Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-03-01
B. B. S NTH ,
CONGRESSIONAL.


The Senate remained in session until
2:3O o'clock Sunday morning, when
recess was taken until O'Clock Sunday
afternoon. After disposing of the post
office appropriation bill the Senate pro-
ceeded to consider the sundry civil bill.
In the course of long debate on the
postotfice appropriation bill Mr.. Dubois
notified the republicans that they could
not organize the Senate in the next ses-
sion, and that the silver republican SEN
ators would not cooperate with them.
The action of the republican CONVEX
ton at St. Louis, he said, had caused
the loss of the Pacific Coast to the par
ty, so that, of the seven senators since
elected there to take the place of re-
publcans, only one republican was sent
back. Mr.. Dubois also advocated the
dividing of the appropriation bills
among the several committees and said:
"The members of the committee on ep-
preparations have vast powers in this
power here. They put on amendments
in their committee room which lead to
long debate. 1t is with them to say
what amendments will go on. They
please themselves. They usurp the
legislative power of this chamber al
most. | think the next Senate should
divide the appropriations. 1t will be
an elegant time. No party will have
majority in this chamber"
The Sundry Civil Appropriation bill
was under consideration Sunday even
ing, a number of important items in
payment of sugar bounties, for rivers
and harbors, etc, remaining to be pass
ed upon. The sugar bounty amend
ment was agreed to-37 to H. The
amendment appropriates 81 ,0S5, 1876 for
the balance of bounties earned from
August, 1894, to June, 1895.
The river and harbor items next
were considered most of the commit
tee amendments being agreed to as re.
ported.
In the course of the discussion Sena-
tor German 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.
The bills carries the unprecedented
total of S5l 10000 of which $1,000
900 was for river and harbor contracts.
1t was more, he said, than the condi-
ton of the Treasury warranted. In
particular, Mr.. German resisted new
item of 100000 to prevent the Missis-
sippi river from breaking through into
Cache river, north of Cairo, Ill. The
amendment was finally modified and
agreed to.
The other river and harbor items
were agreed to.
The amendment appropriating $685.
600 for the purchase of the Corcoran
Art Gallery building for the Court Of
Claims was agreed to.
The committee amendment continu-
ing the joint scientific inquiry in Ber-
ing Sea was agreed to.
Among the new amendments agreed
to were these: For a commission to
consider the government purchase of
site for q memorial building for the
Daughters Of the Revolution increas.
ing the limit of cost of the public build
ing at Norfolk, Va, from $4,000 TO
1915, 200.
An amendment designed to counter
act the Presidents recent order with
drawing 21,000,000 acres of land from
the public domain and creating forest
was unanimously adopted.
The sundry civil bill passed the Sen
ate at eleven o'clock last night, and the
Senate adjourned until eleven o'clock
to-day.
The "anti scalping" bill was passed
by the House on Saturday evening af-
Ter the exhaustion by its opponents of
every parliamentary device of which
the rules permitted the exercise. But
the majority in favor of the bill-more
than two-thirds-was sufficient to over
some all obstacles and finally triumph.
DEATH OF JUDGE CRUMP.-Ex-Judge
w. w. Crump died Saturday evening
at his residence in Richmond, aged
eighty. He was one of the ablest GRIM
NAL lawyers of his time, having figured
IN the most famous Virginia cases, nota-
bly, the Jeter Phillips and Cluverius
murder trials. He was Assistant Sec
-etary of the Confederate Treasury,
served two terms in the Virginia House
Of Delegates after the war, being chair
nan of the finance committee of that
body.
Judge Crump was leading counsel for
President Jefferson Davis when he was
ried in Richmond for treason. His
management of that case attracted gen.
raj attention in legal circles.
Judge Crump was born in New Kent,
md was graduated from William and
Nary College. He leaves widow and
everal grown children.
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