The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-02-08

one of the richest portions of South Amer
ica. If this was true it would be our duty
to repel the aggressive action of that ma
ton. In conclusion Allen said:
ai"H unhappily the time should come,
which Goo grant it may not, that Ameri-
can valor must again be displayed on the
field OF battle in defense OF American IN
stltutions and against foreign greed and
ACKNOWLEDGMENT, we may confidently ex-
pect the sons of America to march under
the flag of the free, consecrated by the
blood of hundred years, to permanent
and glorious victory. Then for every
Grant there will be a Lee, for every Sher-
man Johnson, for every Thomas jack
son, for every Sheridan a Stuart and
Mason and Dixon's line will be blotted
from the map of the United States and
true Americans North and South, welded
by the blood of the Revolution, the war of
1872 and war with Mexico, renewed by
enlargement OF 1861, as lovers renew and
intensity their affections by arrangement,
soothed and sustained by a united
and splendid American womanhood,
will give to the world a lesson in valor
that it has never known before,
oiN WAOAA thO Ch0 COAAlCcJ DO ~ SuIclH
will come, and the storm that has
rocked us in a great civil strife for re-
newed American freedom shall have SUBJ
sided and the Nation shall arise once more
from the ashes of its deadly conflict with
the enemies of human liberty. crowned
with new glory and encircled with new
halo, shall we not play the songs of our
recent civil strife with the sacred memo
ries of other days?"
The joint resolution requiring the Sec
rotary of Agriculture to carry out the law
for the purchase and distribution of seeds
was taken up and Blanchard CD of
Louisiana addressed the Senate in support
of 1t. He found in Secretary Morton's
action parallel to that of Comptroller
Bowler in the sugar bounty case.
Gray CD of Delaware expressed regret
that the Senator from Louisiana had seen
fit in the able and scathing arraignment
which he had made of the action of the
First Comptroller in setting at naught a
law of Congress, passed without dis
approval of the President to link with it
a denunciation of the Secretary of Agri-
culture for not executing law of Con-
gress.
Inc JOINT resolution went over WltnOut
action at the close of the morning hour,
and then the resolution offered by Dubois
(R.) of Idaho for an amendment OF the
rules by the distribution of the approprla-
ton bills was laid before the Senate.
Allison (R.) of Iowa, chairman of the
Committee on Appropriations, moved to
refer the resolution to the Committee on
Rules, with instructions to report it back
with or without amendment on the first
Monday of December next. Carried.
On motion of Hansbrough (R.) of North
Dakota, the joint resolution as to seed dis
tribution was made the unfinished bust
ness for Monday next.
On motion of Hale (R.) of Maine. it was
ordered that the Secretary of the Senate
wait upon the. President of the United
States and inform him that the Senate
had elected William p. Frye President pro
tempore, to hold and exercise the Office in
the absence of the Vice President from
time to time during the pleasure of the
Senate.
The Senate then at 3:15 adjourned until
Monday next.