National Republican., 1888-02-28
BUT LITTLE DAMAGE DONE.
TBI HOUSE SITS ALL DAY WITHOUT
IyJURlNG ITS REPUTATION.
The Senate Passes the Nicaragua In
corporation Bill and Proceeds TO Con-
tider dependent" Pension LoRlsia-
tion-District Day in the House.


Against the continued occupation Of
streets in Washington by the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad Company.
Against the repeal OF the oleoma-garine
bill.
For cheap and efficient telegraph ser
vice open to all without discrimination.
For the repeal Of the internal revenue tar
on alcoholic liquors.
For the removal Of the duty on books.
To put tin plate on the free list.
To increase the compensation OF life saw
ings crews.
Among the bills and resolutions reported
from committees and placed on the calen-
dar were the following: To provide for the
issuing and recording Of certain commits
sion OF the Department OF Justice; to
obtaining pension statistics to amend the
fourteenth rule Of the Senate 60 as to re-
quire general appropriation bills to be un-
der consideration OF the committee on ap-
propriations five days or more before being
reported; requiring notice OF deficiencies In
accounts Of United States officials to be
given to sureties and fixing limitation OF
lime within which suits must be commenced
sga'Bst euieties.
Among the bills introduced and referred
were the followipg
by MIR. Cullom To regulate the manu-
fseture, blending. and c0mpouuding duty
free spirits for use In manufactures, arts,
and sciences.
By Mr.. German; To establish court Of
patent appeals.
On motion OF MIR. Edmunds the Senate,
at 1850, resumed consideration OF the bill
to incorporate the Maritime Canal Com
pany Of Nicaragua; notice being given by
Mr., Plumb that he would ask the Senate
to-day to take up the bill forfeting uu.
earned railroad land grants; by Mr.. Plat
that he would next Monday ask the Senate
to take up the bill for the admission
Of South Dakota as state, and
by Mr.. Allison that when the pending bill
was disposed OF lie would call UP the under.
valuation bill.
ragua bill reported by the committee on
foreign relations were agreed to.
MIR. Edmunds offered a resolution de-
claripg that nothing In the act should be
deemed or construed to restrict or impair
in any way any right of the United States
under any treaty in force with the Repub-
lie Of Nicaragua.
Mr.. Vest offered a resolution declaring
that nothing in the act should be held or
construed to involve in any manner the
United States In any pecuniary obligation,
except as to the payment Of tolls.
Mr.. Edmunds said that his reason for op-
posing that amendment was that there was
not line or syllable In the bill which
would imply any such obligation.
Mr.. Vest said he had no argument to
make in support Of his amendment except
simply to refer the Senate to the argument
made Ia support Of similar proposition to
the Eads Tehuantepec bill by the senator
from Vermont.
Mr.. Edmunds suggested that the condi.
tiops Of the two bills were dissimilar, and
said that II he had the power he would pro-
ttockholder in the company to the extent
Of fifty millions.
Mr.. Plumb argued against the amend
meIt,, which he regarded as "sticking in the
The amendment was rejected, yeas 81,
nays %.
Mr. Vest offered another amendment,
providing that no part Of the capital stock
paid In shall be at any time diverted from
the proper uses Of the corporation, and said
that the same was placed in the Tehuan-
tepcc bill Of last Congress and also Of the
Nicaragua bill on the motion Of the senator
from Vermont.
Mr.. Edmunds argued against the amend
ment, and suggested that whether he had
was not material.
Mr.. Teller opposed the amendment, de.
clariDg in the course of his argument that
there was not more important undertake
ing in the minds of men than the building
Of the Nicaragua canal. The American
PEOPLE, he said, could not afford to allow
the French government to build the Panama
canal and hold 1t in hostility to The United
States. When that enterprise was at first
proposed the administration should have
declared that no canal should be opened
acrose the continent that the American
government did not control. Even late a s
1t was now, the French government (if the
Panama canal should become national
eDterprlee) should be notified that the
American people would not submit to 1t.
He referred to the encroachments OF Eng
land IN South America and Central Amer.
lea, and said that II there was anything
= which the American people could do that
would have a tendency to give them some
control OF these transit interests 1t should
be done. If It could not be done directly
by the government 1t was certainly incoa-
Of esHi such tsrprises: h%s obstacles IN 'n' way
Mr.: euggested to Mr.. Vest to
modify Ms amendment by allowing stock
to be returned to stockholders for the
purpose Of winding up. the corporation;
It seemed to him (Mr. Hoar) very clear
that the amendment should be adopted.
1t was the duty (he argued) of every leg.
islative body In chartering corporation
to protect the public against the improper
use of stock.
Mr.. Vance called the attention OF Repub-
lican senators to the fact that the bill
omitted to require all materials used In the
work to be Of American manufacture, and
he prophesled lin bantering tone) that
"these fellows would buy their iron and
steel and other material wherever they
could get them cheapest and best" Was
not that, he asked, an evasion OF the duty
which senators owed to the Pennsylvania
steel and Iron manufacturers Was not
the end OF all things nigh when Congress
would charter corporation to act In foreign
parts with permission to buy iron and steel
and other materials from the British liont
lie made these suggestions In the character
of amicus carip, and said that II Republi-
can senators did not act on them, and II
what he prophesled did happen, "their
blood be on their own head.n Laughter
Mr.. Teller replied that II the managers OF
the enterprise were untrammeled, aud
would buy their picks and shovels and bar
rows where they could find them best and
cheapest, they would buy them In the
United States. The senator from North
Carolina might not worry himself on tnat
point.
Mr.. Vest argued that II his amendment
were voted down the action OF the Senate
would be used as an argument In the mar.
kets OF the world that the Senate had re.
ceded from the position which it took last
session, and that there was an indirect and
implied responsibility on the part OF the
United States government.
Mr.. Vests amendment was rejected
yeas 7, nays 20.
Mr.. Vance offered an amendment requlr
Ing that all laborers employed in the work
should be either native or naturalized citi
zens of the United States, and, after being
heavily sat down on by Mr.. Salisbury fol
Offering an amendment which meant deatt
to thousands of Americans II It wer,
adopted, the amendment was rejected
yeas 10, nays 33.
After some further delay by Mr.. Vest the
bill was passed-yeas 3S, nays l5-as fol