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" j , , . trt1, tff ow ' Jr PAGES.3 TO 6 . 4 .. T V1NNSBOR ,.WED1 ESDA Y, ;I.., ,190_r. WHAT CONGRESS DI A Comprehensive Resume of Sessioi and Its Work MUCI IMPORTANT LEGISLATION, ANumber of Investigations O:dered and What Resulted From Them The Appropriations. The work of Congress Is now closed, so that it is possible to sum up the record which has been made during the past ten months, which constitutes the first session of the 57th Congress. The session has been marked by exceptional business activity, with many questions of far-reaching general interest. With the exception of the Cuban reciprocity bill, most of the larger subects of gen eral legislation have been enacted as laws. Notable among these 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 from its international importance this bill probably involved a large sum of money than that covering any other single 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 lng, corporation, timber and homestead Saws. Among the other important gen eral laws enacted are those repealing the war revenue taxes, extending and 2naking 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 herma ~nent census office, restrictingtthe sale of oleomargarine by placing a high tax on imtati%n butter; pr ,-iding 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 theJarg e- reduction of taxation everzzde this step the last of the taxes mpos at the beginning of our war with Spain was wiped out. The Philippine Tariff. Act imposed 75 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 commission. The Oleomar garine Act is the result of several years of agitation. It places a tax of ten cents a pound on substances colored to imitate butter. The Irrigation Act is of special importance to the development of the West. It creates an irrigation fund in the treasury department; into which is to be paid the proceedspf the sales of public-lands in the arld:States. This fund in tern is to be used'n stor ing water anil establishing irrigation system; the irrigated sections to be open to homesteaders, who are to be charged a proportional share of the cost of improvement. The Chinese ex '9clusion law continues exclusion 4'until otherwise provided by law," and also applies the exclusion "to the island ter rito)ry within the jurirsdiction of the Uni ted Statesi." Aside from these important laws are a number of other measures of general1 lireportance, 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- oft President McKinley. Bills restricting znarchy 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 intil next December. A bill giving Stjtehood to Arizona, New Mexico and Oklahoma ktnown 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 passed the Senate the bill grants grad ed subsidy to steam and sailing ves sels of- Amerrican build. In the House it has been deemed desirable to let the 'subject go over until the short scssionl, 'when it is expected that a bill onto subject will be reported and presented to the President. The bill creating an Appalachian forest reserve, including a vast tract in the Appalachian Mountain section of the South, has receivcd favorable at tention in both houses, but has gone over for final adjustmcnt of (!fferen ces until next December. A\nother bill passed by thc Senate andi liie!v to b? come a law chnanges the xmar:ne health service to a national health bureau, and gives the bureau larger powcrs an:1 facilities for co-operating with thie State health authorities in quarantine 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 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 is~ direct vote of the people. It passed the House by practically a unanimuom vote. but in the Senate has recel'ec little attention. The House passed a bill relating to immigration laws, ccd ifying and amending the laws and mak ing some Important changes. The bill defining the meaning of conspiracy in injunction cases passed tue 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 of commerce to be presided over by a Cabinet officer, but it has made no progress in the House, not having been reported from the committee on con merce. Another bill of interest to tt e comTmercial world is the pure fcoa measure, which was Arafted by the pure food commissio and, after ex tended hearings, was reported In the House committee on commerce, but not passed. 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 has gone over for consideration next December and the financial mea sure known as the Hill bill, providing 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 Le Senate. Among the other impor ,jant measures of general legllation not heretofore named, which have been finally enacted as laws, re the following: To prevent th6 sale of Siearms, opium and intoxicating liquors to the natives of certain of the P ifc isl ands. To promote 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. ApDropriating $200,000 for the re lief of the volcano sufferers of Mar tinique. Authorizing the erection of Y. M. C. A. buildings on United States mil-, itary reservations., Regulating the introduction of eggs of game birds, for the purpose of propagation. Providi'ig for the protection of game in Alaska, particularly the large game, such as moose, caribou; etc. Extending an. invitation to -ther French Government to join in the uit veiling in Washington of the statue of 'Marshal De Rochambeau. Refunding -the amount of legacy tax 1charitsble, benevolent :and When Mr. Cannon 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 and for begin ning the work to carry the otal up to $50,000,000. The entire cost of the undertaking is approximately $184, 000,000. Mr. Cannon's estimate also 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 tha billion-dollar .mark. The appropriations bills have con tained little general legislation, being confined chiefly to the regular needs of the various branches of the Gov ernment. 