Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1906-03-08
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| The Senate was not IN session rludy.
The Tillman- Gillespie resolution calling
for an investigation of the ownership OF
coal and oil properties by the railroads
was passed by the House, after being
amended so that it will have to go back
! to the Senate for consideration. The
| famous Mussel Shoals bill, providing for
| the development of water power on the
Tennessee river IN Alabama. sent back
by the President for amendment, was
| passed.
| The Senate was not in session Satur-
day. In the House several minor bills
were passed by unanimous consent. IheJ
included a bill authorizing the Secretary
of the Interior to reclassify the public
lands in Alabama. Also the following
| bills: To extend the provisions or the
homestead laws to certain lands OF the
Yellowstone forest reserve; to extend the
time one year in which the Kensington
and Eastern Railway Company shall
complete it's bridge across the Calumet
river in Chicago At 1 o'clock the pen
sion calendar was taken up and 416 bills
were passed in sxty-four minutes
| -
In the Senate Monday Senator Iillman
reported the Hepburn railroad rate Dill.
Senator AIdrch made a brief statement
Of the position of the five Republicans
who opposed it in committee. Mr.. Cul-
t,,rscn moved that his own bill on the
| subject be substituted for the Hepburn
mea SIRE. and it was ordered printed .and
Iaid ON the table until the rate bill IS
taken up. Mr.. Clapp called up the bill
to dispose of the affairs of the i've CIV
ilizcl tribes in Indian Territory, and 1t
was discussed at length. Mr.. Dick, Ia
the afternoon, occupied the floor, speaking
in behalf of the statehood bill. A num-
Ter of bills of local Importance were
passed including Que for the erection OF
= $4,000 public building at Alton, III.
Legislation for the District of Columbia
occupied the first hour of the House ses-
sion, eight local bills being passed. Two
hours of hot debate on the question OF
aIlowin, the incorporation of the Lake
Erie and Ohio River Ship Canal Con-
pany followed, but the matter did not
come to a vote. Representative Kiefer
os Ohio introduced bill providing fo-
the reduction of the representation OF Inc
Southern States in Congress because OF
The Senate Tuesday agreed to vote on
the statehood bill Friday, March y. MT.
HOPKINS made a speech in support of the
measure. The remainder of the day was
devoted to a discussion of the Dill pro-
yiding for the settlement of the affairs OF
tho five civilized tribes of Indians, the
greater part Of the time being given to
the provision for the disposal of the coal
lands in Indian Territory. A bill was
passed extending the time allowed to the
Remington and Eastern Railroad Com
pany for the construction of a bridge
across the Calumet river IN ILLINOIS. MIL
ilary matters held the attention of the
! House, the army appropriation Dill Deln2
under consideration for amendment. That
Gems. Corbin and Macarthur might be-
come lieutenant generals the provision
| abolishing that rank was eliminated. only
| eight of the fifty pages of the bill were
passed upon. The Dalzell bill charterlng
the Lake Erie and Ohio Ship Canal Com
pany. with an authorized capital of $780,
600, was passed. A resolution of inquiry
aimed at the State Department was or
dered Cancelled and destroyed, as Mr.. Van
Duzer (Nevada), by whom it was pur-
ported to have been introduced, repudi.
ated it.
Senator Forakers speech opposing rail-
way rate legislation occupied three hours
of the session of the Senate Wednesday.
A further discussion of the railroad land
grant in Indian Territory followed, with
the result that a resolution was passed
extending the tribal government of the
five civilized tribes until March 4, 1907.
An executive session was had at 4 10 p.
M, but the doors were reopened ten MIN
utes later and the remainder of the day
was devoted to the passage OF private pen
sion bills. The army appropriation oc-
cupied the attention Of the House, but
it's consideration was not completed. The
discussion was marked by controversy
between the members of the approprla-
tons and military committees over the
amounts carried in the bill, and honors
were about evenly divided. A proposed
amendment to pay $1,000 each to the
widows of two San Francisco fremen
who lost their lives in the recent fire on
the transport Meade was ruled out of or
der. Provision for more than 800 clerks
employed in the staff and at army divis-
ion headquarters also went out when it
was shown that there was no authority in
law for their employment. A resolution
was adopted calling on the Postmaster
General for all information on which he
based his oBler withholding the rights and
privileges of the mails from the Peoples
United States Bank of st. Louis.
The discussion of the railroad rate
question was continued in the Senate
Thursday by Mr.. Dolliver, who spoke in
support of the Dolliver-Hepburn bill. The
remainder of the session was devoted to
the bill providing for the settlement Of
the affairs of the five civilized tribes of
Indians after the termination of their
tribal relations. No action was taken.
The House passed the army appropriation
bill, carrying about $69,OOO,OOO. Provis-
ion for cable ship for the Atlantic coast
and for a ship for mine planting on the
Pacific was eliminated on points of order.