The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-03-15
ROUTINE IN THE SENATE
Several Bills on the General CAL
endar Passed.
NEW REVENUE CUTTERS
The Senate Authorizes the Construction
of Eight-Naval Affairs Committee
Has Taken No Action on Maine
Investigation Resolution.

Washington, March 14.-During the ses-
sion of three hours to-day the senate
passed a considerable number of bills
from the general calendar, among them
being one to authorize the construction
of eight new revenue cutters not exceed
ing in cost the sum of 81 %, coo.
The national quarantine bin was made
the regular order of business and will be
taken up probably on Wednesday.
Allen inquired of Chandler what the ma
val affairs committee had done regarding
the investigation of the Maine catastro-
phe, as provided by his resolution some
weeks ago. Chandler said yet the COM
mittee had taken no action regarding the
investigation. He could not speak for the
committee. but expressed the opinion that
the policy would be to await the action
and findings of the naval court of i'm
CURRY. He called attention TO the interest
ing fact that naval courts have no au-
thority under the law to compel wit
nesses to testify or punish them ii they
should refuse. He thought the naval
committee ought to be empowered to
force testimony from witnesses or make
them suffer penalty for refusal.
The conference report on the army APP
preparation bill was reported by Quay
and agreed to.
The senate then passed the following
measures; Amending the act to permit
the use of right of way through public
lands for tramroads, canals and reser-
soirs: permanently locating the capital
of New Mexico at Santa Fe; granting TO
the Kettle River Valley railway a right
of way through the north half of the
Golville Indian reservation in Washing
ton, and relating TO leases on the Hot
Springs reservation.
At this point Mr.. Lodge of Massachu-
sets of the foreign relations committed
called up the joint resolution for the re-
lief of August Bolton and Gustave Rich
ellen.
Tho resolution as reported from the
foreign relations committee is as follows
THAT the president of the United States
Is hereby empowered TO take such meas
ures as in his judgment may be necessary
to obtain the indemnity from the Span
ish government for the wrong and injury
suffered by August Bolton and GustaNe
Richelfeu by the wrongful Imprisonment
by the Spanish in Santiago de Cuba in
the year 1885, and to secure this he is au-
thorixed and required TO employ such
means or exercise such power as may be
necessary" The resolution. to which OBJ
lection was made a few days ago, was
passed without debate.
Other bills were passed as follows: TO
refer certain claims, for Indian depreda-
tions to the court ofsclams; 10 incorpo-
rate the National Florence crittenden
abandoned Fort Shaw military reserva-
tion in Montana under the homestead
mining and other land laws of the United
States; TO pay Hattie A. Phillips, widow
of John Phillips $1,000 for services render
ed by John Phillips in bearing dispatches
from the commanding officer at Fort PHI
kearney TO Fort Laramie in December
1866. after the massacre OF the United
States soldiers under Lieutenant Colonel
Fetterman by the Sioux Indians and by
whose services the garrison al Fort Phil
kearney, then surrounded by Sioux In
dians. was rescued and saved from an-
inhalation.
Other measures passed are: To author
ize the secretary of war 10 loan tents to
the citizens committee of Cincinnati for
use during the 32d annual encampment
of the q. A. r.. TO pay the heirs Of the
late John Roach $3.50 Isl for labor and ma
terial. dockage. detention, etc, of the
gunboats Chicago. Boston and Atlanta; 10
provide for the appointment of commits
sion under the direction of the secretary
of war for the preliminary survey. with
plans, specifications and approximate es-
Inmates of cost thereof for the construc-
tion of ship canal of approved width
and depth from the lower shores OF Lake
Michigan to the Wabash river.
AT the suggestion of Mr.. Foraker of
Ohio the bill for the Incorporation of the
International American bank was called
up. The bill provides that the bank shall
have a capital of $1,000. 900, which may be
increased to $40, 600 600. and that its main
Offices shall be in Washington and New
York, with branches in Mexico. the West
Indies and in Central and South America.
Objection was made to the consideration
of the bill. but IL was read for informal
ton, until Mr.. cockrell of Missouri OBJ
Jected even to that.
A bill to increase the pension of Mrs
Letiria Tyler Seaple, daughter of presi-
dent John Tyler. to $50 a month, was
passed, as was also the joint resolution
relative TO the appropriation to the Rouge
river, Michigan.
Mr.. Hoar of Massachusetts called up a
resolution reported by him from the jul
dietary committee providing for the SUBJ
mission TO the legislature of the various
states of a proposed amendment to the
constitution of the United States relative
TO the succession 10 the presidency. lie