St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-04-08
THAT HOUSE OF LORDS.
SENATE BROKE The RECORD BY A
SESSION ON SATURDAY.
sEHRIsG SEA CASE AGAIN.
The Chinese Treaty Considered
in Executive Scssion-Enort I o
Make the Discussion Public
Was Not Agreed To The
House Had Another Day With
out a Quorum OF Democrats.

WASHINGTON, April This is the
first Saturday session of the senate dur
Ing the regular session of congress.
There was somo expectancy i'll the SELL
atesthat the opposition tolthe tariff might
be manifested in manner similar 10
that of yesterday; but the journal was
read and approved, and routine bust
ness progressed without Interruption.
The house bill authorizing the Texas.
Kansas & Fort Smith railroad company
To bridge the Sulphur river in the stare
of Arkansas or Texas was passed.
House bill authorizing the West Brad
dock Bridge company to construct a
bridge over the Monongahela river
from the borough o. 7Rankin TO Miffiin
township, Pa, was passed. The senate
also passed house bill to extend the
time the st. Louis & Birmingham Rail-
road company has within to build a
bridge across the Tennessee at Clifton,
Tenn.
BEHRING SEA.
Senator TIoar called the attention of
Senator Morgan to dispatch i'll the
morning papers saying that the British
parliament had passed ali act Intended
to carry out the provisions of tile award
of the Behrng sea tribunal, but accord
ing to which ships which might have
sailed without notice of the pas
sage of the bill should not be
liable to seizure. He thought if
The dispatch correctly reported the
ayt f,f tl,o of nj
simply an evasion of the provisions Of
the award of the tribunal and would al
low Canadian vessels which might have
sailed without notice to destroy hun
dredS Of thousands of seals without fear
of arrest by simply claiming that they
did rot know the act of parliament had
actually passed. He asked Mr.. Morgan
as to the truth of the dispatch, aud be-
hevihg that it was true some supple
mental legislation should be passed by
congress.
MORGAN AGREES WITH HOAR.
Mir. Morgan agreed that the senator
from Massachusetts was quite right as
to his Interpretation OF the dispatch and
the danger Of the determination OF the
Alaskan seal herd which would follow
the operations of the reported act OF
parliament. He explained. however,
that some two weeks or more ago,
Sir Julian Pauncefote, the British
ambassador, had submitted TO the safe
department the draft of an act of parlla
ment. which, to the best of his recolec-
ton. correspondent exactly with the
language of that quoted in the dispatch.
There are some features of the pro :
passed act which were opposed Che
used the word advisedly) to the
fair Interpretation of the provisions
of the awards, and those provisions of
the proposed act were firmly rejected
by the secretary of state, and the
| British government was so informed.
About the same time he learned from
| the newspapers that a bill had been in
| trnduced into parliament for the
| purpose of giving effect to tile
award of the Paris tribunal, but
| whether it correSponded with that sub.
| mitted by Sir Julian Pauncefote to the
| state department he did not know.
| Shortly afterwards lie learned that the
bill had been withdrawn for the pur-
pOoC u IL. dtlu liz SLtlt HOptt
| that such was Il fact. and that the text
containe in the dispatch was that of
| the uuamended bill which had been sent
out 10y mistake.
| UNCLE SANS POSITION OF VANTAGE
II have no Doubt" he declared, that
the government Of the United States
| will find itself i'll afull state of prepare
an, and with a full determination
,at all the benefits and advantages of
| this award shall be realized by oul
| government. 1t may be that we did
| not get in the award every principle
of law for which we contended de-
c;ded in our favor, but we got ali the
necessary regulations which are reQus-
ite for the protection of the seal herds
which belong TO us. Good faith on the
part Of Great Britain requires that she
| will come forward aud insist as strenu-
ously and as honestly as we intend to
insist upon the carrying out of all the
provisions of that award"
The incident closed with an indorse
ment by Senator Gray of the belief ex
pressed by MIR. Morgan that the bill
mentioned in the dispatch was the
original bill which had been Withdrawn
for alteration. At % p. m. the senate
went into executive session, and at 4 :2(
adjourned.