The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1895-03-04

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Additional warships and the Interna-
tionaI Monetary Conference, While the
Hawaiian Gable Scheme Is Defeated.
WASHINGTON, March 4.-Both houses of
congress began the last legislative day OF
the session Saturday forenoon, and CON
tlnued it until noon today. The most I'M
portant work Of Saturday was the agree
ment by the house in the senate amend
ments providing for the sugar bounties
Both houses were in session, with DrleI
recesses, until the small hours OF Sunday
morning, the house recessing at $3.50 a. m
and the senate an hour later.
When the vice presidents gavei called
the senate TO order at o'clock yesterday
afternoon by ancient legislative fiction 1t
was still Saturday, March 2. There was
much discussion over an amendment to
the naval appropriation bill reducing the
number Of battleships during the after
noon, but the only real business transacted
was the passage with an amendment, Of
a house bill appropriating $4,000 for the
payment of salaries of judges and court
officers in Oklahoma At 6p. m. n recess
was taken until $3.50 o clock.
At $3.50 o'clock the senate galleries were
filled to overaowing, great crowds stand
ing in line in the corridors seeking to get
inside The attendance of senators was
small and scattering early in the evening"
but was augmented to nearly its full
strength as the time for final vote on the
naval bill drew near.
At 10 o'clock the vote was taken on the
amendment fixing the number of battle
ships at two instead Of three, and it was
agreed TO by a vote of 33 to 20.
The provisions striking out twelve tor
pedo boats and inserting six light draught
composite gunboats of about 1000 tons
displacement at S230,0OO was agreed to.
Another provision for three torpedo boats,
one to be built on the Pacific coast, one on
the Mississippi river and one on the Gulf
of Mexico, was also adopted.
A new amendment was adopted remit
ting the penalties against the builders of
the Yorktown, Philadelphia, Baltimore
and Newark.
The naval appropriation bill was then
passed without division.
Mr.. Blackburn presented another con
ference report on the diplomatic consular
appropriation bill, stating that no agree
ment had been reached on the Hawaiian
cable and no prospect that the house
y
the senate that another insistence on the
cable might mean an extra session. After
much discussion Mr.. Blackburn's motion
to recede on the cable item was then put
TO vote and carried without division.
The consular report on the diplomatic and
consular bill was then agreed to-
The senate then went into executive
session and the galleries were cleared of
the large crowds.
After the sharp fight of Saturday night
over the senate provision in the sundry
civil bill approprating S5,OOO,0OO for the
payment of sugar bounties earned up to
June 30, 1895, which resulted in the adop-
tion Of that amendment by the house, the
session dragged wearily on through silent
watches of the night until the sundry civil
and Indian appropriation bills had been
sent back to conference.
| As the gray dawn was breaking the
house took a recess until 2 o'clock in the
afternoon, and the worn out members
hurried home to catch a few hours of
rest. When the speaker again took the
chair at o'clock more than half the mem
bers We're in their seats No conference
reports were ready when the house recon-
vened, and the speaker recognized several
of the half hundred members clamoring
for an opportunity to secure considera-
tion of measures of local or personal in
! terest to them
The following were passed: Senate bill
TO increase the pension of the widow Of
General Joseph H. Potter from $50 to $50;
a joint resolution providing for the par
| ticipation of the two houses of congress,
through their presiding officers, in the
dedicatory exercises of the Chickamauga
military park next September; senate res
olution making provision for digest of
the laws and decisions relating to the APP
| pointment, salary and compensation of Of
| flcers of United States courts, and also
senate bill for the relief of Silas p. Keller.
| a motion to suspend the rules and pass
bill granting pension of 500 a month
to Major General John A. McClernand
encountered the aggressive opposition of
| Mr.. Jones (Va) Mr. Sickles made an
eloquent appeal for the bill, and at the
conclusion Of his speech the bill was passed.
At 6:10 p. m. another recess was taken.
| There We're but few members present
when the house met after recess at 7:3O.
AT o'clock the conference report on the
sundry civil bill was called up. The con
ference report was finally adopted, and the
sundry civil bill was out of the way so far
as the house was concerned. The provision
for the international monetary conference
remains in the 5undry civil bill, the house
conferrees having yielded, The senate is
to select three members, the speaker of the
! house to appoint three and the president
| TO name three
| The house selected Speaker Crisp as one
Of the members Of the conference on the
part Of that body.
Jones of Arkansas, Teller of Colorado
and Daniel of Virginia were selected as
the 5enate's delegates to the monetary
| conference.
Before midnight the final conference re-
ports on the sundry civil, Indian, legisla-
tive and diplomatic appropriation bills
had been adopted, leaving only the naval
bill and the general deficiency still in is
| sue between the houses.
Atmidnight the spectators began to leave
rapidly, but the members of both houses
! still stood to their posts