Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, May 7, 1898, Page 2

WORK OF CONGRESS Washington, April 26.—War and war easures were ‘the only: topics dis- ‘cussed in the senate during more than Your hours of its session. The body had scarcely convened when the mes- isage of the president urging congress jto declare the existence of war be- jtween the United States and Spain ‘was laid before it. Without comment the message was referred to the for- eign relations committee. Mr. Allen of Neb introduced the following oint resolution, which he asked to ‘have referred to the committee on for- eign relations: “nat a stute of war now exists, and has, since the 15th day of February, 1898, existed be tween the United States of America and the kingdom of Spain.” Consid- eration of the naval bill was then re- sumed, the pending question being upon the amendment offered by Mr. Butler of North Carolina to regulate the price of armor. At p. m. the message clerk of the house of representatives informed the senate that the house had passed an act declaring A State of War between the United States and Spain. ‘The message w read in the s e, and at senate went into secret | sion to consider the r fing the e& ence of w bate of an hour and a half the senate passed the bill, w h was in the same language as that passed by the house. The debate in the se yas based on an amendment offered by Senator Turpic providing for the recegnition of the bel rent rights of the insurgent Cubans. The amendment was de- feated by a vote o to 38. The Dill was then passed without division. At 4:37 the senate resumed business in open session. At » the message house announced = th signed bill declarin, istence of war between the United 8 and Spain, and requested the signature of the vice president. Within two min- ites Vice President Hobart had the act and precisely at 5 o’clock an- nounced his signature. —— The house of rejfresentatives passed the bill declaring the state of war between the United States and the kingdom of Spain in a manner nnot fail to the world. The representatives of 70,000,- existing clerk of the er had existence of a which « impress 000 people voted for it without a word of debate, without a dissenting vote and without a roll call, but with a sol- emn appreciation of the gra y of their nentous action. It required but minute and forty-one seconds The house was consid- ering an election case, and simply paused to declare war. There was no excitement, no cavil no word or ques- tion. It was only in the great cheer that went up from floor and galleries when Speaker Reed announced its passage that the tremendous import of the act and the suppressed enthusiasm behind it was shown. After the presi- dent’s message w read the commit- tee on foreign affairs framed the reso- lution, Acting Chairman Adams wrote the report and it v passed and on its way to the senate in an hour and six minutes. ‘The speaker signed it at 4:49. The remainder of the day was devoted to the election case of Wise vs. Young, from the Second Virginia district. The house declined to agree to the senate amendments to the army reorganization bill and it was sent to conference. The following is the bill declaring the existence of a state of war: Be it enacted, ete.: First—That war be and the same is hereby declared to exist and that war has existed since the 21st day of April, A. D. 1898. including id day, be- tween the United States of America and the kingdom of Spain. Second—That the president of the United States be and he is hereby di- rected and empowered to use the en- tire land and naval forces of the United States and to call into the ac- tual s » of the United States the militia of the several states to such an extent as may be necessary to carry this act into effect. Washington, April 27.—The war rev- enue bill was reported to the house, and by an arrangement made the de- bate will begin to-day and continue at night sessions until Friday. At 4 o'clock on that day the vote will be taken. The contested election ¢: of Wise vs. Young, from the Second Vir- ginia district, was decided in favor of the contestant, Dr. Wise, who is a Re publican, by a party vote. Speeches for the contestant were made by Messrs. Crumpecker of Indiana and Grosvenor of Ohio. Mr. Jones of V to accept this. ginia followed for the contestee. The senate amendments to the uaval ap- propriation biil were non-concurred in and a conference requested. The speaker appointed Messrs. Boutelle, Hilborn and¢Cummings conferees. A bill was passed granting to the Santa Fe & Grand Canyon Railroad company a right of way through the Grand Canyon forest reserve. At 4:50 o'clock the house adjourned. Senate Passes the Army Bill. During the two hours’ session of the senate the conference report on the army reorganization bill was agreed to and the measure engrossed and signed. The remainder of the session wus devoted to the p: ge of seventy- four private pension bills and numer- ous medsures from the general calen- dar. At 2 o'clock, on motion of Mr. Allison of Iowa, the senate went into executive session, and at 2:15 ad- journed. Washington, April 28.