Morning journal and courier., 1889-03-04
News by Telegraph i FRoN ALL QUARTERS. A SCENE IN THE SENATE. Senator Riddleberger Is Placed Under Arrest. RUMOR OF A CONFLICT AT SAMOA A Review Of The Fiftieth
 Congress. EARTHQUAKES lN ECUADOR.
EARTHQUAKES IN ECUADOR.
Ten Thousand Ready To
 Invade Oklahoma.
Fiftieth Congressional Session

1 WASHINGTON, March 3. l SENATE-About o'clock this morning the 1 senate agreed to the conference report on the bill to regulate the course at the naval acade- ! my. The resolution for the continuance of l the select committee on the Pacific railroads until their indebtedness to the government 1 was adjusted was taken up and agreed to. l Several house bills of private character ! were taken up by unanimous consent and passed, and then the conference report on the deficiency bill was presented and agreed to, leaving three items (one of them being the 1 appropriation for the French spoliation ! awards) on which there had been no agrees I ment, and on these further conference was asked. And then at 1:15 the senate went in- ! to executive session.
 The executive session continued until 40 | 8. m, when the doors were reopened, and four private bills were taken up and the | Senate at 2:15 a. m. took a recess until D. m. (when enrolled bills were signed) and till 8 p. m. for general business.
 The first business transacted at the night session, which began at o'clock, was the presentation and adoption of conference re- ports on bills to provide fer the allotment of
 lands in severalty to the United Perrias and | Miamis in the Indian territory, and the h. dian appropriation bill. The bill as agree to | is in accordance with the Senate proposition ! in the Oklahoma matter. The House para graph looking to the organization of territo- | al government is struck out and the substitute of the Senate adopted. Even before the latter report had been dis- posed of MT. Riddleberger was on his feet 1 endeavoring to interpose motion to proceed 1 to executive business. The presiding officer, | Mir. Ingalls,, took no notice of him at first,
 but finally recognized him, put the motion | and declared it lost, whereat some of the gal l lery spectators laughed. Then one after an- ] other Senators Sherman, Jones of Arkansas, i Spooner, Cullom, Pasco, Davis and others | were recognized to move to take up and pass private bills In each instance there was an attempt at objection or interruption by Mr. ! Riddleberger till finally he was notified by the presiding officer that he would not be | recognized further. On motion of Mir. Frye | the Union Pacific funding bill was recommit- | ted to the select committee the Pacific l railroad indebtedness.
 The passage of private bills went on under unanimous consent. In the meantime MT. | Riddleberger, who had left the chamber, | again made his appearance and informed the presiding officer that he had just telegraphed \ to the governor of Virginia his resignation as senator, because he could have no recog- milton from the presiding officer. He was I awaiting an answer which would relieve him | from the responsibilities of his position. He ! had found that Republican senator from Virginia could not be recognized by the President of the senate pro tempors. The presiding officer-The statement made | by the senator from Virginia is in violation of order. The chair directs the senator to take | his seat.
 MT. Riddleberger did not obey the order, but made another attempt to speak. The presiding oficer-The senator will not | be allowed to proceed further without the permission of tie Senate, which must be on | motion made for that purpose.
 As Mir. Riddleberger still remained stsnd- ing the presiding officer added:
 l The sergeant-at arms will see that the ! orders of the chair are executed.
 He need not do that, sir, said MT. Riddle- | berger, as he took his seat.
 l But he did not keep it. In few minutes he was up again with an objection to 6 pri- vate bill and attempted to address the..chair. | He was directed to take his seat, which he refused to do, and was then ordered under ! arrest, and resisting was literally dragged l from the chamber to the cloak room. l Then the business of the senate was allow ! ed to run it's regular course. Most of the ! bills that were passed were of a private na- ture. At 10:45 the senate took recess till midnight.
 I HoUsE.-The house st 2 o'clock this morn | ing took recess until 2 o'clock this after | noon. When the speaker called the house to | order at that hour every seat in the galleries I was occupied and the overflow crowd surged i through the corridors. The speaker amour ced that there were upon his tables various | senate bills and veto message from the l President. By unanimous consent the house decided to take up the senate bills. On motion of MT. Reed of Maine the senate | bill was passed granting a pension of $50 a l month to the widow of General H. J. Hunt. Several bills relating to public buildings were passed. The conference report OF the Indian l appropriation bill was submitted and agreed | to- as was also conference report on the | bills for the allotment of lands in sev~ crafty to the united Peoria and Mi l ami Indians. The Edmunds resolution l in regard to the construction of the | Panama canal was reported favorably from l the committee on foreign affairs and placed | on the calendar. The conference report on | the deficiency bill was taken up. An agree \ ment has been reached on all points of differ l ence, except upon the amendments of the I Senate relating to the water supply in the | District of Columbia, providing for the | payment of the French spoliation claims and | granting an extra months salary to the | Senate reporters. The French spoliation l claims amendment was read, and MT. Sprin- 1 ger of Illinois aeked unanimous consent that l the House further insist upon it's disagree 1 ment to this amendment.
 Mr McComas of Maryland objected, and | MT. Springer, to prevent vote being taken
 on a motion to recede, moved recess until ] eight o'clock which, after some delay, WAS
 agree to.
 l As soon as the speaker called the house to order, at eight o'clock, Mir. Ssyres, of Texas, l claimed and was accorded the floor, with the ! deficiency bill, the pending question being | on a motion made by MT. McComas, of ! Maryland, that the house recede from its disagreement. to the French spoilation claims amendment Mr. Sayres included the floor | to MT. Springer who had assumed the role o1 flibuster and that gentleman moved recess until nine o'clock.
 MT. CssUell of Wisconsin, who is the ! +ba tay his astonishment that the gentleman ir
 charge of the deficiency bill should yield the floor to an avowed filibusterar and Inquired
 whether the gentleman's object was to defeat
 the direct tax bill, bill i'll which two-thirds 1 of the house were in favor
 1 MT. Ssyres replied that hls ooJect was tc
 pass the deficiency bill.
 1 The vote was then taken on the motion TOT
 & recess.
 At midnight there were but two genera
 appropriation bills upon which final action
 has not been taken by both houses of Con
 gress. The action of the House In insisting
 on its disagreement to the French spoliatior
 claims amendment on the deficiency bill was
 taken with the tacit understanding that the
 Senate would recede from it's position and al
 low the bill to become law without thit l provision incorporated in It. The other bll upon which there are still points of disagree ment is the sundry civil bill. The points l WulCu IcldGc tO ou oPPAoHH NAo SSAa eft of the widow of Chief Justice Waite anG to the amount of royalty to be paid for th.
 use of steam presses in the bureau of print ! ing and engraving will doubtless be agreed upon and the prospects are that all the ap. propriation bills will become laws before | noon tomorrow.
 At s:3e Mir. Springer withdrew his motion for a recess and Mr. MeComss moved tha :: the house recede from it's disagreement Then the house was thrown into a tumult MT. sayres claiming the floor for an hour ant } Mr. McComas and his friends insisting tha { as his was motion of precedence the floor } in right, should be accorded to him. Tn } speaker pro tempore (Mr. Hatch of Missouri 1 recognized MT. McComas to make his motion ! but decided that MT. Sayres was entitled t 3 the floor, decision which called forth angr 5 protests from the Republican side.
 Suicide of a Newspaper Man. I CONCORD, Mass, March 3.-Thomas San
 born, aged about twenty-three. oldest son c IT l Frank B. Sanborn, committed suicide
 cutting his throat late yesterday afternoon