Birmingham state herald., 1896-05-28
ITS S0, BUTLER SAID II The Next President Will Be a
 PopuIiStl MAKING A CRAZY QUILT Queer Amendments s-t May Be Hacked to
 the "Fip ;heese' Bill.
  MIR. DUBOIS f,GNOMENT VOTED DOWN The House D os That the French spolia- tion olai' Shall Be Paid-Morsan's Cubs S elligerency Resolution
 May Be Pigeonholed.
MAKING A CRAZY QUILT
MIR. DUBOIS tGNOMENT VOTED DOWN

Washington, May 27.-The conference
 report on the naval appropriation bill
 was taken up, read and agreed to. As 1t left some dozen matters still unadjust- ed in conference, including the question of battleships, a further conference was ordered.
 Then, on motion of MT. Harris the sen- ate proceeded to the consideration of ex- ecutive business. At 1:05 the doors were opened and legislative business was re- sumed, the filled cheese" bill being
 taken up, on which the pending oues-
 ton was the amendment offered by Mir
 Dubois, republican, of Idaho. imposing
 an additional tax of 75 cents barrel on
 lager beer, ale and porter. The vote was
 taken and the amendment was defeated yeas 27, nays 34. The vote in detail Is as follows:
 Yeas, 27-Allen, Bate, Berry, Brown. Butler, Caffery, Cannon, Carter Chiffon
 Dubois, George, Gray, Harris, Jones of Arkans Lindsay Martin, Mills, Nor Stewart. Teller, Tillman, Vest, Waithali'
 Nays 34-Messrs. Aldrich, Allison.
 Baker, Burrows, Chandler, Cockrell. CuI,
 iom, Davis Faulkner Gallinger. Hans.
 brough, Hawley, Hill, Lodge. McBride
 Mltchell Of Oregon, Mitchell of Wiscon-
 kins, Platt, Pritchard, Quay, Sewell
 sherman, Shoup, Smith, Turpie. Villas
 Warren, White, Wilson.
 Notices of amendment of the filled
 cheese bill were afterwards given by
 Messrs, Morgan: Stewart populist, of
 Nevada, and Mitchell republican, of
 Oregon. The first proposed a tax of 1
 cent a pound on all American cheese
 oHered In the market for sale, and the other two proposed an import duty on all
 wools. The filled cheese" bill went over
 without further action, and at D. m.
 the prohibiting bond bill was taken up
 as the unfinished business.
 A speech in favor of the prohibiting
 bond bill was made by Mp Hansbrough.
 republican, of South Dakota, who claim
 ca that It was necessary to limit the over snadoWlng power of the executive which was bordering on imperialism" He
 favored action at the present session to
 increase the revenue by duty on tea
 and coffee and by an additional tax on
 beer, and declared his belief that if con-
 gress adjourned without such action
 there would be a new issue of bonds
 within a month after adjournment and
 another issue before the next session and
 that congress would be open to the sus-
 picion of being in league with the bond
 syndicate. The anti-bond bill was op-
 posed by MT. Elkins, republican, of West
 Virginia, as measure that might bring
 the government to a standstill.
 An Interesting discussion took place be-
 tween MT. Elkins and Mir Butler In
 which the latter foreshadowed the cleo ton of a populist president next Novem-
 Der, and in which the former said that
 the next republican administration would
 be compelled to borrow money to carry
 on the government.
 A set speech in favor of the free and II Iali tod pntn ,fe all ly of an international agreement, was made by MT. Daniel, democrat of Vir- ginia. and was not finished when, at 5:45, the senate adjourned until tomorrow. The House.
 A feeble effort or two to obtain unan- | nous consent for the consideration of private bills wthered and died under MT. Kems (populist of Nevada,) objcc- ton, and MT. Lacey, republican. of Iowa, called up the conference report on the bill to relieve settlers on the Northern Pacific railroad indemnity lands, and 1t was agreed to.
 Mr. Cannon, republican, of Illinois, called up the general deficiency appro- priation bill and addressed the house in opposition to the motion made yesterday by MT. Mahon, republican, of Pennsyl- van.a, to concur in the senate amend
 ment appropriating money to pay French spoliation and war claims. He said that early in the session there was passed a deficiency bill carrying about S7, 7,OO0,O 900. | The pending bill. as 1t passed the house, | carried total of s4,793,000. To this the | senate added s8.26600O. This, MT. Can | non asserted, was altogether the most | extraordinary action he had ever known | in all his experience in congress. He ar- | gued that the placing of these French | spolation and war claims upon the bill was in violation of the rules of the sen- ate and the house alike, and ought to be | rejected. While speaking of the spolia- | tion claims. MT. Cannon spoke of some of them being due to collateral heirs of the original claimants. Whereupon MT. Grosvenor, republican, of Ohio, asked eff the government keeps on refusing to | pay its debts, won't all of them be paid finally to collateral heirs?'
 Mir. Mahon, republican, of Pennsyl- vania, advocated the amendment, assert | ing that 1t was only by such methods as this that the claims could be paid. There | was plenty of money to pay all the claims l the government owed. That they were not paid was not due to lack of money,
 but because of the blunderng of states
 men in this house, in the senate and at | the other end of the avenue.
 | MT. Savers, democrat, of Texas, oppos- l ed the payment especially of the French l spolation claims, on the ground that | they were not legal claim against the | government
 Mir. Richardson, democrat, of Tennes- | see, advocated the payment of the | claims, as did also MT. Grosvenor. The | latter ridiculed the contention that the | spoilation claims were not a legal debt | against the government because war ex- | isted at that time between the United l States and France. He said he would as l soon vote not to pay a government bond | as not vote for the payment of these | claims in time of ability to pay them. l Mir. Adams, republican, of Pennsylva- l nia said that by the treaty of 1888 the | United States had received $5.000,000 to l meet these claims, which 1t still held as | a trust fund. Of that money only q, ,250,- | O0O had been paid on account of them After stirring appeal by Mir Cannon | to '.turn down" this irregular method of | legislation the vote was taken on MT. | ! 1(tnnfinled on Eiahfh Paoal