The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1898-03-22
with their salaries and the amounts
Ct their claims in proof of this.

with their salaries and the amounts
oI M their claims in proof of this.
seMr. Cousins, Republican Of Iowa,
changed the whole tenor of the debate at
thls Juncture by the delivery Of a brief,
but eloquent tribute to the American
sailors who went down with the Maine.
Mr.. Cousins said:
Ihe measure now proposed is most
appropriate and just, but hardly is 1t
mentionable in contemplation of the
great calamity to which it appertalns.
lt will be merely an incidental, execu-
tive footnote to a page of history when
VIII be open to the eyes OF the Repupnc
and of the world for all time to come.
NO human speech can add anything to
the silent gratitude-th speechless rever-
ence already given by great and CRATE
ful nation to it's dead defenders and to
their living kim"
After paying high and fowery tribute
to the men of the Maine. MIR. Cousins
closed with these words
"Hovering about the dark waters of
that mysterious harbor of Havana, the
plack winged vulture watches for the
related dead, while over it and over all
there is the eagles piercing eye, sternly
atehing for the truth. Whether the
appropriation carried by this resolution
shall be ultimately charged to fate or
to come foe, shall coon appear. Mean
while patient and a patriotic people
enlightened by. the lessons OF our history
remembering the woes of war, both to the
vanQuished and victorious, are ready for
the truth and their duty"
The Senate bill to satisfy the claim of
the legal representatives John Roarh,
amounting to 1881, ISL, for labor. material
and dockaae furnished by Roach & CO.,
and the occupation of his yards by the
gun boats Chicago. Boston and Atlanta,
was taken up out of its order and long
and bitter fight followed.
Without action upon the claim the
committee rose.
At O'Clock the House took recess
until o'clock, the evening session to be
devoted to the consideration of private
pension bills.
There was tremendous round of ap-
plause when Mr.. Cousins concluded his
beautiful tribute.
MIR. Wheeler, Democrat of Alabama,
followed in a tremendous strain, con-
cluding with the declaration that is was
God IS will that Cuba should be free.
Mr.. Cannon's amendment was lost
without division.
MIR. Bailey offered an amendment to
insert the word dependent before
parent or parents in the section making
them the benefciaries under the bill in
certain contingencies It was rejected
go to 106 as was another to strike out the
words land if there be no parent, the
brothers and sisters, etc. Without
further amendment the bill was then
passed unanimously.
Mr. Mesick, Republican of Michigan,
from the committee on elections, No. 8,
presented the majority report in the
contested election cases of Wise VS..
Young. The report is in favor of the
contestant. The minority. was given ten
days in which to tile their report The
House then went into committee of the
whole and took up the private calendar.
At the night session 19 bills were favor
ably acted upon.
IN THE SENATE.
Washington, March 21.-No business of
general Importance was transacted by
the, Senate today and quite unexpectedly
O'clock. A batch of bills from the gen.
aral calendar was passed, but aside from
that only routine business was accom-
plished.
After the transaction of some routine
business, Mr.. Bacon of Georgia, intro
fducet an amendment which ne an
nounced he would offer to the resolution
providing for the annexation of the
Hawaiian islands to the United States.
The amendment provides that the reso-
luton shall not be effective until the
question of annexation shall have been
submitted to the qualified electors of
Hawaii and passed upon affirmatively
by them. The amendment is the same
which MIR. Bacon offered to the hawaiian
treaty.
Mr. Allen of Nebraska secured the pas
sage of a resolution calling upon the
secretary of the interior for information
as to the number of all classes of all
pensioners, including the percentage of
men and women and children, carried
on the pension rolls. In behalf of his
colleague Mr.. Ihurston of Nebraska,
Mr.. Allen announced that on Thursday
at the conclusion of the morning busi-
ness, Mr.. Ihurston woald address the
Senate on the condition Of affairs on
the island ofsCuba.
Among the bills Iassed were the fol-
lowing: 10 confer jurisdiction upon
the United States circuit courts to certain
cases; to remit the penalty of s32, ,s2s im-
posed upon the Union Iron MOrks of San
Francisco, because on the official trial
of the Monterey the required horsepower
was not maintained; to pay to the Union
Iron Works of San Francisco for extra
work on the Monterey, $l4, TAG; to pro-
vide for promoting Capt. VIM. N. listall
u. S. A., now on the retired list to the
rank of major; to amend section 1870 of
the Revised Statutes Of the United States
relating to the Medical Corps of the navy,
and providing that persons appointed to
Unc Naval MoulCdl COrpS Sittll DS WlUuiu
q and 80 years old, and to authorize the
use of dispositions before naval courts in
certain cases.
On motion of Mr.. Hoar of Massachu-
setts, the Senate then at 1.45 p. M, went
into executive session and at 1.55 p m.
adjourned.
NAVAL BILL COMPLETE.
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