The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-05-06
SUSPENDING IT'S OPE-
RATION OFFERED TO THE
sUNDRY CIVIL BILL.
ISSUE is STILL PENDING.
PETTIGREW BACK OF THE AT
TEMPT TO UNDO MIR. CLEVE-
LANDS WORK.
HIS DUTIES ASSUMED BY DEBoE
The New Senator From Kentucky
Warmly Greeted by the Repub-
Iican Side of the Chamber.

WASHINGTON, May 5.-The open
session of the senate today was devot-
ed to. the sundry civil appropriation
bill, which was not completed up to the
time of adjournment. MIR. Deboe, OF
Kentucky, took the oath of office at the
opening of the session and was cordial
ly greeted by his Republican associates.
Accompanied by Senator Lindsay, OF
Kentucky, he entered the chamber
shortly before the senate opened and
held an improptu leyee in the rear OF
the Republican side of the chamber.
A towering bouquet of American Beau
: desk to be occupied by Mr., Deboe,
which adjoins that of Mr.. Hanna and
is in the rear row of the Republican
side. Several of the Kentucky mem
bers of the house came over to greet
the new senator.
Immediately after the reading of the
journal Mr.. Lindsay presented the Gre
dentials of his colleague, and arm-in-
arm the two proceeded to the desk of
the vice president, where the oath of
office was administered.
Liz SuHOly civil dpEu ldtlOu Olii
was then taken up. Mr.. Allison offer
ed an amendment to the item for sur
vey of the Nicaragua canal route SO
that the proposed commission shall
have three of the five members from
the army or navy or civil life at the
presidents discretion. The amendment
caused some opposition, and finally
went over for further consideration.
Considerable civil service discussion
followed the Introduction Of an amend
ment, by Mr.. Wilson, of Washington,
requiring the appointment Of COM
mission to classify Northern Pacific
lands in the Northwest, "by and with
the consent of the senate" Mr.. Cor
man urged that this was an effort to
take the offices out of the civil service.
The amendment was finally modified
and adopted 50 that the appointees
shall be confirmed by the senate, and
shall be divided between the political
parties. Mr.. German remarked that he
hoped the provision, as to due recog-
milton of the political parties, would be
carried out in good faith. In certain
appointments no attention had been
paid to such provisions.
Mr. Morgan offered an amendment
appropriating $4,000 for the improve
ment of Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Mr..
Aldrich Rep., R. ~ said he sympa-
thized with the purposes of the amend
nent but it should not be put in this
bill. as a similar item had been re-
jected by the house last year. Mr.. Nor
gan felt that the house might change
it's attitude. The amendment was
agreed to.
At 2:10 p. M, on motion of Mr.. Davis,
the senate went into executive ses
sion The open session was resumed
at 4:20 p. M, and the consideration Of
the sundry civil bill resumed. Mr.. Pet
tigrew, of South Dakota, offered an
amendment authorizing the president
to suspend the order of President
Cleveland withdrawing millions of
acres from the public domain and con
stituting them forest reserves. The
amendment also proposed an appro-
priation of $15O,000 for surveys of these
lands In the course of the debate
Mr. Allison stated that the main por-
ton of the amendment had been pre-
pared by the secretary Of the interior
under the eye of the president.
Mr.. Pettigrew added that assurances
had been given-he would not say from
whom-that, if the amendment was
adopted, the president would suspend
the order. In response to statement
by Mr.. German that a point Of order
would be made against the amendment
Mr.. Pettigrew declared that, if the
amendment went out on point of Or
der, he would see that the pending bill
did not pass until some relief was given
as to the orders creating forest reser~
vations.
Mr.. Carter Rep., Mont) criticised the
order of President Cleveland and point
ed out the serious results which had oc-
Cured The senator said efforts had
been made to have the order set aside,
but, as this course might be construed
as discourteous to the former presi-
dent, it was deemed advisable to have
law which would correct the situa
ton. Final action on the amendment
was deferred. At $40 p. m. the senate
adjourned.