Birmingham age-herald., 1895-01-22
ON FRIDAY AFTERNOON A Vote Will Be Taken in the
 Senate on the : NICARAGUA CANAL BILL BouteIle's Hawaiian Resolution SheIved for the Day in
 the House.
NICARAGUA CANAL BILL

WASHINGTON, Jan. 21. Representative James D. Richardson of Tennessee was elected speaker pro tenn. of the house to- day in the absence of Speaker Crisp, who has gone to Asheville,N N. o., to recuperate. MT. Catchings reported from the com mittee onrules a special order providin g that after tomorrow's two hours' debate the previous question should be considered as ordered and the house should proceed to vote on bills with reference to public build ings at Chicago, Ill.,; Paterson, N. J.; Cumberland, Md; South Omaha, Neb. i; Brockton, Mass; Pottsville, Pa., and Newport, Ky.
 The special order was agreed to, aud un- der it the greater portion of the day was given up to consideration of the bills named. They were all passed. None of them excepting the Chicago bill carry ap- propriations.
 The Chicago public building bill was the subject of an interesting debate, Chairman Savers of the committee on appropriations leading the opposition to the measure on the contentious that the present building was not unsafe and inadequate as to space, as charged by the committee on pubic buildings and grounds, and that new building could not be completed within
 
 ments accepted by the committee on public buildings and grounds minimized these objections to some extent and the bill was finally passed by vote of 179 to Il.
 The recent Hawaiian revolution was not aired in the house today through the me- dium of MT. Boutelles resolution which he offered on Saturday. Later in the after noon, at time when all the spectators who had taken seats in the galleries expecting to witness some lively debate over the res olution had gone away disappointed, MT. Boutelle endeavored to bring the matter before the house, but democratic protests and the point of "no quorum" finally forced an adjournnle until tomorrow at 3:55 D. m.
 IN THE SENATE.
 The senate today entered promptly upon the discussion of the Hawaiian question, the minister from the young republic oc- cupying one of the front seats ia the diplo- matic gallery and being the most interested listener. The discussion was opened on a resolution offered by Mir. Lodge, republi- can, of Massachusetts, approving the dispatch of ship of war to the islands last Saturday and expressing the opinion that ore should be kept there for the present; !; favoripg the construction of a submarine telegraph cable from San Francisco to Hon aelulu, and declaring that 'steps should be taken to secure possession of tue Sanwlch islands by their annexation to the United OldISSs HIS IcSOiutOu Who OoJtCtcu tO on the democratic side of the chamber and went over under the rule till tomorrow.
 Then the resolution on the same subject which Mir. Frye, republican, of Maine, had offered on Saturday was taken up and was the text for an important debate, which lasted till the close of the morning hour, when the matter again went over. h this debate the president of the United States and the course pursued by the sdministra- ton in connection with the Hawaiian islands found an advocate and defender in Mir. Gray, democrat, of Delaware, who as- serted that the attitude of the administra- ton had been in exact accordance with the time- honored precedents of the United States for a hundred years, and that the president had, amid much clamor and de- traction, maintained the honor and fame of the country.
 The opposite side of the question was presented by Messrs. Frye, Lodge and Hawley. MT. Lodge made an effort to have vote taken on his resolutions but objection was made by MT. Mills, demo- crat, of Texas. The subject, however, will come up again tomorrow.
 The conference report on the urgent de- fciency bill was also debated at length, and finally the senate voted to recede from it's amendments on the subject of the income tax and to leave the bill in that respect the same as it came from the house.
 An arrangement was made by unanimous consent for 8 vote on the Nicaraguan canal bill st 5 p. m. on Friday next, and the sem ate at p. m. adjourned until tomorrow.