VOL.
WHAT CONGRESS DID
jl Comprehensive ReSome of Session
and Its Work
MUCH IMPORTANT LEGISLATION.
A Number of Investigations Ordered
and What Resulted From Them
The Appropriations.
- The work of Congress is now closed,
go that it is possible to sum up the
record which has been made during the
cast ten months, which constitutes the
first session of the 57th Congress. The
6ession has been marked by exceptional
business activity, with many questions
of far-reaching general interest. With
the exception oi tne uuoan reciprocity
bill, most of the larger subjects of gen-
eral legislation have been enacted as
laws. Notable among tnese large meas
ures is the isthmian canal bill, which
consumates the efforts of a half cen
tury to link together the . waters of
the Atlantic and the Pacific Aside
(rom its international importance this
bill probably involved a large sum of
money than that covering any other
gingle undertaking by the Government
outside of war expenditures. The Phil
ippine civil government bill is another
measure of far-reaching importance,
extending to our remote Pacific pos
sessions a system of internal civil gov
ernment, with coinage, currency, bank
ing, corporationtimber and homestead
laws. Among the other important gen
eral laws enacted are these repealing
the war revenue taxes, extending and
making more effective the Chinese ex
clusion laws, and making a tariff for
goods to and. from the Philippines ; ex
tending the charter of national banks
for twenty years, and making a perma
nent census office, restricting the sale
of oeomargarine by placing a high tax
on imitation butter; providing a Con
sular and diplomatic service for Cuba,
and establishing an. extensive system
by which the Government will aid in
the irrigation of arid sections of the
West.
The repeal of the war revenue taxes
reduced taxation $73,250,000, and it said
to be the largest single reduction of
taxation ever made in this country. By
this step the last of the taxes imposed
at the beginning of our war with Spain
was wiped out. The Philippine Tariff
Act imposed 76 per cent of the Dingley
tariff rates on articles coming from the
Philippines to. the United States, and
also imposed on the articles entering
the Philippines from the United States
the rates of duties established by the
Philippine c(mimlssion. The Oleomar
garine Act is the "result of several years
Df agitation. It places a tax of ten
cents a pound -on substances colored to
imitate butter. The Irrigation Act is of Providing for the protection of
special importance to the development game in Alaska, particularly the large
of the West. It creates an irrigation game, such as moose, caribou, etc.
fund in the treasury department, into Extending an invitation to the
which is to be paid the proceeds of the . pSch Government to join in the un
sales of public lands in the arid States, veiling in Washington of the statue of
This fund in turn is to be used in stor-
ing
water and establishing irrigation
system; the irrigated sections to ,De
open to homesteaders, who are to be
charged a proportional share of the
cost of improvement. The Chinese ex
clusion law continues exclusion "until
otherwise provided by law," and also
anplies the exclusion "to the island ter
ritory within the jurisdiction of the
Unitedstates."
Aside from these important laws are
a number of other measures of general
importance, which have passed one or
both houses, but have not progressed
to the final stage. These include the
anti-anarchy legislation, which grew
out of the assassination of President
McKinley. Bills restricting anarchy and
throwing safeguards about the Presi
dent have passed both, branches of
Congress, but it . was impossible to
reach an agreement in conference, so
that the subject goes over until next
December. A bill giving Statehood to
Arizona, New Mexico and Oklahoma
known as the omnibus Statehood bill
passed the House, and the Senate has
determined to take up the matter at
the next session. ;
The ship subsidy bill received atten
tion in the Senate, but the end of the
session has come without the measure
being reported to the House. As it
passe the Senate the bill grants grad
ed subsidy to steam, and sailing ves
sels of Amerrlcan build. In the House
it has been deemed desirable to let the4 gations during the session which have
subject go over until the short session, attracted much attention. An inves
when it is expected that a bill on the tigation of conditions in i the. Philip
subject will be reported and presented pmes conducted by the Philippine
to the President. - v - , committee of the Senate, has led to
The bill creating an Appalachian the examination of many, witnesses
forest reserve, including a vast tract in jg jn' the conduct of civil and mili
the Appalachian Mountain" section! of to-v affairs in-the islands. Another
the South, "has received favorable at-
tenuon in both houses, but has gone
over for final adjustment of dlfferen-
COLUMBUSvN. C.f TRSDAY, JULY 10, 1902.
