The Portland daily press., 1894-12-18
WASHINGTON NEWS.
Discussion Of the Nicaragua Canal
Bill in the Senate.

The House Pares Few Thousand Dollars
Off the Army Appropriation-Carli isles
Banking Bill on the Calendar-News Of
National Interest.
Washington. Decem Der 1.-THE House
in the consideration of the morning
hour passed fifteen private pension bills
reported last Friday night, and bill
for the protection of the forest reserve
taken up and discussed. On a motion tc
order the previous q uestion, no quorum
voted. By 159 to So the House passed
the bill.
Mr.. Springer reported the Carlisle
bank bill to the House and it was re-
ferred to the union calendar and or
dered printed.
The House went into committee of the
whole on the army appropriation bill.
On motion of Mr.. Sayers of Texas the
amount appropriated for longevity pay
of enlisted men was reduced from $3.50,
600 to $40, 900, and on motion OF Mr..
Outhwaite of Ohio, she law authorizing
the retention of 81 a month of the pay
of enlisted men for the first year of SER
vice was repealed.
sMr. Springer, Democrat Of Illinois, an
nounced he would tomorrow ask the
House 60 consider the currency bill.
On point of order made by Mr. Marsh
of Illinois, the paragraph in the army
appropriation bill transferring the
military prison at Fort Leavenworth to
the Department of Justice, was ruled
out.
An amendment was offered by Mr..
Wilson of Washington and agreed to,
directing the Secretary of War to locate
military post upon tract of land
comprising. 1000 aeIke',. nsar spo9an,e,
Washington. upon the transfer to the
United States of good title thereto.
MIR. Flynn moved to strike out an item
of $1O,0 900 for the purchase of stock and
farming Implements for Indians re-
moved from Mount Vernon barracks,
Alabama. Lost. Thesbill was reported to
the House and passed.
Amendments were agreed to in COM
uaittee ofsthe whole reducing the total
amount carried BY the bill by S4O, ,O00,
making it 1923. $50, ,80e.
MIR. Sayers, Democrat, of Texas, chair
man otsrthescommittee on appropriations
reported a bill appropriating SlO0, OOO
to- meetFthe deficiency in the operation OF
the government printing Office for the
current year. 1t passed.
The House adjourned.
In the Senate.
Washington, December 17.-The
Senate today confirmed the nomination
of John B. jackson of New Jersey, to
be secretary of EN- bassy at Berlin, and
also long list of promotions in the ar
my, including Brigadier General Alex
ander McCook to be major general; Col
onel James Forsyth, 7th cavalry, to be
brigadier general; Colonel. Michael b..
Morgan, to be commissary general. with
rank of brigadier general.
After the disposition Of routine morn
ing business, sincluding the adoption of
a resolution by Mr.. Hill. Democrat. of
of New York, calling on the Secretary
of the Treasury for a copy OF the income
tax regulations, the Senate bill, to es-
tablish national university was taken
up, by Mr.. Kyle, Populist, of South
Dakota, and he addressed the Senate in
it's advocacy.
At Q the bill went onsthe calendar, and
the Nicaraeuan canal bill was takn up.
Mr., PETER, Populist,, of Arkansas, ar
gued in favor of it
Mr.. Turpie of Indiana spoke of tbesas-
surances that the bonds of the Nicara-
qua Canal Company could be easily
placed in..London and Amsterdam, and
asserted that if all the assets of the COM
pany were put up in parcel and offered
for sale in those cities, they would not
fetch $50. (Laughter.) The failure of
the Panama canal showed the unreasi-
biIity of the Isthmus canals. Mr.. Tur-
nie gave the cost of the SueZ and and
Corinth canal, and said, it could not be
he commercially or financially a success.
Mr. Turpie suspended 4his argument and
the Senate after executive session. ad-
journed.