The Anaconda standard., 1898-03-04
his family and burning his home was

his family and burning his home was
laid before the senate.
McLaurin of South Carolina said he
| hoped the resolution would go to the COM
mttee without discussion. Ihe state au-
thorities were exceedingly active in the
investigation of the crime and he was
| assured every effort was being made to
bring the perpetrators to justice. He then
| read clipping from the Columbia. S. c..
State tnewspaperl. to show that the peo-
| pie of South Carolina We're NOT only not
| in sympathy with those who committed
the crime, but keenly reprobated ii.
Haw1ey said the crime was clearly with
| in federal jurisdiction from the fact that
| IL was a federal officer murdered and gov
| ernment property restroyed. He express
ed the opinion that the federal authori-
ties ought to maintain close watch upon
the proceedings. The resolution was then
referred to the committee on contingent
4 expenses.
Bills were passed as follows: Granting
| free entry TO a set of bells presented by
the car of Russia To the Orthodox Rus
sian church, at Bridgeport. Conn; to pro-
4 vide for the transfer of the Sydney mill
| tary post reservation to the state of Ne
| braska for educational purposes and to
establish an assay office at Seattle. Wash
1 ington
The motion of Mr.. Hoar of Massachu-
/ setts to non-concur in the house amend
ments to the bankruptcy bin was laid be-
fore the senate, and Mr.. Stewart of Ne
Nada resumed his speech upon the house
| measure. Upon the conclusion of his
/ speech Mr. Stewart offered "A resolution
| that the senate conferees he instructed to
/ insist upon the senate bill. The resolution
/ created some debate of parliamentary
| character. MIR. Stewart then withdrew his
resolution and Mr. Hoars motion to non
/ concur in the house amendments TO the
/ bankruptcy bill and that a committee on
conference he appointed was adopted.
| The vice president appointed Messrs
| Hoar, Nelson and Lindsay.
! The Alaskan homestead and railway
| right-of-way bin was then taken up and
| Mr.. Turner Washington addressed the
senate. He recognized he said. the ne
| cessity of some such legislation as that
proposed. because more than 100 900 adult
| Americans were preparing to go into
| Alaska, and If proper transportation ia
| cilities Were not provided 1t would be a
| cruel and short-sighted policy. lie said he
believed the measure proposed by the
committee was generally fair and with
some amendments would be an excellent
bill In his opinion the bill sufficiently
hedged about the transportation compa-
MES, us the restrictions placed upon them
by the bill were even more severe than
those placed upon them by the general
law.
To meet a point advanced by Mr.. Tur-
ner Mr. Carter of Montana In charge
of the BILL offered a committee amend
ment retaining the first section of the
house bill, except wherein ii provides for
the approval of the president and modi-
fled the committee amendment with a
provision that no entry shall be allowed
extending more than 40 rods along the
shore of any navigable water. and along
such shore a space of at least 40 rods
shall be reserved from entry from such
lat,
adopted
After the section amended MIR. Vest
of Missouri. moved to strike out the en-
tire section. He said frankly that he de-
sired TO test the sense OF the senate on
the proposition to extend the homestead
laws To the district of Alaska. So far as
the construction of railroads was con-
eerned. IL would be a most difficult and
expensive undertaking. If constructors
could find valleys for their railroads they
would be met with all sorts of difficulties
and dangers. He thought that after the
ephemeral gold-sehking rush had sub
sided there would be no possible reason
for the construction of railways in Alas
ka. Mr. Vest ridiculed the report made
by Rev. Dr. Sheldon upon the agriculture
Of Alaska.
Alaska. declared Mr. Vest. 'is not an
agricultural country. and can never be
made one. ] speak from personal knowi-
He said that in that great section. two
and a half times larger than the state of
Texas and IN times larger than the state
of Georgia. there was not n single farm;
Yet the report of DIR. Jackson extensively
pictured the wonderful potatoes and the
remarkable eabbages produced there. Mr..
Mr.. Vest said he knew something of these
potatoes and eabbages. The potatoes were
large and fun of water-nothing else. He
saw, he said, cabhages that spread over
the ground like the blanket of Sancho
Panza; the caulifiower that weighed %
pounds, vet. when they were cut they
contained nothing but water. As to the
grasses which Or. Jackson refers TO so
elaauently. 1t was vegetable blasphemy''
to compare them with the blue grass of
Kentucky. lie thought the purchase of
Alaska for 81, 500 900 had been made reck-
lessy and needlessly. Since 1881 1t had
cost the government s4fl.000 and the
REV. Sheldon Jackson ID, y. and L. D.
missionary 10 the Aleuts and manager of
reindeer, $4,000 for spending his winters
IN Washington and his summers lin
Alaska" The motion Of Mr. Vest to strike
out the first section was by an aye and
nay vote and was defeated-3l to Is.
Section of the bill was amended by
the insertion of declaration that "ail
such rights ttide lands and beds of navi-
ga Bile rtyers1. shall continue TO be held
BY the United States in trust for the peo-
nle of any state or states which may
hereafter be created out of said district"
And il was further amended by the adop-
tion Of the following provision offered by
the committee:
THAT all charges for the transporta-
'tion of freight and passengers on rail-
roads In the district Of Alaska shall he
fixed subject TO the approval of the sec
retary of the interior. and when SO ap-
proved shall be printed and posted. as
rod hAsks fnsa 4 stg. .l,.
late commerce as amended on March 2
1889. and new rates Of charges may De
prescribed hy tho secretary of the inte-
rtor from time 10 time as he may deem
necessary
Without completing the bill the senate
az $40 adjourned until tomorrow
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