The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-07-17
SESSION OF THE SENATE.
ruz ARREST OF MISSIONARY
DIAz BROUGHT UP.

The sundry Civil Appropriation Bill
consumes the Greater Part OF the
session-The Approximation for the
Geological Bureau Gives Rise to Con-
siderable Debate
WASHINGTON, July 16.-In the Senate
this morning Mr.. Pasco offered resolution.
which was referred to the committee on
foreign relations, calling on the secretary of
state for information as to the arrest by
the Spanish authorities in Havana OF A.
I Diaz, an American citizen and minister
of the gospel.
resolution was offered, which was
agreed to, calling on the Secretary OF the
Interior for information as to the personnel
of the geological survey AUs uuUleo' conpen-
sation, etc.
The resolution to pay to the representa-
tives of ex-Senators Johnston and Lewis
of Virginia S4, 400 each for unpaid salary
from the time they were entitled to seats up
to the time when they were sworn in was
reported and agreed to.
MIR. PAYNE offered resolution, which was
agreed to. calling ON the President for in
formation as to the expulsion from Guate-
mala of j. II. Hollander. q citizen OF the
United States.
Mr.. Teller introduced bill giving pen
sion of 81, 600 year TO Mrs. Jessie Fremont.
1t was referred to the committee on pen
Sions.
GOVERNMENT TELEGRAPHY.
Mr.. Sawyer introduced bill to establish
a limited telegraph service. 1t was referred
to the postoffice committee.
The Senate then went into executive ses-
sion. The doors were reopened at l:30
o'clock and on motion of Mr.. Hawley the
House bill to establish national military
post at the battlefield of Chickamauga was
taken from the calendar and passed with
some minor amendments.
The Senate resumed consideration Of the
sundry civil appropriation bill, the pending
amendment being the one to increase the
appropriation for surveying the public
lands from $780, 700 to 100000. The amend
ment was agreed to.
The next amendment that provoked dis
cussIon was on increasing the item for topo-
graphical surveys from S60, 900 to $500, 900,
one-half of which sum shall be ex-
pended west of the 10lst meridian, and
SO much of the actEof 1888, entitled
"An act making appropriations for the SUM-
dry civil expenses Cf the government for the
fiscal year ending June 80, 1892 as pro-
vide for the selection and location of re-
serves and canals upon public lands, and the
reservation of irrigable lands is hereby
repealed; provided. that the reserves and
canal sites heretofore located or selected
shall remain sacred and reserved from entry
or settlement until otherwise provided by
law.
OBJECT OF THE LIMITATION.
Mr.. Vest inquired of Mr.. Allison as to
the object of the Limitation.
Mr.. Allison replied that the object was to
require the director of the geological sur
vey to extend his Typographical work 80
that the first step might be to ascertain
proper places for the location of reserves
ETC. 1t had been thought that the director
would be able in that way to use con-
siderable portion of the funds in establish
ing reserves under the appropriation for the
geological survey.
HOSTILITY TO MAI. POWELL.
The debate which followed this explana-
tion again brought into prominence the
hostile feeling against Maj. Powell, chief of
the survey, which is entertained by several
senator's. The speakers were Messrs. Vest,
Reagan, Stewart, Jones of Arkansas, Call
Spooner and others. Mr.. Call wound up an
hours speech by an eulogy on Maj. Powell
as a distinguished and eminent scientist
VINO was contributing as much, if not more
to the happiness and practical welfare of
the people Of the United States as any other
influence.
During a suspension of the discussion the
Senate bill to authorize the construction of
bridges over the Savannah, Ocmulgee and
CCoueo rivers was reported and placed on
the calendar
Mr.. Davis, from the committee on appro-
priations, reported The Indian appropria-
tlon bill and said that Immediately after
the conclusion of the sundry civil appropri-
alton bill debate he would ask the Senate
70 consider it. 1t calls for 81, 153, 81 against
So,O22,63S, as the bill came from the House.
PLUMB SUPPORTS THE AMENDMENT.
- The discussion was resumed, and Mr..
fiumo argued in support of the amendment
aud In general defense of the swamp land
law and other land laws of the United
States. He favored repeal of the irrigation
law. He said that under its retention not
an acre of the public lands af-
iected would ever be entered by
nome settlers, and charged that that was the
o9Ject contemplated by the shrewd men
VINO drew up that provision in the confer |
ehce committee In the course of his speech
ne referred to the requirement of great
9ouies OF land by corporations, foreign and |
domestic, and said that Of 81, ,0O0, 900 acres
OF land which the state of Florida had
possessed, more than one-half had gone the
same way, and that was not the purpose of |
the United States.
Mr.. Gail replied to Mr. Plumb, and was
sun on the floor when. at o'clock, without
actlon on the amendment, the Senate ad-
gpurned, having disposed to-day of only
three pages of the bill