The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-02-02
AMENDMENTS TO
ARBITRATION TREATY
All Reference TO the King of Sweden Is
Eliminated.
THE SECRECY INJUNCTION REMAINS
A Resolution to Determine the Con-
dition ofDciaware Is Ofcrcd--The
House Refuses to Consider n Meas
ure Aimed at Railroad Ticket
Scalpers--Various Bills Approved
by the Lower Branch.

Washington, Feb. 1-Immediately
after the senate convened at noon
Senator Sherman moved an executive
session, stating that it would require
but a short time When the doors
We're closed he reported the general
treaty of arbitration as amended Sat
urday by the committee. The first of
these amendments, as previously stat
ed, in these dispatches, adds at the
end of the first article the clause
But no question which affects the for
eign or domestic policy of either of the
high contracting parties or the relations
of either with any other state or power,
by treaty or therwse, shall be subject TO
arbitration under this treaty, except by
special agreement.
The second strikes out all reference,
wherever it occurs, to the King of
Sweden and Norway as the umpire
where the tribunal fails to agree upon
such umpire.
After the report was made Mr.. Sher-
man asked that, inasmuch as the text
of the convention had been made pub
lie the injunction of secrecy be re-
moved from the text of the amend
ments, but Senator Morgan objected
and the request was denied. No at
tempt WAS lldut To arrange al lllllt lDl
the consideration of the treaty nor was
anything said about debating it in
open session.
GOVERNMENT OF DELAWARE.
A resolution was offered by Mr.
Chandler, of New Hampshire, and was
referred to the committee on privi-
leges and elections instructing that
committee, to investigate the recent
presidential and state election in Della
ware and report to the senate whether
a Republican form of government eX
lists in that state, The Nicaraguan
canal bill was taken up and an unsuc-
cessful effort was made to have a day
and hour fixed for a final vote. The
discussion then proceeded on Mr.. vi
las motion, submitted last Thursday,
to have the bill recommitted. Mr.
Villas spoke of the inter-oceanic canal
project as a historic dream and quoted
Senator Shermans statement the 9TH
er day that the canal could not be
constructed by any incorporated com
pany. and must be built, if at all, by
the government: and also that the bill
could not possibly pass the house in
the present congress.
SCALPING BILL IGNORED.
The first thing the house did today
was to refuse to consider the bill re-
ported by the committee on interstate
and foreign commerce to prohibit rail-
road ticket scalpinE. In the course of
the session which was devoted to mis-
cellaneou5 business the following bills
Were passed:
To prohibit the carrying from one
state into another of obscene literature
or articles designed for indecent or i'm
moral purposes; giving officers i'm the
volunteer service of the United States
the brevet rank held by them and the
right to wear the uniform of that rank,
protection of national military parks,
protection that surgeons of soldiers
homes may be appointed from other
than those who have been disabled in
the service of the United States; ex-
tending the authority of the president
of the United States to issue medals
of honor to other than officers and en-
listed men; to restore to his former
rank in the navy and place on the re-
tired list John n. Quackenbush; grant
ing to Colorado 557 acres in Fort Lyon
reservation for n state soldiers home
authorizing the entry of public lands
containing petroleum under the mining
laws; directing the issue of patents for
the located but unconfirmed lands in
Louisiana, 2SS tracts containing about
$4,000 acres.
The last hour of the session was de-
voted to the consideration, in commit
tee of the whole, of the diplomatic and
consular appropriation bill.