The evening tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 189?-190?, 1897-03-01
WASHINGTON BUDGET.
Senate Meets on Sunday to Pass Nee
!. essary Appropriation Bills.
Preparations For Inaugura-
tion Are All Completed.
Hotels and Streets Crowded and Visitors Con.
stantIy Arriving.

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Washington. March. IAN open ses-
sion OF the United States senate on q
Sunday afternoon is such a remark
able and unusual occurrence that crowds
were attracted to the north wing Of the
Capitol an hour before 8 o'clock yes-
ferday afternoon. All classes and con-
ditions OF people were In the crowd.
By parliamentary fiction the session
MAS part Of the legislative day begin
ming Saturday. "a recess having been
taken at $3.50 a. m. until 8 d. m. The
sundry civil appropriation bill was
rnder consideration a number of items
IN payment OF sugar bounties. for rivers
and harbors. etc.. remaining to be passed
alpon. vote on the sugar bounty
amendment was taken as soon as the
session opened. and IL was agreed to,
SI-2. The amendment appropriating
sl,OS5,l56 for the balance OF bounties
earned from August, 1894. to June, 1895.
The river and harbor items were next
considered. most of the committee
amendments being agreed to az reported.
Mr.. Allison, in charge Of the bill, ex-
planned the reasonableness OF the pro-
visions as a whole. No estimates had
been submitted in the usual way for any
of these items, but they were based on
the reports OF the chief of engineers,
Ms to amounts which could be profitably
used. These amounts had been reduced
% per cent before being reported In the
bill. In the course OF the discussion
Senator German (Md.) made an ear
nest speech pointing out the enormous
sotal Of the bill and urging that II be
Aas.e 1.l ala n IL.
harbor items.
The bill carried the unprecedented
total OF S51. 900, 900. OF which ST 900 900
was for river and harbor contracts 1t
vas more. he said, than the condition of
the treasury warranted In particular
Mr.. German resisted a new item OF 800
900 10 prevent the Mississippi river from
breaking through into the Cache river.
north of Cairo, Ills. II lead to a pro-
fonged contest. Mr.. Cullom supporting
the amendment as one of urgent neces-
sity. Mr.. Blanchard Ga.) spoke on
the general subject Of Mississippi
river improvements. The amendment
was finally modified and agreed to.
Another protracted contest occurred
over the committee proposition to do
away with river and harbor appropria-
tiOns In the sundry civil bill. and direct
ing q separate bill on these items Mr.
Vest (Mo) said this would result in a
river and barbor bill every year instead
of every two years 1s at present. The
amendment finally went out on a point
of order. The other river and harbor
items were agreed to.
Mr.. Hill IN. Y.) took occasion to chaff
senator's on working on Sunday. In con-
nection with q debate on electric light
A,stt In VA TN Jo -
seriously doubted the proprfety OF meet
ing on the Sabbath to enact legislation.
He had received many petitions. urging
q law for a rest day In the District
oc Columbia. Moreover, the senator
<McMillin) who urged this conduit
amendment had himself offered a bill
Ito protect the first day Of the week.
commonly called Sunday, as a day of
rest and worship"
The amendment appropriating 327, 900
for the purchase Of the Corcoran art
gallery building for the court Of claims
was agreed To.
When the amendment was reached
providing for "A commission to visit the
seal fisheries, Mr. Pettigrew said he
believed we should not send a commission
TO Alaska to visit the scenes of destruc-
tion of our seals by Canadian poachers.
He advocated the destruction of all the
seals. In this connection he ridicued
the treaty relative to the Alaskan boun-
dary, recently sent to the senate.
IF this administration lasted much
longer" he asserted, 1T would be send
ing in a treaty between Great Britain
and the United States for the arbitra-
tion of the multiplication table"
Mr.. Morgan (Ala.). a member of the
"a ri nf a RI "a 1iSrIlSSa1 10
awkward predicament of the United
States" on the seal question. Refer
ring to the Paris tribunal, he said that
rs usual when the court was made up
OF European arbitrators. the decision
MAS against us; ii always would he so
under like circumstances. There was
more real danger of trouble over this
seal question since the arbitration than
there ever was from all the conflicts
before arbitration was adopted. The
present trouble. he said. was due to the
deliberate refusal of Great Britain to
carry out, in good faith. the spirit of
the Paris award
II do hope" said Mr. Morgan, that the
incoming administration will have the
fortitude to insist that Great Britain
will comply with the Paris award"
The committee amendment, continu-
fng the Joint scientific inquiry in Bering
sea. was agreed to.
The remainder of the session was de-
voted to the sundry civil BILL which was
finally passed. The bill carries an APP
propriation of $4S. 200, 600. Among the
items are $780, 900 for a public building at
Bridgeport Conn.
ALREADY FOR THE SHOW.