Evening star., 1897-03-03
Conference Committees Are All Hard
at Work.
TRYING TO CLOSE Up LEGISLATION
Debates in Both Houses Upon
Disputed Items.
Il o TIN E Blu SIN ES S

The Senate galleries were packed long be-
fore the session opened today. and long
lines of Inauguration visitors stood in the
outer corridors eagerly awaiting an oppor-
tInity to get inside. The senators began
to look jaded having been together until
the opening hours of morning. The out
look for the day was one of busy routine
in reconciling differences on appropriation
bills.
A conference report on the District of
Columbia appropriation bill was presented.
The items of agreement were concurred
in and the disagreements sent back to con-
ference.
A further conference on the sundry civil
hill was ordered.
The Shipping Dill.
Mr.. Frye (Me) presented a conference re-
port on the bill amending the shipping laws
which has been the subject of much COM
ment on the ground that 1t restored fog
ging Of seamen. Mr.. Frye said in explana-
ton that he had never sought to defend
himself from assertions based on ignorance
The bill had been in the interest Of the
sailor from the first and only an insane
man could have drawn the conclusion that
f1ogging was to be restored. At the same
tlme the conferees had yielded to these
wise men" making the charges and mad
added a proviso that nothing in the aci
should be construed to modify that section
OF statutes reciting that ''tlogging on board
ed"
The senator spoke of newspaper refer
eEces to him that brutal Senator Frye
and declared that the man who invented
insane.
In the course of lengthy discussion of
the law in the case it was brought out that
IL der the existing law the courts compelled
a IN hoy hot
verge impelled an assault in order to make
II unlawful, while the new law proposed to
relieve the sailor from the necessity of
showing malice or revenge On the part of
his assaiant.
The conference report was agreed to-
The Inauguration 100 Years Ago.
Mr.. Gordon (Ga) made several efforts TO
De recognized to present most extraor-
Dir ary paper" When ne finally was rec
ogI.zed he presented a sketch of .he in
auguration ceremony of one hundred years
ago, which was he said, in striking con-
trast with the Inauguration we were about
TO look upon. The senator referred to the
frst President in his severely plain black
suit delivering his address amid tears: and
10 President Adams in his Severely nlain
drab suit making his address under simi-
lar circumstances. 1t was opportune he
salo' TO place on the record account OF
these simple but Impressive scenes Leave
to print the paper in the Record was given
Reports on the C committee inquiry into the
ferrihe land grant were presented Th.
majority report juStifies the course of the
Interior Department, while the minority re-
port critic.ses the department action
Post Office Bill Agreed To.
a final conference report on the post of
iice appropriation bill was presented and
agreed to.
House bills or the calerdar unobiected to
were then taken up and tie following mass
en- 10 amend an act to grant to railroads
IN indian Territory additional power tn So
cure depot grounds and to correct align
meats; revising the statutes relating 10
patents with amendments Mr. Plat ey
pialned that the essential features of this
p.ii were tnose requiring that an inyentio.
siial not nave been published two wears
prior 10 application for a patent: iim:t.ae
'1 " oi.e year the Tune of Prosecuting an a;-
piication and terminating the limit on ,,at
eifts iirst taken out in foreign countries
~ conference report on the Indian biu
was presented. Mr.. Pettierew in cha~p..
"a II, explained that the items ID which the
oehate objected last night had been struct
cut ihey covered amendments as 10 the
seneca Indians, kawi indian script and
territory e A-'o'''i
Inc main points still in disagreement are
those relating to 3ectarian Indian schools
tfe hve civilized tribes, the Uncornpahyra
observation, legal claims on old settlers
luna anc some other amendments
Ihe report was agreed to- and a further
conference ordered.
House bills unobjected to were then
passed follows:
10 amend the law permitting rights of
way for tramroads, etc, through nublic
lands. puoiic