Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-04-08
IkTIONAL CAPITAL NEWS.
,nBRING SEA MATTER UP IN THE
SENATE.
lone Provisions In the Diii Passed
BY the English Parliament OBJ
1ected To--auiet nay in
the House - silver.


by Associated Press.
washington. April 7.--Thls Is the
MT Saturday session OF senate dur
Ak DE regular session OF congress.
here was some expectancy I'm the sem
te nat the opposition to the tariff
Night be ma infested In manner SINH
NJ 70 that Of yesterday. but the jour
Al WOE read and approved and routine
fusiness progressed without Interrupt
Vonr
The house bill. authorizing the Texas.
.anaas and Fort Smith railroad COM
amy to bridge the Sulphur river in
rkansas or Texas was passed
The house bill authorizing a bridge
yer the Monongahela river from the
oroush OF Rankin TO Mlhiin township
as ppssed.
The senate also passed the house
iii to extend the time the st. Louis
I'd Birmingham road has within
hitch to build bridge across the
eaneesee at Clifton, Tenn.
4Seuator Hoar called the attention OF
tuator Morgan to u dispatch in the
icusing papers. saying that the Brit
n parliament had passed an act in
snded TO carry out the provisions of
ne award of the Behring sea tribunal.
,tt Recording to which ships which
tpeht have sailed without notice OF
ae passage OF the bill should not be
sable 10 seizure. He thought II the
,lspatch correctly reported the text OF
sAe act OF parliament 1t was simply
q evasion OF the provisions OF the
ward Of the tribunal, and would allow
anndien vessels which might have
ried without notice to destroy hun
reds % thousands OF seals without
SIR OF arrest. by simply claiming that
icy did not know the act of parliament
sd actually passed. He asked Mr..
organ as to the truth OF the dispatch,
Ind pellevlng 1t was true. some sup
iemental legislation should be passed
congress.
Mr.. Morgan agreed that the senator
som Massachusetts was quite right
to his Interpretation of the dis
Rtch, and the danger OF the exter-
lination OF the Alaskan seal herd,
ihich would follow the operation OF
ae reported act OF parliament. He
xplained. however, that some two
'eeks or more ago. Sir Julian Paun-
.efote. the British ambassador. had
ubmitted TO the state department the
raft of an act OF parliament which,
the best of his recollection, CORE
ponded exactly with the language OF
nat quoted in the dispatch, There
sferc Some features of this proposed
oct which We're opposed Che used the
fcrd advisedly) to the fair interpre-
alton OF the provisions of the award
and those provisions OF the proposed
ct were firmly rejected by the secre-
Try OF state, and the British govern
acnt was 30 informed, About the
lime time he learned from the news
,apers that bill had been intro
uced into parliament for the pur-
7se OF giving effect to the award OF
10 Paris tribunal. but whether It cor
iEponded with that submitted by Sir
alan Pauncefote 10 the state de-
Yartment he did not know. Shortly
titerwards he learned that the bill
rad been withdrawn for the purpose
renodling It, and he still hoped
lat such was a fact, and that the
nlxt contained In the dispatch was
lat OF the unamended bill which had
cen sent out by mistake Il have no
3ubt." he declared. that the gov
l.nment of the United States will find
siseif N fun state OF preparation
" I'd with full determination that all
enefitH and advantages OF the awards
nail be realized by our government.
VI may be that we did not get in thu
ward every principle of law for
hich We contested, decided in our fa-
Ha5r. but we got all the necessary regu-
lions which are requisite for the pro-
Action OF the seal herds which belong
US. Good faith on the part OF
reat Britain requires that she shall
Ime Forward and insist AS strenu-
.isly and as honestly as we intend TO
lsIst upon the carrying out OF all the
.iovisions OF that award" Then the
!. cident closed with an Endorsement by
inotor Gray Of the belief expressed
~ MIR. Morgan that the bill mem
ensd III the dispatch was the original
"A Il which had been Withdrawn for al
ration.
AT i:2o p. m. the senate went into
fecutige session. and at 4;2O ad-
a urned.