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 shanl be built in Gov ernment yards. There have been severa1 Investi gations during the session which have attracted much attention. An inves tigation of conditions in the Philip pines, conducted by the Philippine committee of the Senate, has led to the examination of many witnesse, high in the conduct of civil and mili tary affairs in the Islands. Another Senate inquiry has related to the con dition of affairs in Cuba, especially as to sugar. In the House sensational charges made In connection with the purchase of the Danish West Indian Islands led to an investigation which disclosed the groundless nature of the charges. A Great Rain Storm. Buffalo, N. J., Special.-A terrific rain and wind storm swept over west-, ern New 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 tclephone- wires are down and communication with small towns in Wy.oming. Niagara and Cattaragus r-cunties is difficult to c:-t.-tiz:h Sznntor Bailey Called Home. Washington. Special--Senator Bailey of Texas. left here for his home, his deparmure beinrg hastened by receip,t of' r.e.ws that a son had been thrown fecv1 his horse and injured. Before leaving, he said he had not yet read a statr ment by Solicitor Penfield, of the Stte D:jgartmnent, concerning the troubie e tween th-em out of wh.ich grew he B.ever-idge episode. He did not tank the-e was any occasion for hast4 he said. and he would read the artic at h:s leasure and determine on the rse to b'- pursueCd. One way a woman has of eon Ing her age without meaning It iv jng e.+,-emely doferential to old w~ . A DESRUCii RE Swift and Com iat WAS A Ltt S Burned Dist fice Building' Loss Cover Chicago' Spec which broke out in the yards Saturday Jc. snf fered a loss wh F the officials at $1, fined to one b the intersection of Broadway. This o ries high, built' feet square. % The first fl h the wholsesale m pany, the s de partient and the general o The latter largest single States, more ' ing on one room. - . .Y The canae Vown, but it was room. "It Sp the building -ossible to savie The burned of the.pl . Libby, McNe the-fe esperate fight to keep omthe flames, W. J. superin te ent of the night that the wlil one mi -The :i~ss? by insur ance. - -It has President's in .r er runner of.dt to haveO ffir iect and enact definite legislation -at its next sessio for the control or'su pervision of trusts. Recently the President and ttorney General Knox held a confer nce with Representa tive Littlefield of Maine, whose know ledge of co itutional law is admit ted, at whic Mr. Littlefield was In vited to pre e a bill for the regula tion and co trol of the trusts that will go befo e Congress with the en dorsement a d influence of the Presi. dent back o it. The bill will by sub mitted at t e beginning of the next sezsion, bu before this Is done, the President, Attorney General Knox and Mr. tlefield will have frequent conference as to the details. In ad dition to Is proposed action the President s going to talk upon the trust que tion a great deal on the severa ps t be mde byhimti friends t at ~ ~ thequsinsavtl vigoros untitherei ghte at byyCong ess uty onCubanVesses r Was ngon Spcil.-hePresit' deto ha Cisse rcoaino aect an ync 3rdeovite deismiating duervispon Cfunvssel Reentlyrthe Predentates tors. 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A 81LLION-DOLLAR COYNiRLSS L Repreae tive Livingston, of Geor! akes Comparisons. Ws on, Special-Chairman Can non, of House appropriations com mittee, s presented a statement of the ap priations made at the prtsent sessio f Congress showing a tctal of $750,0 837, not including the large amous that will be required for the fsthmin canal, and public building and river"ind harbor contracts. In his staternent Mr. Canon says In part: "An analysis of this table shows that the total estimated expenditures fore casted b the executive departments ag -1 $776,348,318; that the total appr Iins made, exclusive of $50,130, 000 :tWard an isthmian canal, aggre gated-1750,063,837. The appropriations made In the regular annual bills for or dinary expenses of the government payable during the fiscal year 1903, ag gregate $595,502,705, which, toget'1er 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 thing3, and in the light of past experience this entire sum will ziever 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 the revenue reduction legislation enacted at this session amount to $640,520,630. The expenditures to be made un.der the appropriations of this session will not exceed $600,000,000 or a sum ap proximating $40,000,000 less than the revenues which we ex ct to derive un der the revenue laws As re$ised by this Congress.""x Represefatve I#ningston, of Geor gia, the rping Demnocrat of the ap priations doitmittees, submitted a state