The morning times., 1897-02-25
One Calls for the Unconditional
Release of Sanguihy.
SENATOR'S ANGRILY DEBATED
Mr.. Pettigrew Made an Attack on
New England, Which Provoked a
Heated Defense fron Mr.. Hoar.
Night Sessions Necessary to Get
Through the Appropriation BiIIs.


the close No less than three PROPOSE
tions were made in relation to Cuba-one
by Senator Allen, one by Senator Hill, and
one by Senator Morgan, as the unanimous
report of the Committee on Foreign Rela
tions 1t is in the form OF a joint resolu-
tion, demanding the immediate and IN
conditional release of Julio sanguiily, and
compensation from the Spain
for his Imprisonment and sufferings.
Mr.. Morgan gave notice, and as backed
by the chairman of the Committee Oh
Foreign Relations, Mr.. Sherman, that
action on the resolution would be asked
tomorrow
The Indian appropriation bin was taken
up and two or three of the committee
amendments to it provokedlong and rather
angry discussions.
The only incident during the debate
worthy of notice occurred while the chair
was occupied by Mr.. Perkins OF California.
Mr.. Allen had been making a long speech,
| when Mr.. Gallinger, interrupting, ad-
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| dressed the Chair.
Does the Senator from Nebraska yield
to the Senator from New Hampshire"
the presiding officer asked.
| 'Itis the Senator from New Hampshire, +"
| Mr.. Gaihnger put in, who has yielded
| To the Senator from Nebraska
For how long does the Senator yield?"
| the presiing officer asked, with an un-
| nistakable touch OF sarcasm.
Il do not know" MIR. Allen broke out
| angriiy, what concern it is of tn presiding
| officer how long the Senator yields. /
| am not mere to he badgered by the presiding
| officer OF this Senate, and ! hope it will
| not occur again"
The presiding officer took no notice OF
| this angry outburst, and Mr.. Allen went
| on with his speech, which he closed with
| the contemptuously uttered words with
| my thanks TO the Chair for the courtesy
| which | have received, | yield the floor"
The committee amendment for the pay
| nent OF $50 900 TO the pawnee tribe OF
| Indians out cf their trust land money ON
| deposit in the Treasury was agreed to
| yeas, "a; nays, 16.
| \ long controversy arose over the old
question OF attorneys claims on the West
ern Cherokee funds-to the amount OF
| $500, ,366-the committee amendment pro-
| posing to confer jurisdiction of the subject
| on the Court OF Claims.
The amendment was severely criticised
by Mr.. Chandler OF New Hampshire, who
was responded to by Mr.. Pettigrew OF
South Dakota, in charge OF the bill, and
| who spoke OF New England's solicitude for
| the poor Indian as a partial atonement for
| what New England had done in her early
| history against the Indians. The blackest
page in the history OF the Anglo Saxon
race, he asserted, was the treatment OF the
Indians by the people of Massachusetts,.
In illustration of this charge Mr.. Petit
grew quoted largely from Abbott's His
tory OF King Philips War.
Where was the Senator born?' Mr..
Chandler asked, in a derisive tone.
Il Judge from the Senator's manner
Mr.. PettigFew responded, that he can an
| swer lis own questions 1t is therefore un-
necessary for one to inform him.
(The Congressional Directory gives Mr..
Pettigrew's birthplace as Ludlow, VT
The Presiding Officer Mr.. Hill of New
| York; remarked, with mock gravity: The
| Senator from South Dakota declines TO state
| where he was born General laughterl
Mr. Pettigrew Cindignanuy)-The remark
| OF the chair is, of course, voluntary on his
part and is perhaps a little out Of order,
| But, as the Senator from New York will not
| be long with us, we can endure almost any
| thing from him. daughter.
The Presiding Officer-TEe Senate win
| have TO endure the Senator from South Da-
kota (Laughter)
Mr.. Frye of Maine made suggestion as
re ba ird la poulc re
| Mr Pettigrew's speech was replied to by
| Mr Hoar, of Massachusetts,, who spoke OF
| it. with great show Of Indignation, as a
| "mousing in the ancient history of New
England" and suggested that the ''person
who had just spoken" tand whom he had
| begun to speak Of as my friend'') had
| studied more history for his speech than
| be had donein all his life before. daughter
~ can only Mr. Hoar added, facing
| MI Pettigrcw, and speaking with all the
scorn he could lend to his language) "pity
| the man who can find in history nothing
| but the material for befouling the very
| nest in which he was born do not wonder
that the Senator from South Dakota de-
clined to expose himself by answering the
| question of the Senator from New Hamp-
| shire as to where he was born.'
| made to get vote on the amendment
| But Mr.. Allison, Iowa, chairman Of the
Committee on Appropriations, called atten-
| tion to the backward condition OF the ap-
preparation bills, declaring it to be alb
solutely necessary to have night sessions
| every night till IL or IL p. M. And he
| said that he would make that proposition
| tomorrow.
| The House bill to provide for the use and
| occupation of reservoir sites was passed
without amendment.
| The Vice President laid before the Senate
| the action of the House on the Senate bill
giving a pension of ST 3 a month to the
widow of Gen. Casey. The House reduced
| the amount to $50. To this amendment
! the Senate agreed
A conference report on the bill to amend
| the act repeating the timber culture laws
was presented and agreed to.
A disagreement of the conference COM
| mittee on the Army appropriation bill was
| reported, and a new conference was or.
| dered.
The postoffice appropriation bill was re-
| ported and placed on the calendar.
| The following is the status of the great
appropriation bills:
Passed and signed by the President-The
| pension appropriation bill, the urgent de-
| ficiency bill, the Military Academy bill,
| and the legislative appropriation bill.
In the hands of the President-The dip
| lomatic and consular appropriation bill
In conference:
The Army appropriation bill, and the
Agricultural appropriation bill. Confer
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