The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-03-01
THE TONNAGE BILL SUpPLANTED
The Senate Postal Subsidy Bill
Passes the House.
Rushing Legislation as the Close OF the
session Draws Nigh-Private Land
Claim Court Bill ~Passes-SuRdry Civil
Appropriation Bill Sent to Conference
Without Objection.

WASHINGTON, Feb.eS--lSpcciall-Af-
ter a protracted fight last evening Mr..
C%annon's motion for the adoption of a pos
tal.aid bill prevailed. 1t differs from the
Senate postal subsidy bill in that itouts
down the amount to be paid mail carry
ing vessels thirty-three per cent. 1t
was adopted by Il vote of lao to leo.
1t provides for the division OF these
vessels into four c~lasses-from 5000
ton 2O-knot to 1,500 ton 12-knot ships
with compensation per mile for mail
carriage as follows: First-class, 81 sec
ond-class, So: third-class, 81; fourth
class, Ct cents. The adoption of the
amendments will send the bill back to
the Senate for action upon them, and
the form in which it will he reported
from the conference committee is now
the question of interest. The shipping
bill proper received it's real death-blow
late this afternoon, when it was defeated
in tho House by q vote of l47 navs to
1I3 yeas.
This vote was upon ordering tho ship
ping bill to u third reading. The follow
ing fifteen Republicans voted against
the shipping bill: Bayne, Buttcrworth,
Gambler, Connell, Gest, Hopkins, Kel-
ley, Lacey. Lafollettc, Laws. McCord,
McComas. Peters, Plcklcr and Post.
Three Democrats voted for the bill
Biggs, Cummings and Spencer.
Thus. by 4 narrow majority of only
four, the shipping bill fell. Two votes,
those of BaYne and Lafollette. for eX-
ample, two members Of tho ways and
means committee, would have saved it.
Efforts were made at once to revive it,
but Il long series OF roll-calls ended
with the substitution Of tho postal aid
bill and its passage.
In the House to-day the motion to
ask the Senate for Il conference on tho
shipping bill was agreed to. Mr.. Can
non, of Illinois (Mr. Crisp, of Georgia,
having objected to tho action being
taken by unanimous consent), moved to
suspend the rules and agree to tho mo-
ton that the House no%n-concurred in the
Senate amendments to the sundry civil
appropriation bill and accode to the re-
quest of the Senate for a conference,
After a long contest between Crisp
and Cannon, the motion to suspend rules
was rejected on n standing vote by 1928
to ll2, and Immediately Mr.. Rowell was
on his feet ready to call upon tho con-
tested election case, but the Democrats
demanded yeas and nays. The motion
was defeated-yeas, 145; nays, 100.
The Speaker appointed Farquhar.
Dingley and Springer as conferees on
the Shipping bill. Tho Speaker laid be-
fore the House Il communication from
the family Of General Sherman thank
ing tho House for tho resolutions
adopted in his honor. 1t is similar to
the II read in the Senate.
Mr.. Caswcll submitted the conference
report on the bill to define and regulate
tho jurisdiction of tho courts of tho
United States, and after short debate it
was adopted.
The conference report on tho bill
establishing 4 private land claim court
was also agreed to. In the meantime
there were conferences held between
the Republicans and Democrats, tho re-
suit being an agreement that lone of
the contested election cases should be
called up, and that tho Democrats
should not place any obstruction in tho
way of the appropriation bills. In pur-
suance of tins agreement tho sundry
civil and Legislative appropriation bills
were sent 10 conference without obicc-
ton.
The foreign affairs committee re-
ported back the diplomatic and consular
appropriation bill, with the recon-
mcndation that all the Senate amend
ments be agreed to. with the exception
OF the amendment providing for q cable
bctwec San Francisco and the Hawaiin
Islands. The recommendations were
concurrcd in-yeas, 229; nays, nothing,
the roll being called in order to empha-
size the opposition Of the House to tho
Hawaiian cable proposition.
MesSrs. IIitl, Morrow and McCreary
were appointed confcrees. Mr.. Her-
mann, OF Oregon, presented the agreo-
ment of the conferees on the Indian
D%cpredations Claims bill and it was
agreed to.
Mr.. Thompson, of Ohio, from tho
Committee on Judiciary, reported the
following resolution: That Aleck Boar
man. Judge of United States District
for the western district of the State OF
Iowa be impeached for high crimes and
misdemeanors.
business was suspended and the House
proceeded to the consideration of reso-
lutions onlogistic of the life, character
and public services of the late James
Phclan, OF Tennessee. at the close of
the addresses the House as q mark of re-
spect to the memory of the deceased adj
journed.
Firginia's Population by Races.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 2S.-[Special1-