Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-03-01

| necessary to pass appropriation bills Large
crowds filled the galleries and overdowed
to the corridors. The attendance os sena--
| tors was even greater than that through
the week, the absentees, other than those
out of town or sick, numbered only twelve.
The venerable figures of the senate-Mor-
riii, -Hoar, Sherman. Morgan and Palmer
We're among those present.
by parliamentary fiction, the session
was part of the, legislative day beginning
SATURDAY. a recess having been taken al
ESQ O'Clock this morning until p. m, to-
day. The sundry civil appropriation bill
was under consideration, a number of i'm
portant items in payment of sugar boun-
ties, Tor rivers and harborS remaining to
be passed upon. A vote on the sugar boun-
ty amendment WAS taken as soon as the
session opened and 1t was agreed to 3t-l2.
The amendment .appropriates Sl.0S5,l ,l56 for
the balance OF bountieS earned from Aug
ust. 1894. to June, 1885.
The river and harbor items next We're
ments being agreed to as reported. Mr..
Allison. in charge of the bill, explained
the reasonableness of the provision as
whole. No estimates had been submitted
tut they We're based on reports Of the
ehiet OF engineers. as to amounts which
mad been reduced p, per Gent before being
reported In the biii:< In; the course of the
discussion. Senator Goriflan made an earn
total Of the 'biil And urging that it be not
loaded down with new river and harbor
items The bill carried the unprecedented
tctal of SOL ,0OG00G of which $17. 100000 was
Ior rivers and harbors contracts. It was.
the senator said, more than the condition of
the treasury warranted.
When the amendment was reached pro-
yiding for q commission to visit the seal
hsneries. Mr.. Pettigrew. of South Dakota
said ne believed We should not send a COM
struction of our seals by Canadian poach-
ers; He advocated the destruction of all
seals. In this connection he ridiculed the
treaty: relative to the Alaskan boundary
recently sent to the senate.
II this administration lasted much long
er. ne asserted: lit would be sending in a
treaty between Great Britain and the Unit
ea efd states for arbitration of the multipliea-
a, Mr. Morgan. of Alabama, a member of
the Paris court of arbitration, discussed
the awkward predcament of the United
states on the seal question. Referring to
the Paris tribunal. he said that as usual
when the court was made up of European
arbitrators.- the decision was against US:
II l,, would always be so under like circum-
trouble over this seal question since the
arbitration than there ever was from all
the conflict before arbitration was adopt
to the deliberate refusal of Great Britain
10 Do carry out in good faith the spirit of the
Il do hope" said Mr. Morgan. 'that the
,,.,g incoming administration will have the for
Iitude 10 insist that Great Britain will
Soupiy Win the Paris award
Ihe committee amendment continuing the
agreed to.
New amendments We're agreed IN as fol.
lows: go W.
Authorizing the president to appoint
t,tee commissioners to revise and codify
the criminal laws of the United States:
appropriating $4,000 to overcome river OBJ
struction caused by water hyacinths; ap-
propriatin 600 for dredging at Sa-
bine Pass, Tex; appropriating $4,000 for
a tor to hn Sto
York city; for commission to consider
the government purchase of a site for a
memorial building for the Daughters of
An extended debate occurred on an
amendment offered by Mr.. Clark. of Wy
oming, designed to counteract the presi-
dents recent order withdrawing 21.000.0 900
acres of land from the public domain and
creating forest reservations. Mr.. Clark
criticised the presidents order as arbi-
trury. saying the people of the state af-
fected had not been consulted. 1t was. he
said, the most serious blow aimed at the
Western country since the present con-
gress came into existence.
Mr.. Carter, of Montana, who was COM
missioner of the land Office at the time an
inquiry into forest reserves was begun, also
criticized the presidents order as hasty and
in total disregard of vast interests. Towns,
villages, mills and miners had been indis-
criminately included within these forest re-
serves.
Mr.. Cannon. of Utah, said the president
order covered an area greater than that of
the state of Maine. 1t affected states repre-.
sented here by fourteen senators. not one
of whom had been consulted. The order
would work most serious hardship to the
people of the West.
Senators Pettigrew. Wilson. Dubois. and
Mantle also spoke in criticism. and the
amendment was then unanimously adopted,
1t was as follows:
And all the lands in the states of Wy
oming, Utah. Colorado, Montana Wash
ington Idaho and South Dakota, set apart
and reserved by executive orders and proc
lan.ations Of February 90 1896, are hereby
restored to the public domain, and subject
the land laws of the United States the
same as if said executive orders and proc
lamatfonS had not been made'
the extravagance of the pending bill. ipf
connection with an amendment proposiS
q permanent census bureau. He said hg
bill was the largest ever passed In Sethe
of peace; and this, in the face of ia "a Time time
deficiencies reaching $4s.00O.000 sifeasury
his point of order. mt out on
The sundry civil bill was thA
A complication then arose IN pasSed.
motion made by Mr.. Butle,over taonng
the vote on the passage ofa 10 reconsider
ing the debt of the territ !ne pir reIund-
posed to the bill insisted .ories. Those op-
which. In view of the sli on record vote,
certain to show the absn attendance, was
1t was apparent that ;ence OF quorum:
proceed, and at II o'c.puslness could not
journed. JOCK the senate au-