Atlantic Daily Telegraph (Newspaper) - March 4, 1895, Atlantic, Iowa VOLUME MONDAY MARCH 1895 NUMBER 58 Jones and Daniel Chosen by the SPEAKER ALSO Unanimously OHO of the Dele From the and Have Got Together on All the Appropria tions but Important Measures Failed to March execu tive conference of the senate this morn ing ended with the selections of Senators Jones and by unanimous as the senate representatives in the International monetary All appropriation bills huve been agreed to except the naval and the probability is that the senate amend ments will be agreed which will pass all Speaker Crisp was unanimously chosen as one of the delegates to the interna tional monetary conference by the Total Amount of March follow ing figures show approximately the total appropriations made during the present session of 008 diplomatic and 078 District of 748 military pen 977 general sundry urgent de bills passed early in the executive and permanent mis These figures are except in the case of general sundry legislative and naval and mis and these are very close to the exact except possibly on the general deficiency and miscel The figures oa the general de are given as the passed the house and will be found to be not far from WORK BY THIS CONGRESS Appropriation Bills the I Measures March work o this last session of the con gross must necessarily deal more wit what was attempted to be done than that which was accomplished since mos of the important business considered has been relegated to the first Th term has been particularly marked b the inability of the senate and tin house to agree upon any of the portant problems presented by them Congress met on 4 last with on Imperative and perennial task to frarn and enact the various Next iin was the fman for which no definite pla of settlement beyond many free silver bills and various individual were then in Several important bills came over as a heritage from the preceding Foremost among them were in the the Nicaragua canal the railroad pooling and the for the settlement of the in of the Union Pacific rail known as the The Nicaragua canal has not been able to secure a hearing in the largely through the enthusiastic efforts of Sena tor Morgan The was pushed to a vote in that body after pro debate and was sent to the where the conference committee substituted its own which had been on the calendar throughout the session and which differed in several points from the Morgan Honso and Senate Couldnt The pooling passed by the house early in the but the sen ate refused to consider it by a negative vote of 42 to on the question of con Strong opposition to the was developed in the house and after a very sharp debate it was re committed to the committee without in Several important bills were placed on the calendar of the senate at the beginning of the handed down from the long session when they passed by the Promi nent among them was the to estab liana uniform system of oh was debated bul ally Another unsuccess fnl measure was the There were also on the senate calendar the four bills which the house had sent to place on the free list and barbed but the secure consideration of tlie free sugar Kill was negative by a small majority and the opposition to the three others was so apparent that they have been al lowed to pass into The most interesting chapter of the history of the session is made by attempt at financia legislation in both These are too well known to require recapitula No financial legislation has re suited from the host of bills introduced during the with more or less weight of authority behind Passed the Appropriation The principal class of legislation ac the short session was that of making appropriations for the support of the Not a little general legislation was incorporated into the appropriation These in the order iu which they were passed by tbg were For the military academy West diplomatic mid District of postal sundry executive and navy and When the last week of congress the house had all except the general deficiency and the senate had the last four yet to The pension as contained provisions that pensions shall not be paid to who are not citizens of the United except for actual disabilities incurred in the ser directing examining surgeons to tate the ratings to which they think he applicants are entitled and fixing the rate of pension at a The diplomatic and consular in creased the salaries of several foreign representatives and the senate placed in t an amendment authorizing the presi dent to contract for laying a cable be the Hawaiian islands and the United States and to use in the an amendment which the house refuged to Inspection of Live The agricultural empowered the agriculture to enforce rules or the inspection of live cattle whose meat is intended for shipment abroad in any and regulations to prevent the shipment of condemned carcasses abroad or from one state to another and fixed regulations for their Considerable legislation was added to the sundry civil and much more was attempted in the senate by proposed The completion of sev eral public buildings was provided for in the as it passed the house and sums were added in the senate for new Another senate amendment provided for the purchase of the site of the Elaine Provision was also included for the transfer of the mili tary prison at Fort Leaven to the department of to be known as the United States penitentiary and maintained for keeping United States prisoners who have heretofore held in state prisons under