Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-02-01
THE TREATY MATTER
It Was Considered in Senate
Executive Session in WASH
ington City To-day ..
ACCIDENT TO A CRUISER
A Jealous Chicago Lover Murders
His Girl and Ends His Mis-
cradle Existence,
ANOTHER BLOODY AFFAIR

WASHINGTON, d. c., February L.
Immediately after the reading oi
Fridays journal, Mr.. Sherman, repub.
lican, Of Ohio, chairman OF the CON-
mittee on foreign relations. said he con
sidered it desirable that the senate
should have brief executive session.
The galleries were cleared and the
doors were closed. 1t 10 understood
the occasion was the presentation Of
the report OF the committee on foreign
relations ON the arbitration treaty. The
doors were re-opened at 12:45 O'Clock
and the legislative business was pro.
ceedsd with. Various petitions in favor
of the ratification of the arbitration
treaty we're presented.
Immediately after the senate conven-
ed, at noon, Mr.. Sherman moved an
executive session, stating that it would
require bat short time. When the
doors were closed, he reported the gen.
eral treaty Of arbitration as amended,
on Saturday. by the committee.
The first of these amendments adds
at the end of the first article clause:
"but no question which affects tho for
eign or domestic policy of either Of the
high contracting parties. or relations of
either with any other state or power,
by treaty or otherwise, shall be subject
to arbitration, and this treaty, except
by special agreement. The second
strikes out all reference, whenever it
occurs, to the Sweden and Norway
umpire, where tribunal fails to agree
upon such umpire.
After the report was made, Mr..
Sherman asked, that inasmuch as the
text of the convention bad been made
public, the injunction Of secrecy should
ments, but Senator Morgan objected
and the request was denied. No at
tempt was made to arrange a time for
the consideration of the treaty, nor was
anything said about debating it in open
session.
The senate made short work, this
morning, for the treaty negotiated with
Japan. The treaty puts into opera
ton, at once, the sixteenth article of
the treaty of commerce and navigation,
negotiated between the United States
and Japan, at Washington, on Nov
ember 72nd. 1894, which provides that
the citizens or subjects of either Of the
high contracting parties shall enjoy in
the territories of the other, the same
protection as native citizens, or SUBJ
jects, in regard to patents, trade
marks, or designs upon the fulfillment
of formalities. prescribed by law
A message received from the pres
ident, with the report from the sec.
retary Of state giving the information |
called for by senate resolution as to the
arrest and condemnation in Cuba Of
jules SaDguilly, an American citizen,
was laid before the senate and referred
to the committee on foreign relations.
At p. m, the Nicaragua canal bill
was taken up as unfinished business.
The business in the house, to-day,
was opened by calls Of committees for
routine business, much Of this kind OF
matter, possessing only local interest,
was disposed Of.
When the committee on Interstate
and foreign commerce was reached,
Mr.. Sherman, representative Of New
York, called up the "anti-scalpers"
bill. . The session of consideration be-
ing raised, the house divided by vote
IT yeas 81, nays 88, and refused to
Aonaidpr tho hill