Show PASS QUERY t M manuscript a nu script speech by tho the bearded kansan QUESTIONS GROVERS POWER I 1 I 1 senators discuss vests motion ta fo a 1 cloture rule pule to expedite expedita business business 1 the house makes the Rail railways pooling bill a special order prospect I 1 4 of a national board of arbitration I 1 interstate commerce I 1 I 1 I 1 1 washington dec 5 the sonata senate i showed its first signs ot of animation today h and although the session las lasted ted only until there was time enough 1 1 for several brisk debates mr vests i to secure if a change in the rules 1 tit in order to expedite business was tho chief event of 0 the day dair sir ile vests vest who 1 I waa las formerly opposed to cloture today to day announced his conversion I 1 another feature of the day was tho the sharp debate on china japan questions brought out by mr lodges resolution calling tor for information as to the torturing of japanese students who were wera under american protection PASSED BOND MOTION mr potter peffer made the first formal speech of the session cri critic deising ising from a point the recent issue ol 01 0 bonds and giving his views on finance at the close of mr speech hla his resolution was adopted althous division it asks the judiciary committee to inquire into the action of the secre tary of the treasury in issuing bonds another resolution by mr peffer ten for information from the president as to the use of 0 united states troops at chicago during the pullman strike brought on out t considerable debate on the question us AS to its reference to the committee the resolution was finally referred to the judiciary committee sir mr lodges resolution of inquiry into the killing of two japanese students by tile the cinese chinese when they were under tha protection of the united states waa avas referred to the committee on oil foreign affairs senator quay proposed 9 substitute tor for the sugar bill now pending in the tha senate in the shape of an amendment it strikes out all of the bill after the tha clause and inserts the following that so much of the act entitled an act to reduce taxation to lo provide revenue tor for the government and for olther cither purposes as provides upon all sugars above no 16 dutch standard in color and upon all sugars which have been discolored there shall be levied cold and paid a duty of j of 1 cent per pou pound n d in addition to a duty of 40 per cent ad valorem valoree va lorem shall be and the same la hereby repealed VEST ADVOCATES CLOTURE mr vest dem D em missouri then ad dressed the senate on the need of 0 a change of the senate rules he modi fled tile the form of ills his previous resolution so the committee on rules Is to report by decemver Dece moer a plan tor for closing debate mr vest said he had formerly opposed cloture cl olure but lie he was now convinced cloture was inevitable and that it should be effected as soon as possible j ble the question was thoroughly nilder understood d der er stood having been debated tor for years so that the senate was in a position to act at once when the senate numbered forty meril members bers there was no need of cloture but with the senate iner increasing so that its membership mould soon roach reach it was imperatively necessary to have a rule bringing debate to a close in reality the tha present rules stifled debate senators w will III not debate a question when they r recognize the hopeless ho pelesa opposition under which they labor these rules ago parliamentary blackmail declared tile the senator amendments to bills are offered under d or the deliberate threat ahrea t that it they are riot not accepted an indefinite opposition will be inaugurated ellis bills of vast public interest lingered here until they were dead and the people were weary an and d disgusted with the spectacle of a powerless ess senate even when the bills passed after such a contest they wein water so discredited bisci edited as to have no moral support from the public mr air harris dem tennessee added his opinion in favor of a change of 0 rules but lie suggested that the absence front from the city of the chairman of the committee on rules mr air blackburn made it unai unwise ce to compel a report of A form of cloture by december idith mr air harris said he would undertake to promise that some such auch resolution would be reported soon after tho the return of 0 mr blackburn BlAck buin 1 I suppose said air aldrich that tills this new rule rule Is not to apply to lion of this session nor to the pending tariff bills it applies to every everything thing said mr vest it if this new rule Is adopted asked askea sir allen alien pop Nebra nebraska hka will any effort be made toward financial legislation on the lines of the presidents message meE mr vest said lie he was not authorized to state what would be d done one in that regard in III order to terminate the random dla dis c cu fiston icon mr harris to go into executive session WALSH TAXES TAKES THE mr ransom hansom dem north carolina secured recognition to present the credentials denti als of patrick walsh reelected re elected as aa senator from georgia arm in arm walsh and ransom walked to the desk of the presiding officer where the oath of 0 office was waa administered mr air vest gave gava notice he would renew his motion in behalf of the re tomorrow to morrow then the tha senate went into exec executive uthe session find and soon after adjourned jour ned Govi GO FOR INDIANS senator berly beny introduces introduce a sill bill for tho the five nations 1 1 washington dm 5 the T ia bill intro dacej in the senate today to day by senator berry to te provide a n temporary govera ment for the portion odthe 0 the ind ion ter TCP tory occupied by the live five civilized tribes provides that a Terri territory tiry strait be b fornie ornice d to be known as the ali territory of indianola anion among lh first provisions made la one jo 0 o the effect that any time in tile thy future the boundaries aitay be changed or any portion attached atla atta chod to any other state or territory by the action of 0 con gre gross ss the consent ot of the inhabitants of tho the new territory the bill provides for it a Gover norand a secretary of the territory delegate to congress and a legislative assembly bly the latter to be aft composed of fe a council connell and aind house hauae of ct representatives the council to ao consist ot of twenty one members anti t I 1 1 the house bouse of forty two the sessions to to e held biennially ard and to co con continue dinue for sixty days the th territory Is to le be divided into ona om counties all male ci citizens of the united states who ure are actual ft mid aad over 21 ye years rs of age a are re to havo have the right to vote as 13 little lire false also nil 11 male indians who are citizens 0 of an any Ay tribe in tile the territory ry at itla li provided that ric ho law shall be passed by the legislature interfering with the he the ithe primary disposal fit the soil sell or with the ittle titles arthe of the indians of the parlous tribes or otheir manner of holding tile the mine indian are made nade ln iti 1 are exempt from taxa con the bill provides for FL a complete judicial system und tt a larye large jumar jum zur br riber of the laws or of the he state mate of ar kamas kam Is ansas as all the provisions of at treaties rn ande ade by the united states with the tribes except so far ns as the Ireat treaties lel relate rela te to land ere are abrogated rosala ali and rep repeated wed arid and all ah gov by the tribes are abolished tiro the labs now litle in common by the ithe several tribes ore ere to b be e divided in sever aty limong the members embers ro of the Itri beA pach to have a hwn ot of acres land and after this division the re aerl t due Is to be som sold arill the proceeds divided among the indians |