con The naval was notable be cause of the new navy provision for two battle ships and six torpedo boats and the increase of the enlisted force by the addition of The general deficiency reported to the house amounted to An amendment requested by the secretary of the state to pay the claims of Great Britain for damages for seizures of sealers in Bering sea was voted down by the most conspicuous personal legislation passed was the re vival of the grade of lieutenant general of the army that Major General Scho fleld might be promoted to the while the act of greatest importance to the government departments and con gress was the printing which prac places the control of all of the printing in the hands of a committee of six from each of the two Laws affecting shipping were To es rules To prevent collisions on the great lakes and the tributary waters another of the same effect applying to rivers and inland sup to the act of or preventing collisions at The time for making the report of the board of surveying canal routes from Lake Erie to the Ohio river was extended to the next session of Numerous bridge bills were Interstate Law The commercial travelers organiza tion secured an amendment to the inter state commerce issuance of joint interchangeable mile tickets good over more than one The house adopted a joint reso lution for an amendment to the consti and providing for the election of United States senators by direct vote of people of the but the resolution was reported adversely by the senate committee on The only legislation affecting the tariff act was a resolution to extend to April 15 the time for making returns to the interrogatories under the income tax sections and modifying the questions required to be SABBATH DAY IN THE It Was Productive of But Little In the Way of Sabbath day session of the house was productive of but little in the way of accomplishing succeed in having passed under suspension of the rules the senate pensioning General McClernand of at the rate of a It was opposed by Jones and advocated by who made an effective 6miuute A to pension the widow of General Joseph Carter was also passed on motion of At the evening session of the house much was in unavailing ef forts to secure unanimous consent for the consideration of private The principal feature was the report of the committee of an agreement on the sun dry civil appropriation The para graph covering the proposed interna tional monetary conference gave rise to an animated at the close of the report was agreed The Indian appropriation as agreed upon by the conferees was also ap thus disposing of these two measures as far as the house was con Among the miscellaneous matters dis posed of were the following bills Directing the secretary of war to grant telegraphers in the military serv ice during the war certificates setting the extent and character ot the payment of accrued pensions at the death of the Amending the copyright law so as to limit the liability of newspaper publish ers iu case of unauthorized printing of SENATORS DISCUSS of the Senates Sunday Afternoon Legislative March the sharp fight Saturday night over the sen ate provision in the sundry civil for the payment of sugar bounties earned up to June which resulted in the adoption of the amendment shortly after the session dragged wearily on through the silent watches of the night until the sundry civil and Indian appropriation had been sent to As the gray dawn was breaking the house took a recess 2 oclock San day The senate spent nearly three audit half hours Sunday from 8 to and then took un til The naval appropriation was under consideration most of the the pending question being on the amendment reported from the com on appropriations to reduce the number of the battleships to be con for from three to At 10 oclock the was taken on the and it was agreed 88 to The conference report on the sundry civil appropriation was made and was concurred in after a long The amendment for the purchase of the Blaine property was The provisions for the officers of the revenue cutter service were modified so as to al low retirement on half The amendment for the Tennessee centennial was The amend ment for a survey of the route of the Nicaragua canal was agreed The transfer of the Fort Leaven worth mili tary prison to the department of jus tice was preserved in the also the amendment for delegates to an in conference on the monetary United States to Be March United States is to be represented at the open ing of the Baltic and North seas canal on June SO next by the cruisers San Francisco and the Secre tary Herbert having issued orders to that Seed Grain Amendment March Petti grew seed grain amendment was out in the conference on the sundry MISS ANNA GOULD Ceremony Was Performed by Archbishop of New NEW March noon under a canopy of royal Miss Anna Gould was wedded to Count Paul Ernest de The ceremony was performed in the East Indian room of the Gould which had been converted into a veritable garden of Archbishop Corrigan While the arrangements for the wedding has been on a magnificent the number of invitations issued was only relatives and intimate friends hav ing been so Just as the mar riage was being poor children were feasting at the industrial schools of the city on the good things provided by the generosity of the bride and her Miss Helen The Count and Countess de Castellane will spend the time until the sailing of the New York on Wednesday Part of 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