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iSSa touS? SS?1" "i ,0,Ul!r 5lU
passed by the Senate and likely to be-
come a aw changes the marine health
service tn a nntiftnoi i
SaSS?S?'SSS5P5' oi
ucaiui 1 1 1 1 1 hh 1 1 i II
State health authorities in auarAntinn
and health affairsr.
The bill to establish a cable between
the United States, Hawaii and the
Philippines was retired by defeat in
.the House of r Representatives. ,
Several other measures have ad
vanced to a certain stage and, have
there halted without - much prospect
for further advancement. These in
clude the resolution . looking to the
election of United States Senators by
direct vote of the people. It passetf
the Hduse by practically a unanimous
vote, but in the Senate has received
little attention, f!re House passed a
bill relating to immigration laws, cod-
ifying and amending the laws and mak-
lag some important changes. The bill
defining the meaning of conspiracy in
injunction cases passed tile House of
Representatives, but has not made
much progress in the Senate. On the
other hand the Senate passed an im-
portant measure creating a department
AAmnn aisa a a vivnl A A Vt 1
Cabinet officer, but it has made no
progress in the House, not having been
reported from the committee on com
merce. Another bill of interest to the
commercial world is the pure, food
measure, which was drafted by the
pure food commission and, after ex-
tended hearings, was reported in thi
House committee on commerce, but
not passed. 4
The Flower bill was! probably the
most important financial measure
which has been brought before Con
gress. After considerable public dis-
cussion by the members of the House
It nas gone over ior ; cuusiuerauou
next December and the financial mea
sure known as the Hill bill, prbviding
for the coinage of subsidiary silver
and for the retirement of the present
standard silver dollar, has passed the
House, but has not been acted on in
Via Qonoto A mrm rr thft nthtr iTnTifir
tant measures of general legislation
not heretofore named, - which hava
been finally enacted as laws, are the
following: '
. To prevent the sale of firearms,
opium and intoxicating liquors to the
natives of certain of the Pacific isl
ands. To promote t the efficiency of the
revenue cutter service and to provide
for the retirement of its officers.
To refund the duties paid in Porto
Rico on articles imported from the
Unuited States during the military
occupation.
Annronriatine $200,000 for the re-
t JT M, .
lief of the volcano sufferers of Mar
tinique. "
Authorizing the ejection of Y. M.
C. A. buildings on United States mil
itary reservations. j
Regulatin-g the introduction of eggs
of game birds, for the purpose or
nrnnaeation.
Marshal De Rochambeau.
Refunding the amount of legacy tax
paid by charitable, benevblent and
eleemosynary institutions.
When Mr. Cannon submit a gen
eral estimate of appropriation a few
ning the work to carry the total up to
that time " $691,445,000. Since the
canal bill has passed, carrying a pres
ent appropriation of $40,000,000 for
the franchise, and enough more for
the rights of Colombia ana tor oegm-
ning the work to carry the otal up to
$50,000,000. The entire cost of the
undertaking is .apprujumaieij
000,000. Mr. Cannon's estimate aiso
omitted contracts for future expendi
ture included in the omnibus public
building, the omnibus -claims and va
rious other bills, aggregating. a large
amount. This will carry the total for
the session, figuring in these future
amounts, almost, if not quite, up to
the billion-dollar mark. ; ,
The appropriations bills have con
ninprf little eeneral legislation, being
confined chiefly to the regular needs
of the various branches or tne gov
ernment. . '. :, m . ...
The naval bill provides, for an addi
tion of two armored cruisers, two bat
tleships and two gunboats to the na
vy, and a provision is still in contro
versy as to whether one of each class
of . these, ships shall be built in Gov
ernment yards. . .