ment showing witkthe inclusion of the isthmian canal. rtver and harbor, and other prospective expenditures, appro priations of over one billion dollars during the past session. His statem t says in part; , The direct approp - tions made at, this :session of Con gress inclu#ng'he isthmian canal ap priation aggregate of $800, 900,837. should be added the amo L37z,215 to include contracts. to be entered into in ad , :the speifie - appropria tions -ade,. These contracts ase dt'a p?missory note 'liqu t d n r_ be net and as muc a part of the ppropria chargeable to this session are the spe cif.c 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 Dem:ocratic in both brauches and the government was administered by Mr. Cleveland. It therefore affords fair ground for the purpose of a compari son. The difference between the total then and now amounts to the startling sum of $558,881,768, 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 cotton small wares; wool manufactures including woolen goods, worsted goods,' other than rag felt goods, and woolen hats; silk manufactures, hosiery and knit gdods, 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, machinery, tools and implements. The value of the pro ducts is given at $931,494,566, tho pro. duce which invilved an outlay of $23, 289,162 for salaries of officials, clerks, etc.; $209,022,447 for wages; $63,122, 916 for miscellaneous expenses, and $521,345,200 for materials ueed, mill supplies, freight and fuel. Voluntars Increase to Wages. Pittsburg, Special.-The largest vol untary increase ever known in the wages of 100,000 men has been decided upon by the United States Steel 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. WVhite Man NearIy Lynched. Macon, G&., Special-An Albany special to The Telegraph says that Ed ward Rich, a young white man, charg ed with holding the body of Sidney Wallis, a boy Aowned in a near by creek, for a . ard, was nearly lynch ed. He had been ordered to leave town. He did so, but a mob formed and he was caught. A trace chLhad been bound about him when o ers arrived. A scuffle ensued, but the advice of cooler heads prevailed and he was placed in jail, charged with trafficking In human bodies. Danger of a lynch ing- I not yet oer. SOUTHERN INDUSTRIAL Extension Proposed. The Suffolk & Carolina Railway, owned by Baltimore capitalists, and which extends southward from Suffolk Va., to Mavaton, N. C., forty-one miles, is to be extended to Edenton, N. C., a distance of about 'lve mile., while an other extension of about twenty-five miles will be built to Elizabeth City. One of the extensions will run through the timber lands of the Dismal Swamp district. The 'plans also propose to con vert the road from a narrow-gauge to a standard-gauge line, and to accomp lish these changes and improvements $500,000 of bonds are to be issued. At the same time the first mortgage bonds will be reduced from $160,000 to $90, 000. It is stated that work will be com plted in about a year. H,h Point's Electric Line. The People's Transportation & po* er Co. has been organized at High Point. N. C., to cgnstruct the proposed electric railway from Thomasville via High Point to Greeus)ro, and from High Point to Kernersville, and thence to Winston-Salem. The officers are: President, D. A. Waters; vice-presi dent, H. B. Sawyer; general manager, Cliff B. Elder of Philadelphia, and. D. Steele of High Point, secretary and treasurer. The capital is $500,000. 'The president is a member of the firm of Creswell & Waters of Philadelphia, and the others are engineers and prac tical street-railway men. The franc,hise and rights of way have been secdred, the survey is under way, and grading is expected to begin soon. Asheville to Rutherfordton. Advices from Asheville, N. C., state that George T. Carns has been awarded the contract for building the Ruther fordton, Hickorynut Gap & Asheville Railroad, which is to extend from Rutherfordton, on the Seaboard Air Line, to Asheville, and thence to the Tennessee State line. Construction will begin at Rutherfordton, and will be pushed northwest via Fairview to Asheville. The distance from Asheville to Rutherfordton is forty miles. It is reported that ts.e Seaboard is interest ed in the project, although this is de nied by gentlemen connected with that company. An extension will, it is also stated, be built from Rutherfordton to Columbus. Industrial fliscellany. Arrangements were completed "last -week for the establiahment of a second creosoting plant of Texarkana, Texas, - y, 76men. A back of e ...y-1_ The shipments of lumber for e port of Mobile, Ala., last week amount ed to 1,072,591 feet, and for the sea son 74,129,283 feet, against 88,498,595 feet last season. Shipments of sawn timber last week amounted to 56,. 945 .cubic feet and of hewn timber 11, 273 cubic feet. 