The herald., 1895-03-04

ment had been reached on the Hawaiian
cable, and no probability the House would
ever yield. The bill would fail in the
| Senate if persisted in keeping the cable
| appropriation in the bill. He said the bill
was doomed to fail even if the whole
Houses acquiesced.
Hawley asked if it was meant to intf-
mate that the President would veto the
| bill. II am not abe to say" replied
Blackburn, that the President would
| veto it, but know that if / were Presi-
dent would veto it,
| Blackburn warned the Senate that
another insistence on the cable might be
an extra session. He thought perhaps
that might be desirable, as he believed it
would show the next Congress as helpless
in dealing with the financial question as
this Congress had been. He moved that the
Senate recede from the Hawaiian amend
ment. White, Democrat of California,
| announced that he had heartily supported
the cable item, but he now felt compelled
to change his vote.
Blackburn's motion to recede on the
cable item was then put to a vote and car
ried without division. The conference
report on the diplomatic and consular bill
was then agreed to.
The Senate then went into executive
session and the galleries were cleared of
the large crowds.
At 1:55 a. m. the doors were opened
and the regular session resumed. The
conference agreement on the. deficiency
bill was presen ted.
Mr.. Stewart moved the abandonment
OF the appropriation for the Southern Pa
cific and Mr.. Higgins criticised the
Abandonment of French spoilation claims.
Mr.. Mitchell OF Oregon said that the
Senate had surrendered everything and
he hoped the Senate would reject the re-
port and if necessary defeat the bill. The
agreement was sustained.
The motion to reconsider the report by
which the bill for the suppression of lot
terry traffic was passed was tabled.
Mr.. Power, Republican of Montana, pre-
sented another copy Of the credentials of
Mr.. Carter, Senator-elect and withdrew
the former credentials which were criti-
cised by Mr.. Hoar.
The provision inserted by the Senate in
the sunurylcivil bill by three OF its MEM
bers to the prospective International
monetary conference has been the cause
of considerable rivalry between the factions
i sentation on the commission.
From the time the amendment was
voted on by the Senate the silver men.
believing themselves to be in the majority
in the Senate, have assumed that they
| would he allowed to name all three OF the
delegates on the part Of the Senate, and
this was at first apparently conceded to
them by the anti-silvermen. Consequent
! ly when a petition was circulated last
| night asking Senator Jones of Arkansas,
Daniels and Teller of Colorado, all free
coinage advocates, to allow the use of
their names foi positions as delegates,
there was comparatively little objection
heard. Some of the anti-silver men de-
clined to sign the petition but others did.
: 1t was not long until murmur arose
against the programme to select none but
silver men from the Senate. This soon
grew into an animated protest on the
part Of silver antagonists.
Three were, of course, conferences be-
tween the contending interests, when the
anti-silverites confessed that it was their
purpose to secure representation OH the