St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-03-04
CONGRESSIONAL.
A Squabble Over the IntrOduc-
ton of a Bill for a Mexican
War Pension.
The Senate Pass Resolutions Eulogis.
tic of the Late Representative
d. C. Haskell.
The Naval Board on the Jeanette Said
to Have Been Very Par
tial One.
The Senate.

WASHINGTON, Marcn 0.-SenatOr V est pre-
scented memorial from the president and
members of the territorial council of New
Mexico, complaining of the arbitrary as
sumption by the clerk OF that territory of the
power to designate the members elected to
the territorial legislature, thus depriving each
house of such legislature of the right to
judge of the election and qualifications of its
members. In connection with the memorial,
Vest offered a resolution which was agreed
to, referring the subject and matter of COM
plant to the committee on territories for
investigation, with power to send for persons
and papers.
The following bills were introduced and
referred:
By Senator Voorhees,, to prescribe the con-
ditions under which bridges shall be con-
structed and maintained across the Wabash
river in Indian and Illinois, and the White
river in Indiana. Also, to appropriate $50,
600 for the protection of government
property and the improvement of the Ohio
river at Jacksonville, Ind.
Senator Harrison offered a resolution,
which was agreed to, calling on the secretary
of war to furnish the senate with any infor-
nation in his possession, or attainable as TO
the effect of any dam or other government
work in the channel of the Ohio river, near
Jacksonville, Ind, upon the flood line of
the river in times of great freshets, ETC., to
prevent an overflow at that place.
The following resolutions, offered by Sena-
tor Bayard, were agreed to:
RESOLVED, That the committee of naval Of
fcers be, and are hereby instructed to inquire
into the efficiency, preparation and equip
ment of foundry, with steam hammer, and
proper machinery for the manufacture by
the government of modern artillery of the
largest calibre, and most improved construc-
ton, and to make report thereon as early
as practicable
Proceeding to the calendar the senate
passed number of bills authorizing the con-
struction of public buildings, not to exceed,
for site and building amounts as following
Carson City, New, 100000 Waco, Texas,
$1,000 San Antonio, Texas, 5000, COO;
Lacrosse, Wis, 500, 600; San Francisco,
100000; New Albany, Ind, 100000; Wi
mona, Mimi, s100,0 Oshkosh, Wis, $780,
900; Fort Smith, Ark, 100000; Nebraska
City, Neb., $4,000; Pueblo, COL, 5000, 900;
Fort Scott, KS, 100000.
Bills authorizing the purchase of addition
al ground for the use of the United States at
Springfield, ILL.,, for S26, 900, and granting to
the city of St. Louis for street purposes, 81 Is
feet off the end of the marine hospital tract,
was also passed. This list covered all the
bills on the calendar providing for the cree
ton of public buildings.
When the senate had disposed of these bills
Senator Logan called up the military academy
appropriation bill, but message having arrived
from the house, Logan gave way, and the mes
amin tha tinr, IF
regret of the house at the death of Haskell, late
representative from Kansas, was laid before the
senate. Remarks in memoriam of the deceased
were made by Ingalls,, Bows, Cockrell, Merrill
and Plumb
Senator ingalls,, in the course of his remarks,
referring to the sturdy independence of Haskell's
character, said, there had been in him no insen-
sibility either to fame or to blame, but he had
preferred the approval of his conscience to
the appreciation of mankind. He would
adhere strenuosly to unpopular friends
rather than incur the suspicion
of personal disloyalty. He had advocated I'M
popular doctrines, which commended the assent
of his reason, rather than to gain votes by silence
or dupicity. The world was better for his having
lived in t,and his death was satisfaction from its
moral r. forces Haskell had fallen at the
vestibule, not at the goal. Fol
his wife, children and kindred, inconsolable
in their bereavements, for the friends who loved
him, for the great constituency that Iamented
him, for the state he honored, and
the nation he served so well
he should have died hereafter
Senator Plumb in the course of his remarks said,
the great state, which he had the honor in part
to represent was in mourning for one Of the most
earnest of her sons. Haskell had been pecu-
liary son of Kansas His early youth had been
spent in that state and as he grew he became
well known for patriotism and integrity, so that
MOI W IN had look cd his face watched
his progress with pride. He was a man of strong
intellect, persistent labor, strong conviction. He
had his ambition, but it was an ambition to
excel He had none of the arts of demagogue,
and to all littleness he was a stranger. Whatever
he undertook he undertook with enthusiasm, not
that sort of enthusiasm which GIBBS and flows,
but that which endures. He combined the chiv-
airy of knighthood with the tenderness of a
woman. The senate then, on motion of Senator
Plumb, adopted resolution expressive of its
sorrow at the death of Haskell, and, as a further
tribute of respect, adjourned.