Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-07-18
That Subject Still Occupies the Time
of the Senate.
Mr.. REAGAN DEFENDS POWELL.
Discussion in the House on the
Order Of Business.
ORIGINAL PACKAGE BILL TAKEN UP.
SENATE.


the President transmitting the report Of the
board of sanitary commissioners on the subject
of a system Of sewerage in the District of Co.
lumbia was presented and referred to the Dis.
trict committee.
TO LIMIT DEBATE.
The resolution offered yesterday by Mr.. ALI
| son making 1t in order in the consideration OF
appropriation bills to move to limit debate on
| amendments to five minutes for each Senator
was presented.
Mr.. Edmunds inquired whether the meaning
OF the resolution was to terminate debate on
amendments not offered well as on amend
ments pending. The former practice had been
lhe belleveD to provide for terminating the
debate on known proposition, and so on. and
80 on. He certainly was in favor Of such a
resolution as that but if it meant to close de-
bate on amendments not vet offered that was
quite another thing.
MIR. Alllson-1he resolution is an exact copy
OF resolutions that have been adopted by the
Senate on many occasions.
Mr. Edmunds-Then it is all right
MIR. Allison-l do not ask for its consideration
this morning.
The resolution was laid on the table, subject
to call hereafter.
FROM WASHINGTON MONUMENT TO ROCK CREEK
PARK AND SOLDIERS HOME.
The resolution offered yesterday by Mr.. Glib
son, directing the Secretary Of War to report
| as to the cost of an avenue connecting the
reservation of the Washington monument with
Rock Creek, Columbia Park and the Soldiers
Home was taken up.
NOT FOR THE PENN.
Mr.. Dawes asked, sarcastically. whether the
intention was to give the use of the proposed
avenue to the Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pany.
Mr.. Gibson replied that one of his purp oses
in OF ering the amendment was to prevent the
pennsylvania Railroad Company from getting
possession of the avenue
The resolution was agreed to.
THE UNcoMPAHGRE VETO.
MIR. Dawes, from the committee on Indian
affairs, to which was referred the Presidents
message vetoing the bill to change the bound
aries OF the Uncompahgre Indian reservation,
reported it back without recommendation and
at the same time reported new bill for the
same purpose.
question having been asked as to the dis
position to be made of the veto message, the
presiding officer Mr.. Ingalls, said that the
Constitution required that the question whether
the bill should pass (the objection of the
PRESIDENT to the contrary Notwithstanding
should be submitted to the Senate. 1t was not
necessary, however, that that question should
be submitted at particular time. The bill and
THE sUNDRY CIVIL BILL.
The consideration of the sundry civil appro-
priation bill was resumed, the pending ques-
ton being Gas on yesterday the amendment
repeating the irrigation provision in the like
bill of October 2. 1888, excepting that reservoir
and canal sites heretofore located or selected
shall remain segregated and reserved.
Mr.. Reagan continued his argument, begun
yesterday against the amendment and in
favor Of the irrigation scheme initiated by the
act of 1888. In the course of MIR. Reagan's
the friends of the bill, mean
ing the plan for an irrigation
survey, and said he would like to know who
the friends of the bill were. He added that
few Senators had known anything about it, and
that even the commissioner of the general land
office had not known anything of it until more
than year after its passage.
Then it is another silver demonetization'
case, said MIR. Blair.
MIR. Reagan remarked that the Senator from
Oregon MIR. Dolph) was always on the side of
special privileges and advantages and 30 the
Senator and himself were not likely to agree on
this or any other question that involved the
material interests of the country.
REFERRING To MAI. POWELL,
MIR. Reagan said that if he ever knew an honest
man the director of the geological survey was
one. If that gentleman could have been used
by land syndicates not word would ever have
been heard OF the attacks now made upon him.
1t was because he could not be used by specu-
lators In the pub ic lands that war had been
made upon HIM.
Mr.. Stewart-Does the Senator from Texas
ascribe that motive to me?
Mr. Reagan-I have not said a word about
the Senator from Nevada, nor have had him
in my mind. l was referring to the general
ubect and to the fact that during the early
l0nDrnsG ,foti >F
dlcates and corporati tions were here urging a
repeal of this law and threatening to bring
their power to bear on members of Congress-
1t was that which had i'll view.
WANTS THE NAMES.
Mr.. Stewart-Will the Senator name some
agent of some syndicate?
MIR. Reagan-I have no doubt that the Sena-
tor from Nevada knows as many of them as I
do. have no disposition to engage in person.
alites. either with agents or claimants or Sem
ators. l gave my knowledge of facts and of
men who spoke to me on this subject: and I
beg the Senator to consult his own memory az
to whether he had seen such men.
MIR. Stewart-lf you will allow me will con-
suit my memory, and now state that no rep
rese entative OF any syndicate or of any person
interested in land has mentioned the subject to
me this winter. The only thing that has n
fuenced me has been my own observation and
the protests that have come from the peopIe
against having the public lands withdrawn
from market.
LAND SHARKS.
Mr.. Reagan. These land sharks may have
thought me weaker, less pure, less devoted to
the public interests than the Senator from Ne
vada, and may, therefore, have approached me
when they did not deem that they dared to ap-
proach him. When we talk of public senti-
ment we ought to have the sentiment Of the
cultivators of the soil, and not of land specula-
tors. who combine their influence, activity and
wealth to make members of Congress believe
that their own interests and their own feelings
are those OF the people.
CONFERENCE ON THE LAND FORFEITURE BILL.
A message from the House asking a con-
ference on the land forfeiture bill was pre-
sented, and the request was agreed to.
Messrs Plumb, Dolph and Pasco were ap-
pointed conferees on the part Of the Senate.
Mr.. REAGAN CLOSES HIS ARGUMENT.
Mr. Reagan then went on with his argument
against the pending amendment
were repealed he could go to bed and sleep
soundly, except for regret that the government
would lose its land and that citizens would lose
the chance to secure homes for themselves.
HOUSE.
Mr.. Hit Qll.) asked unanimous consent for
the immediate confederation Of q joint resolu-
ton providing that nothing in the diplomatic
md ~ h.Il ~.