Birmingham age-herald., 1895-02-22
Declares Himself Progressionist,
 Party or No Party.
THE CABLE TO HAWAII
Voted Down in the House--In- dian Appropriations Oc-
 Cupy the Senate.

cratS unlteQ Witn tue fepuDitcAuS auu pup ulists of the house today to sustain the senate amendment to the diplomatic and consular appropriation. bill which directs the president to contract for the construc- ton of a cable to the Hawaiian islands from the United States. They were Messrs. Bartlett of New York, Caminetti of Cali fornia, Cannon of California, Cockrell of Texas, English of California, Geary of Call ifornia. Harris of Kansas, Ikirt of Ohio, Livingsion of Georgia, Mcguire of Cali fornls, MtGanu of Illinois, O'Neill of Mis- souri, Ryan of New York, Shell of South Carolina, Sickles of New York and Whit ing of Michigan. But they were not enough altogether to adopt the motion of MT. Hit, repul lican, of Illinois, that the house concur in the amendment, it being defeated after an hour and a halfs debate by vote of 152 to IA, and the matter again went to the conference.
 I he discussion was without notable incl dent, except significant declaration by MT. Sickles of New York, who, declaring he could no longer labor for the progress of his country within party lines he would break them and go where he could do so. He had done this before and he would do 1t again were it necessary.
 The construction of the cable, and incl dentally the annexation of the islands, were advocated by Messrs. Storer, repub- 1ican, of Ohio; Draper, ,repu ublican, of Mas sachusetts; Hermann, republican, of Oregon; Ryan, democrat, o., Of New Hw.s York; sickles. democrat, Of New York, and was opposed by Messrs. Hooker, democrat, of Mississippi; Harter, democrat, of Ohio; Tucker, democrat, of Virginia, and Me- Creary, democrat, of Kentucky.
 Consideration was begun on the defi- ciency bill, the last of the general appro- priatson measures for tile session. Amend meDts were agreed to giving to the Columbian museum, Chicago, certain portions of the state department exhibit at appropriating $8000 for the employment Of temporary clerks in the office of auditor for the postofice department to bring up the business to date.
 An amendment was offered by MT. Breck. tnridge and passed over temporarily for argument to pay f425 1000 in full of all claims on account oi the Behring sea seiz- urts, in accordance with the agreement made Aug just 21, 1894, by Secretary Gresham and Sir Julian Pauncefote, British embas- sacor.
 After dispcsing of sixteen pages of the bill the committee rose, and it was agreed that tomorrow the house shall meet at Il o'clock.
 Public business was suspended, and the house listened to eulogies on the life and services of the late Francis B. Stockbridge, a senator from Michigan. Addresses were delivered by Messrs. Thomas, Griffin, Lin ton, German, Weadock,, Avery and Rich Dingley of Maine and Blair o. New Hamp- shire. At their close the resolutions re- ported from the senate were agreed to, and as further mark of respect at p. m. the honse adjourned.
 IN THE SENATE.
 The Indian appropriation bill was con ~s< ixxt t,e ato fndo fnr hnt1 fix,o hours and thirteen additional pages of 1t were disposed of, leaving seventeen pages for tomorrow. The reason why greater progress was not made was that disputed item of 1885 for beef cattle furnished to some Indians was talked over for almost two hours and that the Indian school question, which comes up inevitably on every such appropriation bill, was discussed for Il still longer period of time.
 The committee on appropriations had re- ported an amendment to strike out the two items for the maintenance and education of Indian children at Hampton, Va, and at the Lincoln institution of Philadelphia, OF the gfound that they were denomina- tional schools (protestant), and that, as all other denominational Indian schools were to be aban ndoned, there should be no discrimination in favor of those two. The result of the struggle was, however, the defeat of the committee on appropriations and the retention in the bill of tue two items for these schools.
 At 6p.Nn. a recess was take en for two hours, the evening session to be for the consideration of bill authorizing the issue of bonds to the amount of S7 ,500 ,000 for the extension of the sewer system or the city of Washington. The resolution for such re- cess was antagonized In the morning hour by MT. Allen, populist, of Nebraska, who in the course of his remarks asserted that the secretary of the treasury had no authority in law to issue the bonds pro- vided for recently, that the law under ity had been repealed. and that such bonds, if contested in the courts, would be held to be void. He characterized the attempt to pass the silver coinage bill last Tuesday ns n1ere 'sspectacuIar per- formance,'' and he read with much satis- faction, some newspaper intimations nam- lug Senators Teller, republican, of Colo rado, and Vest, democrat, of Missouri, as accessions to the popuIist party.
 Credentials of two real additions to that party in the senate (Messrs. Tjllman of South Carolina aud Butler of North Caro- lina). from tho 4th of March next, were . ;,rs acptca reasiounpd placed oA file; and
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