The San Francisco call., 1896-03-19
on the one side, and the Rev Sheldon
jackson on the other. and gave us new
version of that beloved old missionary

From Montana's sinful mountains.
From Utah's wicked plains,
They call us to deliver
Their land from Errors chains.
TContinued laughter.]
ave are told upon high ecclesiastical
authority that his excellency has lately
laid down his honors at the feet of Jesus.
/ am glad to know it. 1t has been the
general impression of Democrats that the
mugwumps and incense-burners had got
those honors and intended to keep them.
l have respect for the Christian reilelon
and for missions at home and abroad, put
this was slander on the men who with
rifle in one hand and ak in the other have
gone out and blazed that pathway OF CIV
ilization in the Western wilds.
= 'sThis, Mr.. President. is what we nave
come to at last, that the President OF the
United States in his official capacity says
to the people of the whole world tnat IN
one portion of this country the surround
ings are such that missions-home mis-
sions-are necessary in order to bring the
people to the proper knowledge OF what is
right and true"
At this point the Vice-President asked
Vest to suspend his speech until a mes
sage should be received from the Presl-
dent of the United States. Vest stopped
an the message was delivered-general
laughter being excited at the incident
and when Vest continued he remarked
with assumed gravity that he would be
glad if the presiding officer would exam
inc the message and see If it was IN re-
sponse to anything that had occurred In
the Senate to-day.
Villas (D.) of Wisconsin offered as an
amendment to Cannon's joint resolution
a proviso that any lands containing as
phalt or gilsenite, or like substance, shall
be reserved for further disposition by Con-
gress. He went on to argue the matter,
suggesting that perhaps the Secretary OF
the Interior did not know certain fact.
'.There is no fact" Wolcott (R.) of Colo
RADIO broke in, ''that the incumbent OF the
Interior Department does not consider he
knows" Laughter.
At another point Villas suggested, In
connection with Vests missionary re-
marks, that he was not very certain that
the first missionary ought not to be sent
very near to the place where Senators were
now sitting.
At2P. NJ the Vice President announced
the unfinished business, which was Sem
ate bill to approve compromise and
settlement between the United States and
the State of Arkansas.
After some colloquy it was arranged that
the Arkansas bill should not be pressed
until after the Cuban resolutions and the
Dupont case were disposed of, and that it
should be succeeded as unfinished busi-
ness by the joint resolution as to the Un-
mpahgre reservation.
The Dupont election case was then taken
up, and Thurston tR.) of Nebraska ad-
dressed the Senate in an argument sup
porting Dupont's claim to the seat.
Thurston closed his speech at P. NJ,
and Chandler (R.) of New Hampshire took
the floor to speak on the same side of the
question.
The following bills We're taken from the
calendar and passed: Senate bill for The
relief of settlers on the Northern Pacific
indemnity lands (allowing them to take
up quantities of land in Minnesota equal
to the. cancelled patents); House bill for
the reconstruction of the Rock Island
bridge; House bill authorizing the Rock
Island, Muscatine and Southwest Railroad
Company to build a bridge across the Illi-
nois and Mississippi Canal; Senate bill
to authorize the leasing of lands for eduss
cational purposes in Arizona reported in
place of similar bill vetoed by the Presi-
dent); Senate bill fixing the salary of the
Chief Justice of the Court of Claims at
$65oO and of the justices at $4,000; Senate
bill granting pension of $50 month to
the widow of Brevet Major General Sam A.
Duncan; Senate joint resolution for the
disposition of the real estate, rents, etc.,
now in the hands of the receiver of the
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
Ito be delivered to the presidency of the
church,; Senate bill granting to the State
of California per cent of the net proceeds
of the cash sales of public lands in that
State for school purposes, and Senate reso-
luton authorizing the Committee on In
dian Affairs to continue investigations
during the recesses of Congress and to
visit the several Indian reservations.
After a short executive session the Sem
ate at 5:55 o'clock adjourned until to-mor-
row.