The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1897-03-04
BUSINESS WITH A RUSH
The Final Hours Of the Fit'y-fourth Are
Filled With Work.
CONFERENCE REPORTS AGREED TO
Time Grew so Sli0rt Neither House
Gould Afford 60 stand out for
amendments Naval Approprin-
ton Bill ns Passed E'rovidcs for
Three More Torpedo Hnut>.


ti"n Bill ns Passed E'rnvidcs for
Three More Torpedo Hnut>.
Washington March 3.-The business
OF the Senate to-day was principally in
connection With conference reports The
first 10 be presented was on the apDro-
prlat!on hill for the District OF Columbia
II was not final report. however rho
partial report was agreed TO, and q FUR
tner conference was ordered.
The next Conference Committee was
on the bill to amend the laws relating to
navigation This Is the bill for which
senator Frye was denounced on the
idea that il restored flogging III the
American merchant marine.
E>LOGGING IN THE NAVY.
In his explanation to-day he showed
that the object Of the bill was to relieve
sailors who were subject to assault or
| imprisonment OH the part Of a captain
or officer from the onus Of proof that
me assault was inspired by malice,
hatrcd OF revenge"-wor6ls used In the
existing law. lie also showed that
iiogginS in the American merchant ma
rine was prohibited by an act passed in
! 1850; so that those who made such a
charge against him were, he said, fools
Or insane. The conference report was
agreed TO.
|
on the nostonice appropria ton bill and
was agreed TO without any question or
| discussion. That on the Indian appro-
pFiatlon bill was only partial. A fur
.ner conference was ordered on these
unadjuSted matters.
The next conference report acted anon
WAS on the Bill reia ting 10 copyrights,
which Mr. Plat. OF Connecticut. stated
had nothing to do with ncw=pa pers and
only prohibited the false use Of the
"oEd copErlghted.' The report was
! agreed to.
NAVAL APPROPRIATION BILL
The conference report (partiaD gave
rise to Il long discussion, and was finally
agreed to and a new conference ordered
Rhea&ontrQyerted matters that were left
open We're as to the Increase of tie navy
DH torpedo boats, and the limitation or
the price OF armor plate to $500 q ton
In the interim between action on the
conference reports. House bills on the
calendar, unobjected to, were taken up
and quite q number Of them were passed
At O'Clock the Senate took a recess
until s p. III.
WAITING FOR \ QUORUM.
The Senate resumed its session ut S
p. M, but i'll the absence of quorum
there was no attempt to transact busl-
ness. The Senators who were present
Degulled the time In chatting with each
other and the crowds in the galleries sat
waiting patiently for The proceedings to
begin.
a t o'clock Il quorum was obtained
me vote was taken on the bill vetoed
by the President granting pension to
Rachael Patton and resulted: Yeas, 80:
nays, ~. SO the bill was passed over the
Presidents veto.
Another vetoed pension bill-that
granting pension 10 Caroline y. Mo-
Watl-was passed over the Presidents
Veto by q vote Of 80 10 Z
MI. Cullom announced that he would
forego any further attempt to pass the
anu-scalping bill, owing to the strain
under which Senators had been Of late.
ana the certainty that the bill could
not pass without material amedment
DENIED HE WAS DRUNK.
Mr.. Quay having several times sug-
gested the absence of a quorum, thus
hecessltattng roll call and q quorum
e2cn time appearing, led Mr.. IIoar to
enter vigorous protest against his
dliatory tactics. III was never intend
ed. ' he said, that the rules should
put 1t into the power OF one man to pre-
vent e!ghty-ninc men doing business
one man who In some conceiva BILE case
might be under the influence Of liuuor:
and think them
Mr.. Quay:'I desire to say to the Sen
ator from Massachusetts that If he in
tends to intimate that l am under the
iillluence or liquor he
Mr.. }ioar: Il make no such intima tion,
MI. President"
Mr.. Quay: rs a lunat!c or liar, and
! VIII not olerate a. suggestion of that
sort from the Senator from MaSsachu-
setts or any one else. I am doing wha /
| am doing in the interest of my con-
stituents."
Mr.. H0ar repea ted his disclaimer OF
any personal allusion to Mr.. Quay, to
which the Pennsylvania Senator replied
with remark Soto vace, that the mere
suggestion was filthy one"
a final agreement on the sundry civil
Dill was reached by the conferees and
agreed to in both Houses. The appro-
priation Of s150,000 for a new survey Of
the Nicaraguan Canal Is permitted to
remain.
NORFOLK PUBLIC BUILDING.
Senate amendments relative to the
construction Of public buildings at Char
lesion, S. c., $500 Ito complete ap-
preaches), and Norfolk, Va, teXtending
the limit Of the building TO Sl50.O00 and
appropriating Sl00G00), are agreed to.
HOUSE OF REPREsENrATIvE