The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-05-06
TILTS IN The SENATE.
Hill Doesn't Favor an Investigation OF
the Hond sales.

the Bond safes.
Washington, May 5.-The senate con-
sidered the river and harbor bill to-
day up to 2 o'clock, when the PETER
bond investigation resolution came up.
The senate reinstated under the con-
tract system the Sabine, Pass. Texas,
improvement and also the contract sys-
tenn for the channel between the Beau
fort, S. c., and Savannah. the latter to-
tai being reduced to $9S7,250.
Call introduced a resolution request
ing a protest against the execution OF
American citizens taken on board the
schooner Competitor by Spanish gun
boat. Call asked the immediate adop-
ton of the resolution on a viva voce
vote; IL was adopted Wolcott quickly
interposed, pointing out that this was
a surprising course of directing a pro-
test and demand on Spain without any
consideration Call insisted that the
case was urgent, reports being current
that the prisoners were to be eXecutef.
Wolcott said if the facts were as
Call stated, IT was the duty of the pres
ident to protest. He objected to action
being taken, and the resolution went
over.
Mr. Frye then moved to take UP the
river and harbor bill and in doing so
said: II do not mean to antagonize
the bond bill at 2 o'clock. | regard the
vote of yesterday as the instructions
of the senate to me not to urge the
river and harbor bill against the bond
bill at o'clock" with this eXplana-
ton there was no opposition to pro-
ceeding with the river and harbor bill.
At 2 O'Clock the bill was laid aside,
80 pages having been disposed of and
the bond bill was taken up. AS Mr..
Hill was about to resume his speech
Mr.. PETER rose and said: Il will ask
the senate to remain in session to-
night until this resolution is passed.
Mr. Hill said he was willing to yield,
as a rule, but he did not propose to be
taken arbitrarily from the floor and he
| would not yield to Mr.. PETER. Mr.
| Hill proceeded, he said, to prevent the
senate from making itself ridiculous
| This resolution called for facts that
were already reported to the senate.
Why therefore, should senators admit
| that they were ignOramuses. To be sure,
| said Mr.. Hill, there is no law against
senators making fools of themselves,
| but they ought not to do ii needleSsly
| by a foolish, contemplate resolution.
| IF you can't comprehend the reports
already made, then resign your seats,
| he said, savagely. Mr.. Hill declared
| that this was a move to manufacture
| campaign material on the eve OF a
| presidential campaign.
| The senator yielded long enough to
| permit MI bOIhbil " 6iNt hCAiSN - 49,
! amendment to the pending resolution
| providing that the inquiry into the
| bond issues be conducted by the SEN
ate finance committee instead of by a
special committee of five senators as
originally proposed.
Mr. Hill. resuming. said that as one
means of meeting this persecution
and mud singing" at the secretary OF
the treasury, he would introduce the
| Of Carlisle in the suit
brought by William Graves to secure
| 81 500 900 of bonds The affidavit was
read at great length. At another point
Mr.. Hill read from a Philadelphia
newspaper saying 1t ought to be good
authority, as 1t represented the views
of Mr. Quay, a recent candidate fol-
the republican nomination for the
presidency"
The senator said ii was not that he
cared anything for Mr.. Carlisle or fol
the administration, but If these bond
contracts were to be paraded ION the
stump" in the coming campaign. he
proposed to place the Sherman con-
tracts alongside the Carlisle contracts
showing that the former were with the
same bankers-the same j. Pierponi
Morgan that you are throwing in
Cleveland's face.
Mr.. Hill yielded the floor temporar-
ily to Mr.. Pettigrew for a speech on
tariff and finance. The speech was 2
succinct record of government trans
actions for the last five years. Mr.
Pettigrew asserted his belief that the
recent financial scares had been pur'
posely worked up by the present adj
ministration in order to force congress
to pass administration measures anc
after that to compel financial trans
actions to enrich the favorites of tn
president. if not the president himself.
There had been, he said, deliberate
conspiracy on the part of the admins
tration to break down the government
credit Mr.. Pettigrew spoke OF TN
part taken by FORMER law parthe
| Of Grover Cleveland" in negotiating
| the bond contract with the Morgan
syndicate. Mr.. Pettigrew believed u
a searching investigation which woul'
LAY bare" the secret features OF tn
bond transactions.