Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1886-06-17
RORTY-NINTH CONGRESS-.
SENATE.

SENATE.
WASHINGTON, June l6.
Mr.. Dawes presented a memorial of the
Massachusetts, legislature urging Congress TO
secure immediate relief for American fisher
men from interference in Canadian waters.
Mr.. Hoar remarked that there was very
natural feeling Of uneasiness on the part of
the fishermen of Massachusetts, over the pres
ent conduct of the Dominion government
Mr.. Hoar was sure. however. that the COM
mittee on foreign relations of the Senate was
fully alive and alert in regard to the neces-
sity Of preserving the honor and dignity of
the United Stetes and the rights and interests
OF Its citizens. There wss no class of our
citizens whose wrongs would excite in the
Senate more instant sympathy and desire for
redress, than would those of American sail
ors. He was sure that under the lead of the
Junior Senator from Maine, Mr.. Frye, who
he supposed knew as much about this subject
as any man in the United States, that every.
thing that legislation could accomplish would
De done to maintain the position of the United
States in this controversy. Mr.. Hoar wished.
however, to add that, in his judgment it would
be necessary to enlarge somewhat the scope
OF the legislation already adopted. the amend
ments to the shipping bill, and to put it in
the power of the President when commercial
privileges were denied to United States ves-
sells in foreign ports, to retaliste not merely
by denying like commercial privileges, but
authorizing the President, on his discretion.
to deny all commercial privileges in the
United States ports to vessels of the power so
denving. or to vessels of any province. colony
or dependency of such power. This proposi-
tion, Mr.. Hoar said, embraced in the bill in
troduced somewhere by his colleague of the
Cape district of Massachusetts, met his,
Hosr's hearty approval.
The Senate at 1890 went into executive
session.
At l.l5 the doors reopened and on motion
the Senate took up the pension appropriation
bill which was reported by Mr.. Logan. and
at tonce passed bv the Senate as reported from
the Senate committee on appropriations.
The military academy appropriation bill
was then taken up. On the passage of the
bill, Mr.. Plumb called for the yeas and nays
He said he would vote against all appropra
tions for West Point Academy until such
time as a change was made in the law which
would allow at least one-half the appoint
ments to army vacancies to made from civil
life.
He believed that in the exclusiveness which
we were creating in the army we were build
ing up an aristocratic and unrepublican insti-
tuition which would some day return to plague
US.
The vote resulted, yeas AZ; nays 4. The
nays were Chace, Plumb, Teller and Wilson
of Iowa. The bill was passed as reported
from the appropriation committee.
At 80 the Senate adjourned.
HOUSE.
The House went into committee of the
whole on the legislative appropriation bill.
The clause relating to the pen sion office
gave rise to the usual discussion as to the
partisan methods employed in the conduct of
that bureau.
The salary of the commissioner of patents
was fixed at $4,000 instead of $4,000 as recon-
mended by the bill.
Mr.. Cannon of Illinois, offered an amend
meat, which was agreed to, increasing the
appropriations for the bureau of labor in the
aggregate of S39, ,6l0, so as to make the ap-
preparation equal to the estimates of the COM
missioner of labor.
The amendment reducing from S205, 900 to
Sl90,000 the appropriation for salsri,s aud
expenses of agents, surveyors. gangers aud
store keepers in the bureau of internal r.v,-
nue., was agreed to.
The committee then rose and reported the
bill to the House.
The amendments agreed to in the commit
tee, increasing the compensation of the as
sistant treasurer at Chicago. ST. Louis. Bos-
ton and San Francisco, were rejected bv the
House.
The amendment appropriating $40 900 for
An additional emergency in the clerks, mes
sengers and watchmen in the sub-treasury at
New York was also rejected.
40 ntb t1,an nd
the bill was passed.
The House then, at 4.30, took recess un-
til 8
The evening session if to be for the consid-
Grafton of the private calendar.
At the evening session the House passed 25
bills IF a private character, among them being
the Senate bill granting the franking privilege
to the widow of Gen. u S. Grant. and the
House bill for the relief of the survivors of
the exploring steamer Jeannette and the
widows and children of those who perished in
the retreat from the wreck of that vessel in
the Arctic seas.
Adjourned.