Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1890-09-16
FRYE AND PLUM
Have q Little Tilt About Their
Absent Marks.
Senate Amendments to fafin Bit Kon-
eaaeuFftd in BY House.
Ringing Speech by Major Mckinley
on the Eilh

WAsnISsros, Sept. i5.-on motion Of
Frye the Senate Proceeded to the eonsiter-
alton of sixteen bridge Bills on the calsn-
GAr. Before mnch progress was made a
slightly bitter exchange Of courtesies wss
passed between FRYE ard Plumb. The ist.
Ier said that while the Senator from Maine
was "oif fishing he {Plamb) was at work.
and DOW the Senator come back with face
all browaed from contact With nature and
was insisting nothing should be doae al all
except according TO his notion
Frye resented P.umb's remarks, AID said
thar in tea months be bad besn absent ex-
acty II days; he had not missed roll call
since June 2i.
The senator had been absen, just four
teen tines as much as have, was Plumb's
neX1 remark.
haven't been absent. said Frye, from
as many roll calls Is the Senator from Kan
sas.
Plumb am not going TO get into q
squabble with the Senator from Maine.
Fre-Then why did the Senator from
Kansas make the rem rk he did,
Presiding officer ingalls, interposed with
the remark that such colioquiss are liable
to degenerate into personal alterations.
After the bridge bills was disposed
the Senate proceeded to the considerable 1
of bills on the calendar TO which there was
no objection. The following bills among
others were passed Houas bill granting
pension of $50 month 10 Lucy Hale.
daughter of soldier in the revolutionary
war. The Senate bill TO amend the act of
June 10, 1873, TO Great an auditor for rail-
road accounts. Al the close of the hour
assigned 10 business On the calendar the
conference report on the railroad land for
feiiure bill was taken up as unfinished bus
mess. Sanders resumed his argument. He
said when he concluded last Friday he
hoped to have maintained that railroad
companies, within the limits of their re-
spectlye grants. were not The owne!s of
mines on odd numbered sections and these
mineral lands were in no peril unless perils
should aIise out of the provisions of the
first sec ion of the act of March 3, 1887.
Plumb sid under the land grant policy
probably enc hundred million acres Of put
tic lanH had been given away with the ie
salt of the direct construction OF perhaps
1900 miles of railroad AMI the indirect
construction of perhaps tw ice as macy IN re
miles. Though it is afe to say that in the
Beighborhood of one third Of railroad mile
age is due 10 the land grant policy. Neither
poll cal party is responsible for ii. 1t is
bora of hunger of the American pes pie
for the deyelopement of the natural re-
sources of the country. Perhaps it would
have been be ,er if never adopted. Having
been adopted it had to come and had
been for number of years an essential
pa of public policy. plumb estimat ID the
quantity of Lard that would revert 10 the
public domsin rnder the conference report
at seven and ore-half nj lion acres aud
probably ten million acres.
Morgan er. led that Congress had ex-
hausted its right of forfeiture IN the cases
of the Southern Pacific aud Atlantic and
Psc.fc companies Chose roads having
been completely. The former forfeiture
of those cases was fiaal, ~ but not so the
fact in regard to the Northern Pacific
road, which was net vet completed. The
hi seqi @pPIEs pPas f9I}st fqjs he aad :. Of the
land That would be the end of it. in-
slst that g Northern Pacifs shall do
equity, and yi,ll up its claims in favcr Of
the settlers. The Northern Pacific has
v0,CO0 go acres already, with town sites
and ties and everything Congress could
We it. Mr. Morgan did not conclude his
remsrks The senate st g adjourned.