Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 January 1901 — SETBACK FOR SUBSIDY BILL. [ARTICLE]

SETBACK FOR SUBSIDY BILL.

Senate Fends Shipping: Measure to Bottom of the Calendar. By a maneuver the Senate sidetracked the ship subsidy bill Thursday and sent it to the bottom of the calendar. The pressing emergency which in the judgment of the President and his friends requires the immediate passage of the army reorganization bill caused that meas ure to be taken up when the Senate met at noon and its consideration was continued until 2 o’clock, when unanimous consent was asked by Senator Hawley (Conn.), chairman of the military affairs committee, that the subsidy bill be temporarily deposed and the army bill be proceeded with. This was the opportunity which the opponents of the subsidy proposition were waiting for, and Senator Pettigrew immediately Senator Frye, who was in the chair,; was forced to rule that under the resolution the subsidy bill was displaced and it went to the bottom of the list. w