—The general debate upon the measure framed by the ways and meavs committee to meet the extraordinary expenditures of the war with Spain opened in the house yesterday. It will continue through to-day and on Friday at 4 o'clock the vote will be taken. ‘There svas a signal absence of that partisan rancor which has always heretofore characterized debates on revenue measures. Both _ sides, speaking through their representative leaders, Messrs. Dingley and Bailey, coneurr ém the necessity which existed for im- mediately raising hundreds of millions to prosecute the war, but the opposing doctrines which they held clashed at the first outset over the methods by which the revenue should be raised. ‘The section providing for $500,000,000 of bonds became the target of the Democratic and Populistie opposition, nud Mr. Bailey, in an hour’s speech, argued for an income tax which would raise $100,600,000 a year, the coinage of the silver seigniorage and the issue of $58,000,000 of legal tender notes as an alternative proposition. Mr. Ding- ley declared that it was almost incred- ible that any one could seriously pro- pose in such a crisis that the govern- ment should rely for funds upon the proceeds of another lawsuit over a proposition which the supreme court Had Alrendy Decided against the government. Mr. Sayers of Texas, the ranking minbrity mem- ber of the appropriations committee, devoted his time to an argument to demonstrate that the money to be raised by the bill was excessive and would breed reckless profligacy. The expenses of the civil war in 1864, when the government maintained two million men in the field and had four times as many ships as it had to-day, were only $1,100,000,000. In view of that fact, he contended that to raise $690,000,000 to carry on a war, insig- nificant in comparison, must result in useless waste and extravagance. The Populists all vigorously opposed the bond proposition. Mr. Dolliver of Iowa, in by far the most notable speech of the day, added to his repu- tation as a b ant orator. He as- sailed the position of the opposition in the early portion of his speech, but its partisan flavor disappeared toward the close and he aroused the house antl galleries to cheers as, with elo- quent words he touched the high, un- selfish cause of humanity in which the United States had drawn the sword, and then melted his audience to tears as he referred to the blowing up of the Maine and the new common- wealth we would rear as a monument to guard the memory of the unforgot- ten dead. The ev g session was devoted to brief s by mem- bers unable to secure time at the day session. In the Senate. The senate was. in session but an hour and a half, during which time no important business was transacted. Washingten, April 29.—The general debate on the war reverue bill closed last night after eight and a half hours of speech-maks The debate lacked both spirit and interest. There was lit- tle ¢ ssion of the internal revenue features of the bill. The Democrats continued their nults on the bond feature and their advocacy of the in- come tax. The latter was ridiculed a sub proposition by the Republicans. The auathor to borrow money was defeided by them as absolutely neces- sar The most notable speeches were delivered by Mes ie (Rep., N. Y.), Dalzell (Rep., P: McClellan (Dem., N. Y.), MeMillan (Dem., Tenn.), Henderson (Rep., lowa) and Rhea (Dem., Ky.). The Senate Is Waitirg. Again the senate was in the attitude of waiting for business to reach it. A fev bills of unimportant character were sed, but no business of gen- eral interest was transacted. v hington, April 80. — The house passed the war revenue bill with only the amendments agreed upon by the Republican members of the ways and means committee added. In order to accomplish this a parliamentary ma- neuver was neces: y, as the whole time for amendments was exhausted by the minority in thying to amend the bond feature of the bill. Mr. Dingley offered us a substitute an en- tirely new bill containing these amendments after the bill had been re- ported to the house. This was an old parliamentary trick frequently resort- ed to years ago. The Morrill tariff law was passed in this way in its original form after it had been loaded with amendments in committee of the whole. Many amendments were of- fered to the bond feature of the Dill, ranging from appropriation for the substitution of an income tax provis- ion to the authorization for an issue of $150,000,000 greenbacks. But all were voted down. At the last minute the Democrats decided to offer the motion to recommit with instructions to report back the income tax proposi- tion as an amendment to the bill in- stead of as a substitute for the bond provision. ‘This was due to the fact that a number of