The Columbian fountain., 1846-03-05
TWENTY-NINTH CONGRESS.
SENATE.
WEDNESDAY, March A, 1916.

| t SENATE.
"WEDNESDAY, March A, 1916.
After prayer by Mr.. Milbman and the Jour
nal, communication was read and referred
from the Secretary of the Navy.
Mr.. Dixon III. Lewis reported bill, but his
position being under the reporters gallery, its
purport was indistnguishable.
Petitions and memorials were presented ia
great numbers.
Mr.. Atherton, from the committee on Post
Routes, &C., reported a resolution authorizing
the printing Of 5000 copies Of report relative
to post route TO Oregon.
Mr.. Atherton, from the committee on print
ing, also reported an amendment to the reso-
luton ordering the printing of $4,000 extra CO.
pies of the report of the Commissioner of the
Patent Ofice---the sum of go was the other
day, on motion of Mr.. Sewer, stricken out and
10 inserted. This fixed the number at IS 900,
and debate arose on the subject, in which
Messrs. Atherton, Niles, and Yulee partook.
Mr.. Yulee, after an excellent speech against
the resolution, asked that it be laid over for
time. Mr.. Y. charged the administration, for
20 years back with extravaganza, and that Of
Mr.. Van Buren with unreasonable ruinous and
unnecessary expenditures, which were con,in-
ued most unmitgatetly down to the present
Bile waste, were mild expressions, to express
the general course of action pursued ~t
Mr.. Atherlon said that the committee had
reduced the expense from that OF last year I5,-
600 dollars. The subject was laid over.
Mr.. Westcott, from the committee on the iu-
dietary reported several bills.
After some other business of no general i'm
portance,
The special order on the Oregon notice was
taken up, and
Mr.. Haywood took the floor. He stated
the question as il stands before the Senate and
public; commencing with the Presidents re-
commentator IN his message. He animad-
verted on The tortuous course that had been
pursued by the administration, in bringing
this question to lis present situation but, he
said, it was no use TO look back. The past was
past recall He should stand by the admins
tration and vote the notice. He said that me-
gotlatlon was not ended or terminated or aban-
doned, and that if the notice was promptly
given, the question of territory can still be set
tied by negotiation. There had been too much
hesitation, and, he might say 10 much timidity
| shown in conducting this debate and contro-
versy.
| Forty years ago this Government asserted
that the 49lh parallel had been continued as a
boundary from the Rocky Mountains to the
Pacific Ocean. In 1918, also, this Govern
ment urged that line; and then came the Con-
ven'ion, which now is to be abrogated and an
nulled, alter it had been indefinitely extended
in 1897. His argument went to establish that
there would be no loss of honor, no violation
OF pledges or principle in accepting the line
AZ as division. The ultra friends Of Ore
gon-" The friends of Oregon" par excel
lence-may be disappointed in their claims to
| the whole
Towards the close OF his speech, he said
that II the President had been inclined to man
ufacture popularity on this question, all he
would have TO have done would be to say,
negotiation is terminated; come on, ye peo-
pie. let us fight England for twenty years TO
determine which shall have the greatest privi.
lege. OF cheating the Indians out Of their pos
sessions and then he would have had crowc
with him, # the friends of Oregon were al
thick as they were thought to be.
i In the course OF his speech, quite passage
H. in relation to what Mr. III. had said, viz !:
that England dared not to 90 10 war with the
United States on the Oregon question alone,
unless she had some other questions of state
policy urging her to keep a controversy of
some kind open or in state 10 be readily open
ed. Mr.. a. was right in his objection to Mr..
HIS statement of wha, he had said, but Mr..
II. was peculiarly happy in his extrlcatlon.
tie said ifthere were other questions pending,
Mr.. A. must have obtained them in his capa-
city Of chairman of the Committee on Foreign
Relations, for he knew OF none such himself.
Mr.. A. said that he wished to be quoted cor
recdy if quoted at all. Mr. H. said he always
!, did so, but he was not in the habit Of carrying
, Senators speeches about in his pocket, and i
he did, MIR. AS was not printed, or il it was, il
, was accompanied by note stating that il was
imperfect and not to be depended upon.
The Senate adjourned before Mr.. H. had
concluded, leaving him in possession OF the
floor for tomorrow.
] On the whole Mr.. Haywood's speech so far