ThprA havR been several investi-
senate Inquiry has related to the con
dition of affairs in Cuba, especially as
I to sugar. In .the House sensational
Gorges Wde In connection with the
purchase lot the Danish West Indian
Islands leS taA invit OS 225
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nature ol
Thirteen Now Dead.
Gloversyllle, ; N. Y., Spcialv Motor
man William bodge, of the runaway
car ; on " the Mountain Lake Railroad,
died Llttauet; Hospital Sunday
night, , making tlje thirteenth victim
of the Wreck of Friday night It is
purobabli that George Fisher, whose '
skull was fractured, will die,; and Ed
ward ScHell is in a very serious state.
Coroner palmer has commenced an
investigation." It has developed that
the frame of the truck of the runaway
car was (broken and may have caused
the accident, but the death of the mo-
torman Vjvill make it difficult to deter
mine the exact cause. ! .
N Buys Two Railroads.
. Roanoke, Va, Special! The Norfolk
& Western Railway Company has
bought and t3k charge of two rail-
r
p vouoi oiuiug . j .. uv o uiau oj a i. .1x1.
TM 1n'(. InMMa A. !Onitit. Dull
The first' is tha lager .& Southern Rail
way, vfhlch ru:ia from tagar to Ritter
W. Va. j It is completed for the length
of five niiles and reaches; into a valuable
timber ielt The other road . is the
Hillsboro Railroad, which connects the
Norfolkj& Western with the Baltimore
& Ohio jSouthewestern at Sardinia, . O.,
and is twenty miles long.
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White Man Nearly Lynched.
Macon,
Ga., Special. An Albany
special to The Telegraph says that Ed
ward Rich, a young white man, charg
ed with holding ;the jbody of Sidney
Wallis,; a boy drownedj in a near by
creek, for a reward, was nearly lynch
ed. He had been ordered to leave town.
He m so, but a toob! formed and he
was caught. A rtracej chain had been
houhd about iitiS'when officers arrived.
A scuffle ensued, but the advice of
cooler! heads prevailed and he was
placed! in jail, charge wtth, trafficking
in human bodies. Dcmgor of a lynch
ing is not yet over.
' : Killed By a Ball.
Midlothian, 'Tex., : Special. Pitcher
Charles Harrington, who until recent
ly was a member of the Dallas team
of thfe Texas league, was killed by a
batted ball here. Harrington had
pitched a ball which was hit back to
the pitcher, striking, him in the. stom-
ach. Harrington fielded the ball, made
the assist in putting the runner out
and then dropped dead.
A Great Rain Storm.
Buffalo. N. J.. Special.- A terrific
rain jand wind storm swept oyer west
ern jNew York at an early hour Sun-,
day.! Rivers and creeks rose rapidly,,
overflowing their banks and sweeping
away houses and barns and live stock.
The loss will reach into hundreds of
thousands of dollars. The telegraph
and telephone wires are down and
communication with small towns in
Wyoming, Niagara and Cattaragus
counties is difficult to establish.
The "OIday Line."
On account of the Baptist Young
People's Union, Convention, to be held
L LVJ
at-Ltroviaence, i., nas auiuuiueu
the sale-of specially low excursion
tickets to Providence from Norfolk,
Portsmouth and Old Point Comfort,
as Ithe following rates: -
All rail from Baltimore .(not in
cluding transfer through New York:
$13.60. V
Via New York and Providence " or
Stonington Line $12.30.
Via New York and Fall River
Line $12.60.
The "Bay Line" will place these
tickets on sale on July 7th, 8th and
10,th of July, good, returning from
Providence up to' and including July
20 th. 1902. ' '
. This route to Providence from the
South1 commends itself to the dele
gates; as it affords a pleasant
"break" in the railroad travel, after
a fgood night's sleep in the commod
ious staterooms of the "Alabama" or
"Georgia," up the Chesapeake Bay,
and which steamers arrive in Balti
more in time to - make . 2 connection
with the early trains out of the
Monumental City" for Providence,
R. I. Full particulars can be had of
all agents along the route of the S.
