The San Francisco call., 1896-03-01
The Cattle Barons Are Supposed
to Have Influenced the
Executive.
LIKE THE OKLAHOMA MEASURE
Much Benefit Would Accrue to the
Territory From the Operation
of Such a Law.

WASHINGTON, ID. c., Feb. 29.-After
an hours debate to-day the House passed
oyer the Presidents veto the bill author
izing the leasing Of school lands in Ari-
zona by vote of 200 to 38. The negative
vote was confined to Democratic members.
The Senate amendments to the army ap-
preparation bill were disagreed to, and
the bill was sent to conference.
Consideration of the legislative, execu-
tive and judicial appropriation bills under
the five-minute rule was completed, save
the paragraphs covering compensation
for United States District Attorneys and
Marshals. A few unImportant amend
ments were made to the bill. The para
graphs remaining will be further consid-
cred Monday, when the new salary law for
those offices prepared by the Committee
on Judiciary will be offered as an amend
ment to the bill, under an order agreed to
to-day, relieving it from the operation of
the rule which prohibits the addition of
new legislation to appropriation bills.
The army appropriation bill, with the
Senate amendments, was laid before the
House and the amendments were dis
agreed to and conference with the Senate
asked.
Lacey (R.) OF Iowa, chairman of the
Com mittee on Public Lands called up
the Presidents veto of the bill authorizing
the leasing of school lands in Arizona,
which bill the Speaker said the House
must, under the constitution, now recon-
slider. Lacey stated that the bill was iden-
tical with the Oklahoma bill passed
in 1894. Under the operation of the law
the Territory of Oklahoma received in 1895
the sum of $SS,628 while in the previous
year, from leases made by the Secretary of
the Interior, the Territory received but
SAG, ,594. The bill. Lacey said, was not an
experiments; it had worked well In the
case of Oklahoma, and there was no reason
to assume that the officers of Arizona
would be or were less careful of the in
terests of the Territory than the officers OF
Oklahoma had been.
Certainly, he said, they were better
qualified to act with intelligence than tie
Secretary of the Interior, 1900 miles away.
The cattle barons did not like the Okla
homa measure, and it could be easily ap-
pretended that the same class of people
in Arizona would object. Whether or not
they had induced the President to veto
the bill he did not know, but it was evil
dent that the veto had been prepared with
oat full knowledge of the facts.
The passage of the bill over the Presi-
dents veto was advocated by Underwood
(D.) of Alabama, member of the COM
mittee.
After brief remarks by Turner CD of
Georgia ana McRae O.) of Arkansas, the
latter ex-chairman of the Committee on
Public Lands, who urged the passage of
the bill Notwithstanding the veto, Muir
ply. Delegate from Arizona, addressed
the House in favor of the passage of the
bill.
posed upon by some one in vetoing the
bill, for Murphy said he had seen the ap-
proval of the measure by the Secretary Of
the Interior.
The question being, ''Shall the bill
pass, the Presidents objections to the con-
trary Notwithstanding it was agreed
to-ayes 200. noes 3S. The announcement
was received with few handclaps.
The following Democrats voted aye with
the Republicans and Populists: Bailey,
Cobb (Alabama), Cox, Crisp, Cummings,
Dearmonj, Dinsmore, Downing, Hutche-
son, Latimer, Layton, Little, Livingston,
Maddox, McCulloch, McDearmon, McRea,
McLaurin, Money, Moses, Neill, Richard
son, Robbins, Stallings, Stokes. Strait,
Talbert, Terry. Underwood, Wheeler, Viii
liams, Wilson (South Carolina)-32.
Those voting in the negative to sustain
the President were: Allen OF Mississi ppi,
Bell of Texas, Berry, Boatner, Buck,
Catchings, Clardy. Cobb of Missouri, Gull
berson, Dockery, Elliott of South Carolina,
Harrison, Hart, Hendricks, Kyle, Lawson,
Lester, Mcclellan, McCreary, McMillin,
Meredith, Meyer, Miles, Otey, Owens, Pat
terson, Pendleton, Robertson, Russell of
Georgia, Sayers, Sorg, Spencer. Swanson,
Tucker, Turner of Georgia, Turner Of Vir-
ginia, Washington, Yoakum-all Dem
ocrats-38.
In accordance with the notice given yes
terday, Henderson (R.) of Iowa reported
from the Committee on Rules an order
making in order-and not subject to a
point of order under the rules as an
amendment to the legislative, executive
and judicial bill--the bill reported by the
Committee on the Judiciary, providing
for the compensation of United States
marshals and district attorneys by salaries
| instead OF fees.
He explained the object of the order to
get the proposed legislation into the ap-
preparation bill for the reason that it pro-
vided the money to pay these officers, and
further to effect, by getting the provi-
sions Of the new bill in the appropriation
measure, reduction of $4,000 in the ex-
penses attached to these Offices
The order was adopted without division.
The House, In committee of the whole,
then resumed consideration of the Iegisla-
tive, executive and judicial appropriation
bill for the year ending June 80, 1897.
But few amendments OF any kind were
proposed to the. bill and fewer still
adopted.
Stewart (R.) of New Jersey moved that
the appropriation of $4,000 for the payment
OF the salary of the Secretary of the In
terror be accompanied by the stipulation
that no part of it should be available for
that purpose until the Secretary had
made oath that he had faithfully exc
cuted the laws of the United. States. 1t
was rejected, however, on point of order
by Mccall.