Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1890-07-15
NATIONS CAPITAL
Senate It Work on Civil Sun
dry Appropriation Bill.
Secretary Blains's Latter to Senator
Frye, % he faliE.
Republican Senators In Caucus ovsl
Change In Senate Rules

| WAsHrsGroN, July 1.-THE presiding
eficer Of the Senate. Ingalis, announced
his signature to the silver bill. and the Sen.
/ ate proceeded to the consideration of sun
dry civil appropriations bills.
Allison said the agricultural and army
bills had become laws, the consular and
diplomatic bills we're in the hands Of the
| President, the District Of Columbia bill
was pending in the House on the confer
encs report, the Notifications bill vas in
the hands Of the conference committee, and
the Indian appropriation bill would be re-
ported today or tomorrow from the Senate
| appropriation committee The legislative
executive and judicial appropriation bill
/ sAs . Law, and so were the military acad.
envy, naval appropriation and post office
Appropriation bills. The river and hArho
and sundry civil bills were sfill unacted
upon, and the general deficiency bill. which
would probably cover four or hve million
dollars. was still behind.
All those Appropriation bills, with the
river snd harbor, sundry civil and dehcien-
cy estimated, would aggregate about ss59.
600 coo.
Gorman-That does include permanent
app. opriatious by about one huudred mil
liens.
Ailison-It does not. II only include
the regular appropriation bills.
Among the amendments to the sundfy
civil bill, reported from the committee on
appropriations and agreed to by the Sesate,
are the inserting Of items for lighthouses,
beacons and fog signals in Lubec Narrows.
Maine. sl5 800; inserting the item Sl4, 900
for a fsh hatchery in Craigh Brook and
7 10 Mama. M ha t.auu Ia
the transportation Of silver coin from S2d.-
600 TO s55 900. An amendment to insert
$500 coo for the erecting in Washington
4 Lstin-American memorial library was
cached.
Vest opposed it as being par, Of = senti-
mental programme to secure commerce
with the South American States. Such
trade can only be brought by making i, to
the interes. of the South American States
to trade with the United States.
Besides there row being erected = mag
ni6eent library building, to cost six million
dollars. certain rooms in that building
might be dedicated to the purpose indicated
in the amendment. The Senate asked to
appropriate $500 coo at q time when there
was not room in the public buildings to
transact absolute AMI exigent public busi-
ness.
Hawley concurred with everything Vest
said. The library Of Congress had already
very fine collection Of old manuscripts,
maps and books relating to the early hie
tory Of the American continent, and he
suggested that instead of dividing those re-
sources it would be very much better to
take section or branch Of that library,
and entitle it the Latin American memorial
library. lie offered An amendment to that
effect sppropsiatiug s25, 900.
Vest contenced il would be no discour-
tesy even to the advocates Of the plan if
an apartment in the library of Congress is
set apart for that purpose.
Edmunds remarked that it was obvious
to any scholar or student that the separation
Of the historical documents of one particular
country or set of countries was really de-
struction Of the value Of both.
Vest predicted that IL the committee
amendment were adopted the cost would be
at leas, o., SOC, 600. He had no disposition
to criticise the Pan American commission
or its work. but preferred to wait and see
what the result would be before a monu-
ment to it is erected. He agreed with
Hawley in the idea that if a monument was
erected it should be in the shape of an arch
or some work of art.
4 Frye referred to letter which Vest re
Gently had read rejecting on the United
States delegates to the Psn-Americau con
ference. He characterized il as infamous.
and gave 3 sketh of the writer and the mo
tives which prompted him.
Vest said that il he had first given puf-
licity to that letter he would have been
responsible for it; but it was as much =
public document as if it had appeared in
the Congressional Record. II had bee n
published in paper having the largest cir
culation perhaps of any paper in the coun
try. Il was printed in North and South
America, in the English and Spanish
languages.
The amendment vent over without
action. The other amendments were re-
ported and agreed to.
Having disposed of 80 of the ia pages
of the bill, it was sii aside till tomorrow.
The Senate, at 5 so o'clock, adjourned.