The San Francisco call., 1898-03-03
Vigorously Defends His Home stead and Railway Right
 of Way Bill.
SUPPORTED BY ELKINS.
Nelson of Minnesota Pleads for the Farmers as Against "Bond-
 Clipping Foreigners"
Special Dispatch to The Call.
Call Office, Riggs House,
 Washington, March 2.

Washington, March 2.
 In the Senate to-day Stewart of Ne vada resumed his speech on the bank ruptcy bill passed by the House, but had not concluded at o'clock. when the Alaska homestead and railway right of way bill was laid before the 1 Senate, and he announced that he would finish tomorrow.
 Carter of Montana, who reported the bill, said that for two days the Senate had been called upon to listen to one of the most remarkable attacks upon a committee of Senators in a speech mak- l ing serious charges against individual | Senators. He declared that it was un- fair; that the Senator who deltV- | cred the speech (Rawlins of Utah) should have withheld it from publica- ton in the Record. inasmuch as 1t was delivered in the course of running de- bate, and he was satisfied that the speech could not be published as deliv- l cred, parallel with the bill itself, with | out affording a complete refutatton of i its charges.
 1 "It will be found by Senator's" said [ Carter, after a careful examination of ! the bill, that of the wholesale charges 1 of dishonest purpose contained in the speech of the Senator from Utah noth- ] ing remains"
 | When Rawlins attempted to speak ] Carter, with some feeling, declined to be interrupted. A moment later, how i ever, he yielded, and Rawlins dis 1 claimed all intention of casting asper- | Sions upon any Senator, and said that 1 Carter's statement was unWarranted by | the facts, as could be shown by the ste nographer's notes.
 Carter then continued his remarks quoting extensively from Government reports from Alaska. He said he thought it remarkable. in view of the struggle of Americans to get into the l Alaska gold fields during the past year that Rawlins should maintain that there was no necessity for the pending | legislation. T had supposed' he con- tinued, that the fact have mentioned was SO widely known that even the Senator from Utah had heard of it"
 At this point Allen of Nebraska re- l synopsis of Rawlins' remarks.
 Rawlins rose to give the synopsis himself, but Carter declined to yield. When. the plutocrat and the Popu- list come together" exclaimed Rawlins bitterly, ''it is time for the Senate to | beware"
 1 Elkins of West Virginia, who had l been waiting during the greater part ot l the afternoon for an opportunity to ad- dress the Senate, said in beginning his remarks that he was glad to see that an effort was being made to exact something from Canada in view of all that the Dominion Government and it's ] corporations received from the United ] States.
 For long years,' said EIkins, Can ada has taken business from our coun- l try and despoiled the business of our railroads, and all this without any proper return. In order to understand the better what I have to say I de- sire to refer particularly to the Cana dian Pacific Railroad"
 When Elkins referred to the military advantages of the Canadian Pacific and it's two trongholds-Halifax and Els i quimalt-Mr. Hoar of Massachusetts 1 interrupted him with the facetious re- 1 mark that the Senator need have no apprehension of the British guns at those points, as they would endanger Americans only in the event of their kicking, as, if any trouble should oc- cur. Americans would be behind those I guns.
 In reply to a question from Lindsay concerning the statement that the Ga nadian Pacific was carrying passengers | from New York to Vancouver for $3C Elkins said that the American roads had received permission from the In terstate Commerce Commission to com pete with the Canadian Pacific in pas- senger rates, but that the Canadian Pacific had declared it's intention of re- ducing the fare to $2S
 In the course of a brief reply to FL l kins Hoar expressed some regret that .Ellkins had brought into the discussion of the pending bill so much matter that | ivrn op% IT with Elkins that the executive depart ments of the Government had the power that should be exercised to pre- vent Canada from imposing upon this country or it's business interests. He also agreed with him that the destruc- tion of the seal herds was a reproacf to civilization, and that the denial o1 the privileges of hospitality to our fish, | ermen was a reproach. He held, too that Canada ought not to enjoy the bonding privilege, which the United | States did not also have, and he per fectly agreed with Elkins that the busi- ness of supplying American citizens in Alaska ought not in any way to be bur- dened by Canadian monopoly.
 Nelson of Minnesota followed HoaI with a sharp protest against Elkins proposition, on the ground that it was aimed at the interests of the farmers ot the Northwest We have he said road trunk lines At the Sarther end ei Lake Superior there is located a great empire of five or six millions of farm CTS, and the interests of those farmers are of far higher consideration than are the interests of the railroads, however important they may be to their owners It was the duty of Congress, he con- tinued, to look after the interests of this vast community and the interests ot the people of New England, rather than the interests of the coupon-clip- | ping foreigners who hold the stocks and bonds of the trunk lines. He asserted that Mir. Ell1ins' proposition was a blow at the American farmer and to get