The news & observer., 1897-01-24
The Senate Confined Itse If
s Srictly TO Business.
Mr. MoRGAN'S RESOLUTION
OVER 100 PRIVATE PENSION
BILLS WE'RE PASSED.
SENATE CALENDAR CLEARED
Bill, to Re. Classify Railway Postal
Clerks Passed--SeveraI Appro-
priation Bills Cis-
posed OF.

washington. JAN 90 hc '1S""'~ ~
fined itself strictly to business to-day,
passing large number of bills, mciud-
;np those for a statue of President Lin
coin. at Gettysburg Pa; approprlatns
$4,000 to pay one of the old claims Oh
the late John Roach for use of his snip
wards and re-cassifying the railway
nostal service. Over 100 private pension
hills were passed during the day, thus
clearing the calendar.
resolution by Mr.. Morgan was agreed
to requesting the President for all cor
respondence on the Nicaragua canal since
1897. also a resolution by Mr.. Allen ask
ing the Attorney General for Informal
zion as to the reported Pacific railroad
settlement between the executive author
tiles and the reorganization committee OF
the road
The bills passed, including one appro-
priating $4,000 for establishing hehl
house on Swan Island, belonging TO the
United States in the Caribbean sea-
Mr.. Morgan tDem., Alabama) secured
recognition at his point and presented tue
resolution requesting the PRESIDENT TOT
all correspondence relating 70 tne Ncs: -s.
rarua canal since 1887, between the Uni
tatiye of Nicaragua. The resolution Is
as follows:
s.Resolyed, That the President IS re-
.onested. il it is not in his opinion incon-
sistent with the public interests, to send
to the Senate copies of all correspondence
and official communications relating 10
the Nicaragua canal since 1887 with the
government of Nicaragua of any Minister
thereof. or between the United States
and its Ministers accredited TO the gov
ernment of Nicaragua"
Mr.. Hill Dem. New York. was dis
posed to object to the immediate adoption
of the resolution, saying 1t ought to De
examined
Mr.. Morgan was about to explain that
the resolution applied to the letter OF
Minister Rodriguez read to the Senate
yesterday.
Mr.. Hill withdrew his objection ana
the resolution was agreed to.
Returning to the calendar the Senate
passed the bill TO re-classify raiiWay
postal clerks and prescribe their salaries.
The bill fixes the following classes ana
salaries:
Frst-class. not exceeding $500; second
class. S900 third-class, Sl0OO; fourtn-
class, 81 100; fifth-class, Sl,2Oo; sixm-
class, Sl,oUUs stSehlH-si1os-
eighth-class, 1880; ninth-class, S1,6OO,
tenth-class, $1,SOO.
Also the bill appropriating $lOOOoO ad-
ditional for a Federal building at Norfolk,
Va: provided for public building at
Tampa. Fla, no appropriation; appro-
priating $4,000 for light house at he
pitch of Cape Fear river, near Whining
ton. N. c.; appropriating $1,000 to the
Cumberland Female College, McMInn-
vile. Tenn, for the use of buildings dur
ing the civil war; appropriating $4,000
to Messrs Rhea and Anderson for cotton
used by the Union forces during the
war.
Establishing life saving station be-
tween Fenwick Island and Ocean City,
Maryland, :,
With the exception of the last bill all
of the foregoing were Senate bills which
will now go to the House for its action
The Senate then took up the pension
calendar. 1t soon brought out a speech
from Mr.. Allen Pop, Nebraska) saying
invidious distinctions were made IN the
amounts given by these pension bills. lie
declared this distinction had become
sstench, smelling to heaven, so that the
man in the moon must hold his nose while
passing over the Senate chamber"
Bills were passed penslonlng the
widows respectively of General John
Newton at $75; General w. w. Burns
$40: CAPTAIN Bishop Perkins, formerly
United States Senator from Kansas, at
$40, and General Bunker at sou