The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-08-23
FIFTlErH CONGRESS.
SENATE.

| some ILLUSIONS 10 bne Yankees Oh one size
and ex-slaveholders on the other, between
Senators Morgan, Fry, Dawes and
Hawley, Senator Morgan said: "You have
not hesitated to sneer at US and to say
we are rebels, traitors, men not to be
trusted, men who violated our oaths and
attacked the nation, men whose con-
sciences are burdened with political sin;
that we all deserve to be hanged, and that
we are living now by your mercy and
grace, and have only said that you did
not dare to hang any of US. You had
Jefferson Davis under arrest, and the
United States government did not dare
bring him to trial, because it would have
turned out-in the opinion of great
| jurists who would have had to try him
that he had not committed treason"
After Senator Morgan finished his
speech, a long discussion ensued in
which Senators Teller, Chandler and
Others took part.
Senator Vest said his Judgment had
been, ever since the open session on the
treaty had been decreed, that no treaty
which could be negotiated by Mr.. Cleve-
lands administration with the British
government could be ratified by the
senate. The idea that the man who had
defeated the last republican candidate for
president, and who was a living barrier to
that party regaining power, was to be
allowed to negotiate treaty with Great
Britain successfully, was not to be con-
sidered for moment. Party exigenoies
and the necessity of party warfare de-
mand that the tail of the British lion
should be publicly twisted until that royal
animal howled again, SO that the loyal
Cry about "John Browns body Wondering
in the grave" had given place to the
dulcet tones of erin 60 Bragh." Re-
ferring to the speech Of Senator Stewart
on the Chinese question, Senator
Vest proceeded to argue that
opposition to the anti Chinese legislation
in the senate in 1881 and 1882, had come
not from the democratic but from repub-
lican senators, and particularly from Mr..
Harrison, the republican candidate for
the presidency.
Senator Stewart said Mr.. Harrison had
not, during the discussions of the anti
Chinese measures, uttered word in favor
of Chinese immigration, and his vote had
simply been copformable to the treaty,
but afterwar1 when the treaty was
being read, Senator Harrison favored
bill which was acceptable to the people
on the Pacific coast. His record was as
satisfactory to the people on the Pacific
coast as il he had abused the Chinese for
forty years.
| Senator Dolph denied that General Har-
rison's record in congress would show that
he had ever been in favor of the admission
of Chinese labor into the United States.
| The people of the Pacific coast were not
to be deluded in this matter.
Senator Mitchell also defended the
record of General Harrison on the Chi
nese question.
Senator Allison presented the conference
report on the army appropriation bill,
which, without being read, was ordered to
| be printed in the Record, to be acted upon
tomorrow. Adjourned.
WASHINGTON, August 16.-Soon after
assembling the senate, under the order of
yesterday, went into open executive ses-
sion on the fisheries treaty, and voted on
Senator Morgan's resolution to postpone
it till December next The resolution was
disagreed to-yeas, "a; nays 81. As
soon as the vote was taken legislative
business was resumed.
Senator Reagan took the floor to speak
on the presidents annual message.
Senator Allison, desiring action
on the conference report of the
army appropriation bill, presented the
necessity for disposing of the appro-
priation bills IN preference to other mat
ters for which there was no immediate
pressure. He said six weeks of the cur
rent fiscal year had already passed by
without any regular appropriations for
the army. He would not insist, however,
upon going on with the conference report
now, except with the assent of the senator
from Texas.
Senator Reagan said he would not delay
action on the conference report more than
an hour, and he preferred to proceed with
his remarks now.
After some preliminary and unim-
portant business the house went into COM
mittee of the whole on the fertilization
appropriation bill.
Mr.. Nutting, of New York, offered an
amendment appropriating 100000 for
the erection of a dry dock and proper
machinery, buildings and appliances at
some point on Lake Ontario for building
and repairing armed ships.
Mr.. Nutting said that in case of trouble
with England the greatest danger to the
United States would be on her northern
frontier. At Kingston, almost within
cannon shot of the shores of the United
States, Canada,a dependency of England,
was building dry dock for the con-
struction of war vessels.
Mr.. Farquhar, of New York, declared
that the state of New York Independently
of any other state would take the oon-
tract to take care of Canada and her five
million people in sixty days. A country
that had passed through war and which
possessed million veterans who had worn
the blue and the gray asked no odds from
Canada or her parent government. lap
pleuse.
Mr.. Butterworth earnestly denounced
the action of the secretary in amending
the army appropriation bill By providing
for Notifications in contravention OF
that ha knav 70 he the ruleg of the house.