The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-12-20

which 1T asked. Ii this be true land
there is no remedy to be had for it)
then the United States will be perpotu-
ally kept from landing cable on the
coast of Brazil.
Frye Makes an Inquiry.
In view of these facts. Frye offered the
following resolution and asked it's adop
ton:
Resolved. That tho Secretary of
State inform the Senate whether per-
mission has been granted to any foreign
cable telegraph company to land its
line on the coast OF the United States
since the first Of March. 1893, and
whether permission has been refused
such company prior to that day. Also
what reasons now exist for granting
such permission Gf it were grantei),
which did not pertain when it was pre-
viously refused"
Hunton, Eva ~ object to the pres.
emit consideration OF the resolution.
think that the senator from Maine is
mistaken in his statement Of facts. In
the firrt place. IL 1 understand it, this
company proposes to run a cable from
the shores of the United States to Cuba
and not TO Brazil. Am I rigbtP
Frye-No; think the Senator is not
right.
Hunton: "That is the way / under
stand it And, in addition to that,
desire to state that the Secretary Of
State according to my inform ation)
took the ground that it was a matter
with which he had nothing to do, the
company having been incorporated and
having, by the action of the legislatures
OF Virginia and South Carolina, been
permitted to land the cable on the
shores OF those States, near Norfolk,
Va, and Charleston, S G.
THE Secretary of State, instead OF
giving permission to land this cable las
| understood the Secretary to say) said
that 1t was q matter with which he had
nothing to do, and that he would not
interfere with it at all 1 think that
his letter on file in the State Depart
ment will so show. If am correct in
this statement of facts, | suppose the
Senator from Maine will not want the
papers sent to the Senate from the
State Department. The Secretary has
taken the ground, as | understand, that
it is a matter with which the executive
should not interfere; that iG Is q matter
between those two States and the COM
pany."
The Committee Held "a Contra Opinion
Frye stated that that was one of the
questions that had been argued before
the committee on commerce, and that
the committee had unanimously held an
exactly contrary opinion. Re wanted
to know exactly what had been done by
tho State Department. His impression
was that the application was to land
the cable at San Domingo, not at Cuba
The resolution went over until to.
| morrow.
Berry (Ark.), then addressed the Sen
ate in favor OF the House bill to repeal
the federal election laws. When he
had concluded, the House Joint resolu-
ton to pay the officers and employees oil
the Senate and House their December
salaries on the 21st instant, was re-
ported and passed.
PETER, addressed the Senate in advo-
cacy of the bill introduced by him yes
terday appropriating So, 300, 900 for
immediate use in relieving want and
ton throughout the country. He
corrected an error in the printed bill
The amount which he proposed to have
appropriated was 500, 900, 600, not Sc, 3OO..
600 and this was money, he said, for
which there was no use, the silver
dollars now in the Treasury and not
covered by certificates.
At the close of his speech the bill was
on PETERS motion, referred to the com
mittee on education and labor, and the
Senate proceeded to the considera alton of
executive business.
At $40 the doors were reopened and
legislative business was resumed but
the remainder of the session was unim-
portant and at 1855 the Senate sd journed.