The record-union., 1898-03-15

August Bolton and Gustav Richelieu.
by the wrongful Imprisonment by the
Spanish in Santiago de Cuba in the
year 1895, and to secure this end he is
authorized and requested to employ
such means or exercise such power as
may be necessary"
The resolution to which objection
was made few days ago, was passed
without debate.
OTHER BILLS PASSED.
Other bills were passed as follows:
To refer certain claims for Indian dep
relations to the court of claims; to
incorporate the National Florence
Crittanden Mission. to provide for the
disposal of the abandoned Fort Shaw
Military Reservation in Montana under
the homestead. mining and other land
laws Of the United States: to pay Hat
tie A. Phillips, widow of John Phil
lips $1,000 for services rendered by
John Phillips in bearing dispatches
from the commanding officer at Fort
Phil Kearney to Fort Laramie in De-
! cember, 1866, after the massacre of the
United States soldiers under Lieuten-
ant Colonel Fetterman by the Sioux
Indians, and by whose services the
garrison at Fort Phil kearney then
surrounded by Sioux Indians, was res
cued and saved from humiliation.
Other measures passed are: To au-
thorize the Secretary of War to loan
tents to the Citizens Committee of
Cincinnati for use in the Thirty Second
Annual Encampment of the CT A. R.;
to pay the heirs of the late John
Roach $500, 1o1 for labor and material,
dockace and detention, etc. of the gun
boats Chicago, Boston and Atlanta; to
provide for the appointment of a COM
mission under the direction of the Sec
rotary of War for preliminary survey,
with plans, specifications and approx
mate estimates of cost thereof for tine
construction of ship canal of APP
proved width and depth from the lower
shores of Lake Michigan to the Wa
bash river.
INTERNATIONAL AMERICAN
BANK
At the suggestion of Foraker of Ohio,
the bin for the Incorporation of the
International American Bank was
called Up.
The bill provides that the bank shall
have capital of 50 100000, which may
be increased to $50, 100000, and that
its main offices shall be in Washing
ton and New York with branches IN
Mexico, the West Indies and in Cen
trail and South America.
Objection was made to the considera-
ton of the bill, but it was read for in
formation, until Cockrell of Missouri
objected even to that.
PENSION FOR MRS. SEAPLE.
A bill to increase the pension of Mrs.
Letitia Tyler Seaple, daughter of Pres
ident John Tyler, to $50 a month, vas
passed as was also the joint resolution
relative TO the appropriation to the
Rouge River, Michigan.
SUCCESSION TO PRESIDENCY.
Hoar of Massachusetts called up a
resolution reported by him from the
judiciary Committee, providing for
the submission to the Legislatures OF
the various States of a proposed
amendment to the Constitution of the
United States, relative to the success
sion to the Presidency. He desired
simply to place in the record certain
information bearing upon the subject,
and briefly to impress Senator'S with
the liability of passing the resolu
ton at an early date, in order to rem
edy q manifest QeIect III the COnSLllu-
ton.
THOSE REVENUE CUTTERS.
A bill was passed authorizing the
Secretary of the Treasury to have con-
structed eight vessels for the revenue
cutie service as follows: One to take
the place of the steamer Seward, cost
not to exceed S160,000; one to take the
place of the McLane, cost not to ex
coed S160, 000; one to take the place Of
the COlfax, cost not to exceed SltD.-
GOO; one to take the place of the Bout
We'll, cost not to exceed Sl6O, 600; one
for service on and in the vicinity of
the Columbia River bar, Pacific Coast,
cost not to exceed $3.50, 600; one for
harbor service at Philadelphia to re-
place the steamer Washington, cost not
to exceed $4,000; one for harbor ser
vice at Boston, to replace the steamer
Hamlin cost not to exceed $40 1000;
one for harbor service at New York,
to replace the Chandler, cost not to
exceed $4,000
AT 2:40 p. M, the Senate, on motion
of Quay, went into executive session,
and soon afterward adjourned