Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-02-28
ARMY BILL PASSES,
CONTINUED FROM FIRST PACED

$40 90 90. and would not be a proper In
| demnity fOr the war / ask now whether
| such dispatch was sentf
Mr. Frye. one or the Peace Commits
! sioners. There was not.
Mt Vest: Is the statement true or false
Mr. Frye: IL is not true.
Mr.. Vest: Was there not dispatch sent
I that nothing less than the Island or LII
z0n would De accepted
/ Afr. FRYE. The instructions Of the Presl-
/ dent when we started out were 70 take
LuE0n.
SIR. Vest. Was no mention made OF
I Porto Rico not being sufficient indemnity
I for the war;
/ Nfr. Frye: None at ALL The Senator has
heard read I'm executive session every teie-
/ gram. cable. and letter 81 instruction that
/ passed between the President and the
I Peace Commissioners.
Mr.. Vest The statement 7 have made
/ was published IN the imperialis'ic press
] Of the country. and 90 has never been
/ contradicted until the Senator Fryel con-
/ tradicted II now.
Mr. White. OF California. followed Mr.
/ Vest IN support OF the bill.
STRENGTH OF COMPANIES.
Among the amendments offered to the
bin was one by Mr. Cockrell. striking out
the minimum number in companies OF
the various branches Of the Service. As
reported from the committee the bill
provided that the minimum number or
privates GA troops OF tho cavalry service
should be forty-three; that the minimum
tn each battery OF artillery should be
hfty-one and in each company OF in-
fantry f0rty-eight. The effect OF Mr..
C0ckrelTs amendment is % fix these num-
bers as the maximum instead of the
minimum allotted 20 each company.
The amendment was accepted.
CAFFERY AGAINST ARMY INCREASE.
MT Caffery made an argument against
an Increase I'm the standing army. He
declared &c was an extolling Of the military
calling, Of militarism, which was forbidden
fruit which had led 20 the destruction
OF republics I'm the past. The American
republic he declared. wanted no great
standing army. They wanted nothing but
= nucleus around which our citizen sol
diery could rally.
Mr.. Cafery discussed. also. tho policy
Of expansion. He declared that this was
q war OF paradoNes We had started out
tO release the Cuban "reConcentradOes.
and had now come 90 the point OF shoot
ing down F1lipinos with Calling guns.
Maxim guns. and every sort or instrument
0f scientific murder He maintained that
the fatal mistake which had been made
was that The United States had not ape
piled 20 the Philippines the slme res0lu-
lions that had been applied 10 the Cub1ns.
GORNAN SETS TIME LIMIT
Mr. German offered the following
amendment as o. provision of section D.;
"rhat each and every provision of this
act shall continue iu force until July J.
1901. and on and after that date all tine
general stan and line officers appointed
90 the army under this act shall be dis
charged and the members restored in
each grade 90 those existing at tho pass
are OF thls act. and the enlisted force Of
the line OF the army shall be- reduced 20
the number provided for by law prior tO
April I. iNS. exclusive OF such additions
ms have been or may be made under this
act to the artillery. except the cadets
provided for by this act who may Doe
appointed prior Co July ]. 1901, ana, pro-
vdod. further that nO officer who has
been or may he promoted under existing
law or under the rules of seniority shall |
De disharrod OF hIs rank
Tho amendment was adoptcd-SS 10 O.
SITUATION slMpLuIED
Nr Bacon. of Georgia. said that The /
adoption OF the German amendment sim- /
p.iued thc situation. This bin would place /
an annual expenditure Of 100000 upon /
thar thc uar iu the Philippine WAS au
wunl.y war. Dec fclt b. hs duty to support
the BILL and would do so.
Alr Iausbr0ush offered 2n amendment.
providing chat 300 enlisted man should he
employed 10 cell liquor iu amy cauteeu or
army post 10 was agreed to.
SPECIAL CAVALRY REGIMENTS
An amendment offered by Mr. Carter
provided that three 0f the provisional
regiments. at the discretion or the Pre-i-
dent should bee cavalry whose memb =
should be particularly proficient in horse
manship and marksmanship the regi-
menu to serve mounted or damounted.
IL was agreed 90.
THE debate was continued until
O'clock when th. BIN w8s passed oo tO
II-the vote iu detail being Hs follows
Yeas M-ssrs Allen. Allison. Bacon.
Burr1w-. carter. Chandler Clark. Cock
reI Cmlom Ieb0e. Ela.ns Fairbanks.
Faulkner Foraker Frye GaIineer Gear
German. Hanna. liansDfllsn H1ir-.
fltNIeF Heitfeld. Jones of NeFdda. Lind
,8v. Lodge Mcbride 81 Emery. Aciau-
rib. Mallory Mantle Mitchell Money.
Af0rgau. Murphy Nelson. Fasco. Perkins.
peffus PLATE of Connecticut Plat OK New
York prfrhard. Proctor RawIlns Roach.
Ross seWeU sH1up simon. Smith.
spo0nlr. Stewart. Teller Warren, and
WeI'nEtoU. ID.
No.s Nss.Is B1fo Berry Butler Caf-
f.r- Chiffon clay Dil.-I iloar Martin.
l.ffIsrsw. hurley }esr and Wuite-3
VIRGINIA LAND WARRANTS.
Confederation or ths sundfy-oiYi 1pprJ-
Dr.atIon tul was begun an l.5 j. S. The
Committee on APPROPRIATION offered tle
following amendment % tna bIl which
was aereeI f1. and tns owners or hold
ar. qf all outstanding military land war
rants. ana au parts 0f such warrants ds
allowed issued by the State VI virginia
f8r military services performed by the
officers and soldiers. or seameu and m4-
rfnes. OF the virginia State and CONT
mental Zines ln th- army or navy of tle
Revolution. are hereby notified and r.-
quifad DO present and surrender them t9
the Secretary m the Interior within
twelve months from tne passage 0r flIa
aet for bis action uader the provisions
of the act entitled AN act making fur
Their provision FOR the safisflrfl0u of VIE
zIula laud-warrauts' approval August 81,
lEz And all such warrants oi parts OF
n1t ~ presented and surrender
sd 10 the Secretary % the Interior shall
b. forever barred anl invalid
AT the conclusion 9f the reading On Che
bm Az go T.. a.. nearly alb Of the come
.1ltfee Commandments having been agreed
-0. the bil Was iaid aside
EARLY .IEETING TODAY
10 was decided that tn- Senate should
convene az Do O'Clock fo-mqrfo" morning
The announcement was made " tls
Death ~ HepresentatiF~ Dennis 81. H4r-
-g. ~ New YORK and SIT p.atL W Sew
york. prss-ufed the usual resolutions ~
regret 4 committee was named 20 at-