The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-01-04

Mans sneers.
Washington, D. c.. Jan. 8. The reso-
iution heretofore introduced by Mr.. Al
lien, Populist, NebraskaO, relating to
the occupation Of rooms in the base-
nlent Of the Senate wing of the capitol
| for restaurant purposes. gave rise to
AN interesting debate during the morn
| ing hour of the session of the Senate
today. Mr.. Allen severely criticized the
practice OF furnishing to the proprietors
OF the restaurant free Of cost, his fur
niture, ice ebc., and asserted it was
a violation of The statutes and COM
Istituted larceny of the public. funds.
Messrs. Hale. Repu blican, Maine), and
Henderson, Republican Nebraska),
lrepfied to the observations of Air. AL
lien. and defended the existing practice.
No action was taken ON the resolution.
The remainder of the day was taken
up by Mr. Morgan, Democrat, Ala
bama), in a speech on the Nicaraguan
canal bill, in which he replied i'm de-
tail to the arguments advanced by Mr.
TuTpie, Democrat, IndianaS in oppo-
|siltion to the bill.
The Senate reassambled at noon to-
day after the holiday recess The chair
laid before the Senate a letter from
the secretary of state transmisting a
dispatch from the United States ann
bassador at Paris, saying he had de-
lfvered to the widow of the late Presi-
DENT Carnot engrossed copies of the
Led
can Congress relative to President
Carnot.
After the presentation of sundry reso-
lutions and memorials Mr.. Sherman
from the committee on Foreign Affairs,
reported, and the Senate passed, the
resolution heretofore introduced by Mr..
Lodge, of Massachusetts,, calling on
the president for correspondence and
other papers relative TO the delivery
by the United States consul at Shang-
had of two Japanese citizens to the
Chinese authorities; also asking for in
formation as to whether the two jap
anese were put to death after being
tortured. Further, whether there was
amy understanding with the Chinese
government that United States officers
should aid, assist and give safe con-
duct to any Japanese citizens desiring
to leave China etc.
The resolution of Mr.. Allen relating
to the Senate restaurant was then
taken UP and Mr.. Allen addressed the
Senate at some length. He thought
the restaurant should not be furnished
by the government. Senators Hale
and Henderson thought the best inter
ests of the Senate demanded there be
no change. At 2 O'Clock the resolution
went over and the Senate proceeded
to the consideration of the Nicaraguan
canal bill.
Mr.. Morgan had the floor to make
speech on the bill, but before he be-
gan, the Senate, on motion of Mr..
Squire Republcan), of Washington,
passed a bill granting an American
register to the vessels Linda of North
Carolina and Archer of Washington.
Morgan's Address.
Mr.. Morgan then began his address
On the Nicaraguan canal bill. He crit
by imputing to those who favored the
bill motives other than patriotic. He
defended the constitutiopality Of the
present bill, which had been attacked.
The senator consumed a great portion
of his speech in controverting the
statements made by the senator from
Indiana CMr. Turpie) in his three days
speech against the bill before the holt
day recess. He quoted literally from
the speech and paid considerable atten-
ton to "the conspicuous errors of fact
upon which the senator's argument is
based"
The senator had contended, said Mr..
Morgan, that the company must COM
plete the canal by 1897, ten years from
the date at which the concessions were
granted. The fact was, however as
serted Mr. Morgan, that the company
had two years to make preliminary ar
Tangements, and ten years after that,
or until October, 1899, to complete the
project. He argued against the propo-
sition of Mr.. Turpie that the canal
should be built by sections, and as
serted the cost would be three times
as great to build it than if constructed
in the ordinary manner. Mr.. Morgan
declared if the senator's position re-
garding the possibility of the success
full completion of the canal in view
OF the obstacles named by him was
correct, the substitute offered by Mr..
Turpie, providing for a survey to as
certain the practicability of construc-
ton, was Illogical If the pictures
drawn by tine senator from Indiana of
the conditions existing were true there
could be nothing but an affront to
Nicaragua in a survey designed to
bring his sketches into stronger light
and to display that country in horrible
nakedness. If the company had gone
to London instead of coming to Wash
ington for a charter, the canal would
now be completed, or nearly so, and it
would, like the Suez canal be under
the civil and military control Of Great
Britain.
Beneficiarieg.
Regarding Mr.. Turpie's illusions TO
the 'Tbenefeiaries" under the bill, Mr..
Morgan said in part:
''The senator. in his wild TRADE
against the so-called benefciaries of
this bill, who will in fact be driven out
of the most valuable of their rights if
they be compelled to accept the pro-
seems to ignore the fact that
another great senator from Indiana.
now dead, was a Beneficiary, as he
calls them, and that an ex-president
was its open and firm advocate. I do
not know that these facts at all rec
ommend this 'snide' corporation TO his
Indeed, it may be that
President Harrison's support If the
bill is the worst feature in it, accord
ing to his way of viewing the matter,
should be sorry if such a fact would
faint the whole canal scheme, that the
senator cannot stomach it. There was
a man, am told, who was advised nv
his doctor to abstain totally from
strong drink and to take to cold water
He protested that il he
did he would soon starve for fluids.
He said that since Noahs flood the
water has tasted SO strongly of sin