Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 June 1902 — Congress. [ARTICLE]

Congress.

The Senate on Thursday passed the military academy appropriation bill, providing for extensive improvements at West Point, and devoted the rest of the day to debate upon the canal bill. In the House the general debate on the antianarchy hill was ended except for two speeches. The debate, like that of Wednesday, was devoted to legal arguments, the speakers being Messrs. Sibley (Pa.), De Arniond (Mo.), Williams (Miss.), Wooten (Texas), McDermott IN. J.t, Loud (Cal.), Crumpacker (Ind.), Maddoj (Ga.), Ball (Texas) and Clark (Mo.). Friday in the Senate was mainly occupied by debate upon the canal bill, a bill to pay $1,042 to Frank C. Darling of Minnesota for damages done by the Sioux Indians, and a large number of private pension bills were passed. In the House general debate on the anti-nnarcliy bill was closed. The incident of the day was a speech by Mr. Richardson, an Alabama Democrat, condemning the President in severe terms for the references in his Memorial Day oration at Arlington to the epithets applied to Lincoln and Grant during the Civil War and for his allusions to lynchings. Mr. Littlefield made a legal argument of an hour and a half in closing the debate on the bill. The section of the Senate bill providing a bodyguard for the President was stricken from the Senate bill as a precaution in case the House substitute failed. An effort was made to strike from the first section of the substitute the words limiting the crime of killing the President to the President in his official capacity, but the motion was lost, 03 to 89. Only one section had been disposed of when the House adjourned. By a vote of 100 *o 72, cast on strict party lines, the resolution requesting information as to salary or other compensation paid to Gen. Wood during the occupation of Cuba was laid on the table.

At the conclusion of routine business in the Senate on Saturday Mr. Depew spoke in advocacy of the bill appropriating $10,000,000 for the purchase of 2,000,000 acres of land for n national forest reserve in Vinginia. North Carolina. South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama and Tennessee. The Senate then began the consideration of the measure commonly known as the Ixmdon dock charges bill. Consideration of the canal bill occupied the rest of the session. In the House Mr. Cannon, chairman of the committee on appropriations, asked unanimous consent to consider a resolution to authorize the conferees on the sundry civil appropriation hill to insert in that bill the necessary appropriations authorized by the omnibus public building bill. He explained that about $(5,000,000 should be appropriated in the sundry civil bill on account of the omnibus act which was signed Friday. There was no objection, and the resolution was adopted.

During the early part of the Senate session on Monday the naval appropriation hill wns considered. All of the committee amendments were agreed to except that relating to the construction of two additional battleships, two cruisers and two gunboats, action on which was delayed. After a speech by Mr. Simmons in support of the bill for the establishment of a national forest reserve in the southern Appalachian mountains discussion of the canal bill was resumed. In the House the anti-auarcliy bill was passed. The remainder of the day was devoted to the bill to transfer certain forest reserves from the Interior Department to the Agricultural Department, and to authorize the creation in such reserves of game and fish preserves.

The Senate on Tuesday passed the naval appropriation bill and resumed consideration of the isthmian canal question. Mr. Turner delivered an extended argument in support of the Nicaraguan route. A bill was passed appropriating $15,845 for the relief of the persons who sustained damages by the explosion of an ammunition chest of Battery F, Second United States artillery, in Chicago, July 1(5, 1804. The House bill providing for the protection of the President was referred to the judiciary committee. The House defeated the bill to transfer certain forest reserves to the Agricultural Department. The special order for the consideration of the Corliss Pacific cable bill was then adopted by a vote of 108 to 73, and for the remainder of the afternoon the author of the measure argued in favor of its passage. Mr. Dalzell (Pa.), who presented the rule, announced he was opposed to the government building a cable to the Philippines. He said he favored the construction of an American cable by American capital.

The House bill amending the present law providing for the issuance of passports to persons who owe allegiance to tlie United States, whether they be citizens of the United States or not, was passed by the Senate on Wednesday. It was explained by Mr. Foraker that the bill simply was to provide for the issuance of passports to citizens of Porto Rico and the Philippines. The rest of the day was devoted to consideration of the canal bill and the subject of election of United States Senators by popular vote. The House killed the Corliss I’aeilic hill by striking out the enacting clause. A Semite hill was passed to authorize the towu of Lawton, Okla., to use $150,000 from the sale of town lots for municipal improvements; Anadarko, Okla., SOO,OOO, and Holinrt, Okla., $50,000. Another Senate hill was passed to retire four survivors of the Lndy Franklin Bay expedition ns sergeants in the signal service.