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The President Wants Men

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Parent Issue
Day
22
Month
April
Year
1898
Copyright
Public Domain
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Washington, April 21.- The house unanimously agreed to consider the voluhteer army bill and it was taken up at once in the committUi of the whole. Mr. Huil, chairman of the committee on military affairs, asked unanimous consent for the consideration of the bill ie introduced yesterday at the request of the war department authorizing the president to cali for volunteers. He explained that the committee had agreed to the measure at a special meeting this morning. It was a very urgent measure, he said. The secretary of war had appealed to him this morning to press it and he had just had a message from the white house saying that the passage of the bill to-day was imperative. Mr. Huil sald that the committee had made only one' important change in the bill as prepared by the war department. That change reserved to the governors of the states the power to appoint company and regimental oiïlcers, vhich the bill as drawn conferred upon the president and was in harmony with the law of 1861. There was a tremendous demonstration in the house immediately after the reading of the journal, when Mr. Pruden, the president's executive clerk, announced the president's approval of the Cuban resolutions. The galleries cheered and the members on the floor applauded vigorously. The speaker, with difficulty, sup-s pressed the ovation with which the announcement was greeted. The senate joint resolution authorizing the printing of extra copies of the military publications of the war department was adopted. Opposed to More Debt. Washington, April 21.- In the senate the following resolution was presented by Mr. Allen of Nebraska:"That in the opinión of the senate no circumstances can arise in the relations of the United States of America and the kingdom of Spain that will warrant an increase of the interest-bearing bonded indebtedness of this government or that will in any manner interfere in the reform of the financial affairs of the United States on Unes laid down in the national people's party platform of July, 1896." The resolution went over under objection.

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