The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1895-03-05
THE NIGHT SESSION.

At $50 O'Clock the Senate galleries
wrre filled TO OVERLOOKING great crowds
standing in line i'm the corridors seeking
TO get inside. The attendance Of SEN
ators was small and scattering early IN
the evening, but was augmented 10 nearly
its full strength as the time for the final
vote on the naval bill drew near.
Mr. Chandler, Rep, (N. H., supported
the amendment providing two battleshps
In view of his service as Secretary OF
the Navy. his review OF the development
Of our new navy was followed with close
interest.
Al that time. he said, we were spending
about $lJ,00C00 annually for the improve
ment of the navy; now our expenditures
reach S2j.OO00OO annually for that pur-
pose and he hoped it would be continued.
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-33 TO 29-as follows:
Yeas-Messre. Allen, Allison, Bate. Ber-
~. Blackburn. Call. Camden. Chandler
Cockrell. Cullom, Daniel, Faulkner. Cor
man, Gray, Harris, Jones CArll). Kyle,
Lindsay, Mcmillan. Martin, Mitchell
Wis) Morrill,. Palmer. PETER. Pettigrew,
Proctor, Pugh, Ransom, Roach. Teller,
Vest, Villas and Wolcott. Total. So
Nays-Aldr.ch, Blanchard, Burrows.
Butler. Cameron. Carey. Clark, Dubois.
Frye, Gibson. Gordon, Hale, Hawley, Hig-
gins, Hoar, Hunton, McLaurin, Mander-
son. Mitchell of Oregon, Morgan, Muir
ply, Perkins. Platt, Quay. Squire, stew
art. Walsh. White and Wilson, of Wash
ington. Total. %
The provisions striking out twelve tor
pedo boats and inserting six l.ght-draught
composite gunboats Of about 900 tons
displacement, at $4,000, 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.
y 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 and
Consular Appropriation bin, stating that
no agreement had been reached on the
Hawaiian cable and no prospect that the
House would ever yield The bill would
fail. he said, If the Senate persisted on
the vote about to be taken, in keeping
the cable appropriation in the bill He
believed also, that the bill was doomed
TO failure, even if the two houses con-
cur in the cable.
Mr.. Hawley quickly asked II it was
meant TO intimate that the President
would veto the bill
Il am able 10 say" replied Mr.. Black
burn, that the President would veto it:
but i know that if | were President |
would veto it,"
Mr.. Blackburn warned the Senate that
another insistence on the cable might
mean an extra session. He thought, per-
haps. that might be desirable. as he be-
lieved 1t would show the next Congress
as helpless in dealing with the financial
question as this Congress had been. He
moved that the Senate recede from the
Hawaiian cable amendment.
NO HAWAIIAN CABLE.
Mr.. Hale (Rep). OF Maine. one of the
Senate's conferees, opposed any surren-
der by the Senate. He urged that the
Senate should not be changed from its
position by the threat of an extra ses-
sion. Ii was absolutely certain that we
were TO have connections with Hawaii.
and an extra session might expedate
that event.
Mr.. White Dem), of California. an
nounced that he heretofore supported the
cable item, but he now felt compelled TO
change his vote.
Mr.. Hale conferred with his associates
and made no demand for a yea and nay
vote.
Mr.. Blackburns motion TO recede on
the cable item was then put to vote and
carried without division. The conference