Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-02-17
FIFTY FOURTH CONGRESS.
WASHINGTON, Feb. l
SENATE.

WASHINGTON, Feb. II.
SENATE.
Mr.. Hoar 10 presenting a petition
from Marie A. Shipley for the estab-
lshment of the 24th of June, the ami
versary of the discovery of the North
American coast by John and Sebastian
Cabot, in 1897, as national holiday,
asked Mr.. Hill as to the committee to
which he thought it should be- referred.
He remarked that the bill to mai Q
Lincolus birthday national holiday
had been reported from the committee
on the library, while Mr.. Hills bill fer
Jackson day had been referred 10
the judiciary committee.
Mr.. Hills reply was that in his
opinion all of the bills on that subject
should be referred to the judiciary COM
mittee and he suggested that the Lin
coin bill now on the calendar should be
sent to that committee. He expressed
doubt whether Congress had the
power TO establish any national holiday
Fexcept for the District OF Columbia and
the Territories.
Mr.. Hale, the author of the Lincoln
holiday bill, objected to its being taken
from the calendar and referred. Mr..
Hoar's petition was, however, referred
to the judiciary committee, as MIR. Hills
had been.
A resolution was offered by Mr.. Allen
and was agreed to calling on the Sec.
retary of the Treasurer for information
as to the amounts in the Treasury on
March 4, 1889, and March 4. 1898;
whether there has been any diminu.
ton of revenue; and if SO, from what
| causes.
Mr.. Morgan offered a resolution
which was agreed to calling on the
Secretary of the Treasury for reports
of treasury agents in the year 1884 as
TO the hunting and destruction of fur
seals on the Prybiloff Islands and in
Boring sea.
A message was received from the
House of Representatives notifying the
Senate that its amendment 10 the
House bond bill (the free coinage sub,
stilute) had been disagreed to by the
House. No suggestion as to a confer,
euce was made.
The report of the committee on privi-
leges and elections in favor of admit
ting Mr.. Dupont as Senator from the
State of Delaware was presented by
Mr.. Mitchell, chairman, and it was
stated on the part of the minority OF
the committee that their views would
he ready for presentation tomorrow.
No order was therefore made as to the
report.
A resolution was offered by Mr..
Mitchell on the subject of the salmon
fishery industry on the Columbia river;
and Mr.. Mitchell gave notice that he
would submit remarks on the subject
at an early day.
Mr.. Vest called up the letter from the
Secretary of Agriculture in reply to his
resolution as to cattle quarantine lines
in Texas and the southwestern States
and addressed the Senate in opposition
to the views Of the Secretary.
The Secretary's letter was referred
10 the committee on transportation and
sale of meat products.
The resolution reported on the Goth
of January by Mr.. Davis, from the COM
mittee on foreign relations, relative to
The application and enforcement of the
Monroe doctrine was laid before the
Senate. The resolution emitting the
preamble, is in these words:
Resolved, by the Senate the House
of Representatives concurring), That
the United States of America re-
afIirms and confirms the doctrine and
principles promulgated by President
Monroe in his message of December 2,
1928, and declares that it will assert
AID maintain that doctrine and those
principles, and will regard any infringe
ment thereof and particularly any at
tempt1 by any European power to
take or acquire any new or adj
ditional territory on the American con-
tinents, or any island adjacent thereto,
or any right OF sovereignty or dominion
in the same, in any case or instance as
to which the United States shall
deem such attempt to be dangerous to
its peace or safety, by or through force,
purchase, cession, occupation, pledge,
colonization, protectorate, or by con-
troll of the easement in any canal or
any other means Of transit across the
American isthmus, whether under un-
founded pretensiou of right in cases
Of alleged boundary disputes or under
any other unfounded pretensions, as
the manifestation of an unfriendly dis
position toward the United States, and
as an interposition which it would be
impossible in any form for the United
States to regard with Indifference.
Mr. Davis proceeded to address the
Senate in support of the resolution.
HOUSE.
Mr.. Cannon reported from the COM
mittee on appropriations the urgent de-
ficiency bill, which, with Senate amend
ments thereto, had been referred to that
committee. The committee recon-