Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 February 1899 — CASH TO PAY SPAIN. [ARTICLE]

CASH TO PAY SPAIN.

House Votes the $20,000,003 Under Snipendon cf Rule*. A separate hill appropriating $20,000,000 for payment to Spain under the provisions of the treaty of Paris was passed Monday by the House of Representatives under suspension of the rules. No amendment was iu order, and an attempt to secure unanimous consent to offer an amendment declaratory of a policy not permanently to annex the islands was objected to. Mr. Wheeler of Kentucky, upon whose point of ordpr the appropriation went out of the sundry civil bill, made the only speech in operi s toostility to the measure, but upon the roll call thirty-four members—thirty-one Democrats, two Populists and one silver Republican—voted against it. The votes of 219 members were cast for it.