The Portland daily press., 1898-03-04

fion from Mr.. William Henry 1errls OF
the Harvard Divinity school, giving the
proceedings of a mass meeting Of colored
citizens of Boston held on February 25 to
exDress adherence Of the action OF the
south Carolina mob.
Mr.. Allen charged Mr.. Lodge with in.
PRODUCING politics into the discussion OF
the. resolution and thought the communl-
cation ought to bo read by the clerk. 1t
was read however, and then Mr.. Lodge
said that the act referred to, met with the
reprobation of men of all parties and he
would not in any way introduce politics
into it.
he hoped the resolution would go to the
committee without discussion. The state
aufhori6ies were exceedingly active in
their Investigation of the crime and he
was assured that every effort was Eeing
made to bring the perpetrators OF the out
rage to justice.
Mr. Hawley of Connecticut said the
crime was clearly brought within federal
jurisdiction by the fact that 1t was a
federal official who had been murdered
and government property that had been
destroyed.
The resolution was then referred to the
com mittee on contingent expenses.
Bills were passed as follows: Granting
free entry to o set of bells presented by
the Gear Of Russia 20 the Orthodox Rus
sian church at Bridgeport, Conn. to
provide for the transferaof the Fort sgd.
ney Military Post reserve to the state OF
Nebraska, for educational purposes and TO
establish an assay office at Seattle, Wash.
The motion of MIR. Hoar of Massaohu-
sstts to non-ooncur In the House amend
lnents to the House bankruptcy bill was
laid before the Senate and Mr.. stewart
Of Nevada, resumed his speech on the
House measure.
At the conclusion of his speech, Mr..
Stewart offered resolution that the SEN
ate conferees be instructed to 1nsIstsupon
the Senate bill The resolution created
some debate of a parliamentary character.
Mr.. Stewart withdrew his resolution,
and Mr.. Hoar's to non-concur IN the
House amendments to the tankruptcy
bill and that a committee on conference
be appointed was adopted.
The Vice President appointed Messrs.
I{oar Nelson and Lindsay conferees OF the
Senate on the bankruptcy bill.
The Alaska homestead and railway
right of way bill was then taken up and
MIR. Turner of Washington addressed the
Senate He recognized, he said, the
necessity of some such legislation as that
proposed, because 100, ,000 adult Americans
were preparing to go into Alaska and II
proper transportation facilities were not
provided it would be cruel, short sighted
policy.
hedqed about the transportation com.
panies as the restrictions placed upon
them by the bill were even more ssvcre
than those placed upon them by the gen.
eal law.
10 meet point advanced by Mr.. Tur.
ner. Mr. Carter of Montana, in charge OF
the bill offered committee amendment
retaining the first section of the House
hill except wherein it provided for the ap-
proval of the President, and modified the
committee amendments with proviso,
<sthat no entry shall be allowed extending
more than forty rods along the shore OF
any navigsble water and along such shore
at Ieas forty rods shall be reserved from
entry between all such claims. The COM
iuittee amendment was adopted.
A fter the section was amended Nr. Vest
of Missouri moved TO strike out the entire
section. He said that he desired to test
the sense Of the Senate on the proposition
To extend the homestead laws to the dis
trict OF Alaska.
THE construction of railroads would be
a most difficult and expensive under
taking HI. thought that after the ephe.
neral gold seeking rush had subsidized
there would he no possible reason fer the
construction OF railroads in Alaska. Mr..
Vest ridiculed the report made by Rev.
DR., Sheldon Jackson upon the agricul-
ture of Alaska. Alaska, he declared was
not an agricultural section and it could
never be made one. In that great section,
two and u half times larger than Texas
and ten times larger than Georgia there
was not single farm, yet the report of
DR.. jackson pictured the wonderful
toes and the remarkable cabbage pro-
duced there.
MIR. Vest said he knew something OF
those. potatoes and cabbages. The potatoes
were large and full of water. He saw
oabbages that spread over the ground like
the blanket of Sanoho PanNa and cauli-
flower that weighed twenty-five pounds,
yet when they were cut they contained
nothing but water.
AS to the grasses which DR.. jackson
referred to, it wass' vegetable blasphemy TO
compare them with the blue grass of Ken
tucky." He thought the purchase of
\ Aiaska for 81 800, coo had been made reck-
Iessly and heedlessly. Since 1891 it had
cost the government S4l 900, and there
had been paid to "Rev. Sheldon Jack
son. D. D, LII. D., missionary to Aleuts
and managers of reindeer, 500, 600 for
spending his winters in Washington and
his summers in Alaska.
The motion of Mr.. Vest to strike out
the first section was by an aye and nay
vote defeated 81 to Is.
Section two of the bill was amended by
the insertion of declaratiEsn that "all
such rights tide lands ana beds of navi-
gable rivers, ''shail continue to be held
by the United States in trust for the
people of any state or states which may
hereafter be created QUO of said district. -
And it was further amended by the adop-
ton of the following provision offered by
the committee: That all charges for
the transportation Of freights and passen-
gers on railroads in the district of Alaska
shall be fixed subject to the approval of
the Secretary of the Interior and when SO
approved shall be printed and posted as
required by section six of the act to regu.
late commerce as amended on March 2,
1889, and new rates of charges may be
prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior
from time to time as ne may deem neoes-
saTy."
without completing the bill the Senate
at s. 45 p. m. adjourned.
NEW CABINET OFFICER WANTED. g
Washington, March 3.-The Senate
committee on commerce today listened
TO arguments on behalf of the National
Tl-,ei176cs TaoC,1a and the National Boar