The age-herald., 1898-12-15
CANAL BILL
 CONSIDERED Again the Principal Subject Be-
 fore the Senate, MONEY URGED MORE DELAY In Order to Permit Negotiations
 ''11.Ih Great Britain TO sS aaE THE MODIFICATION
 ISS . l- Of tlS s;Iayton-BuIwer Treaty Which e.s Is Now in Force. e |
Of tFS ss;IaytOn-BuIwer Treaty Which
 o.s Is Now in Force.
MORGAN OPPOSED PROPOSITION
An Agreement Was Reached to Vote on the Turpie Postponement Mo- tion Today-Pension Policy
 Attacked by MT. Vest.

 ragua canal bill held its place as the prin- cipal subject before the senate again to- day. Speeches were made by Messrs. Har- ris, Money, Stewart and Morgan. MF' Money urged postponement of the question in order to afford an opportunity to per- init negotiations with Great Britain for modification of the Glayton-Bulwer treaty. and MT. Morgan antagonized the proposi- ton. An agreement was reached to take vote on the Turpie postponement motion tomorrow.
 Other questions before the senate were; The governments pension policy and the bill regarding the registry of foreisn-built vessels wrecked on the American coast The pension discussion was precipitated by MT. Vest. MT. Vest called attention 10 private pension bills and entered a protest against their passage without due consider alton, as he said the senate was falling into l the habit of doing. He called attention to l the fact that notwithstanding Illinois had 1 furnished 65 000 more soldiers than Indiana, the pension roll of Indiana had exceeded that of Illinois by $1,5000 000 He accounted for this fact on the ground that Indiana Is a pivotal state politically saying that 1t was notorious that the commissioner of pensions, who was an ex-union soldier, had granted pensions to almost every applicant in political districts which are close.
 Not Republicans Afone He did not contend that the republican party was alone to blame but knew that the men of all parties were inclined to use tho machinery of the pension office to fur- ther their political intersts. He was cog nzant of an instance in his own state in which a democratic candidate for congress had received several republican votes be- cause he had secured pensions for the voters. lie had endorsed Mr. Clevelands s veto of pension bills and while he did not want to revive the old question, he would express the opinion that the government had in this matter fallen into most un- just expenditure by its iIl-advised legisa- tion and through political influences" char acterizing the government accident insurance company.
 MT. Galnger suggested that MT. Vest in- stead of scolding the senate on private bills he should propose amendments to the pen sion laws. which would correct the abuses he complained of.
 Continuing, MT. Gallinger said the com- mittee had been considring the advlsabiuty of publishing the list of pensioners Yet there were objections to the plan and he feared that if undertaken it's effect would be only to take two or three million dollars out of the treasury to no good purpose.
 Address of MT. Caffery
 
 istration for foreign built vessels wrecked on the American coast and repaired in the United States was taken up and Mr. Caf- fiery addressed the senate in opposition to it, saying that if the measure became law foreign ships would be purposely wrecked on coast to secure American registry. He attacked the navigation and tariff laws of the United States, saying they had prac- tcally driven our merchant marine from the seas. He contended that the bill was SRrohibitive in it's terms, intended to remove the last vestige of competitive shipbuild- ing. 'We have the Philippines, Cuba and Porto Rico," he said but if we adopt the contractive policy of this measure our bal loon will soon collapse and our expansion policy come to an end
 At the close of MT. Caffery's remarks the registry bill went over till tomorrow and the Nicaragua canal bill was taken up the pending question being MT. Turpies motion to postpone action until January 10.
 MT. Harris then spoke upon the general features of the bill. He said that a boy he was attached to a surveying party in the sthmus in 1858, and ever since that time he had been the jealous advocate of the general proposition that canal should be built across the isthmus. Still he did not consider 1t practicable for private cor poration to construct the canal and he urged government ownership, but the Maritime companys charter supplieS the only open door and the committee in charge of the bill had determined to enter 1t with the understanding that the company was to be gotten rid of.
 Mir. Harris said he considered the Panama canal as entirely impractcable. He supported MT. Berrys amendment relieving the bill of its bond provisions, saying 1t would greatly improve the measure
 Clayton Bulwer Treaty
 The Clayton-Bwulwer treaty formed the basis of brief speech by MT Money. He advocated delay in order to afford oppor- tunity for negotiations looking to the abro- gation of the treaty. Mir. Money said wa should at least notify Great Britain that
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