A. Jx or J. W, Brown, Jr., So. Pas3.
Agt and Key Compton, Gl. Agent,
Bay Line, Norfolk. Va.
A DESTRUCTIVE FIRE
Swift and Company's Packing Plant
Burned I
WAS A MILLION DOLLAR LOSS
Burned District Adjoined Largest Of
fice Building in the United Statesf-
' Loss Covered By Insurance.
Chicago, Special. By a fire which
broke out in their nlant at the stock
yards Saturday night, Swift & Co., suf-
fered a loss whoch is estimated by" tne
officials at $1,000,000. The fire was con
fined to one building standing at the
intersection of Packers avenue
and
Broadway. This structure was foursto-
i.
ries high, built of brick, and was
feet square. V
The first floor was occupied by
t
300
ihe
wholsesale meat market of the com
pany, the second by the shipping de
partment and the third and fourth; by
the general offices of the company.
The latter are said to have, been jthe
largest single offices in the -United
States, more than 800 employes work
ing on one of the floors in a single
room. s - ' .
The cause of the fire is not known,
but it was discovered near the engine
room. It spread so rapidly through1 the
building that it was found impossible
td'save anything in the structure.
The burned building adjoins portions
of the plants of Armour" & , Co.,j arid
Libby, McNeil & Libby, and for a time
the Are department had, a. town
fight to keep these buildings from the
flames; W. J. McGonigle, the superin
tendent of "the plant, said tonight! that
the lloss will aggregate fully one mil
lion. ' ..r ; : j
The loss is fully covered by insur
ance.
After the Trusts. j
Oyster Bay, L. I., Special. It has
been ascertained that the President's
speech at Pittsburg Friday in. refer
ence to the trust question .was ajfore
ruriher of determined efforts by him
to have Congress take up that sub
ject and enact definite legislation at
its next session for the control' or su
pervision of the trusts. Recently the
President and Attorney General Knox
held a conference with Representa
tive Littlefleld, of Maine, whose know-
ledge of constitutional law
is admit-
ted, at which Mr. Littlefleld was in
vited to prepare a bill for the regula
tion and control f of the trusts that
will go before Congress with the en
dorsement and influence! of the Presi
dent back of it. .The bill will be sub
mitted at the beginning of the next
session, but before this is done, the
ProclrleTit AttfvmAv- Oenfvrn.1 ' Ktifnr
and Mr. Littlefleld will have frequent
conferences as to the details. In ad
dition to this proposed action : the
President is going to talk -upon the
trust question a great deal on the
several trips to be made by him in
the fall. He has - announced to
friends that the question is a vital
one, and that he proposes to push it
vigorously until there is some j action
by Congress. j ; , ;
Duty on Cuban Vessels,
f Washington, Special. The j Presi
dent has issued a proclomation of
I T..1 oJ. wmrtrv iHfinmlnnflTitf
rt.-x. .i.
QULlcs- upuu ' uuaii v csscia cxxi,c7&ixig
United States ports. Under Spanish
rule and also under the" military oc-
cuDation such "duties were not im-
posed upon Cuban vessels, for it has
been formally declared to the authori
ties that Spain imposed no such duties
nnnn United States vessels; But
when Cuba became an independent,
nation the law-was self-acting and the
duties began to run, until such time
as the president should receive satis
factory assurance, that there was no
discrimination against United States
vessels in Cuban ports. Now such
assurance has been received through
Mr. Squiers and the proclomation has
been issued.
' The King Out 'S Danger. -London,
By Cable. The following
bulletin regarding King Edward's
condition was posted at Buckingham
Palace at 10 o'clock Sunday morning:
"His Majesty had another excellent
night He Is cheerful and feels much
stronger. We are glad to! be able to
state that we consider th King now
out of danger. The evening j bulletins
will therefore be discontiaued."
NO. 13.
A BILLION-DOLLAR CONGRESS
Representative- Livingston, of Geor
gia, flakes Comparisons.
