The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-03-06

SENATE.
Washington, March 3.-The business
of the senate today was principally in
connection with conference reports.
The first to be presented was on the
appropriation bill for the District of
Columbia. 1t was not a final report,
however, as the cOnferees had failed
to reach an agreement on the series
of senate amendments appropriating
various sums for the charitable insti-
buttons of the city. The partial report
was agreed to and a further conference
was ordered.
The next conference report was on
the bill to amend the laws relating
to navigation. This is the bill for which
Senator Frye was on the
idea that it restored logging in the
American merchant marine. In his eX-
PLANTATION today, he showed that the
object of the bill was to relieve sailors
who were subjected to assault or i'm
prisonment on the part of a captain,
or officer, from the OnuS of proof that
the assault was inspired by "malice,
hatred, or revenge"-wOrds used in the
existing law. He also showed that fog.
ging in the American merchant marine
was prohibited by an act passed in
1850. The conference report was agreed
to.
The conference report finaD was
made on the pOstoffice appropriation
bill and was agreed to, without any
question or discussion. That on the In
dian appropriation bill vas partial. A
further conference was ordered on
these unadjusted matters.
The next conference report acted
upon was on the bill relating to copy
rights, which Senator Plat, republican,
of Connecticut, stated had nothing to
do with newspapers and only prohibit
ed the false use of the word copy
righted.' The repOrt was agreed to.
The conference repOrt on the naval
appropriation bill (partiaD gave rise
to q long discussion and was finally
agreed to, and a new conference order
ed. The controverted matters that were
left open were as to the increase of
the navy by torpedo boats, and the
limitation of the price of armOr plate
to $500 per ton.
In the interim between action OF the
conference reports, house bills on the
calendar, unobjected to, were taken up
and quite a number of them were
passed.
until s o'clock p. m.
The senate resumed it's session at s
o'clock p. m, but in the absence of a
quorum there was no attempt to trans
act business. At 9 o'clock a quorum vas
obtained. The vote was taken on the
bill vetoed by the president granting
a pension to Rachael Patton and re-
~sulted-yeas, So; nays, 10. So the bill
was passed over the presidents veto,
Another vetoed pension bill, that
granting a pension to Caroline d. Mo-
watt, was passed over the presidents
veto by a vote of SO to z.
Senator Quay having several times
suggested the absence of a quorum,
thus necessitating a roll call. and a
pI1OrI1rn each time a~DDearing. led SEN
ator Hoar to enter a vigorous protest
against his dilatory tactics. 1T was
never intended" he said. that the
rules should put it into the power OF
one man to prevent ninety-eight men
doing business-one man who in some
conceivable case might be under the
of liquor; and l think
Senator Quay desire to say to the
senator from Massachusetts that if he
intends to intimate that 1 am under
the influence of liquor he -
Senator Hoar-I make nosuch intima-
ton, Mr.. President.
Senator Quay-Is a lunatic or a liat
and / will not tolerate a suggestion OF
that sort from the senator from Massa-
chusetts or any one else. l am doing
whaty1 am doing in the interest OF my
constituents.
Senator Hoar repeated his disclaimer
of any personal. allusion to Senator
Quay to which the Pennsylvania SEN
ator replied with a remark, soto voce
that the mere suggestion was a filthy
one"
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,
All the proceedings today were in con-
tinuation Of the legislative day of Tues
day. and it is probable that no ad
iornment will be taken until adjourn