Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-02-24
Senate.


priation BILL The pending question was
an amendment offered yesterday by Mr..
Rollins, providing that the board scrutin-
ize the active list of the navy and select
numbers of officers of each grade to be re-
tanned on the active list, the remainder to
be considered supernumeraries. The
point of order raised yesterday that the
amendment was inadmissable as propes-
ing general Legislation, was sustained.
The motion of Mr.. Hale, providing that
the secretary of the navy shall invite pro-
posals for the construction OF three steel
cruisers and q dispatch boat was amended
so as to exclude the armament Of vessels,
from the proposals.
The appropriation for bureaus,yards and
docks was increased $4,000.
On motion of Mr.. Lapham a provision
that hereafter no officer of the navy shall
be employed on any shore duty unless the
secretary of the navy shall determine that
such employment is required by public
interests, was modified by adding Except
in cases specially provided by law"
Mr.. Allison, from the committee on ap-
preparations, reported the legislative, ex-
ecutive and Judicial appropriation bill,
and gave notice that he would call it up
and ask the senate to dispose of it to-mor-
row.
Mr.. McDill, from the committee on pub
lie lands, reported a bill to quiet the title
of settlers on. the Des Moines river lands.
Mr. Harris submitted the report of the
conference on the Indian appropriation
bill. Agreed to,
Mr.. Allison submitted report of the
committee on conference on the consular
and diplomatic appropriation bill, which
was agreed to.
The senate resumed consideration of
the Utah bill. The pending question was
on Mr.. Blair's amendment making
the prohibition of voting apply only to
persons tried and convicted of polygamy
or bigamy, instead of to all females as in
the bill. Lost-yeas, 6; nays, 81.
Mr.. Logan believed polygamy to be the
cancer in the body politics, which should
be cut out by the roots; therefore he would
vote for this bill, or for any other Iegislo-
tion within constitutional limits to extir-
pate this evil. and if legislation should fail
and he could have his way he
would resort to stronger measures.
Mr.. Call said the bill was direct attack
on the constitution of the United States
and fragrant insult to the Christian re-
ligion, and argued that if congress was au-
thorized to deprive citizen Of the right
to vote because of any opinion he might
entertain Of the propriety of having more
than one wife, it would have an equal
right to prescribe the possession of doz-
en- wives, and the practice of strict celiba-
cy as a necessary question for the exercise
of the right of suffrage. Polygamy
would be extinguished by attacks
of tina Christian religion and influences our
civilization and our economic laws.
Mr.. ingalls, moved to amend section
of the bilIg so as to prohibit the vot-
ing of women in any territory of the
| United States.
Mr.. Edmunds opposed the amendment
because he desired to confne the opera
ton of this law to the special question for
which it was framed, and not raise the
general question of female suffrage. After
discussion, which Jones of Florida, Beck,
Garland and Maxey took part in, vote
was taken on Mr.. Ingalls, amendmentre-
sulting: Ayes, II; noes, 20.
No quorum voting Mr.. Pendleton moved
to adjourn.
Mr.. Edmunds demanded the ayes and
-~SNOg
| On the call of the senate, thirty six sena-
tors answered, three less than quorum.
Mr.. Edmunds moved to instruct the SER
geant-at-arms to request the immediate
attendance of senators, and after a motion
to adjourn had been voted down this mo-
ton was agreed to-ayes, 10; noes, IL
At little before o'clock the sergeant
alarms made report in regard to tn
abssntees. The roll was again called, and
thirty two senators answered.
Mr.. Edmunds offered an order. naming
the senators absent without leave, and di-
rected the sergeant-at-arms to bring them
in.
From this time to 10 o'clock the senate
was consumed in roll calls, on motions to
adjourn, and lay order on the table.
Finally, on motion of Mr.. EGmunds, the
senate adjourned.
During the discussion on the naval bill
Mr.. Anthony offered an amendment APP
propriating 100000 to enable the secreta-
ry of the navy to build an experimental
gun boat
Mr.. Mcpherson, discussing the amend
ment, alluded to the presence of the secre-
tary of the navy in the senate chamber the
other day in conversation with Mr.. An
thony, and went on to make an attack up
on the secretary as one who was at home
in the lobby. He had great respect for the
president who had so far given the country
an administration as worthy of approval
as any preceding one, but he
feared that when the appropriation bill
should have become law-as it certainly
would, because the secretary of the navy
had SO ordered-even the president would
become convinced that mistakes were pos
sible. The president, heading the list of
his advisers with character and ability Of
the purest and best, even before reach
ing the end of the list had descended by
one gigantic stride to the lobby, with all
that that implies.
Mr.. Anthony said he had offered this
amendment by instructions of the COM
miUtee on naval affairs and not at the re-
quest of the secretary of the navy, The
secretary had right to be on the floor
of the senate under the rules,
and his presence called for no such COM
ment as that made by Mr.. Mcpherson.
Mr.. Rollins said he had heard Mr.. Nc
Pherson's remarks with great surprise, and
that the senator's criticisms upon the Sec
rotary were unjust and ungenerous in the
extreme, and he (Rollins) hoped it would
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