The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-03-03
crNlT0RS BECOME SPIRITED.
.sE ALASKAN BILL CAUSES a BIT
OF HEATED ARGU MENT.

,ao Them-Mr. EII1ins' Address
peIative TO Section IL of the Bill.
r,e Agercssions of the Canadian
pacific Railroad a Specific Feature
# His Argument-Glad That the
roited statSs VIII BE More Exact
ing with Canada.
Is rashington, March 2.-To-days debate
,be Senate on Alaskan homestead and
auav right of way bill was decidedly
81 :prited.
vr carter of Montana delivered a Wig
.,ors speech in reply to that made during
~ mast two days by Mr.. Rawlins of
rsb in the course of which he made a
,,opg defense of the honor of congress
anal committees and of officials in the
.,sral government departments. AS
.,on as the Senate convened to-day, on
rotion of Mr.. Hale, it went into execu-
i've session.
At12:8o it resumed the open session. The
,onference report on the pension appro-
oropriation bill presented by Mr.. Perkins
was agreed to.
Mr.. Mason of Illinois, Of the committee
a on postoffices and post roads, presented
coneurrent resolution from the commit
zee for investigating the Lake City, s. c.,
postofice murder
On objection by Mr. Allen of Nebraska
the resolution was laid over until to-mor-
row
Mr. Butler of North Carolina introduced
an amendment to the District of Columbia
a Bill appropriating 100000 to be used by
q the Postmaster General to establish and
q equip a modern telephone system among
81 he public offices and buildings in the dis
"a trict,
Mr.. Stewart of Nevada then resumed his
s. sDeech on the bankruptcy BILL passed by
the House.
Mr.. Stewart had not concluded at
q o'clock, when the Alaskan homestead and
railway right of way bill was laid before
the Senate, and he announced that he
would finish his speech tomorrow
Mr. Carter of Montana, who reported
the bill, said that for two days the SEN
ale had been called upon to listen to one
81 Of the most remarkable attacks upon a
committee of senators in Al speech making
serious charges against Individual sena-
tors He declared that it was unfair that
the senator who delivered the speech (Mr.
Rawlns) should have withheld it from
publication in the Record, inasmuch as it
was delivered in the course of a running
debate and ne was satisfied that the speech
could not be published as delivered, paral-
lei with the bill itself, without a complete
Ieutation of it's charges.
1T will he found by senator's said Mr.
Carter after careful examination of the
BILL that of the wholesale charges of dis
honest purpose contained in the speech of
the senator frobn Utah, nothing remains
When Mr.. Rawlins attempted to speak,
NT. Carter with some feeling declined TO
be Interrupted. A moment later, how
ever he yielded and Mr.. Rawlins dis
claimed all intention of casting dispersion
On any senator, and that Mr.. Carriers
statement was unwarranted by the facts
rs could easily be shown by the stenogra-
piers notes.
Mr.. Allen requested Mr.. Carter to give
the Senate synopsis of Mr. Rawlins' re-
marks.
Mr.. Rawlins rose to give the synopsis
himself, but Mr.. Carter declined to yield.
81 when the plutocrat and the populist
comes together" exclaimed Mr.. Ra@lins
a bitterly lit is time for the Senate to be
81 ware"
Mr.. Carter made no reply to Mr.. Raw
ins remarks Further along in his speech,
ne said: Il resent the irnputation, advance
a "a as means for defeating legislation,
mat any official of this government would
oShonestly take advantage of his office,
or OF the authority conferred upon him 10y
tls bill, in favor of his friends as has
Il been suggested .
Mr.. EIkins of West Virginia who had
4 Deen awaiting during the greater part of
I"e afternoon for an opportunity to ad-
oFess the Senate, said in beginning his re-
marks that he was glad to see that an eff
1orl was being made to exact something
from canada in view of all the dominion
government and its corporations received
from the United States. That part of sec
,Ioh 10 OF the pending bill to which MIR. Ell
E!nS particularly referred and upon which
ins remarks were principally based pro-
Niaes that the privilege of entering goods
under bond, or of placing them in bonded
warehouses; t the port of Wrangell, in the
uislrlet of Alaska, and of Withdrawing the
same Tor expectation to any place in Brit
lsn columbia or the northwest territory
".lhout payment of duty is hereby grant
eu 10 the government of the Dominion of
canada and its citizens, when, upon proc
aHatlon by the President of the United
STATES II shall appear that no exclusive
privilege of transportation through British
Columbia or the northwest territory goods
Vi passengers arriving from or destined
Ior Inc ports in Alaska has been. or will
pe' granted to any person or corporation
SONCiuIlSill VI the DOullulOn VI
Canada"
For long years" said Mr.. Elkins, Can
qua mas taken business from our country
IUu despoiled the business of our rail
Ioaas and all this without any proper re-
urn. In order TO understand the better
what have to say l desire to refer par
ucuiarly to the Canadian Pacific Rail
"r. Elkins explained that the Canadian
acme was enabled to make war upon
-NHerlcan interests, and how and why the
assfessions of that great railroad ought
w. nc stopped by the United States,
-dI' Eikins' speech aroused much inter-
-, particularly that part in which he ex-
p.aiHed that he did not frame the now
1lamous section % OF the present tarif
ia"' but stood squarely with the sterling
AtHeIlcan who did frame it.
IN conclusion, Mr.. Elkins said that VIC
were on the Threshold of a commercial
war among nations for extension of com
MERGE The conflict is inevitable. 1T
seems now" said he, "as if the United
plates would have 10 meet this war single
naHaed, asking no favors and expecting
zone While we do not court such a con-
I lie'' we need not shrink from it. The con
"ldohs as to our shipping and our com