The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-03-01
SENATE DOES some WORK
Passes the Sundry Civil ApprOpria-
tiOn Bill at Last.
JUICY PLUM FOR POTTSVILLE
An Appropriation of $50. 900 for Il Gov
crnmcnt BuiIding-iIousc Uuablc to
Agree Oh Senate Amendment to
Hawaii Cable Bill.
By the United Press.

Washington, Feb. 2S.-The sundry
civil appropriation bill was passed by
the senate today, its consideration hav-
ing occupied the larger share of four
legislative days. All of the amendments
that We're adopted in committee of the
whole We're concurred in after the bill
was reported back to the senate-al-
most all of them in bulk.
There was an effort made by Mr.. Vest
Dem., Mo- to have the amendment for
the purchase of the Blaine property, on
Lafayette place, Washington, modified
so as to require "a fee simple title" to
, pass, instead of Mrs. Blaine's right
| title and interest to the property; but
that motion was defeated-yeas, 90:
nays, 37-and the original amendment
was agreed to.
" The five and a quarter million dollar
| amendment for the payment of sugar
bounty did not even have the distinc-
ton of a separte vote, but was covered
up in the general vote for all the
amendments. So, too, with the amend
ment providing retiring list for Of
ficers of the revenue cutter service. An
effort was made by Mr.. Stewart Pop,
! New to have Mr. Walcott's (Rep., COLI
amendment for the appointment of dele
gates to an international monetary con-
ference modified 50 as to prohibit the
delegates from agreeing to any higher
ratio between gold and silver than 16
| to l: but he was not able to muster more
than eleven votes on his side, and a
4 motion to reconsider the vote agreeing q
| to the Wolcott amendment was also de-
! feated-yeas, 8; nays, So. So the pro-
vision for the appointment of nine dele
| gates remains in the bill.
An amendment appropriating $4,000
| for public building at Pottsville, Pa,
with a limit of cost at 100000, was
among the items agreed to. The bill
now goes to conference, where it will
| probably be subjected to considerable
| pruning. The legislative, executive and
! judicial appropriation bill was taken
up, and by $40 p. m, when there was
a short executive session, followed by a
recess till p. m, ninety-two pages
of the bill-over two-thirds of the whole
had been completed with no more de-
lay than was required for the two read
ing clerks to race through it, omitting
|
opening and closing of each paragraph
Unable 10 Agree on Hawaii.
The first matter under consideration
before the house was the report of the
conferrees on the diplomatic and consul
lar appropriation bill that they were
still unable to agree upon the item in
serted by the senate authorizing the
construction of a cable to Hawaii ap-
propriating $4,000 to begin the work by
a vote of $50 to 115; the house voted to
still insist upon its disagreement to that
amendment.
Mr. Lawson, Dem., Ga), reported
the resolutions agreed to by the com.
mittee on elections on the contest OF
Goode VS.. Epes from the Fourth district
of Virginia-in favor of Epes, the sit
ting member.
Senate amendments to the bill max.
ing it unlawful for any unauthorized
person to wear the insignia of the Red
Cross were agreed to. and it now goes
TO the president for his approval.
The bill to protect forest reservations
which the senate amended by the sub.
stitution of an entire new proposition
was referred to the committee on public
lands, which is equivalent to defeat
The joint resolution authorizing the
erection in the District of Columbia OF
statue of the late Professor samue
Gross, NJ. d., ID. C. L., LII. D., of Phila.
delphia. having been recalled from the
senate was agreed to with an amend
ment striking out the appropriation Of
$1,000 for pedestal for the statue.