Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1897-01-27
FROM THE NATIONAL CAPITAL
The Arbitration Treaty Has Another
Hearing Before the Senate Com
mittee Without Any Definite
Action.
MILITARY ACADEMY APPROPRIATION
An Attempt to Pass a Law Making the
Attendance of West Point Cadets
Compulsory at Presidential
Inaugurations.

Washington, Jan. 27.-The senate com.
mittee on foreign relations had the arbi
tration treaty under consideration for an
hour and half to day, but failed TO
reach any conclusion. The committee
adjourned, to meet on Saturday, when ii
ia hoped that the senate will not be in
session. and the committee can thus give
It's entire day to the treaty. There is a
growing feeling in the senate that the
treaty should be reported favorably, and
the committee ia disposed to yield to
pressure, to the extent of giving all
possible time to the subject. The meet
ing to-day was attended by all members.
The discussion was very earnest. The
necessity for guarding the treaty so as
to prevent encroachment, under any
protest whatever, upon the Monroe doc.
trine, was again the principal topic, the
especial point of the controversy being
the feasibility of preventing such en-
croachment by amendment. This point
was unsettled when the committee ad-
journed, bat belief was freely expressed
that conclusion might be reached on
Saturday.
IMMIGRATION REPORT.
In accordance with notice given on
Monday last, Mr.. Danford, of Ohio, in
the house to-day, called up the confer
ence report on the immigration bill. An
agreement was reached that vote should
be taken on the adoption of the report at
4:15 O'Clock. Mr.. Danford then made the
opening argument in support of the re.
port. He said the bill applied the educa-
tional test only to males. This test was
now to be applied TO females. This ex-
tension caused the principal antagonism
to the adoption of the conference report,
on the ground that it would separate
families. Husbands might be admissible,
and wives excluded, or vice versa.
If the bill becomes law it is said that
its provision would be we'll understood
abroad by prospective immigrants, and
few families would apply for admission
who were not eligible. The steamship
companies are obliged to return such. He
drew graphic picture of overcrowding
the great centers of population. Great
numbers are out of work and there is
constant necessity for retrieving them
from want and starvation. He drew at
tention to the Corlifs amendment, de-
signed to prevent "birds of passage"
from crossing the Canadian border each
spring, and returning again in the fall.
They took advantage of high wages paid
in the United States, paid no taxes
and contributed nothing to our common
wealth. He thought this bill less drastic
than the one which passed the last house.
Ia conclusion he said the bill did not 60
as far as he would like, because he be-
lieved the unemployed in this country to.
day constituted the greatest danger to
the republic. Barthold, Republican, of
Missouri, followed in favor of rejecting |
the report and 1nstructing the conference
to insist upon certain notifications in
the bill. As one of the conferees, he said,
he had refused to sign the report because
it would separate husband and wife,
parent and child, and further, bscause it
not only excluded illiterates, but all those
who could not read and write the Ian
guage of their nation.
Later.-The conference report on the
immigration bill was adopted on rising
vote. The yeas and nays were ordered,
resulting as follows-116 yeas, 105 nays.
THE SENATE.
In the senate to-day, the military acade-
my appropriation bill was taken up.
Senator Chandler endeRvored to have the
bill laid aside in order to proceed with a
for an International monetary
conference, but Mr.. Pettigrew objected,
Mr.. Chandler announced that
the monetary conference bill would be
urged later, and to a conclusion he hoped.
An amendment to the West Point bill, pro-
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