Democrats had de- clined to vote to strike out the bond proposition. The motion was defeat- ed—134 to 175, Four Republicans voted with the Democrats and Popu- lists on this vote. But on the final passage of the bill (which was carried —181 to 131)—the Democrats and Pop- ulists, with six exceptions, voted sol- idly against the bill. The Democrats who voted for the bill were Cummings, McClellan and Griggs of New York; Vitzgerald, Ma McAleer, Pa,, and Wheeler, Ala. Two Republicans, Lin- of North Carolina and Thorp of voted with the opposition. : of Democrats declined to In the Senate. ion of the senate the report of the conferees on the na- val appropriation bill was presented and agreed to. The measure as per- tected carries a little more than $3 00,000. No other business of im- portance was transacted. NOT A TRAITOR. Sensational Rumor Regardivg the Puritan Knocked in the Head. ,DEATH OF LINCOLN. SOME NOTABLE SCENES RE- CALLED. A Picture Taken at the Great Man's Death Bed—Characters That Figured in the Assassination — Pursuit and Capture of Booth. On April 14 just thirty-three years have passed since President Lincoln was shot down in Ford’s theater, Washington, by John Wilkes Booth. The excitement all over the United States today, caused by the war scare, brings to mind the thrill of horror and excitement that passed over the coun- try thirty-three years ago, when, just as the minds of the people had become settled after four years of war, the country was startled by the announce- ment of Lincoln’s assassination. Announcements had been made in Washington papers that President Lin- coln and General Grant, accompanied by their wives, would visit. Ford’s the- ater (now a pension office) on the even- ing of April 14. Surprise was after- wards expressed in Europe, and, to some extent, in the United States, that the president would visit the the- ater on Good Friday night, which that year happened to fall upon this date. President Lincoln was an adherent of the Presbyterian church, a religious organization that does not follow the calendar of the ecclesiastical year so closely observed by Roman Catholics and Episcopalians, and all criticism on this score has long since ceased, but the character of the day, so sacred to many, lent additional horror to the deed that startled the world as no simi- lar event has done in this nineteenth century. General Grant found it necessary to in it, afterwards made to elaborate his still remembered character of Lord Dundreary. The assassin, Booth, familiar with the theater, visited the box about.9 p. m., looking in for a last survey of the various positions of its occupants. It was supposed, at the time, that it was due to a mistake or the exercise of an impertinent curiosity. Unknown to the presidential party, Booth had, during the day, bored a hole through the door of the box for observation or perhaps to fire through. At 10 p. m. Booth again entered the box, quietly holding a pistol in one hand and a knife, or dirk, in the other. Major Rathbone rose and asked this intruder his business. Booth rushed past the major without making a re- ply and, placing his pistol close to the president’s head, actually in contact with it, fired, and instantly sprang upon the cushioned baluster of the box, when he made a backward plunge with his knife, aimed at the face or breast of Mr. Lincoln. Major Rath- bone, springing forward to protect the president, received the, stab in his arm, It was towards the latter part of the play. Perfect stillness reigned throughout the house. The audience listened to the dialogue between Flor- ence Trenchard and May Meredith, when the pistol shot rang through the theater. It was apparently fired be- hind the scenes on the right of the stage, and it was accepted by the au- dience as an introduction to some new passage, several of which had been interpolated in the early part of the play. Booth had been noted as a leaper, having become habituated to sensa- tional leaps in his repertoire of charac- ters. He leaped nine feet down on the stage, but his spur caught in the flag decorating the front of the presidential INTERIOR OF FORD’S THEATER. visit Burlington, N. J., on that mem- orable 14th of April, and he according- ly sent to President Lincoln a note of regret at his inability to accompany him to the theater that evening, leav- ing Washington on the 6 p. m, train. To Schuyler Colfax, then speaker of the house, the president extended an invitation to attend the theater as late as 8:15 p. m., for it was not until then that the president’s party left the white house. President Lincoln manifested a curious reluctance to going, but stat- ed that the papers had advertised that himself and General Grant would both attend, and, since General Grant had left Washington, he did not want to have the audience disappointed, as the people would expect to see at least one of them. The theater was crowded. The box reserved for the presidential party