Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1888-02-28
NATIONAL LEGISLATION.
Just2ce TuF0eFso Successor
NOnlnatea.
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WAsNU0Io1. Feb. E.-The senate
FoUn0ed the consideration of the bill to
inosrpeease the Maritime Canal Com
paoy Of Nicaragua. several amend
menss vess reported BY the COMMITTEES
90 foreign relations and agreed 20.
Mr.. Edmunds offered an smendnert
DECLARING that nothing sbouid be deemed
oe construed to restrict or impair IN any
vay any right Of the United States IN
der any treaty in fosce With the repobiic
Of Nicaraera. Agreed to.
Mr.. Vest offered IN amendment. de-
c1sSinQ that nothing in the act should
- held or construed TO involve Ia any
manner the United States In any sco-
mary obliQastsu exccpt a. 10 the pay
uent ef tollA Rsjected
Mr.. Vess offered another anendOent
peovidipg that no part Of the caS itai
stoek paid In shall Be at any time With
drawn OF returned 70 the stockholders
no: - In any manner divested from
the proper uses Of thsosorposatior, and
be said that the same vas glazed In the
Tehuantipsc bill Of tie last congress
aud also in the Nicsxleus bill on motion
Of the senator from Vermont. Nh. Tel.
ief Opposed the smendDent.
Ns. Hoa4 suggested 70 Ar. tess to
modify his amendment By allowing toe
soook 70 Be returned 10 ihe stockholders
for tbs purpose Of vindirg up the cor-
Doeasioo, and Mr.. Vest modiisd il ae-
oosoinaiy.
NJ. Vsacs called the attention Of the
Republican senators 10 the faca that
she bill omitted 10 require all the ma
tesiai used In the work 70 be Of Ameri-
can Danufac'ufe. and be thus prophe-
sied: These fellows would buy their
iron and steel and other materials
SheseveR they could get them cheapest
and best. IL not that an evasion OF the
duty which the senas'rs eve to the
Pennsylsania steel and iron manufac
sufers3 Was mot the end Of oil things
nigh when congress would chartef
corporation 10 sss In foreign porte With
permission to buy iron and steel and
other N .sefials from the British iionf'
He made these suggestions in tie chsr-
sote1 OF onsScss csriss. and ne SAID tnat
N the Repubiican senators did not act
On mem and what be prophesied would
bsppen, "theie blood be on their own
|, ,>ads." ILanshsf
Mr.. Teller replisd mat II the managers
Of tie enterprise vere untfammeleo.
and void buy the picks: snovels ana
h.s,ovs ~ ~,here they could fnd them best
snN chsapsst, they would buy them In
M United States. The senator from
North Carolina might not worry himself
on thss point.
n. Vance offered an ameudmeat re-
ouirinp that all labsrefs employed IN
,fe vork b. either native or nasuralixed
sis;,ena. ReIected, nays IS, yeas 10.
Ths hill Vac then reported back from
tne oommitsee Of the wh0le, and the
smendmep,s agreed upon in the com
mittse we're concusred IN. The bill was
thsn naserd yeas %, nays IL, a. follows:
Yess-Nessrs. Aldrich, Allieon. Blair.
Rro~n. Ohsse, Chandler. Colquitt.
Oailon. Daniel. DAVIS. Dolph. Ed
mnnda. Eysrss, Parvell, Frye. German.
0rev. Hale, Hearst. Hoar. Ingalls,, Man
daraon. Nitonsll, Morgan, Paddock.
Payne. Plat, Plumb, Puah, saoin,
sanl, bury. Sawyer, Sherman. Spooner,
Siavs,t, Teller, Turpie, Wilson OF loSa'
50. p...
Navs-Mcssrs. Bates, Berry, BLACK
hurn. Coke. Faulkner. George Gibson,
Hampton. Kepna. Pasco. REAGAN, KID
diebsrger, Vest, Waisnaid' WILSON Oh
NaYyl and, Is. -,
The senate then took up the bill
~,entin, pensiops to the ex soldiers
md eaiiore Who are incap8citsted Tor
the psrforusuce Of manual labor ano
providinR for I ,usions TO the depenoens
reistiops Of deceased soldiers and san.
orr. The second section wss AMENDED
bv adding the words "and who are
without other sdequste ways OF SELL
support" o,. .hs
vofd "totsily" before the word inca
uacitated," and gave notice tbat II MS
motion prevailed he wo1lG move 70
amend farther by providing thas tne
pension should be from fao to tl1o
oniv. according to the degree OF inca
pecity. After q discussion the amend
mept vas agreed to; yeas "a, nays Is;
s,,d the word ''totaiiy" vas struck out.
Atf, Piomb also moved TO strike ous
the words ''ir degree herein specined.
Aereed to; yeas 36. nays ~.
M. Plumb also moved to insert the
Following: "All pensions granted 10
vidovs under this or any general law
shaii take efect from the date OF the
death OF the husbands Of such widows
respectiyely, bat not dating back OF the
nassaoe of this act" Agreed to Withoos
division.
Hr. Gall moved an amendment to
make the bill apply 10 those Who served
in the Florida var, bot accepted mod
ificafiop of il moved BY Mr.. Morgan, oy
making it appls to those Who served 70
,he TAI With Mexico flor thirty dayS
Ana nth tbs wars With Indian tribes.
Without oisposine Of this amendmert
ths bill vas laid aside and Mr.. bisif
odered an amendment lin order to navs
Il printed) PROVIDING for service pen
siou at the rate Of $40 per month.
The president today sent IN the noun
I'M tions OF Moses J. Licdeii, OF LouIsi
ana. 10 be Q justice of the s7pfeme
c.n,. oi ths territory OF Montana, and
f.nci.s n. Nash to be associate justice
Of The supreG,s court Of the territory OF