The Yale expositor., 1897-03-05


of sensation created by Senator Du-
bois, of Idaho, who warned his former
Republican associates that they could
not control the next Senate and that
the silver Republicans would never CO.
operate with them while they clung to
the single gold standard. A lengthy
session was held at night con tin
uing until 2:30 a. IN. The postof office
bill was passed and the consideration
of the sundry civil bill opened.
HoUsE.-A five-hours' fight on the anti
railway ticket scalping bill resulted in
its passage by vote of 142 to SO.
SENATE.-6Oth day.-With the larg-
est number of members that has at
tended session IN long time the
Senate held Sunday session in order
TO push the appropriation bills through.
The sundry civil bill was under con-
sideration, number of important
items in payment of sugar bounties,
for rivers and harbors, ETC., retaining
to be passed upon. The sugar bounty
amendment was agreed to, 81 to H.
The amendment appropriates l,0s5,-
1856 for the balance of bounties earned
from August, 1894, to June, 1895.
The river and harbor items were next
considered, most of the committee
amendments being agreed to as re-
ported The bill carried the unprece-
dented total of S51, 900, 900, of which
SIT 200, 900 was for rivers and harbors
contracts and Senator German, of
Maryland, made an earnest speech,
pointing out the enormous total of the
bill and urging that it be not loaded
down with new river and harbor items.
Senator Hill, of New York, took oc-
casion to chaff the Senate on working
on Sunday that it involved a debate on
electric light conduits in Washington
and that the Senator mcmillan, of
Michigan,) who urged this conduit
amendment had himself offered bill
''to protect the first day of the week,
commonly called Sunday as day of
rest and worship" The amendment
providing for commission TO visit the
Alaska seal fisheries caused further de-
bate which turned upon the treaty re-
lative to the arbitration of the Alaskan
boundary recently sent TO the
Senate by the President. Senator
Morgan, who was member of the
Paris seal arbitration tribunal, said
that as usual when the court was made
up of European arbitrators, the decis-
ion was against us; il always would be
so under like circumstances. There
was more real danger of trouble over
this seal question since the arbitration
than there ever was before arbitration
was adopted, owing To the deliberate
refusal of Great Britain TO carry out in
good faith the spirit of the Paris award.
Il do hope" said Mr.. Morgan, that
the incoming administration will have
the fortitude to insist that Great Brit
ain will comply with the Paris award. !"
The amendment continuing the seal
investigation was agreed 10. The Sen
ate, by a unanimous vote, then added
an amendment counteracting the Pres
ident'S recent order Withdrawing 2l,-
900, 900 acres of land from the public
domain and establishing il as forest
reserves The bill was then passed.
HOU sE--No session.
SENATE-61st tday-Sensational Sena-
tor Tillman created a stir during the
consideration of the naval appropria-
ton bill. The recommendation of the
committee that the price of armor
plate be fixed at $500 per ton was being
discussed and Senators Hawley and
Squire had spoken against Senator
Chandler's amendment to reduce the
price to $500 ton. and Senator Elllins
had complained of the lack of infor-
nation on the cost of making armor
plate, when Senator Tillman took the
floor. He charged that the armor
plate manufacturers had their paid
agents in the Senate who were rob
bing the government The charge
was resented by Senator Hawley,
whereupon Mr.. Tillman replied that
''the CALLED jade winces, and it looked
for time as though personal con-
flict was imminent, until Mr.. Hawley
was escorted to the cloak room by his
friends. The Chandler amendment
was adopted, but an amendment TO
authorize the secretary of the navy to
establish IA government armor plate
factory at "a cost of 81 100000 if he
failed to make contracts at 5000 was
lost. The naval bill was not passed
until midnight. The President sent TO
the Senate correspondence relating to
American citizens arrested in Cuba.
HoUsE-Almost the entire day was
spent in dull routine work until the
bill to prohibit the transmission of de-
tailed accounts of prize fights by
mail or telegraph was brought up.
This led TO very lively skir-
mish in which prize fighting was
denounced on all sides, but the
bill met with most strenuous OPP
position on the ground that ii would
tend To establish a censorship of the
press. No action was taken. The
sundry civil and postoffice appropria-
ton bills were sent to conference. "A
bill was passed to provide for the trans
mission TO Washington of presidential
election returns by mail and to abolish
the present system of messengers.
Four dogs hitched to a sledge drew
Veterinary Surgeon Deadman from the
500 IN Alnpna i'm Six hourS The dis