Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 March 1896 — THE HOUSE. [ARTICLE]

THE HOUSE.

Bill* Introduced and Petitions and Resolutlons Presented. ‘ ' Washington, March 3. -The hou.w yesterday, after two hours’ spirited debate, by a vote of 263 to 17, agreed to (in lieu of the resolutions adopted Friday by the senate) the concurrent resolutions reported last week by its committee on foreign affairs declaring that, in the opinion of congress, n state of public war exists in Cuba, the parties to which are entitled to belligerent rights, and between which the United States should observe a strict neutrality. They further declare that' congress believes the only permanent sola tion of the contest is in the estata J lishment cf a government by the people of Cuba, and that it is the sense of congress thnt the government of the United States should use its good offices and influence to that end. Washington, March 4. —The house spent the entire session yesterday in debating the amendment to the legislative appropriation bill to abolish the fee system in the cases of United States district attorneys and marshals. The salaries fixed by the amendment, which was adopted, range from $2,000 to $5,000. Washington, March s.—The house spent nearly the entire time yesterday fixing the salaries of United States district attorneys. The request of the senate for a conference on the Cuban resolutions was received but not acted upon. The conference report on the army appropriation bill was adopted. Washington, March 6.—The legislative appropriation bill was further considered in the house yesterday and during the debate Mr. Hartman (Mont.) attacked President Cleveland’s utterances in the Carnegie Music hall missionary meeting in New York, in which he spoke of “corrupt and unsafe states and undesirable territories,” and denied the right of the president to thus insult the citizens of any part of the country, and said that the greatest need of the schoolmaster and missionary was to be found in the white house. Washington, March 7.—ln the house yesterday the legislative, executive and judicial appropriation bill was passed, as was also a bill making seven years’ continued and unexplained absence sufficient proof of a soldier’s death in cases of application for pensions. The post office appropriation bill was discussed. Washington, March 9. —In the house on Saturday the joint resolution authorizing the secretary of the treasury to distribute the world’s fair 1 medals and diplomas was passed. The postoffice appropriation bill ($91,000,000) was discussed, and a series of attempts were made to increase the compensation of fourth-class postmasters, but they went before points of order.