other Senators
Nh. Lodge spoke briefly IN support
of the practice of granting lower rates
on goods intended for export than on
those used in domestic consumption
Mr.. Latimer III his speech said that at
the present time seven corporations
control practically all Of the railroads
of the country, and no argument Is
necessary to convince a thinking man la
that his consolidation means the elm
nation of competition and the placing
Of despotic power in the. hands OIL
few men.
Gets 20 Years For Assault.