Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1897-03-26
THE Governments HONOR
Sought to Be Upheld By Sena-
tor Chiffon
IN HIS AM EN- D M EN- 7
To the Arbitration Treaty-Morgan Again Ad-
yoca;es Chlton's Propostion-Tariff
Discussion Occupies the House.

Wa Shington, D. c., March 25.-AmonS
the bills introduced and referred was one
by Mr.. Foraker, of Ohio, to provide
modern orsanizati ton OF the artillery of
the army.
Mr.tPasoo presented in an amended
form the credentials of John A. Hender-
son as senator from the state of Florida,
under appointment by the governor un-
til the next meeting of the state leg1s-
lature in April next
Mr.. Hoar stated why no action had
been taken by the committee on privileges
and elections in The matter of the adj
mission of Sc nators, appointment Oh gov
erno1s. He supposed that by the retlre-
ment of it's chairman CMr. Mitchell, OF
Oregon) he CMr. Hoar) being next IN
committee, might act as temporary chalr
man, but he supposed that the mattel OF
filling vacancies in committees would De
settled in day or two, and had not
though it wise to call 4 meeting OF the
committee on privileges an electlcRs wlcn
three or four vacancies in 1t. lie would,
however call meeting of the committee
at once If Sena tors interested in the mat
ter desired actiolf to bs taken while
those vacancies existed. His own opln-
ion was that 1T would be better to wait
until the committee vacancies were filled.
Mr.. Pasco disclaimed any idea of wish
ing to find fault with the committee ON
privileges and elections, and on his mo-
tion Mr.. Henderson's credentials were re-
ferred to it,
AT twenty minutes past twelve, cn
motion of Mr. Davis, republican, of Min
nesota, acting chairman of the commit
tee on foreign relations, the senate pro
ceeded to the consideration with closed
doors) of the arbitration treaty
AT 8 p. m. the doors were re-opened
and ahe unfinished business-the bank
ruptcy bill-was taken up, being read
in extenso.
The reading of the bill occupied exactly
one hour. Some formal amendments
were offered by Mr.. Hoar and were agreed
Mr.. Nelson. republican, of Minnesota,
offered substitute for the bill, which
was also read in full, and when it was
concluded the senate at 4:20 p. m. ad-
journed until tomorrow.
Three minor nominations were also con-
firmed by the senate today of local in
terest to New England and Ohio.
The debate on the arbitration treaty
this afternoon was Of short duration.
Mr.. Chiffon spoke for almost an hour
on his amendment to the first article
which amends that article so as to pro-
vide that only such matters shall be sub
mitted to arbitration as the senate then
in existence may deem proper for arbi-
ration
1dr. Chiffon advocated his amendment
with a great deal of warmth and con-
tended that if, as has been asserted, the
terms of the treaty were interpreted s
meaning this, there could be no good OBJ
lection raised to the insertion of words
that made that Interpretation unmistak
able. 1t was in the interest of clearness
and should be accepted as such by all
friends of the treaty.
Without his modification Mr.. Chiffon
said the United States might in the flu
ture be charged with violating it's obh-
cations If it refused to submit certain
unpSfiOnS tn arbitration yUhpO thpv a
as matters of difference between the two
countries. He did not want the United
States to be placed in an embarrassing
position of this kind and deemed it the
part of prudence to make the text of
the convention so perfectly plain that
there could be no quibbling over what
1t means or what the senate had in
mind when the treaty was agreed to, if
it should be agreed to. The debates were
secret, and in the future the cold hard
text of the treaty would alone be ac-
cepted as the expressions of what was
intended when the convention was rati-
fed and proclaimed to the world.
Mr.. Morgan again spoke in favor of
the amendment and took occasion to ex-
press his displeasure at any proposed
treaty with Great Britain, that had for
its purpose any general scheme of arbi-
tration. The whole thing was a snare
and pitfall, but if there We're sufficient
votes in the senate to ratify the conven-
+
made 9s nearly perfect as possible.
Messrs Gray, Davis, Hoar and Lodge
interrupted Mr.. Chiffon with questions
tending to show that his conclusions
were erroneous. They also injected state
mentssin support of the committee amend
ments, which had been agreed to, as
being sufficient 10 cover every possible
criticism that could be made against
the treaty.
Senator Gray took the floor in opposi-
4 ~ sVbiltO,1 mn aff
Morgan had concluded, but not desiring
to go ON today the senate came out of
executive session and resumed the con-
sideration of legislative business.
IN THE HOUSE.
This was the last day of general de-
bate on the tariff bill in the house of rep
resentatives under the order adopted last
week, but because Mr.. Bailey's throat
would not permit him to speak this af-
ternoon. an agreement was made to give
two hours to general debate just before
taking the vote next Wednesday, which
will be occupied by himself and Mr..
Dingley.
The proceedings were unusually inter-
esting and they were listened to gener-
ally by large number of members and
crowded galleries. Speeches against the
bill were made by Mesrs. Talbert demo-
crat Of South Carolina; Clark, democrat,
of Missouri Mcguire, democrat, of Cali
fornia; Gunn, populist of idaho; Simp-
son, populist. of Kansas; Cox democrat
of Tennessee: McRae democrat. of Ar
kansas; Burke, democrat, of Texas;
Lentz democrat, of Ohio and Dearmond
democrat, of Missouri; and In its favor
by Messrs. Tawney, republican, of Min
nesota; Dalzell, republican, of Pennsyl-
vania; Russell republican. of Connecti-
cut. and Payne. republican. of New York
members of che comumittee of ways and
means and by GrAw, republican. of Penn
sylvania; Cunts, republican. of Kansas;
Colson, republican, of Kentucky, and
Hawley, republican, of Texas.
At o'clock the house took a recess un-
til o'clock tonight. the night session to
witness the last general debate, except
two hours on Wednesday next, just prior
to taking the vote on the bill
NIGHT SESSION.
AT the evening session the debate on
the tariff bill was continued.
Mr. Skinner, popullst, of North Caro-
lima, in supporting the bill said that IL
for the past twenty-five years the south
had been trying for protection as the
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