Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 February 1901 — Friday, February 22. [ARTICLE]

Friday, February 22.

Senate passed two of the great supply bills —the postoffice and the diplomatic and consular appropriation. During the greater part of the session a proposition to discontinue the appropriations for fast mail facilities from New York to New Orleans via Atlanta, and from Kansas City, MO., to Newton, Kan., was under discussion. By a decisive vote the appropriations were continued. An effort was made to obtain an appropriation to continue the pneumatic tube service in New York, Boston and Philadelphia, but it failed. House devoted an hour to unanimous

eoaMtnt legislation and two hours and * half each to the passage of private claims bills and private pension bills. Nine bills were passed by unanimous consent and twenty-nine claims bills and 139 pension bills were passed. Among the latter was the senate bill to pension the widow of the late Gen. Henry W. Lawton, who was killed in the Philippines. Saturday, February 23. The president has issued a proclamation calling a special session of the senate for executive purposes immediately upon the dissolution of the present congress, March 4. The text of the proclamation is aa lollows: “By the president of the United States of America—A proclamation: Whereas, Public interests require that the senate of the United States be convened at 12 o’clock on the 4th day of March next to receive such communications as may be made by the executive: Now, therefore, I, William McKinley, president of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim and declare that an extraordinary occasion requires the senate of the United States ao convene at the capital in this city of Washington on the 4th day of March next, at 12 o’clock noon, of which all -persons who shall at that time be entitled to act as members of that body are hereby required to take notice. Given under my hand and the seal of the United States at Washington the 23d day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and one, and of the independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-fifth. “WILLIAM M’KINLEY. "By the president: JOHN HAY, “Secretary of State.”