The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-06-05
FILLED CHEESE BILL
II PaSSes.the Senate After Many No.
tiOns and Much DEBATE.
CAN'T AGREE ON WAR SHIPS
Partial Report on the Indian ELL
Was Agreed To Fur eaIs, Pa
oifio Railways and Funding
Bills Considered.


was taken up In the senate to-day, the
pending question being Quay's motion
that the senate recede from It's amend
ment reducing the number OF battle
ships from four to two.
German said two questions were In
volved. One was. was It wise to order
four battleships when defects In those
already built had been disclosed and
when the board was in session consid-
sring improvements In construction; !;
the other was as to the expediency OF
this large expenditure at time OF
financial stringency. IT am always In
favor Of a fair increase In the navy"
said German. but am utterly oppos-
ed to building four ships, considering
the condition Of the treasury and the
improvements being made in naval con-
struction." The senator spoke of the
charges made by Chandler, Tillman
and other senators that the manufac-
turers were robbing the government
numerically. II this charge was true,
the officers OF the government were not
doing right In not reporting the fact
to congress. and the work of shipbuild-
ing should be stopped.
German did not believe any investi-
cation had shown that Secretary Whit
ney or Secretary Tracy. two great sec
retaries of the navy. who contracted
with Carnegie and the Bethlehem
works. made improvident agreements.
To-day the United States stood ahead
OF the world in its product or armor,
speed Of ships and perfectness of its
navy.
Chandler asserted that information
before the naval committee showed the
cost OF production of armor plate at
the Carnegie and Bethlehem works was
less than $500 a ton. and that. by a
combination. the price charged the gov-
ernment was $500 and 5000 a ton.
Quays motion to recede from the bat
.tleship reduction amendment was de-
feated, II to SO. as follows: Yeas, re-
publlcans-Aldrich. Brown, Carter, Da-
Wis, Dubois, Gear Hansbrough. Haw-
ley, Lodge, Mcbride. Mitchell, Perkins.
Platt. Quay. Shoup, Wilson. Demo-
crats-Morgan. Nays. republican,
Allison. Chandler, Clark. Gallinger,
Hall, Morrill,, Nelson. Pettigrew, Prit-
chard. Sherman. Teller. Warren. Dem
ocrats-Bate, Berry. Chiffon, Cockrell.
George, German. Harris. Hill, oJnes.
(Ark) Lindsay. Mills. Palmer. Pasco.
Pugh. Smith. Vest, Villas, walthail,
White. Populists-Butler. PETER. To-
tai, SO.
The effect of the vote was to empha-
size the disagreement between the
house and senate, the former insisting
on four. the latter on two battleships.
The items Of ships and armor were
committed again to conference.
A partial conference report on the In
dian appropriation bill was agreed to,
% IN ka %
fishing Indian citizenship In Indian
Territory. to be executed by the Dawes
commission. The report has been con-
tested several days. Pettigrew of South
Dakota, In charge OF the Indian bill,
then sought to have the remaining
items. including that Of Indian schools,
sent back to conference. Lodge Of Mas
sachusetts moved to recede from the
senate amendment on sectarian schools.
The house suspended the approprla-
tions to sectarian schools. but the SEN
ate amendment gave until July /, 1898.
for the change. The motion to recede
was defeated. yeas. II: nays. 81. as fol-
lows: Yeas, republicans = Brown,
Chandler, Clark. Dubois, Gallinger,
Lodge. Mitchell Of oregon. Morrill,.
Plat. Sevell. Teller, Warren. Wilson.
Democrat-George. Populist--Butler.
Nays, republicans-Allison, Carter, Da-
Wis. Hansbrough. Hawley, Mcbride,
Pettigrew. Sherman, Shoup. Demo-
crats-Bate. Berry. Chiffon, Cockrell,
Faulkner, German. Harris. Hill. Jones
Of Arkansas, Lindsay. Mills. Mitchell,
Morgan. Pasco. Pugh, Smith. Turpie,
Vest, Villas. Walthall. White.
A bill was then passed granting a
right-of-way through the Fort Bliss
military reservation to the El Paso C.
Northeastern Railroad company.
At the request Of Morgan. his reso-
luton calling on the president for in
formation as to what, II any, demand
should be made in the case Of the Com
petitor. seized by Spaniards, went over
till tomorrow.
A Joint resolution was reported by
Morrill,, from the finance committee,
and passed. authorizing a scientific in
quiry into the condition of fur seals in
the North Pacific. The resolution ap-
propriates $1,000 for the inquiry and
authorizes the president TO detail gov
ernment officials to conduct the In
quiry.'
Gear, chairman of the Pacific rail-
ways committee. rose to make q state
ment as to the Union and Central Pa
cific funding bill. He said sll6, 900. 900
was due the government and the debt
would mature at an early date. 1t was
incumbent on congress TO take some
action TO protect the interests OF the
government. For this reason he moved
the funding bill now on the calendar
be taken up at the next session and
made the continuous order of business
until action was secured. Morgan. who
made the minority report on the bill,