'The schooner Warner Moore clear ed last week from Charleston, S. C., with 347,000 feet of lumber, , the schooner Bertha F. Walker with 500, 000 feet, and the schooner Annie with 504,000 feet, all for New York. The steamship S. T. Morgan cleared for Philadelphia with 1,425,000 feet of lumber. The St. Louis Basket & Box Co. of St. Louis has secured a tract of land in that city on which to erect a veneer plant. The contract has been let for buildings, engine and boilers, and the company has purchased three veneer machines, besides other mod ern m'achinery. The plant when com pleted will cost $100,000. It Is said that along the Seaboard Air Line In the counties of Dinwid die and Brunswick over fifty saw mills -are In active operation, and for whose output In manufactured lumber there are demands ahead from mar kets in the North and East. The Brunswick Lumber Co. Is now erect ing a mill at Butterworth to cut 50, 000 feet a day. The mill and dry-kiln of the Rud dock Cypress Co. at Ruddock, La., was destroyed by fireo n the 4th Inst. The loss Is approximated at $100,000, with Insurance $57,250. We lumber In the yard and plaing mil were saved. The company will at once pro ceed to erect a new plant. Being a very busy season, the loss to the com pany will be a severeone. Textile Notes. Manufacturers Record. Tavora Cotton Mills of Yorkville, S. C., states that therr-e is no truth In the report that it *111 install looms and other machinery. Limestone Manufacturing Co. of Gaffney, S. C., purposes to double the size of its present plant, but It is hard ly probable that work will be under taken this year. Its present mill has 12,500 ring spindles and 300 looms. Newberry (S. C.) Knitting Mills has decided to Install a complete dyeing plant. The company made a single sale of 1200 dozen pairs .of hosiery last week. It operates seventy-five knitting machines. The proposed company of 3. B. Mc Phaul of Poulan, Ga., mentioned last week, has organized as Poulan Cotton Mills, and will arrange at once to in stall textile -machinery. The company has buildings and power complete. New York and Boston parties have purchased Bluff City Cotton Mills of Memphis, Tenn., and It is said will ex pend $60,000 for new machinery and to put the plant in operation. J. H. Soery, care Peabody Hotel, has been negoti TIE AGONY IS OVER Congress Has Adjourned After Long Session. LIVELY SCENES AT THE CLOSING. Speaker Henderson Said That This Congress HiAsDoee More Than Any Since'Adoption of Constitution. Washington, Special.-Amid a scene of enthusiasm that has not been paral leled since the existing and stirring days of the Spanish war, Speaker Hen derson at 5:30 Tuesday afternoon de clared the ouse of Representatives adjourned without day. In doinf so .he said that no House of Representatives; since the adoption of the constitution had dona as much work as this one. The audience to which he made his brief address was a brilliant one. The galleries were banked to the doorSa almost two-thirds of the members were in their,peats on the floorr e ,Spea er's ap' eciative word* to the members In thanking them touched a responsive chord and they gave him a remarkable demonstration' of their friendship and good will. While the cheering and ap plause were still in progress the mem bers on the floor began singing "My Country, 'Tis of Thee." It was taken up by the correspondents in the press 'gal lery over the Speaker's chair and by the spectators in the surrounding gal leries and soon the vast hall was ring ing with the swelling chorus. Other pa triotic airs followed as the members exchanged farewells. "The Star-Span gled Banner," alternating with "Dixie." The Speaker came down from his rostrum, his appearance on the floor being greeted with "For He's a Jolly Good Fellow," and a perfect rush of members to grasp his hand. Standing in front of the clerk'a desk, he, too, joined in the songs and there was a wild scene when General Hooker, of Mississippi, the old one-armed Confed erate veterans took his place by the _side of the Speaker and together they dtor,aMls p"P.,. 1* Demcrat, f ampepdnpo~d a"n.' hour the time the spectator" in the galleries-watching the scene below and joining in the s fu. The adjournment came at the endr' a seven and a half hours' session, d Ing which much minor business transaded. In all 70 bills and resol tions were passed. The general g feeling in the House had been heights ed by the victory won over the Se on the item incorporated in the na appropriation bill for the building of battleship in a government yard. The closing hour was occupied wiith - a spirited debate between Mr. Cousins, of Iowa, and Mr. Richardson, ,the ~ Democratic leader, over the report on the investigation into the charges made by Captain Christmas concerning the sale of the Danish West Indies. Mr. ' Cousins ridiculed Mr. Richardson for bringing the matter to the attention of Congress. The latter defended his ~ course. "There is but one thing in connection . with the whole matter," said Iar . Cousins, "that approaches the silliness and absurdity of the driveling diatribe and fictitious tale of Christmas, and. that Is the unparalleled an' ludierious. performance of deliberately and sol emnly spreading It upon the records of the American Congress, where it ms remain tbroughout all history as a shameless challenge to the credulity of man." Mr. Richardson said that b ' secret report of Captain Chrisdi the Danish government co statements as to the alle members of Congress wase attention he considered It vestigation. He asserted was conclusive that C agent of Denmark arnd American State Depa "There is not one bit port of the latter 9 posed Mr. Dalzell, .pf "I have proof, he ardson, who read cerning the letter Secretary White.a ardson denied that gress had been, br believed that the of investigation aiu had proceeded, ' Mr. Dlnsmdre,S he said, to repe1.,' by Mr. Cousins a for bringing 'the% tion ofC .At 5:28 ofece de4tgeg half t