Arizona republican., 1899-02-25
STAND BY THE CANAL
Senate FdVOrS if By Most
 Decisive VOfe.
Silver ObSfruCtiODiSfS Fail 10 Secure Any Following in their Effort 10 Block Progress on fhe Great Infer-OCean Waterway.

Washington, Feb 24.-After q ses- sion of nearly eight hours today, the senate this evening at 6:3O o'clock passed the river and harbor bill by the decisive vote of 50 to 8. The measure was undeq consideration | throughout the day and on several committee amendments a determined fight Twas made, but in every instance the opposition availed nothing
 The sharpest contest arose over the Nicaragua canal bill amendment. A p1fnt of order was made against it, that it was general legislation, but the senate, to which the vice-president submitted the point, overru!ed it. It was then attacked as not being rele- want to the river and :,aE bor measure, but this, too. was overruled by the senate. MT. Pettigrew, silver repuDli- can of South Dakota, MT. Rawlins, democrat of Utah, and MT. Teller, sill yer republican Of Colorado, vigorously attacked the bill, their opposition be ing directed especially againse the canal amendment. The statement was made that the measure e would never see the light of day in the house and that the canal would net be built un- der the proposition inserted in the bill.
 During the afternoon MT Sewell of New Jersey delivered speech in sup port of the Hul:-Hawley army reorga- nization bill, in the course of which he declared that the United States was ROW as much at war in the Philippines as it was with Spain when our army was before Santiago. He expressed the belief that it would require an army of 50 000 men to control the Fili- pinos, and that we were likely yet to have serious trouble in Cuba.
 MT. Tillman presented to the senate a letter from Octavius A. White of New York, offering to the senate three notable paintings of revolutionary war scenes by Ma Whites father. MT. Tillman said he had referred the mat ter to the committee on litTary of the senate, which had considered the sub ject- The paintings had been seEt to this city and were pronourced to be| really works of art.
 MT. Hansbrough, acting chairman of the library committee, offered a 1leso- lutiOn accepting the paintings and pro- viding for suitably hanging them in the senate wing of the capitol. The resolution was adopted.
 The paintings accepted by the sen ate are the product of the late John Blake White of South Caro1ira. As de- scribed by the letter of Dr. White, ''one of the pictures is the famous one representing General Marion inviting a British officer to share h.s meal of sweet potatoes, roasted in the ashes Of his camp fire.
 ''The second enc dertcts the scenes where Sergeants Jasper and Newton, members of Martens band, unaided, rescued a body of American prisoners who were being conducted by a force of British soldiers to the prison camp at Savannah. The female in the fire ground was the wife of enc of the prisoners, whc devotedly accompanied her husband.
 ''The thi-d represents the patriotic action of Mistress Motte of Edge Hill district, South Carolina, in furnishing to General Marion and Light Horse Harry Lee fire ar.Ows with which to destroy her own mansion, then held by the British and used by them as fort"