Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 December 1901 — PROCEEDINGS IN CONGRESS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

PROCEEDINGS IN CONGRESS

Record of Legislative Work in Senate and House. MANY BILLS INTRODUCED. The Home Committees u Announce.l by Speaker Henderaoa —Cannon of Illinois Heads the Appropriations Committee —Hay Pauncefote Treaty. Friday, December 8. Speaker Henderson in the house announced the appointment of the following committees: Ways and Means —Payne (N. Y.), Dalzell (Pa.), Hopkins (Ill.), .Grosvenor (O.), Russell (Conn.), Steele (lad.), Tawhey <Mlnn.). McCall (Mass.), Long (Kas.), Babcock (Wis.), Metcalfe (Cal.), Republicans. Richardson (Tenn.), Robertson (La.), Swanson (Va.), McClellan (N. Y.), Newlands (Nev.), and Cooper (Tex.), Democrats. Appropriations—Cannon (Ill.), Bingham (Pa.), Hemenway (Ind.), Barney (Wis.), Moody (Mass.), Van Voorhis (0.), McCleary (Minn.), Littauer (N. Y.), Brownlow (Tenn.), Gardner (Mich.), Burkett (Neb.), Republicans. Livingston (Ga.), Mcßae (Ark.), Bell (Colo.), Pierce (Tenn.). Benton (Mo.), and Taylor (Ala.), Democrats. Enrolled Bills—Wachter (Md.), Ball (Del.), Burk (Pa.), Currier (N. H.), Republicans. Lloyd (Mo.), and Edwards (Mont.), Democrats.' Leaders in congress insist a radical law must be passed at the present session to squelch anarchists. Abraham Isaak's utterances commending McKinley’s assassination aroused anger. Senator Hoar's plan approved. Rumor revived that Secretary Hay is to retire after the confirmation of the Nicarauguan Canal treaty by the senate. Secretary Root thought to be most likely to succeed him in that event. Congressman Crumpacker again in-

troduced his bill to reduce southern representation in congress. Senate foreign committee made favorable report on Hay-Pauncefote treaty, which insures its ratification. President sent to the senate names of 2,479 nominees for office. Saturday, December 7. New subsidy bill prepared by Senator Frye will be introduced in both houses of congress to-day. Objectionable features of the former bill left out of the measure. Willis L. Moore, head of the weather department, made annual report in -which he predicted Increased use of wireless telegraphy. White House ball of Jan. 3 will be the first of many brilliant dances in which Washington society will take part this winter. According to the annual report of Director of the Mint Roberts, the coinage for 1901 amounted to $136,340,781. Monday, December 9. Senator Tillman defied his colleague in a senate discussion of their troubles, and challenged him Tcf resign. Their seats may be declared vacantPresident Roosevelt sent several, hundred nominations to office to the senate, including that of Cprnelius Van Cott, postmaster of New Y<jrk. Congress to act on Andrew Carnegie’s propositon to give $10,000,000 to the city of Washington for a national university. New subsidy bill read in the senate. Principal items which aroused antagonism in the last congress left out. Hay-Pauncefote treaty will probably be ratified this week. Only two or three Democrats opposed to it. Senator Hoar introduced bill to punish as murderers all who participate in a lynching.

Find Gold In ■ D««m-t. The new Tonopah district of Nevada is one of the most remarkable mining camps of the west. The entire Pacific slope is awakening to its extraordinary richness. Although not yet “proved ’ as to the extent and depth, mining men familiar with the district assert that it far exceeds in mineral wealth all of Alaska combined, and that It bids fair to surpass the famous Cripple Creek district in the amount of gold and silver which It will soon produce. English Ilotal Is Destroyed. The Queen’s hotel at Southsea, England, was burned Sunday. Forty of the guests escaped in their night clothing only. Two chambermaids were suffqcated .and several firemen injured. The Queen’s hotel was a fashionable resort. Among those rescued from the building were the Rev. Thomas Teignniouth Shore, canon of Worcester and chaplain in ordinary to King Edward, and his wife; Major General Francis William Collis and Colonel and Mrs. Charles E., Stewart, retired, and Colonel and Mrs. Ruxton.

JOSEPH G. CANNON.