The Portland daily press., 1895-02-22
House Refuses Concurrence on the
HaWiian Cable.
NO APPROPRIATIONS FOR SEC
TARTAN INDIAN SCHOOLS.
The Senate Takes a Stand and Will Use
Catholics and Protestants Alike-The
House Reaches the Last Appropriation
Bill for This Session.

House Reaches the Last Appropriation
Bill for This Session.
Washington, February 21.-In the House
today, Mr.. McCreary called up the con-
ference report on the diplomatic and con-
sular appropriation bill debate on the
Hawaiian cable question, the only matter
at issue between the two Houses, and by
unanimous consent it was limited to one
and half hours. Concurrence in the
amendment was advocated BY Nh. Draper,
Republican of Massachusetts.
| Mr.. SickIes, Democrat of New York, made
the last speech in favor of the amendment
and concluded: ''The gentleman from Vir-
ginia. Mr.. Tucker. says that he sees annex
| alton under this proposition for laying a
cable. see it too. and accept it. ZAP
plause) l am for annexation. So was
Buchanan and long line of Democratic
leaders. I hope to live long enough to see
the star of the Pacific to add its tropical
sp1endor to the glory of the stars and
stripes" (ApplanseJ
Mr.. McCreary denied that the expressions
| in President Cleyeland's message of 1886
and 1888 relating to the Importance of tsle-
graphic communication with the Hawaiian
Islands were an approx al Of the government
construction of BILE. He emphas sized the
arguments of yesterday against the Senate
proposition that the government should not
enter upon policy of cable construction.
| On Mr.. Hits motion that the House re-
cede from the disagreement to the Senate
amendment and agree thereto, yeas and
nays were called for, resulting, yeas IL;
nays. 152; present and not voting. two.
Further conference was asked for by the
Senate on the amendment and agreed to on
the motion of Mr.. McCreary, Democrat of
Kentucky. Messrs. McCreary, Hooker and
Hit were appointed manag ars. The vote
was mainly partisan. the Republicans and
Populists voting for building the cable
and the Democrats against it.
The deficiencJ bill. the last of the general
appropriations bills fol- the session to be
acted upon by the House, was taken up in
committee of the whole. Mr.. Durborow,
Democrat of Illinois, moved an amendment,
which was agreed to. that certain parts Of
the exhibit of the State Department made
at the Worlds Columbian Exposition be
turned over .the the Field Museum at
Chicago.
Mr. Breckinridge. Democrat of Kentucky,
offered ar amendment appropriating S435,-
600 to pay the damages growing out of the
Behring sea seizures under the terms of the
award of the Paris tribunal. and in pur-
suance of the agreement reached by Secre-
tary Gresham and Ambassador Pauncefote.
This was passed over informally. and after
disposing of sixteen pages of the bill. the
committee rose. 1t was agreed that tomor-
row the House shall meet at eleven.
The House listened to eulogies upon the
life and services of the late Senator Francis
B. Stockbridge of Michigan. The speakers
included Messrs. Grout of Vermont. Ding
ley Of Maine and Blair of New Hampshire.
The resolution reported from the Senate
was agreed to and as further mark OF
repsect. the House adjourned.