Birmingham state herald., 1897-03-02

navy. "our pet" should be protected by these sponge" plates, and the first shot l from foreign warship would go through l one of these boasted ships and 800 or 600
 American seamen are sent to the bottom | of the sea through the frauds perpetrated | in the senate
 Rather than pay any more money to 1 these armor barons he would rather l build a government factory for the manu- | fracture of armor, even if ft cost $500 to l $500 a ton, for then there would at least 1 be the consolation of knowing that the
 armor was good and the money distrib- | uted among the workingmen. In answer to ques iuon from MT. Quay | MT. T1llman said that nothing would be l gained by sending the bill back to the l rouse for that body was in the power of l the trusts-the Standard Oil eompany-as 1 much as the senate, "and every man there l was manacled and under the rule of one man, the speaker and compelled to crawl l around on their bellies like a worm or like a whipped cur.'
 MT. Chandler, in a final explanation of 1 his amendment, said there was no such 1 thing IS competition in the manufaet-
 ure of armor plate eflher in this country l or in Europe and that the Bethlehem and Carnegie plants were members of an in- 1 ternational combine.
 His amendment was then adopted with
 out division, and the total amount ap- 1 propriated for armor was reduced from 1 8. .210, 900 to s2. .407, ,5OO
 The committee amendment appropriat- 1 ing $2,5OO,o00 for government armor l plant was defeated by vote of 26 to 30 The bill was then passed and at mid night the senate adjourned until tomor- 1 row.
 l IN THE HOUSE. At the opening of the days session 1 senate amendments to the sundny civil
 appropriation and postoffice appropria l ton bills were non -concurred in and con- l fereEceS were ordered on the bills. Sen
 ate amendments were coneurred in to the 1 bill extending for one year the time for l completing Q bridge across the Alaba-
 ma river near Montgomery. A bill repeating that section of the law | providing for sending to Washington by special messenger presidential election l certificates was passed after an expla- | nation by MT. Mercer, republican, of Ne
 braska, that these certificates could as
 well be sent by mail or express and the l present system was costly
 Senate bill to extend the use of mails
 to postal cards and envelopes owned by
 the United States Economic Postage as-
 sociation was laid on the table.
 MT. Aldrich, republican, of Illinois, l called up the antiprize-fght bill. The
 measure provides that no picture or any descriptlon of any prize fight or encoun- l ten or pugilists under whatever name, or 1 any proposal or record of betting on the
 same snail be transmitted in the mails of | the United States or by interstate com | merce, whether in a newspaper or other | periodical or telegram or in any other 1 form.
 Sec. 2 That any person sending such
 matter, or knowingly receiving such mat | ter Tor transmission by mail or in crstate l commerce shall be deemed guilty of l misdemeanor and shall be punishable by | imprisonment for not more than five years in the discretion of the court or by | a fine not exceeding $1, ,000.
 MT Aldrieh, in supporting the measure | said that all the states of the union, save ! one or two, forbid prize fights, which
 have been sent to the limbo of condemned
 customs with dueling, slavery, lotteries 1 and polygamy.
 | The bill simply protected the more ad- l vanced states which have forbidden pu- l gilism as brutal and brutalizing against
 having prize fights brought into their l borders in pictures and description which
 are only little less harmful than the de- l grading sport which they describe. l The bill did not forbid a brief state 1 ment of the fight as a matter of news | Congress, in its swiftest enactment
 forbade prize fighting in it's whole juris- l diction and so drove a prospective prize l fight announced to occur in one of the ter i ritories into the mountains of Mexico, | whose government had also Forbidden it.
 This bill is but logical extension and l protection of that act and is in accord | dlSO WllH dHOtn6T dcl OI lnlS congress, approved by this committee and since 1 enacted into law, prohibiting the inter ! state transportation of obscene pictures; l pictures of the brutality of pugilism are l hardly less harmful to our youth. It is 1 in accord also with the anti-diyorce act l of congress, which has protected the | families of the whole land against the di- vorce colonies "of one of the territories" This bill calls for immediate considera- 1 ton for manifest reasons It is believed
 1 1 fights only because of competition, will welcome this protection
 MT Morse (rep., Mass) advocated the l passage of the measure. He was piled 1 with questions and in reply to one he said that he hoped that the outcome of | the coming fight will be that it would be | telegraphed over the country. that the 1 two brutes had killed themselves. MT. | Grosvenor (rep., O. favored the bill MT. Cookery (dem., Mo) opposed prize fights, | but considered this an extraordinary po- 1 sition. It was censorship of the press. | If this was done it could be extended to ] details of murder and other crimes
 Mir. Cummings (dem. N. Y.), said that | it could be made to prevent sending 1 through the mails hundreds of books now | in print, with pictures of pugilists in | them. It would be just as well to prevent
 commerce pictures of public men. MT. Hepburn (rep. O, defended the measure holding that 1t would not prove |
 MT. Quigg (rep N. Y.), moved to ad- | jouun pending which MT. Cookery moved 1 to lay the bill on the table.
 Mr. Quigg withdrew his motion and MT. l Payne moved to take a recess.
 1 MT. Payne withdrew that motion and | the speaker put the question for the third | reading of the bill. The vote resulted: ]! Yeas, 56, nays, 98.
 1 The motion of MT. Cookery to lay the | bill on the table was then adopted-yeas, l 93; nays. 55. Mr. Aldrich demanded the yeas and nays on the question and they | were ordered.
 1 Pending the roll call Mir Grosvenor en- i ,leavored to have the bill referred to the | judiciary committee but the proposition | was rejected. A motion by MT. Cannon for recess until 10 o'clock tomorrow 1 was agreed to. This leaves the prize fight in the same position. The yeas and l nays being in order on the motion to lay it cn the table.
 ] SENATE CONFIRMATIONS.
 The senate today confirmed the follow- ing nominations:
 | Postmasters: virginia-W. T. Ander-