The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1895-02-08
IN IHE SEN11E.
Mr. Mitchell on the Sugar Bouniy-The
IofterV Question


Lottery Question.
WASHINGTON Feb 7.-Arctic wealth er
was experienced in Washington to-day
and at noon snow had BEN steadily fall
ing for a couple of hours.
There was consequently a very slim
attendance Of senators when the chaplain
delivered morning prayer. and IT was SO
dark that 1t was found necessary to hght
the gas above the glass roof of the cham
Der.
Mr.. Mitchell. OF oregon. said he was
instructed by the Committee on Claims
TO report an amendment to an appro-
priation bill. and TO make a brief state
ment The amendment related, he said,
to the claims for sugar bounty. One part
Of the claim. he said. was for the bounty
which had been paid prior TO August
=, 1893 when the Mckinley act became
law. Another part of ii was for half the
bounty on the sugar produced after tnat
date. The Committee on Claims, he said,
was divided on both propositions. The
majority of the committee believed that
the iirst part of the claim should be paid
in fun about S22IOo0). but the committee
was not willing to recommend favorable
action on the second part, but left 1t tor
the action of the Committee on Appro-
pridtions and the Senate.
OUGHT TO BE PAID.
Individually, he believed that the boun-
ty should be paid on all the sugar ac-
tually produced prior to the passage OF
the repeal act, and he believed that there
was a legal obligation and an equitable
obligation to pay the other part of the
claim. In answer To- an inquiry as to the
total amount involved, Mr.. Mitchell SAID
that the estimate for the fun bounty
was $l5.500.O0O the half of that being
81, 10000, which added to the other sum-
would make the whole amount about
eight millions.
In the course OF a long discussion Mr.
Cockroll. chairman of the Committee on
Appropriations. protested against that
committee being made the dumping
ground for other committees, and he
criticised severely tho Committee on
Claims for not presenting written report
with precise recommendations
No action being necessary in the mat
ter. the Senate proceeded to other busi-
ness.
The LOTTERY QUESTION.
a resolution, offered by Mr. Call on the
18th Of December, for the appointment OF
a select committee to inVT stigate the
LOUISIANA, or Honduras, Lottery Company
and other corporations in Florida (as TO
or influencing newspapers or
elections i'm the state of F'lorida), was
called up by MIR. call, who proceeded
10 address the Senate i'm explanation and
of the resolution. Mr.. Calfs
remarks We're cut off by Mr.. Blackburn's
motion TO take up the diplomatic and
appropriation bill. a motion
which Mr. call alluded 10 i'm an under
tone. as "bolstering up the lottery com
pany."
The diplomatic hill was before the Sem
ate up TO the hour Of adjournment. when
IL went over without action on the item
for the construction of a telegraph cable
between the United States and the Ha-
waiian Islands Speeches were made by
Senator Higgins. in favor Of the item, and
by Senators Palmer and Caffery against
it. Mr.. Palmer, reciting a sentence from
Mr.. Tclcrs speech of the prvious day,
"Oh. for an hour of Marcy, Clay and
Webster" nc exclaimed, "Oh. for an
hour Of Charles Sumner, who would not
consent TO the annihlation OF the negro
Republic Of San Domingo. Is there no
1ne who will speak for the people of
the Hawaiian Islands. who have been
robbed and who are now governed by
agencies that are as despotic as can be
Tho Senate, at $50. adjourned.