was the double box forming the second tier on the right-hand side of the stage. The front of the box was decorated with flags and in the center, on the out- side, hung an engraving of Washing- ton. As the Grants had declined an invi- tation to attend, Mrs, Lincoln invited, in their stead, Miss Harris, daughter of Senator Ira Harris,and Major Henry R. Rathbone, the senator’s stepson, The play presented was the original version of Tom Taylor’s “Our Ameri- can Cousin,” as it was always given before the late E. A. Sothern’s changes box and as he reached the stage he fell, recovering himself in a wonderful way, though his leg was broken. He bounded across the stage, pushing past Miss Laura Keene, who stood near the prompter’s desk, striking her on the hand with his own, still holding the dagger. As he crossed the stage Booth cried out, dramatically, “Sic semper tyrannis!” and “I have done it!” Once through the side scenes Booth quickly escaped by the rear door of the theater, where a horse awaited him, its bridle held by an employe of the theater whom Booth rewarded with a kick, his agony from his broken leg being intense, Meanwhile the shrieks of Mrs. Lin- coln made clear to the audience the na- ture of the horrible crime that had just been perpertrated. Pandemonium reigned. Women cried, men hollowed and children screamed. Miss Laura Keene advanced to the footlights and called out: “For God’s sake, have prea ence of mind! Keep your places and all will be well!” Miss Harris called to Miss Keene to bring some water, which the actress did, and afterwards accompanied Mrs. Lincoln to the house opposite, to which the unconscious president was at once removed. It was found that he had been shot through the head, above and back of the temporal bone, and that some of the brain was oozing out and that death was inevitable. Within a comparatively short time the terrible news had spread all over Washington, and by midnight every member of the cabinet, except Seward, whose own life was attempted, had gathered at the bedside of their dying chief. Mrs. Linceln was present, pros- trated with grief, and other members of the family, Senator Sumner, Speak- er Colfax, military officials of the war department, several generals and phy- sicians, the latter including Surgeon General Barnes, who had from the first assisted Dr, Stone, the president’s family physician, President Lincoln never recovered consciousness. As day dawned his fi THE SURRATH HOUSE. pulse failed and a look of perfect peace overspread his features. At 7:22 a, m. he ceased to breathe. Rev. Dr. Gurley knelt down and prayed and Secretary Stanton broke the silence which followed with the remark: “Now he belongs to the ages.” The south lost, in Lincoln, one who would have proved to be its best friend, as is, perhaps, now realized. In a let- ter written to General Val Alen on the last day of his life, Lincoln wrote words that strike the keynote of his character. In it he said: “I thank you for the assurance you give me that I shall be supported by conservative men like yourself in the efforts I may make to restore the Union so as to make it, to use your language, a union of hearts and hands as well as of states.” Over all the members of that presi- dential theater party a black and aw- ful fate hung menacingly. The fate of the assassin, John Wilkes Booth, is too well known for repetition—shot down like a dog, as he was, in a burning barn. Many have not followed the end of others indirectly associated with the tragedy. The stricken widow of the martyred president passed the bal- ance of her days in melancholia ané AN (if J. WIL madness, Of the guests who were with her in the box that night, one slew the other and ended his own life a maniac. By a curious coincidence, even Ser- geant Boston Corbett, who shot Booth in the barn, became insane and was afterwards confined in a Kansas asy- lum, THE DEATH BED OF LINCOLN, Key West, Fla., May 1. There is absolutely no foundation for the sen- sational reports cabled from here to the effect that a case of treason has been discovered on board the United States monitor Puritan. The rumors arose from the strange actions of a fireman, with a spanish sounding name, now under restraint on the war- ship because of his eccentricities. The officers of the Puritan declare there is uo thought of trying the man by court martial, and that all the talk about treason is absurd. The actions of the officers of the monitor in placing the man under restraint were guided sole- ly by the danger of allowing an un- evenly balanced man to be at large. USED TO SHAVING CORPSES. Why the Unknown Barber Asked His Customer to Lie Down. From the New York Sun: “During a trip through Ireland last summer,” said a Wall street broker, “I found myself in a small village with no raz- ors. They had been packed in my handbag, which I had left at the hotel where I stayed the day before. 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