Washington, SpecialChairman Can
non, of the House appropriations com
mittee, has presented a statement of
the appropriations made at the present
session of Congress showing a total of
$750,063,837, not including the large
amounts that win be required for the
isthmian canal, and public building and
river and harbor contracts. In his
statement Mr. Canon says in part:
"An analysis of this table shows that
the total estimated expenditures fore
casted by the executive - departments
aggregated $776,348,518; that ..the total,
appriations made, exclusive of $50,130,
000 toward an isthmian canal, aggre
gated $750,063,837. The appropriations
made in the regular annual bills for or
dinary expenses of the government
payable during the fiscal year 1903, ag
gregate $595,502705, which, together
with the sums carried under permanent
appropriations and exclusive of the
amount required by the sinking fund
makes a total of $655,428,925. In the
nature of things, and in the light ,of
past experience this . entire sum will
never be expended, but will probably be
reduced in the neighborhood of 10 per
cent. The revenues of the government
as now estimated, on the basis of ' th
revenue reduction 'legislation enacted
at this session amount to $640,520,630.
The expenditures to be made under
the appropriations of "this session will
not exceed $600,000,000 or a sum ap
proximating $40,000,000 less - than the
revenues which we expect to derive un
der the revenue laws as revised by thU
Congress."
Representative Livingston,' of Georr
gia, the ranking Democrat of the ap-
ment showing with the inclusion of the
isthmian eanal, river and harbor, and
other - prospective expenditures, appro-.
priations of over one billloV dollars
during the past session. His statement
says in part: "The direct appropria
tions made at this session of Con
gress including the" isthmian' canal ap
priation reach the aggregate of $800,-'
900.S37. To this sum should be added
the amount of $359,373,215 to include
contracts authorized to be entered into
in addition to. the , specific ; appropria
tions which are made. These contracts
are in the nature of a promissory note
from the government, to be met 1 and
liquidated In the future, and constitute
as much a part of. the appropriations
chargeable to this session are the spe
cific appropriations made, and which
are to be expended, not at once, but
throughout the coming fiscal year. The
two sums aggregate $1,059,577,052. The
appropriations including authorized
contracts of this session exceed those,
including contracts of the last session:
by $270,798,102.
- "The last session of the fifty-third
Congress for the fiscal year 1898 was
Democratic in both branches and the
government was administered by Mr.
Cleveland. It therefore affords fair
grounder the purposeof a compari-
son. The difference between the total
then and now amounts to the startling
sum of $558,881i768,or more than as
much, again as it required to conduct
the affairs of government under a Dem
ocratic Congress and executive.
Report on Textiles.
Washington, Special. The Census
Bureau has issued a report on the com
bined textile industry of the United
States of 1900. The branches included
in the industry follow: Cotton manu
factures,; including cotton goods and
I nrtfftTi otnoll -woroa Trrrl m o nn f a vitftwa
nni,iiii. -nMan
iuwuuju tiuwxwu. t)uuuui nuiswu gvuu3,
other than rag felt goods, and woolen
hats;, silk. manufactures, hosiery and
knit goods, cordage and twine; linen
goods, jute goods and dyeing and
finishing textiles. The census shows a
capital of $1,042,997,577 invested in the
4,321 establishments reporting for the
industry. The sum represents only the
live capital utilized and the value of .
the lands, buildings, j machinery, tools
and implements. The value of the pro
ducts is given at $931,494,566, tho pro-
duce which' in vilved an outlay of $23,
289,162 for salaries of officials, clerks,
etc; $209,022,447 for wa,ges; ZZt122r
916 for miscellaneous expenses,' and
$521,345,200 for materials used, mill
supplies, freight, and: fuel.
Voluntars Increase In Wages.
Pittsburg, Special.- The largest vol
untary increase ever known in tho
wages of 100,000 men has been decided
upon by the United. States teel Cor
poration. They will receive an advance
of 10 per cent, which will increase the
annual pay roll of the steel corporation
by- $4,000,000. The advance applies to
union as well as non-union men. '
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