The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-01-22
THE PRESIDENT UPHELD.
Senator Gray Defends Mr., CIeve-
lands Hawaiian Policy.
TIME HONORED PRECEDENTS,
Public Buildings Hold the Members
of the House. Speaker Crisp
Gone to AsheviIle. Vote
Friday on the Nicara-
guam Bill.
BY Southern Associated Press.

WASHINGTON, January 21.-
HOUSE. Representative James ID
richardson, OF Tennessee. wa
elected speaker -pro tenn. of til,
House to-day in the absence o
Speaker Crisp. who has gone t.
Ashsville. N. O., to recuperate.
MIR. CatchInGs reported from thu
Committee on Rules special order
providing that otter two hours de
bnte the previous question should
he considered ordered and tho
House should proceed TO vote OF
bills in reference to public building,
at Chicago, Paterson, n. j., Cum.
berland, South Omaha, Neb.
Brockton, Mas, Pottsville, Pm.
and Newport, Ky.
The special order was agreed To
and under it the creator portion OF
the day WAS given up to consdora.
ton of tho bills named. They were
all passed. Mono of them excep,
theChicago bill carry appropriations.
The Chicago Public Building bill
WAS the subject OF an interesting de.
bate, Chairman Sayers, of the Com
mittee on Appropriations, leading
the opposition to tho measure on
tho contentious that the present
building wac not unsafe and made.
quste as to space, as charged by the
Committee on Public Buildings and
| Grounds. and that q new building
could not be completed within the
time fixed by the bill. Several
amendments, accepted by the Com
mittee on Public Buildings and
Grounds, minimized tuese Oh
leotiors to some extent and the bill
wes finally passed by vote of us
to 81.
The recent Hawaiian revolution
was not aired in the House to day.
through the medium OF MIR. Bou,
telle's resolution which he offered
on Saturday. Later on, ut a time
when all the spectators, who had
taken seats in the galleries,
expecting to witness some live
~ debate over tho resolution,
had gore away disappointed,
MIR. Bouielle endeavored to bring
the matter before the House, but
Democratic protests and the point
of "no quorum" finally forced an
adjournment until to-morEew ai
3:55 p. IN.
| SENATE. The Senate to. day on
tered promptly upon tho discussion
oil the Hawaiian question, the Min
lister for the young Republic occu
plying one of the front seats in the
diplomatic gallery, aud being the
most interested listener.
| The discussion was opened by q
resolution offered by MIR. Lodge
approving .he dispatch OF n ehip OF
war to the is!ands last Saturday, and
expressing the opinion that one
should be kept there, snd fayorine
the construction of sub marine
telegraph cable from San Francisco
to Honolulu, and declaring tina,
steps should be taken to secure
possebs'oE OF the Sandwich Islands
" their annexation to the United
| States"
Inls resolution was objected to
on the Democ;a.ic si6e of the cham
Der and wsnt over uutil to morrow.
But then the resolution on the sub
Ject, wE'ul AR. Frye offered Satur.
iay last. wes taken up and was the
text fCr hi l.c rortant debate, which
lasted ti:i tho oioEe Of the morning
hour. when the matter again weni
over.
In this debate the President of the
| United States and the course pur.
sued by the Administration in con.
nection with the Hawaiian Iolapds
found an advocate and defender IN
Gray, who asserted that the attitude
OF the Administration he'd been ia
exact accordance with the time hon.
orad presidents OF the United States
! u lC0 years, and that the Presi.
dcut, amid mach clamor and de
traction, had maintained tho honor
and fame OF the country. The op
posite aide OF the question was rep.
Resented by Senators Frye, Lodge
and HswieY. MIR. Frye made an ef.
fort to have vote taken on his res.
olution, but objection was made by
Mills. The sub1ect, however, will
come up again morrow.
| The conference report on tho ur.
gent deficiency bill WAS also debated
at length, and finally the Senate
voted to receds from its amend
ments on the subject Of the income
tax and to leave the bill in that re-
spect the sAms as 1t came from the
| House.
An arrangement WAS made, By
una1imous consent, for vote on
the Nicaragua canal bill a. s D. In,
on Friday next, and the Senate at {
p. N. adjourned.
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