Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1896-05-20
CONGRESS-.
Senate.

arouses so much feeling among senators,
manifesting itself in debate of unusual
animation and of considerable personal
feeling: Mr.. Berry (Ark.) began the de-
pate, declaring that this proposed expend-
| ture of 100000 was against the public
interests and in the private interest of c.
+ Huntlngto of the Southern Pacific
| Senators Vest and Caffery took the ground
that no appropriation, should be made at
present Mr.. Frye, chairman of the COM
merce committee. replied to the structures
upon the proposition and vehemently char
acterized the criticisms of Mr.. Huntington
as 'savoring of the slogan Of the sand
The animated contest which has proceed
ed for the last four days in the Senate over
of ue GdPy;t water narDor on the southern coast
OF california was brought to close on
| the 18th by a compromise between the
polnts OF Santa Monica; the terminus of the
! Southern Pacific and San Pedro, the local
| 1ty urged by the California senator's. Sen
ator Frye, chairman of the commerce com
mlttee, finally harmonized the differences
santa Monica and San Pedro to a COM
mission to consist of three civil engineers
naval officer, and an officer of the coast
! survey. The compromise accepted by
the California senator's, and was unani-
mously passed An amendment urged by
Mr.. German, limiting the expenditure I'M
ger the contract authorizations to $1O,-
oUO,OoO annually, led TO a lengthy debate
! A motion by Mr., Vest to table the amend
ment failed-yeas 26; nays, 81. An agree
! ment was reached to dispose of the bill
by 3 o'clock on the 18th
me river ard harbor appropriation bill
was passed by the Senate on the 18th after
an unusually stormy experience lasting
! many days. AS finally passed the bill
makes direct appropriations of $12,200,00O
ana authorizes continuing contracts of SET
0OO0OO an aggregate of about $4,000, 600
During the debate the statement was
made that this was the largest aggregate
! for river and harbor bill in the history of
the government. On the final passage Of
the bill. nine senator's voted in the mega
| tive. Bills were passed as follows: Max
| nh-nO of ont
amending the act granting pensions to sur
vivors of Indian wars as to include the
SURVIVORS OF the FeVre river war, Sabine
Indian disturbance and Cayuse war, the
FLORIDA Seminole war, the Texas and New
MMeXic1 Indian wars the California Indian
d!sturbances of 1S51-52. and the Indian wars
! or Utah, Oregon and Washington; relating
| 70 the sale of printed copies of patents; re-
| Iatlng to guarantees on proposals of naval
supplies: making it unlawful to shoot or
throw stones or other missiles into any
| locomotive or car in Indian territory; MAX
Ing one years residence in territory requi-
site for divorce: to authorize a life-saving
station at Port Huron. Mich.
Ihe Dupont case, involving the right of
Henry "A. Dupont to Il seat in the Senate
from the state of Delaware, was taken up
IN the senate on the 14th. with a view to
| concluding the debate and taking a final
vote on the following day brief col
| Ioquy between Mr.. German and Mr. Mitch
! ell developed that Il difference of opinion
existed as to the character of the vote
! When Mr.. German spoke OF the unanimous
|
the correctness of the statement but add
ca significantly that the character of the
vote would be determined when the vote
| was reached, which was open to the mean
Ing that the case would be postponed until
next session. Mr.. Plat rep. Comm spoke
| In support of Mr. Dupont's claim Two
speeches against the bill proposing addi-
| tional restrictions on immigration by Mr.
Gibson Dem, Md, and Mr.. Nelson ReD.
MIMI, were made early in the day. Mr.
Gibson severely arraigned the A. p A,
] declaring that it inspired this bill. and
that the organization was seeking to invade
BY vote of 81 to 80. the Senate deter
| mined on the 10th that Henry A. Dupont
was not entitled to a seat in the Senate
! long and animated controversy which had
become one of the most notable contests of
its kind in the history of the Senate. The
result was in doubt up to the last moment.
ana this lent added interest to the final
vote, There had been some question as to
| the direction of Mr.. Stewards vote but it
/ went with those of the Democrats and Pop
ulIsts. and was the decisive vote in declar-
ing that Mr. Dupont was not entitled to a
seat. Before taking the vote Mr. Platt
| 1Rep., Comm spoke for Mr.. Dupont and Mr.
! Was dem, Wis., against. Earlier in the
! gay MI. Bacon Dem. GaO spoke against
the issue of bonds without authority of
| Congress.
/ The session of the House on the 18th was
| almost entirely devoted to the consideration
| of District of Columbia business Bills
were passed to authorize the secretary IF
! the treasury to detail revenue cutters to
enforce regulations at regattas; to grant
| the Denver, Cripple Greek & Southwestern
railroad alright of way through the South
Platte and Plum Greek forest reservations:
to grant pipe lines right of way over the
to grant tie Flagstaff & Canyon railway
right of way through the Grand canyon and
to extend the charter of the. Dennison &
ence report the Indian appropriation
6llI was agreed to, and the title of Mr.. Mad
do T Of Georgia to his seat was confirmed.
only Democrat in the illinois GT deIegati one
were taken in hand by the Republican ma
jority of the House of Representatives on
the 18th; Mr.. Downing has no chance of
being allowed to hold his seat. Before
Dem.) OF Alabama was taken to task for
abusing the privilege of printing in the
Record. and some extensive interpretations
IN IN recent speech of his were expunged
from the permanent Record by a vote of
Is Tote IA. The House then adjourned
The The House after one of the hardest
! which continued until almost Q O'Clock on
the 18th, recommitted the contested elec-
the Sixteenth Illinois district to the com
mittee on elections with instructions to re-
count t, the ballots in dispute; The vote
g. Republicans, 60 Democrats and Popu-
lists; noes, 30 Republicans.
The House on the 14th under the special
|
day to private pension bills. They were
disposed of at the rate of about one every
five minutes, fifty in all being favor
ably acted upon before adjournment
Among them were bills granting pensions
to the widow of Gen. o. NJ Poe, $50; the
widow of Gen. Jameson. $50; the widow of
Gen. John Newton, SIS; the widow of
ex-United States Senator Geo. E. Spencer
of Alabama, $50; and ex-Congressman
smalls ST South Carolina $50. While the
pension bills were being considered. the
committee of the whole rose informally
and disagreed to the Senate amendments to
the river and harbOr bill, and sent it to
conference Later, Mr.. Hepburn Rep., Ia J
raised the point that the action was irreg-
ular, and intimated that it was a piece of
! sharp practice to prevent the House from
considering the amendments in committee
Of the whole Mr.. Herman (Rep., Or dis
claimed any such purpose, stating that the
object was to hasten the bill in anticipation
| OF presidential veto. The speaker took
the point of order under advisement
The House the 10Th occupied itself
In passing the private pension bills which
were favorably acted upon during the two
special days given to their considerat ton.
Mr. Erdman Dem. Pa and Mr., TaIbert
| CDem.. 5. CD threw such obstacles in the
way of the bills as they could. Thirty four
were held up because they were not en-
crossed, but 100 were passed leaving about