The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-02

President Cleveland, is entirely for
NAL, and expresses no opinion. 1t SIM
ply responds to the senate request by
sending the correspondence.
At p. m the Nicaraguan canal bill
was taken uD as the unfinished BUSH
ness and unanimous consent was asked
by Mr.. Morgan (Dem., Ala.), in charge
or the bill, to have the vote taken atsi
o'clock tomorrow.
Mr.. Villas (Dem., Wis., objected.
Mr.. Hale (Rep. Me.,) suggested an
extension of the time until Thursday
next at o'clock, but to that Mr.. Villas
also objected.
Mr.. Hoar (Rep. Mass appealed to
Mr.. Villas to withdraw his objection
and let time be fixed for a final
vote.
Mr.. Davis Rep. Minn.,) Joined in
the appeal, on the special ground of
allowing the bankruptcy bill TO be
taken up and acted on.
Mr.. Daniel Dem. Va.,) one of the
opponents of the Nicaragua canal bill,
called upon the friends of the bill to
desist from their activity and let the
senate take Up and consider the bank
ruptcy bill for the relief of the people
who had been wrecked, ruined, pros
trated and almost destroyed by the
peculiar brands of prosperity served
out to them under recent systems of
legislation.
Remarks i'll favor of speedy action
on the Nicaragua canal bill were
made by the two California senators
(White and Perkins).
The pending question was on the
motion made by Mr. Villas last Thurs
day for the recommittal of the bill to
the select committee on the Nicaragua
canal.
Mr.. Caffery Dem. La.,) said that it
n a 70 tod ha<
the opponents of the Nicaragua bill
were opposed to the scheme of con-
Meeting the Pacific and Atlantic oceans
by canal. He favored that project,
but opposed the instrumentalities by
which the pending bill proposed to eff
feet it.
Mr.. Villas advocated his motion to
rocommit, alluding to the interoceanic
canal project as "a historic dream"
He reminded senators that they had
been told the other day by Mr. Sher-
man, who was to be the chief charac-
ter in the next administration, that
the bill could not possibly pass the
house at this congress: and he (Mr.
Vilas) trusted fervently that the SEN
ator from Ohio was right. He pro-
tested, therefore, that an appeal was
justly addressable to those who OPP
posed the bill. The constant repetition
OF amendments on the part of the SEN
ator from Alabama himself showed
the necessity of having the bill re-
committed.
Mr.. Villas went on to criticise the
bill in detail, stating that the stock
was worcestershire, that the stock
holders were not to be called on to
a dollar to the work. and
that the government of the United
States was TO pay all the cost of con-
struction and become the sole owner
and proprietor of the canal, assuming
all risks, which included possibly that
of war. He quoted some other pro-
visions of the bill, the effect of which
was the United States should not
crawl into the skin of this defunct cor
poration"-the Maritime Canal COM
pany. There was one section of the
bill, he said, which became immedi-
ately operative. even if no work were
ever begun on the already discredited
route, and that was for the payment
of S4,500,000 and interest to the COM
pany, although the property of the
at the present moment could
not be estimated at more than $500, 900.
He felt bound to protect from such
robbery the taxpayers of the United
States.
Mr.. Villas occupied the floor up to
clock, when he yielded for motion
to proceed to executive business. That
motion was agreed to. and soon after
wards the senate adjourned until to-
morrow.
The second executive session was de-
voted to a consideration of the nomi-
nation of George A. Vanatta to be
postmaster at Clay Center, Kan. The
nomination has not been reported by
the committee, but Senator PETER sup
ported by Senator Hill, urges action
and Senator Baker of Kansas antagon-
ICES it.
Vanatta was nominated to succeed
L man who died after holding the place
almost four years, and Baker contends
the Republicans are entitled to the
place.