Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-03-05
SENATE SCENES.
The Cold Storage Chamber Makes Some
Concessions on Conference Reports.

Concessions on conference hepoTiS'
WAsnrNGroN. March 4.-Thc Senate
was still i'm session when dayliaht shOne
through the windows this morning.
Business was hurried through during
the early morning hours. The Commit
tee on Immigration was continued dur
ing the recess. At $3.50 o'clock Mr..
Hale moved that the Senate receds from
the Hawaiian cable amendment to the
Diplomatic bill lthc only question be-
tween the two houses on the BID. The
motion was agreed to and the bill went
TO the President.
After the passage Of the House bill to
supply artificial limbs to pensioners
every three years, instead OF five years,
the conference report on the bill for the
reorganization of the artillery and in
fantry forces OF the army was reported
and agreed To. Mr. Hawley explained
that the report provided merely for a
change Of organization, and did not in
crease the army by one man.
House bill for the issue of the COM
mission OF Philip c. johnson, as Rear
Admiral in the navy, and to deliver 1t to
his widoT, was passed.
A message from the House, proposing
further conference on the Legislative
Appropriation bill was presented and
read. and Mr.. Allison informed the Sen
ate, in connection with it, that the diff
ference between the two houses related
solely TO the question Of annual compen-
sation for session committee clerks and
clerks TO Senators. Unless the conferees
should be otherwise instructed, he
thought that the Senate cOnferees might
be expected to recede substantially from
those amendments. At 4 a. m. o'clock
Mr.. Allison returned 10 the chamber and
presented the conference report on the
Legislative bill-the Senate receding
from the amendments as to Senators
clerks and session committee clerks, and
leaving them still at per diem compen-
sation. rhe report was agreed to.
The conference report on the Defcien-
cy bill was presented and read. Mr..
Hole said that nearly all of the items
In dispute had been arranged. There
were still unsettled the question as TO
the Pacific Railroad claims, the pay
ments to the widows OF Chief Justice
Waite and Justice Miller, the French
Spoilation claims and the claims of
Stotes for moneys expended in the late
war and the war OF 1872.
\ DISCOVERY MADE.
While the report was being discussed,
Mr.. Pasco called attention to the fact
that. although there was motion pend
ing 10 reconsider the vOve on the Copy
right bill and to request the House TO
return the bill to the Senate. the bill
had been signed by the Speaker Of the
House and had been laid on the table OF
the Vice President. He asked that,
pending action on his motion, the Vice
President should have his attention
called TO that motion.
The discussion upon Mr.. PascO's mo-
tion to reconsider the vote agreeing TO
the conference report on the Copyright
bill occupied the attention Of the Senate
at intervals up to the hour Of taking a
recess. Mr.. Pasco complained that,
notwithstanding his motion, the bill had
been huraied to the Vice President and
had received the Vice Presidents sigma
turc, and was now awaiting the Presl-
dents. That was an instance, in the
opinion OF Mr.. Hale, Of how that bill
had been "railroaded." The idea of the
bill being "railroaded' was angrily re-
PEELED by Mr.. Platt. Very deep regret
was expressed by Mr.. Hale that the
Vice President had seen fit TO sign the
bill. and it wa only, be thought, because
the Vice President did not know OF the
serious effort to have full vote OF the
Senate on the motion to reconsider. Tie
hoped that the President would learn
the facts m time to withhold his sigma
ture.
Mr.. Spooncr said he had seen the Vice