St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-02-13
OUTRAGEs AT THE POLLS.

Hill UCiiCNCS III
OUTRAGES Ar THE POLLS.
Staid Old Senators Discuss Fairy
Stories of Intimidation in the
South.
Special to the Globe.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 12.-The senate
to-day passed the naval appropriation
bill and took up the Texas election out
RACES. At the conclusion of the morn
ing business the senate went into secret
session for five minutes. Consideration
of the naval appropriation bill was then
resumed, the pending question being
Mr.. Chandler's amendment to strike out
the words requiring the new cruising
monitor to be constructed OF the type
and under the plans and specifications
of Mr.. Thomas, of Illinois. Mr..
Chandler continued his argument
i'm support of the amendment, eX-
pressing his doubts whether Mr..
Thomas had done anything whatever
in the making of plans and specifi-
cations, or whether Mr.. Thomas had
the skill and ability to do so. After
some discussion, the clause was made to
read, lone armored steel cruising moni-
tOI Vi GlC typO- oPploFOu e1hO ASNSoh
mended by a naval board in the report
to the secretary of the navy, and by
him referred to and approved in his
letter to the chairman of the committee
on naval affairs of the house of repre-
sentativeS. dated Jan. 9, 1889, to be con-
structed according to plans and speciti-
cations furnished by the navy depart
ment, to be approved by the secretary
of the navy" The provision for a
PREMIUM FOR INCREASED SPEED
of the cruising monitor beyond the
maximum of seventeen knots per hour
was amended to increase the required
maximum to nineteen knots per hour.
Mr.. Teller moved an amendment apprO-
priating 100000 for the purchase of
guns Qrom 1-pounder to 32-pounders)
and small arms of the Hurst Reinforce
Cartridge and Arms Company of New
Jersey. His proposition was Op-
posed by Mr.. Plumb. In the course
of his speech he complimented
the present administration of the navy
department. Mr. Hale said that in five
years the United States would have the
best navy in the world. Much OF the
success which had characterized the
partment Ito which he was glad to bear
holding up of the Secretary'S hands by
a majority of the senate opposed to him
in politics. The secretary had been
careful in his methods; he had encour-
aged American inventors, American
enterprise and American skill; and
now the United States had some of the
best ships that were to be found to-day
on the waters of the globe. The pres
ent secretary of the navy had been only
able to launch six or seven new ships:
but his successor would be able during
the next four years to launch fifteen or
twenty, or twenty-five or thirty of the
finest armed and equipped ships on the
waters of the globe. Then the United
States would have the very
BEST NAVY IN THE WORLD.
After further discussion Mr.. Teller's
amendment was withdrawn in favor of
one offered by Mr.. Hale land agreed toy
appropriating $4,000 for testing the
Hurst guns. and then the bill passed.
A message from the president transmit
ting report from the secretary of state
as to the seal fisheries of Behring's sea
was presented, read and referred. Mr..
Evarts asked unanimous consent that
the unfinished business, Union Pacific
funding bill. be laid aside and the re-
DUEb uI OH
elections as to OutrageS in Washington
county, Texas. taken up. Mr.. Coke OBJ
jected. MIR. Harris demonstrated in a
long speech against occupying the time
of the senate, at this inopportune and
unauspicious period of the session, in a
fruitless political discussion. He re-
ferred to the condition of the appropri-
alton bills and suggested the danger of
an extra session. Mr.. Sherman did not
recollect that he had ever heard such
request as that of the senator from New
York denied by the senate under SIM
liar circumstances. MIR. Morgan re-
monstrated against taking up the reso-
luton and said that it was purely
gratuitous attempt on the part of poll
ticianS in the senate to launch danger
Gus, exciting, unnecessary debate. Mr..
Chandler said that he wondered when a
more appropriate time could be selected
than one when the process had been
commenced, in certain states. of
KILLING CONTESTANTS FOR SEATS
in the house of representatives. Should
the senate wait until all the contestants
were killed, and all the appropriation
bills passed? He proceeded to speak of
the assassination of Mr.. Clayton, in Ar
kansas. and read to the senate the state
ment made ON the subject in that con-
nection, to the withdrawal from the
contest for the governorship OF Arkan-
sas of the Republican claimant. Mr..
Berry characterized the killing of Mr..
Clayton as a cowardly murder, and one
without excuse or palliation. He had
known Mr.. Clayton intimately. and had
canvassed his district with him at the
last election, and knew that Mr.. Clayton
had been treated by the people win en-
tire respect. Mr.. Breckenridge aud
MIR; Glayt9n haa , ueen personal Trends i 4a
canvass between them. After further
discussion, the question was taken on
Mr.. Evarts' motion to lay aside the Pa
cif1c railroad funding bill, and to take
up the resolution, and it was agreed to
by party vote-22 to 10. The resolu
ton was read as follows:
Resolved, That the committee on