The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-07-01
SESSION OF THE SENATE.
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No Agreement Yet as to the Payment
of the Georgia Railroad Expenses.
WASHINGTON, June 3O-In the Senate
TO day Mr.. Hale from the conference COM
mittee on the naval appropriation bill re-
ported that the committee was unable to
agree. He moved that the Senate further
insist on it's amendments, and asked for a
further conference. This was agreed to
and further conference was ordered.
The conference report on the District OF
Columbia appropriation bill was presen ted
and agreed TO. All the points of differ ence
between the two houses. Mr. Allison said had
been arranged except that on the question
of the ENTERTAINMENT of the Grand Army Of
the Republic. The House conferees con-
tended that the amount should be reduced
from Sl00, 200 to S75, 900, and should paid
exclusively out Of the taxes of the district
while the Senate conferees were satisfied
that even 100000 would be inadequate,
and that it should be paid as the other ex-
penses OK the district. The report was
agreed to and further conference was asked
on the Grand Army OF the Republic item.
Conferences we're ordered on the pension,
postotfice and legislative appropriation
bills and on two bills to amend the pension
laws.
THE SILVER BILL.
The silver bill was then laid before the
Senate as the unfinished business. When
the Senate adjourned yesterday it was with
an arrangement fixed up by unanimous con-
sent that the bill for free coinage of silver
would be voted on at 2 O'Clock p. m. Friday,
but when the Senate adjourned to-day that
arrangement had been entirely broken up,
and the prospects for final action
on the bill appeared to be as remote as ever.
Ii was Mr.. Mcpherson who wrought the
change in the situation. When the bill was
laid before the Senate he rejudicated the
unanimous consent OF the day before be-
cause it had been made in his
absence and in the absence Of every
member of the finance committee,
and because 1t was practical violation Of
the agreement made before the Minneapolis
convention that no vote would be taken on
the bill until after both conventions-which
meant, he contended until the senator's who
had been attending them had returned to
Washing ton-which they had not yet all
done.
Mr.. Morgan denounced Mr.. McPherson's
unwillingness to abide by the unani-
nous consent of yesterday as a viola
ton of good faith and of the traditions
Of the Senate for a century, and he declared
that the policy of delay would not succeed,
but that the Senate would pass the bill and
send 1t 10 the House in time for that body to
pass it also. AS to its being vetoed by the
President, Mr.. Morgan expressed his con-
viction that it would not be vetoed, but
would be signed. The motion to recon-
NIT the bill to the finance committee
was pending when the Senate ad-
journed, as was also an amendment
to Mr.. Stewards substitute, which would
seem to confine the free coinage privileges
OF the bill to the product of the Americans
mines after the bill becomes law. The
Senate passed the joint resolution contin-
uing the appropriations OF the current fiscal
year for fifteen days OF the new fiscal year.
which begins tomorrow. The fact is with
out precedent that not a single general ap-
preparation bill has yet been sent to the
President, although the fiscal year expires
to-day.
The conference report on the agricultural
appropriation bill was presented and agreed
to.
The Senate then adjourned