The herald., 1897-03-01

fcrtitude to insist that Great Britain Will
comply with the Paris award"
The committee amendment continuing
the Joint scientific Inquiry in Berlng sea
was agreed to.
New amendments were agreed to as
follows: Authorizing the president 10
appoint three commissioners TO revise
and codify the criminal laws of the
United States; appropriating $4,000 to
overcome river obstruction caused by
the water hyacinths; appropriating
S130.000 for a dredge for Sabine Pass,
Texas; directing the secretary of the
treasury TO purchase a site, at cost OF
$4,000. for public building at salt
Lake, Utah; arpropriating s175,OO0 FOR
revenue cutter to be stationed at New
York city; for a commission to consider
the government purchase of site for
memorial building for the Daughters Of
the Revolution.
An extended debate occurred on an
amendment offered by Clark of Wyo-
ming designed 10 counteract the presi-
dents order withdrawing q. .000.0 900 acres
CT land from the public domain and
creating a forest reservation.
Mr.. Clark criticized the PRESIDENTS or
der as arbitrary. saying the people of the
states affected had not been consulted.
1T was, he said, the most serious blow
aimed at the western country since the
present congress came into existence.
Mr.. Carter of Montana. who was COM
missioner of the land office at the time
an inquiry into forest reservations was
began, also criticised the presidents
order as hasty and in total disregard 10
vast interests. Towns. villages, mills
and mines had been Unfortunately in
cluded within these forest reservations.
Mr.. Cannon of Utah said the presi-
dents order covered an area greater
than that of the state of Maine. 1t af-
fected states represented here by four
teen senators, not one of whom had
been consulted. The order would wCgk
most serious hardship to the people Of
the west.
Senators Pettigrew. Wilson, Dubois
and Mantle also spoke in criticism,
and the amendment was then unani-
mously adopted. 1t reads as follows,
And all the land in the states of wy
oming, Utah, Colorado, Washington,
Idaho and South Dakota, set apart and
reserved by executive orders and procla-
nations of February %, 1897. are hereby
restored to the public domain and sub
ject to settlement. occupation and entry
under the land laws of the United States,
the same as If said executive orIers and
proclamations had not been issued"
Mr.. German made a statement on the
extravaganza of the pending bill, in
connection with an amendment pro-
posing permanent census bureau. He
said the bill was the largest ever passed
in time of peace and this in the face
of treasury deficiencies reaching SAL
100000 since last July.
The census amendment went out on
his point of order.
Among other amendments adopted
was that for public building at Butte,
Mont, $4,000.
The sundry civil bill was then passed
A complication then arose over the
motion made by Mr.. Butler to reconsider
the vote on the passage of the bill re-
funding the debt of the territories. Those
opposed to the bill insisted on a record
vote which on account of the slim at
tendance was certain to show the alb
scence of quorum.
1t was evident business could not pro-
ceed and at IL o'clock the senate ad-
journed