The record-union., 1898-02-27

to assure the Senator from Ohio that so
far as l was concerned the silver queS-
ton had not the slightest weight IN de-
termining my vote in the Mantle case
I voted against Mantle's admission, and
for similar reasons / expect to vote
against the admission of Mr.. Corbeit
Pascoe of Florida said he desired also
I to enter disclaimer to the statement
Iof Foraker He thought. that the roll
call on the Mantle case conclusively IN
timated to him that the silver question
| had nothing to do with the refusal CT
the Senate TO seat Mantle, as seventeen
out OF the thirty-fiye votes against him
were cast by Senators who supported
| Bryan forsthe Presidency. The names
| cf the seventeen are: Berry, Black
| burn, Coke, Faulkner, George, Gibson,
Harris, Kyle, Mills, Mitchell, Pasco,
Murphy, PETER, Smith, Vance, Vest and
| White.
Il am very glad" replied Foraker,
ito have the disclaimers of the Senator
/ from New Hampshire and Florida, and
l accept them absolutely, but l repeat
| that throughout the country the i'm
preston was that the silver question
had a great deal to do with the decis-
| ion in the Mantle case, il it did not con-
| troll it, l wish to say that l did not
have it in my mind to criticise any
| Senator for his vote in that case
At the conclusion of Foraker's speech
| Mills secured the passage of a resoiu-
| ton requesting the President to trans
nit to the Senate the proceedings of
the international Commission and the
subsequent International convention
between the United States and Mexico,
and also the correspondence relating to
| the equitable distribution of the waters
of the Rio Grande River, including the
| incomplete draft of a treaty between
the United States and Mexico.
Mantle of Montana declared his in
tention to support the claims of Corbett
| TO a seat in the Senate. He held that
the right of sovereign State to be
| fully represented at all times in the
Senate was, in his judgment, beyond
| doubt
| a bill to grant the right of way
| through the Indian Territory to the
Denison, Bonham and New Orleans
| Railroad Company for the purpose of
constructing railway was passed
Thurston of Nebraska then called up
| a joint resolution for a commission to
| supervise the collection of fund among
| all the schools and colleges Of the
United States for the purpose of erect
| ing a monument to General LAFAYETTE
/ in Paris, France, the same to be pre-
scented to the French Government and
unveiled on July 4, 1900
| The language of the preamble caused
Hale to inquire what remarkable doc
ument'' was being read.
Thurston explained the resolution.
and then Hale suggested that the pre-
amble be stricken out, as the grand
and lofty tumbling of it's rhetoric" was
q reflection upon the sanity of the SEN
ate. This was agreed to, and the res
olution was passed
| Dill providing that proof of loyalty
! to the union during the rebellion shall
| be dispensed with as a prerequisite to
| the securing of bounty land grants was
also passed
The Senate, then, at $3.50 D. M, on
motion of Pettus, adjourned
HOUSE PROCEEDINGS.
| WASHINGTON, Feb 26.-The House
did not complete the consideration of
the sundry civil bill to-day, but Chair
man Cannon held the floor with it un-
! til adjournment, refusing TO yield to
Boutelle, the Chairman of the Naval
| Committee, who was anxious to secure
considera ton of the bin reported by his
committee for the relief of the victims
and survivors Of the Maine disaster
About twenty pages of the sundry
civil bill were disposed of to-day. Many
efforts We're made by different members
to inject river and harbor items into the
bill, three of them being successful.
Amendments appropriating $500, 900
| for Cleveland Harbor, 5000, 600 for Will
mington. Delaware, and increasing the
appropriation for Boston Harbor from
100000 to S150.000 We're adopted AS
| contracts for this work We're author
| lied, they We're in order until the rules.
| The House resumed consideration of
! the sundry civil bin Immediately after
the reading of the journal, the pending
amendment being that of Tongue (R)
of Oregon. to appropriate 100000 for
Yaquina Bay, Oregon.
| Dockery CD of Missouri vigorously
! opposed the amendment, which he said
would make the Government liable for
! an expenditure of over million dol
lars en- project that was an engineer
| ing impossibility.
The amendment was lost--.'6 to 16.
An amendment approriating $500
600 for the harbor of Cleveland, Ohio,