The record-union., 1891-02-01
DISCUSSION ON THE BARRUNDIA AZ
FAIR IN THE HOUSE.
Secretaries Blaine and Tracy Com
Matter-A Committee of Nine APP
Funeral of the Late Secretary VIM
dom.
Special to the REcoRD-UN1ov.

nlittees and placed on the calendar was
one for the exploration and survey Of the
interior of Alaska.
Sherman introduced bill appropriate
ing SO 900 for monument to Chief JUS
tice Chase in the city of Washington. 1t
was referred.
The House resolution for the appoint
ment of q committee of nine TO attend the
funeral of Secretary Window was laid
before the Senate, and Morrill, offered a
resolution for the appointment Of a COM
mittee Of seven Senators to join the House
Committee attending the funeral, and to
take such other action as may pe appro-
pirate in honor of the memory of the de-
ceased.
The resolution was agreed to, and
Messrs. Morrill,. Washburn, Sherman,
Allison, Harris, Payne and German were
appointed.
Morrill, also offered resolution. which
was agreed to, Tor the adjournment of the
Senate until Monday at p. NJ, to enable
Senators to attend WINDOWS funeral.
The joint resolution for the appoint
ment of William Preston Johnston, of
Louisiana, on the Board of Regents OF
the Smithsonian Institution, in place of
Noah Porter, of Connecticut, resigned,
was taken from the calendar and passed.
Blair, rising to personal explanation,
said that he had observed circulating in
the newspapers of the country what pur-
ported to be copy of the agreement
alleged to have been entered into by Re
publication Senators with reference to the
consideration Of the force bill, so-called,
or the elections bill, more properly called.
The names ofcertain Senators We're given
as having violated the agreement, and
allegation was made that all the other
Republican Senators had signed the agree
ment without condition.
AS that allegation was so broad as to in
Guide himself among those who had
signed that agreement without condition,
he desired to say that he never signed
such an agreement, except with the clear
qualification that it should not interfere
with his efforts for the consideration of
the educational bill.
Teller said that he did not intend to pay
any attention to newspaper reports, and
as "a general rule never gave any attention
to statements made by newspaper CORE
Spondents. He only desired to say now
that the statement which had been pretty
generally circulated that he had been in
favor of the force bill, so-called, or cleo
tionS bill, at any time was incorrect. He
also stated that the further statement that
amendments were made to that bill in
committee whenever he asked to have
them made was also incorrect, and that
the statement that he had ever agreed to
support the bill, directly or indirectly,
was incorrect. He would say now, lest
he might have no other opportunity, that
his opposition to the elections bill had
never grown out of his attitude on the
silver question. He had entertained no
idea that it would be so amended that he
should be able to vote for it, because that
would involve such a radical change in
lNr1 hot f,.r do,
care about its passage. He said now, and
1t was all that he proposed to say on the
matter, whatever might be said about his
attitude or his relations to the bill, that
he had never promised to support it, that
he had never intended to support it, and
that he had not supported it.
The army appropriation bill was then
taken up.
Senator Allen reported favorably the
amendment to the naval appropriation
bill, appropriating 100000 for a dry-dock
at Port Orchard, Puget Sound.
The amendment of the Committee on
appropriations, to strike out the provis-
ion of Government transportation on
land grant roads not to exceed fifty per
cent. of the charges to private parties,
was agreed to.
On the amendment to insert provision
that such transportation be paid for on
such basis as the Secretary of War
seventy per cent. of the charges to private
parties, there was a long discussion, but
it was agreed to and the bill passed
Quay presented resolution from the
Pennsylvania Legislature favoring the
Federal elections bill.
The Notifications bill was taken up.
but laid aside informally, and ITO pension
bills passed, including one giving pen
sion of $50 month TO the widow of Cen
eral Noyes, and the House bill, granting
a pension of 500 month to General
Siegel.
The Senate bills granting the Umatilla
Irrigation Company Il right-of- way
through the Umatilla Reservation, in
Oregon, and granting a right-of-way for
an irrigation ditch and railroad side
track across the Quartermaster's De-
partment in the reservation at Yuma,
AriZ., was passed.
The bill to pension Mary Ann Doherty
was objected to, and went over.
The House amendment to the bill for
the relief of Sarah L. Perine was agreed
to.
Edmunds gave notice of an amendment
to the diplomatic appropriation bill, to
enable the President to make arrange
mentS for telegraphic communication
between the United States and the Ha-
waiian Islands, for period of not less
than fourteen years, and appropriating
600 therefor, not more than S250,000
to be expended any one year.
Adjourned.
IN THE HOUSE.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 31.-In the House
the military academy appropriation bill
was passed without further opposition.
The House then went into Committee of
the Whole on the diplomatic and consular
appropriation bill.
Hit of Illinois explained that the bill
called for expenditures of 81 ,664, 925. be-
ing S45,S90 less than the approximations
for the current year. The mode of COM
pensation of eighteen commercial agents
is changed from fees to salaries, which
would effect considerable saving to the
Treasury.
McCready briefly reviewed the Bar
rundia case, contending that the killing
OF Barrundia was an assassination Pass
ing on to the discussion of the Behring
Sea controversy, he said the time had
come when something should be done by
the United States. 1t would not be long
before poaching vessels would be in
Behring Sea trampling on the rights of
this country. The United States should
ascertain its rights and stand by them, or
take another avenue which provides for
arbitration. He favored arbitration.
Hooker of Mississippi, referring to the
Barrundia case, said everybody must
concede to the present distinguished Sec
rotary of State the credit of promptly re-
calling and dismiSSing Minister Miner,
who, he thought. had not properly repre-
scented the rights, honor and dignity of
the American flag. The Secretary of the
Navy had taken the same action in re-
calling and reprimanding an officer who
failed to protect Barrundia.
The committee rose, and after eulogistic
addresses on the late Lewis Watson of
Pennsylvania, the House adjourned.