Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-02-28
NATIONAL AFFAIRS.
The Nicaragua Canal Bill
Passes the Senate.
SEVERAL NEW PETITIONS.
Carey Presents a Measure in the
House Pleading Statehood
for Wyoming.
TAssociated Press Dispatches to the HERALD.


WAsuINGToN, February 27.-In
the Senate to-day the consideration of
the bill incorporating the Maritime
Canal Company Of Nicaragua was dis
cussed. Edmunds' amendment, de-
claring that nothing in the act should
be construed 10 restrict or impair any
right Of the United States under any
treaty in force with the Republic Of
Nicaragua was agreed to.
Vest offered an amendment provid-
ing that no parts of the capital stock
paid in shall be at any time withdrawn
or returned to the stockholders, or be
in any manner diverted from the
proper uses Of the corporation
Teller opposed the amendment.
Hoar suggested that it be modified
by allowing the stock to be returned
to the stockholders for the purpose OF
winding up the corporation.
This Vest agreed to.
Vance called the attention OF the
Republican Senators to the fact that
the bill omitted to require that all
material used should be of American
manufacture, and prophesied that
their iron and steel would be bought
where they could get them the cheap
est@ "Was not this an evasion ?" he
asked, "of the duty the Senators owed
Pennsylvania? ?"
Teller replied that if the managers
of the enterprise were untrammeled
and would buy their material and i'm
plements where they could be gotten
the cheapest, they would buy in the
United States.
Vests amendments were rejected.
Vance offered an amendment re-
quiring all the laborers employed in
the work to be either native or
naeuralized citizens. Rejected by 35
to 10.
The bill was then reported back
from the Committee of the Whole
and the amendments agreed on.
The bill then passed; yeas, 3S;
nays, IS.
4 HOW THEY VOTED.
The vote was as follows:
Yeas = Aldrich, Allison, Blair,
Brown, Chase. Chandler, Colquitt,
Collum, Daniels, Davis, Dolph, Ed.
munds, Evarts, Farwell, Frye, Cor
man, Gray, Hale, Hearst, Hoar, In
gals, Manderson, Mitchell, Morgan,
Paddock Payne, Platt, Plumb, Pugh,
Sabin, Salisbury, Sawyer, Sherman,
Spooner, Stewart, Teller, Turpie,
Wilson Of Iowa; 3S.
Nays = Bate, Berry, Blackburn,
Cook, Faulkner, George, Gibson,
Hampton, Kenna, Parson, Reagan,
Riddleberger, Vest. Walthall, Wilson
of Maryland.
PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATIONS.
The President sent in the following
nominations: Moses j. Liddell, Of
L uisiana, to be Associate Justice OF
the Supreme Court Of the Territory
of Montana, L. B. Nash, to be Asso-
ciate Justice of the Supreme Court of
the Territory of Washington.
* THE sPooNER BILL.
Senator Reagan reported back the
Spooner bill to regulate commerc
carried on by telegraph from the sub
committee to the full Committee OH
Postoffices and Post Roads, and the
latter entered upon its formal con-
sideration by sections. Another
meeting will be held tomorrow, at
which it is expected that the work
will be completed and the bill pre-
pared for report to the Senate. This
is the bill placing the telegraphs in
the hands OF the Interstate Commerce
Commission.
An amendment to the urgent de-
ficiency bill was proposed by Senator
Stanford making an appropriation of
$500, 900 for the purchase Of the site
for public building at San Francis
CO.
The Senate committee on public
lands has substantially, though not
formally, agreed upon the public land
bill to repeal timber culture, the pre-
emption laws, to amend homestead
laws, etc., similar in general ,sSsssnre
to the Senate bill last session. A
meeting of the Committee will be
held on Saturday, at which it is ex-
pected that formal action will be