The San Francisco call., 1897-03-03

| question the American people ever had to
| consider. In order to hold successful
| monetary conference there would have to
be diplomatic negotiations. A Re pub
lican administration was coming into
power, and it was known who its Secre-
| tary of State and Secretary of the Treas
| ury were to be. Th ir selection indicated
the policy of the ad dministration. There
was no reason to suppose that the Secre-
tary OF State (Mr. Sherman) would enter
| into arrangements for the purpose of re-
| storing bimetallism, nor was there any
reason to suppose that the Secretary of
the Treasury had any sympathy with any
international agreement. There was no
reason to suppose that the Presdent-elect
had any sympathy with it. No one could
lind an utterance OF his after the cam oaign
which indicated that he was frienly to it.
His statements from his cottage porch in
dicated that he had gone over to the gold
standard in earnest anu would there re-
main.
"We are about to inaugurate q Presi-
dent with the pomp and splendor OF a
monsrchy," Teller continued. 1--WE are
| told that there has been nothing in the
history OF the country to compare with it.
There will doubtless be grand and mag
ni6cent display. l do not complain. l
think that when the executive of 70, 600
people is inducted into power ana office
there should be SOMETHING more than the
ordinary conditions in observance, but 1t
will be painful to those who witness 1t
and who realize that on that day there
will be more iule Americans hunting food
and hunting work than at any other time
in the history OF this Republic; that there
are more men, women and children sup
ported by charity to-day than at any
other time in the history of the country"
Morgan CD of Alabama said that as he
would be perhaps the only Senator voting
against the bill it was proper that he
should state his reasons for doing so. The
United States, he said, might as well sur
render its power to make war and peace
into the hands of Great Britain as to sur
render its power to coin money and de-
clare its value.
Mantle (Sil.) of Montana declared him.
self heartily in favor OF every effort to
bring about an international agree ment
for international bimetailism, although
his honest conviction told him that it
would be futile.
The vote was taken and the House
amendments were concurred in without a
division. The bill now goes to the Presi-
dent for his action.
Consideration of the deficiency bill was
resumed, and Vest (D.) of Missouri offered
an amendment directing the Secretary of
the Treasury to pay the amounts OF the
DEGREES of the Court OF Claims under what
ing in the aggre gate to $751;, 900. Various
other items were added to the Vest amend
ment.
Hale (R.) of Maine and Aldrich (R.) of
Rhode Island, spoke against the amend
ment as at variance with the rule against
putting private claims on Appropriation
bills. Hale warned Senators against load
ing down the BILL as the more heavily it
was loaded the more danger it would
encounter.
Other items were added to the Vest
amendment, including one of $S1, $50 TO
John Paul Jones. The amendment was
then agreed to without division and the
reading OF the bill was continued, the
committee amendments being acted upon
as the bill was read and all other amend
ments being withheld until after the bill
should have been read through.
The committee amendments were all
disposed OF by $50 P. NJ, and then the bill
was'open to the offering OF amendments
by individual Senator'S. Among the
amendments offered and agreed TO we're:
Authorizing the leases OF certain islands
in Alaska for propagating blue and silver
foxes; to pay Henry Ickert of Omaha,
Nebr., $500 for certain building on Fort
Crook; to pay $34,s50 found due on con-
tracts for surveying public lands in Cali
fornia prior to June sc, 1890.
White CD of California M owed to strike
out the House item appropriatins $780,
327 for the Southern Pacific Company un-
der Judgment of the Court of Claims.
CocErell (D.) of Missouri comm mented on
the fact that hitherto when the Senate
had placed that item on an appropriation
bill the House had always fought it stub
bornly and defeated it,. while now the
House put in the item OF its own accord,
land it is believed" he added, "that the
change was caused by the enormous con-
tribution of the President of the company
10 the election fund"
Hale demonstrated against such charges.
He did not believe there was any founda-
tion for them.
Without diyposing of the bill the Senate
at 6: 10 proceeded to the consideration OF
executive business and at $3.50 took a re-
cess until o'clock.
When the Senate resumed its session at
8 O'Clock the House bill imposing heavier
penalties for mutilating coins was taken
from the calendar and passed. 1t in
creases the penalty from two to five years.
i'm prisonment and makes unlawful the
attempt to pass, the Importation of and
the possession of mutilated domestic and
foreign coins with intent to defraud, as
we'll as the mere act of mutilation.
A partial agreement was agreed TO on
the sundry civil bill and a further confer
ence asked on the amendments yet in dis
pute. The conference report on the In
dian appropriation bill was also presented,
and, after it was read, Carter (R.) of Mon
tana moved to disagree to the report. He
gave as his reason that it contained a
fraud, plain, palpable, bold, for which
language could not be employed to make
i. more dark and damnable.
The provision so severely characterized
was one In relation to certain mineral
lands ceded by the Blackfoot Indians in
Montana, whereby those white men who
had located upon the lands by the courtesy
OF the agent prior to the cession should
bavs their holdings legalized. After some
debate the report was disagreed to and a
further conference ordered.
The consideration of the deficiency bill
was then resumed, the pending amend
ment being to strike out the provision TO
paw the Southern Pacific Railway 81. 310,-
427
Morgan CD of Alabama made severe
arraignment of President Huntington of
the Southern Pacific Company. He said
that the commission to investigate the
Pacific railroads had unearthed many
frauds, and that Mr.. Huntington, in his
sworn testimony, showed the truth of
these conclusions. He asserted that the
claim of 1910. .427, allowed by the Court
of Claims, had been paid forty times over
in the obligations of C.. P. Huntington
and the Central Pacific, which names
were both synonymous with the Southern
Pacific Railway.
After long debate the amendment to
strike out was adopted, providing TINT the
money be retained in the treasury until
the final adjustment of the debts of the
Pacific railroads. The bill was then
passed, and at II rs the Senate adjourned
until tom orrow.