The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-05-05
ON RIYER IND RARBOR BILL.
Action of the Senate in Regard to an I'm
 portant Matter.

portant Matter.
 Washington, May 1.-The conference
 report on the bill to regulate marriages
 in the District of Columbia was agreed 1 to-the senate agreeing to all the house amendments.
 l The resolution offered by MT. Call, dem, of Florida, on December 30, for a select committee to investigate the efforts of railroad and other corpora tons in Florida to control the election of members of congress was taken up. MT Sewell, rep, of New Jersey, nov ed to lay the resolution on the table.
 Lost-yeas 21; nays 29.
 MT. Harris, dem., of Tennessee, mov- ed to refer the resolution to the com
 mittee on privileges and elections. Agreed to-yeas 35; nays P. 1 A motion by MT. Turpie, dem, of h. diana, to take up the Dupont election case for consideration was after oppo- sition on the part of MT. Mitchell, rep, of Oregon, chairman of the commit tee on privileges and elections, and af-
 ter failure to fix by unanimous con- sent another to take it up and press it to vote, was agreed to-yeas 32; nays
 Bland the Dupont resolution was taken up.
 After good many propositions and counter propositions, however, it was finally agreed to by unanimous consent
 that the Dupont case be taken up at the conclusion of the routine morning business, after the passage of the
 river and harbor bill; and that it's con- sideration shall be continued and the vote taken at 5 o'clock the next day.
 The river and harbor bill was then taken up.
 Ten minutes afterwards, the Peffer
 bond resolution having been taken up in the senate as the unfinished business,
 MT Frye, rep, of Maine, moved that it be laid aside and the river and har- Dor bill taken up. That motion was
 disagreed to--yeas 2S; nays 39; and the bond resolution remained before the senate.
 The following is the vote in de- tail: Yes-Burrows, Caffery, Cullom, Davis, Elkins, Faulkner, Gallinger, Hansborough, Hill, Lindsay, Mcbride,
 McMillan, Mills, Mitchell of Oregon,
 Morrill,, Nelson, Palmer, Pasco, Platt, Proctor, Quay, Sewell, Shoup, Squire Thurston, Villas, Wetmore and Wilson -28.
 Nays-Allen, Bacon, Bate, Berry, Blackburn, Brice, Brown, Butler Call, Cannon, Carter, Chiffon, Cockrell, Daniel Dubois, George German, liar ris, 1rby, Jones of Arkansas, Kyle, Lodge, Mitchell of Wisconsin, Morgan,
 Peffer Perkins. Pettigrew, Pugh, Roach, Sherman, Stewart, Teller, Till man, Turpie Vest, Walthall, Warren, White, Wolcott-39
 MT. Frye said that he would accept the vote just taken as instructions to him not to press the considerations of the river and harbor bill until the bond resolution was out of the way.
 MT. Colcott, rep, of Colorado, said that the country would breathe more freely if the river and harbor bill were withheld until the country understood something as to whether bonds were to be issued from time to time.
 MT. Hill remarked, sarcastically, that all the information which Mir. Vol colt would get from investigation would not relieve his mind at all The senate, he added, had seen fit to dis place the river and harbor bill in order to take up 'senseless, uncalIed for and mischevious resolution He comment ed upon the fact that Senator Lodge, rep, of Massachusetts, and Senator German, dem., of Virginia, voted against Mir. Frye's motion and charac- terized it as a Massachusetts and Maryland combination
 In the course of a 1oDcS Srpepy, Mir Hill mentioned the fact that the reso- lution had been modified so as to make no allegation or insinuation against any officer of the government, and said that as there was no allega- tion of misconduct there was to be an investigation merely for the purpose of having an investigation. That was all If there were any tangible charges against the treasury, he Cdr HilD would vote for an investigation.