The age-herald., 1899-01-20

gress could or would legislate for it's ter ritories without reference to it's obligations to the constitution. Continuing, he said:
 "The senator from Washington made some remarks today about what l said as to the purpose of the administration. I desire to say here and now that I did not speak for anybody but myself. I desire to say what I did not imagine it would be necessary to say. I was not speaking for the admins tration and the chill that went up and down | the backs of our friends in London was due l perhaps to misapprehension as to which of the Ohio senators was speaking" 1 Q4aughter)
 He said that when he spoke of the &C., tions or possible actions of the president he spoke as one judging from the public utterances of the president and some knowl- edge of his feelings and desires with re- spect to the question in hand.
 Nicaragua Canal Bill
 At the conclusion of Mir Foraker's state- ment, consideration of the Nicaragua canal bill, which had been laid aside temporarily, was resumed. The pending question was | the amendment offered by MT. Allison, of 1 Iowa, authorizing the secretary of the treasury to issue bonds to raise money with which to construct the canal MT. Allison offered substitute for his amend ment in the form of an elaboration of his first proposition. He explained his amend ment and urged that 1t be adopted as safeguard to the interests of the treasury. 1n.reply, MT. Morgan expressed the hope that MT. Allison would not insist upon his amendment, it brought up the question of gold and silver and forced into the dis cussion a financial question much debated among not only senators, but the people. He said he would be quite willing to &C., cept as an amendment the limitation of the annual-expenditure of s20000,000 for canal purposes. This provision, he believed, would take all the strain from the treasury.
 Mir. Chandler took ground against the Allison amendment. He appealed to MT. Allison to withdraw the amendment and have 1t understood that the bills for the ca- nal would be paid when they came in.
 MT. Chiffon opposed the amendment, and called attention to the "pethorc condition of the treasury"
 MT. Allison interrupting him said that the money in the treasury might pass out by July 1. It was impossible to say now how much money might be required during the next six months for the army and navy.
 Morgan's Substitute
 Mr. Morgan then offered the following substitute for Alisons amendment:
 "That the secretary of the treasury is hereby authorized and required to limit the payments of the appropriation made in this act so that such payments shall not exceed the sum of s20, 100000 in any fiscal year"
 Mr. Lindsay believed that if the bill should be enacted it would mean either that the present war taxes would have to be continued or bonds would have to be issued.
 The vote was then taken upon MT. Mor- gan's amendment to the amendment offered by Mr. Allison. It was adopted-34 to 25 as follows:
 Yeas-Berry, Burrows, Chandler, Chiffon, Clay, Daniel, Davis, Deboe, Foraker, Cor man, Harris, Hawley, Heitfeld, Jones (Ar- kansas); Kyle, Lodge, McEnery, Martin, Mitchell, Money, Morgan, Murphy, Nelson, Perkins, Pettigrew, Pettus, Platt, New York; Pritchard, Rawlins, Ross, Sewell, Hurley, Turner, White-34.
 Nays-Allison, Bate, Butler, Caffery Car ter, Cockrell, Cullom, Fairbanks, Gallinger, Gear, Hanna, Hansbrough, Hoar, Mcbride, Mantle, Platt Connecticut. Pc . loup Simon, Teller Thl,rslaa E-1- wa ren, Wellr~-r i-.tt-.J