The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-03-01
GALLERIES WERE CROWDED
TEW SENATORS WERE PRESENT AT
 THE EVENING SESSION.

Night Session MT. Hill Made Vigorous
 Reply to the Remarks of Senator Chand-
 ler-It Was Nearly Midnight, After Sena-
 tor Martin Had Been Called Down, That
 the Senate Adjourned.
 Washington, Feb. 2S.-Mr. Gallinger
 rep, of New Hampshire, presented the
 memorial of the Daughters of the Rev
 olution, to have posted in conspicu-
 ous place in every post office in the
 United States a copy of the Declaration
 of Independence as an educational
 means. He gave the proposition his
 unqualified approval, and had it re- ferred to the post office committee.
 The general deficiency bill was re- ported with amendments from the com mittee on appropriations and placed on the calendar.
 At 11:2O the consideration of the sundry civil appropriation bill was re- sumed
 An amendment appropriating $SOO,OOO for seed to be distributed to the people inhabiting the arid region whose crops were destroyed by drought last summer was offered by MT. Pettigrew, rep, of South Dakota. After a short discussion the amendment was agree to, yeas 82, nays IT.
 The amendment offered last evening by MT Bate, dem, of Tennessee, appro- priating $125, 1000 to aid the exposition at Nashville, Tenn. in commemoration of the hundredth year of it's statehood was taken up. Mir. Bate advocated it. and gave as precedents for it the appro- priations in aid of Chicago and Atlanta expositions.
 While MT. Harris, dem. of Tennessee, was supporting the amendment he was asked by MT. Hoar, rep, of Massachu- setts, to explain the constitutional ground on which he did so.
 "If the senator from Massachusetts" MT. Harris replied testify, twill meet me here on the Fourth of July next l will read him lecture on constltusicanl limitation which, if he will regard it. will be of infinite value to him for the balance of his political life" 0augh ter.)
 "There were" MT. Hoar retorted with a smile, five or six Fourth of Iulys in the history of the country when the senator was reading lectures on con stitutional liberty-as he understood 1t; and I have no doubt he gave a very eloquent lecture. But I am afraid that my honorable friend is getting into the same state of mind as a member of another body who says what is a little | thing like the constitution among friends%" 0aughter)
 In subsequently voting on the point l of order raised against the amendment l by MT. Cockrell, dem, of Missouri, MT 1 Hoar withheld his vote, saying that he | would not say how he would vote until | after the Fourth of July. Oaughter)
 The amendment was declared to be in I order 33 to 15, and then it was agreed | to.
 MT. Carey, rep, of Wyoming, offered | an amendment that where lands have | been entered under the desert lands | law and where more than S1.25 an acre | had been paid because the lands were on railroad grants, the surplus over | $1.25 shall be refunded to the land of- | flee. Agreed to.
 MT. Stewart, rep, of Nevada, address, ed the senate on his motion of yester- day to reconsider the vote adopting | MT. Wolcott's amendment for a com mission to any international conference on bimetallism. He looked upon the proposition as a very serious matter, much endangering bimetallism. It had been said that they might safely trust Europe and the American delegates on that question, but he did not think so It was too important a matter to trust them on.
 He believed that an international con- ference would only deal another blow at silver. And he therefore proposed to modify the amendment so as to in- struct the American delegates not to agree to any ration short of 16 to l.
 MT. Wolcott opposed the motion to re- consider and declared that nothing but good could come of an international if it should be held. As to MT. Stewards objection that the action of the delegates would be final he said that the delegates could only act in an advisory capacity.
 The senators who voted to reconsider were Messrs. Allen, Blackburn, Call, Cockrell, Kyle, Martin, Peffer, Pugh and Stewart.
 The naval appropriation bill was re- ported with amendments and placed on the calendar.
 The consideration of the sundry civil bill was resumed, and MT. Hunton, dem., of Virginia, moved to amend by restoring the salary of the superintend- | ent of the coast survey to $6,OOO instead I of $5, 000 as in the bill. Defeated-yeas 10, nays 3S An additional salary or compensation of $1, ,000 for the foreman of printing in the government printing office was in serted on motion of MT Gallinger, rep, of New Hampshire.
 The senate at 4:25 took up the legisla- tive bill. After forty-five pages of the bill had been read an agreement was { reached that in the evenfng' session the { bill should be finished and that no oth- { er business should be taken up, except i some private pension bills, and that MT. z Chandler, rep, of New Hampshire, ' might submit remarks on resolution 7 heretofore offered by him declaring Sen [ ator Martin, dem., of Kansas, not en- N titled to his seat [ Resolutions were offered by MT Hoar e