Birmingham state herald., 1896-04-29
HARD ON NAVAL OFFICERS They Are Prohibited From Ac- cepting Employment With GOVERNMENT CONTRACTORS The Pension Bill Was Passed D. Republicans
 and Populists. $ ONLY SIX DEMocRATsS DIED FOR IT
  A Letter From the te Department to Congressman Hive oused His Amer ican spiritss> .le Bankruptcy
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GOVERNMENT CONTRACTORS

louay session In the senate was occu- pied in the consideration of the naval ap- propriation bill. The first two hours were passed in the discussion of the amendment offered on Monday from the committee on naval affairs, prohibiting officers of the navy or marine corps or the retired list from taking employment in the service of persons or corpora tions having contracts with the government for the supply of material. The amends ment was finally agreed to-yeas 45, nays Il. The remainder of the days ses- sion was occupied by a speech of MT. Gorman on an amendment offered by him to reduce the number of battleships provided for in the bill from four to two, The speech was almost entirely on po- Itical lines, although MT. German did not spare members of his own party, especially the secretary of the navy. whom he ridiculed for his pretensions to become a great admiral
 Senators sherman and Hale took part in the discussion, which assumed quite an animated character.
 The amendment went over without ac- ton and the senate at 5:30 o'clock ad- journed until tomorrow.
 The House.
 The first business in order in the house today was the vote on the passage of the pension bill, which was taken up by SS"o ehiiN iidyS at tHe ueIIlduu or NIT, Crowther, republican, of Missouri. It re- sulted-yeas 1S7, nays 54 The repu bli- cans and populists supported the bill and the democrats opposed 1t. Six dem- ocrats, however, voted for the bill-Cum- mings and Walsh of New York, Layton and Sorg of Ohio, Fitzgerald of Massa- chusetts and Downing of Illinois.
 MT. Mahany, republican, of New York, offered resolution calling upon the pres- ident to direct the secretary of state to interpose in behalf of John Hays Ham, mond, who is on trial in South Africa for complicity in the recent troubles in that country and asked unanimous con- sent for immediate consideration.
 In the course of the colloquy over the resolution MT. Hill, republican, of Con necticut, said: Mr. Speaker, few weeks ago wrote to the secretary of state ifi regard to MT. Hammond, at the request of one of my constituents. l received the truly American reply that the state de- partment had no knowledge on the sup- ject except what had been acquired from newspapers, but that its impression was that MT. Hammond's interests were be7 ing guarded by the English government. It seems to me that 1t is high time that the American government protected its own citizens abroad, and l am heartily in favor of this resolution. (Applause.)
 Mir. McCreary, democrat, of Kentucky, suggested in view of the importance of the matter that the resolution should first be acted upon by the committee on foreign affairs. He said that there was no doubt the secretary of state was do- ing all that was proper but even if he was not, the proposed resolution would effect nothing-it was mere house resoA lution, net concurrent nor joint reso- lution.
 The resolution was thereupon referred to the committee on foreign affairs. Some miscellaneous business was transacted, including the passage of a bill to place John N. Quackenbush on the retired list of the navy by a vote of 161 to 49 The bill was intended to cure what has been considered by the beneficiary and his friends great injustice perpe- trated upon him.
 MT. Henderson, republican, of Iowa, re- ported from the committee on rules an or der providing for the consideration of the bankruptcy bill, which was agreed to without discussion. By it's terms the ses- sons until Friday are to be devoted to general debate on the mea sure, the ses- sions of Friday and Saturday until 4 o'clock, the last named day to be devoted to the consideration of the bill under the five minute rule for amendment. At the hour named the bill is to be reported to the house with any amendments adopted, and vote on its passage will then ba taken.
 The house, under operation of the or der, went into committee of the whole for the consideration of the bill An unu- sual division of the time for debate was agreed upon, MT. Henderson to control half of the time in favor of the bill. MT. Bailey of Texas to control one-quarter in the interest of those favoring voluntary bankruptcy only, and MT. Frederick. re- publican, of Kansas to control the re- main.ng quarter in opposition to any bill on the subject.
 MT. Bailey gave notice that one-and perhaps two-substitutes for the pending bill would be offered for action of the house by friends of voluntary bankrupt cy.
 The opening speech of the debate was made by General Henderson in support of the bil1 which Is practically the Torrey bill, providing for both voluntary and in- voluntary bankruptcy. At the conclusion of MT. Henderson's speech, at 5:10 p. m., the house adjourned.