The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-12-09
Senator Morgan Will Score the
British ambassador for
His Statement.
OPPOSE THE BIG AWARDS
Cullom Will Make Speech on His
Resolution Relative to the
Monroe Doctrine.

WASHINGTON, D. c., Dec. S.-The Sec
ond week in the Senate will be an undeter-
minable quantity. Pending the filing OF
committee vacancies but little business can
be transacted, and it is not expected that
these vacancies will be supplied before the
latter part of the week, if then. There is
no calendar and no order of business has
been agreed upon.
Tomorrow, however, Morgan will call
up his resolution referring that part OF
the Presidents message relating to the
payment of the British Boring Sea claims
to the Committee on Foreign Relations,
with instructions to examine into the ques-
ton of liability to Great Britain and re-
port to the Senate by bill or otherwise.
The speech which Morgan has carefully
prepared to accompany his motion will
consume the greater part OF the afternoon.
1t is said to be a severe arraignment of
the administration and a caustic criticism
on the ''officious intermeddling," as he
terms it, of the British ambassador who,
in an official dispatch to the British For
eign Office, made public first in London
and afterward in this country, controvert-
ed some of Morgans statements on the
floor of the Senate. Morgan originally
strongly antagonized the proposition to pay
great Britain the lump sum of $425, 900 for
the alleged illegal seizure of Canadian
sealerS prior to the award of the Paris
tribunal (of which he was a member)
without an investigation, and as the Presi-
dent has again recommended such pay
ment the Alabama Senator, it is under
/, g.
ing the payment of the British claim in
detail and in his most vigorous style. His
speech will probably create considerable
sensation.
On Tuesday Cullom will address the
Senate on his resolution relative to the
Monroe doctrine, and the Illinois Senator
will take strong grounds for pronounced
American policy in our dealings with
other nations.
Tomorrow a special meeting of the
Judiciary Com mittee will be held to con-
slider nomination of Rufus w. Peckham,
to be Associate Justice of the Supreme
Court. AS there appears to be no cbjec-
ton to this nomination it is believed his
confirmation will speedily follow the
favorable report it is expected the COM
mittee will make at the next executive
session.
Senator Hill reached Washington last
night and will be at the meeting of the
Judiciary Committee, Of which he is a
member. 1t is asserted that the notable
visit which Senator Hill in company with
Secretary Lamont paid to the Attorney
General ION legal business" few weeks
ago had reference to Judge Peckham's
nomination.
No programme of business has been ar
ranged for the House this week. nor any
can be until Speaker Reed announces the
committees, and thus provides the neces-
sary machinery for the full operation of
the body. Two Numerically opposite re-
ports were in circulation yesterday re.
garding the Speakers intentions. One
was that the committees would be an
nounced Monday or Tuesday the other,
that the list would not be made up until
just before the adjournment for the holt
days.
The best Judgment seems to be that the
Speaker will not be prepared tomorrow to
name the committees, and that the House
will adjourn, after a brief session, until
Wednesday or Thursday, and thus permit
mem bers to attend the meeting of the
National Republican Committee, called to
select the place of holding the convention
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