Morning journal and courier., 1890-04-22
THE FlFrY-rlnsr ooNGRKss.

F0ns1On1nE Prisoners Of War Fails Ol
 Passage.
 WASHINGTON, D. C., April 21.-on motion of MT. Hawley the senate proceeded to con- sider the house bill to provide for celebrating the tooth anniversary of the discovery of America by Christopher Columbus by hold- f ing an international exhibition of arts, in- dustries, manufactures and the products of tho soil. mine and sea in the city of Chicago in the state of Illinois.
 The only amendment reported by the sen- ate committee Is the insertion of a new sec- tion providing for a naval review in New York harbor in April. 1893, and for the un- yelling of statue of Christopher Columbus at Washington.
 MT: Hale inquired of MT. Hawley whether it is intended that the government should furnish the statue of Columbus. MT. Hawley replied in the affirmative and stated that bill for that purpose had already passed the senate and was now pend- ing in the house.
 Mr. German offered an amendment to strike out the provision for naval review and to insert in lieu of it an appropriation of $50O,O for @ memorial building in Washington as repository of the antiqui. ties of the western hemisphere.
 MT. Gorman's amendment was rejected.
 Mir. Blair offered an amendment empower ing the president to hold an exhibition of the public schools and 6 review of the public children in Chicago. He also offered an amendment for the erection of a statue in memory of Queen Isabella of Spain. Both amendments were lost.
 MT. Hoar moved to amend by striking out the provision as to the Columbus statue. MT. Allison argued against the amendment reported by the committee. It was not 8 wise thing, he said, to embarrass a bill having one purpose in view by providing for something else. If he had an opportunity he should vote to strike out the whole section as to naval review and as to 8 statue. It had no business in the bill.
 Mr. Hoar regarded the provision for the naval review as the most important part of tho bill. Nothing finer as a spectacle, nothing more instructive, nothing better calculated to raise the people to proper sense of what they ought to do could be advised than that same naval review. It be- longed to the bill.
 either provision as to the naval review or as to the statue of Columbus. There could be nothing more appropriate, nothing more cognate to the proposition of the whole bill, than these two features. The senator from Iowa forgot that the whole matter to be celebrated was the discovery of America by Columbus. The Chicago international fair was but an incident.
 After further discussion MT. .Hoar's amend ment to strike out the provision as to the statue of Columbus was agreed to and the re- mainder of the amendment (for a naval re- view) was agreed to-yeas 28, nays 27. The section as adopted reads: Section 8. That the president is hereby empowered and directed to hold naval re- viz tn Nnvry V0r1r ho~h ~hovs srn to extend to foreign nations an invitation to send ships of war to join the United States navy in rendezvous at Hampton Roads and proceed thence to said review.
 MT. Blair moved to add to the first section a provision that no Intoxicating liquors, wines or beer shall be sold, to be used as a bev. craze, within the limits of the exposition grounds, and made short speech in support of it.
 MT. Butler thought that that was @ matter which might safely be left to the people of the city of Chicago, and therefore he moved to lay the amendment on the table.
 The motion was agreed to-yeas S3, nays 15.
 The bill (which had been under considers- tion as in committee of the whole) was then reported to the senate and vote was again taken by yeas and nays on the amend ment for naval review. The vote resulted: Yeas 27, nays 25. So the provision remains in the bill. ~ The bill was psssed-yeas 43, nays 13. A committee of conference on the disagree ing votes was asked and Messrs. Hawley, Far well and Vance were appointed conferees on the part of the senate.
 HOUSE.
 MT. Dorsey of Nebraska introduced joint resolution that the secretary of the treasury be and he is hereby directed to increase the treasury purchase of silver bullion to the maximum amount authorised by an act to | authorize the coinage of the standard silver dollar, and to restore it's legal tender charac- ter, which act was passed over the veto of l the president and became law February 20, 1878. Referred.
 MT. Strubble of Iowa submitted the con- | ference report on the bill to provide a tenn. porary government for the territory of Okla homa. The bill as agreed upon changes the boundaries of the proposed territory of Okla homa so as to exclude from the territorial limits. which is known as the Cherokee out- let. It Is provided, however, that as soon as the Indian claim to this outlet is extin guish- ! ed it shall become part of the territory of Oklahoma without further legislation and | that the lands therein shall be opened to set tlement as other lands in the said territory. | It is also provided that jurisdiction to en- force the laws of the United States in the Cherokee outlet shall be confevred upon the supreme and district courts of the territory of Oklahoma.
 The reading of the report occupied an hour and half.
 After debate the report was adopted, MT. Henderson of Iowa, from the cons mittee on appropriations, called up bill ap- propriating $S33, ,500 to provide necessary | vaults and safeguards for the security of the l public money in the custody of the United l States treasurer and 1t was passed. The speaker then called the committee in l order for motions to suspend the rules and pass measures on the calendars. MT. Morrill, of Kansas, from the committee | on invalid pensions, called up tho bill to pension prisoners of war.
 MT. Tarsney of Missouri opposed the bill. He had entered the army at the age of sev- euteen years, had been stricken down, wounded at Gettysburg. and had lain for months in the Confederate prisons of Belle Isle and Andersonville. But he never thought and declared that this bill was . l vicious proposition. It drew no line be- | tween the meritorious and unmeritorious soldier, or rather it discriminated against the brave and more deserving soldiers, who fought for their country. and in favor of those who were picked up as stragglers. The bill was an indueement to soldiers to sur render. It told the soldier to surrender, to 8et 6ALoty III an cueWy prlsOn ana arGef the war receive his reward. All the men in uni. form were not soldiers, all of tho prisoners were there through zeal. Many-a large proportion - were put in prison because they were captured after leaving their com- nands, or while svading their duty.
 Hr. Cummings of New York said that if a bill could be drawn which would give to de- serving prisoners of war alone special pen- sion he would favor it. But this bill took iu the malingerer as we'll as the soldier Many c man became prisoner to escape fighting be- cause he felt that he was safer in prison than alongside his comrade in arms. He gave as illustrations the conduct of number of sol disrs at Banks Ford and of a soldier who had become prisoner of war to escape punish. ment for striking his superior officer. The bill wonld not wash with the veterans o, with the taxpayer.
 Messrs. Hopkins of Illinois, Boothman ot Ohio, Cutcheon of Michigan, Morrill, oi Kansas. Kennedy of Ohio, and Morse ot Massachusetts, advocated the passage oi the bill, tho latter maintaining that the mer imprisoned at Andersonville and such helli on earth, suffered more than those in the | ranks.
 The motion to suspend the rules and past