The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-03-04
SENATOR VEST ON ALAsKA.
He says . R1uio Left at juneau walked II
the Ocean and Committed Suicide.

He says . R1uio LEFT at juneau WaIkea late
tho Ocean and Committed Suicide.
WASHINGTON, March SIN tho Senate to-day
q communication was presented from the Secre.
tary of the Navy. in reply to q resolution of In.
quiry as to tho shipping of machinery from
Hamilton. o., to the Marc Island Navy Yard,
California, by tho Canadian Pacific Railroad.
stating that that transportation was q matter
with which tho department had nothing to do.
the machinery having been shipped by the con.
tractors.
The resolution offered yesterday by Mr..
Mason (Rop., Ill., for a joint committee on the
killing of the United States Postmaster at Lake
City, S. c., was taken up. and referred to the
Committee on Contingent Expenses.
A House bill. authorizing the entry. free of
duties. of a chime OF bells presented by the EN-
peror Of Russia to the Orthodox Russian Church
Of Bridgeport. Conn.,, was reported from the
Finance Committee and passed.
Senate bill for the transfer of the Fort Sidney
military post reserve to the State Of Nebraska
for educational purposes. and Senate bill to
establish an Assay ONCE at Seattle. WASH.
were passed.
Tho House substitute to the Senate Bank.
ruptcy bill was taken, and. on the motion of Mr..
Hoar tRep., Mass.) to disagree and to ask q con.
ference, was agreed to. and Messrs. Hoar. Mel
son and Lindsey were appointed conferess on
The unfnished business-the bill extending
t ass h Shes ,sssn la ap. a to M Mr.. 3 Ts4ass 9 9Po a,a' orej
resumed his speech in favor Of the bill.
After some discussion tho frat section of the
tee amendment to 1t was modified by inserting q
Proviso that no entry shall be allowed extend
naSvigabie water. and that a space Of at least
all such claims. No homestead is TO exceed
fnrtv nNFnI nlaQ I Z h q nm III ! md nr IL M
chiefly valuable for grazing or agricultural pur.
poses, and on such land a homestead of 100
the shore of any naviGable water.
Mr.. Vest Dem. Mo- gave It q, his opinion.
from Iron gersnon naad oos Sc that the :. c ON r u
difficult ever encountered in this country. After
the present ephemeral travel The would not say
would terminate some time or other. there
would be absolutely nothing on which TO pay a
cent OF dividend on railroad Investments There
had never boon able to understand where there
was a right 10 constitute It into a district, The
and a miserably dear purchase 1t was.
Mr.. Vest went on to ridicule the report Of ths
and vegetables in Alaska, and said there wal
nothing there to tempt the cattle raiser or the
wheat grower OF corn grower. As 70 tho pota
that they, were az largo as hickory nuts, and
were filled with water. as all other vegetablel
Mr.. Vest declared that cattle could no more
exist there than they could exist in the air
The soil was 80 damp that the hoofs would rot Off
He was told at Juneau that an army mule which
had been left thero became 30 lonesome that h.
deliberately walked into tho ocean and commit
ted suicide. Laughtcr.l His sympathies wer,
with that mule. During the three weeks that h,
was there he had seen the sun twice, and only fol
an hour on each occasion.
And we are now asked" he said, ito sur
yey this country. for. as q matter of course
there can be no homesteads without surveys
whom you cannot go fifty yards from a water