The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-03-02

| authorized, in the event CT the refusal
OF the arrnCr plate companies To sup
ply armor at $500 a ton, to proceed 10
the construction OF an amor factory TO
| cost $500, 600, and placing in tie seere-
] tary's control 100000 with when to
| operate the government plant. The
! night for these amendments was made
by Mr.. Tillman (DeEn., ). CO, who made
a Enthusiastically sensational speech
! in support of his petition
! One of the fist acts of the senate,
| when that bovY convened today. was
| the confederation II the bill carrying
| 100000 600 with which to pay Spain for
relnquishing the Philippines. in ac-
! cordance with the treaty Of Paris. Mr..
| Allison qaD reported the measure from
| the committee on appropriations, and
asked for its immediate consideration.
The bill was laid before the senate. and
\ in half a minute was passed, without a
word Of debate.
| Mr. CullOm Of Illinois, a member Of
| the Hawaiian commission. addressed
the senate briefly upon the bill Great
/ ing form Of government for the tar
ritory Of Hawaii.
Mr.. Perkins inquired of Mr.. CullCm
whether any provision existed regard
ing the alien contract laws applicable
to the state and territories OF the Unlc-
ed States
None whatever" replied Mr.. Gull
lom.
Unless we take action before tha
| close of the present session" suggested
| Mr.. Perkins, as many contract labor
! ers as desired may be imported into
Hawaii
Doubtless that is true" replied Mr.
Cullom.
Mr.. Cullom discussed at length the
| acquisition of territory at various
! times In this connection he referred
to Mr.. Hoar as a gentle echo of the
anti-imperialists of former days"
ALIENS vALEDIcToRY.
Mr.. Allen of Nebraska called up the
| resolution of, Mr.. Vest in relation to
acquisition of foreign territory by the
United States, and delivered upon it his
valedictory. Six years ago. he said, he
had entered the senate chamber as the
single member in this body Of a new
| political party.
ITO be pioneer of a new political
| party" said he, was by no means an
easy task But he would retire from
the senate with the. consciousness Of
having done his duty as best ne could
and of not having committed an act or
said word that he would net repeat in
like circumstances
l.
Joint resolution, constituting the act
approved June p. 1890, entitled Al act
granting pensions to soldiers and sail
ors who are incapacitated for the pur-
pose of manual labor, and providing
for pensions to widows minor children
and dependent parents; for the allow
ance of certain claims reported by he
accounting officers of the treasure de-
partment, their claims being known as
the Fourth of July claims.
Consideration of the naval appropril-
ton bill was then begun, the ameaI-
ments of the committee being acted
upon as the measure was read.
The reading of the bill was concluded
at LOO p. m, all the committee amend
ments having been agreed to in the
course of the reading.
SMOKELESS POWDER.
After some formal amendments were
made by the committee and agreed to.
Mr.. Gray of Delaware called attention
to a provision of the bill appropriating
SlOOOOOO for the purchase and manu-
facture of smoke1ess powder. He
deemed it a policy of our people not
to bring the government into cOmpe-
tftfon with private industry He there
fore, offered an amendment, providing
that not more than $4,000 Of the sum
should be expended in manufacture
Mr.. Hale accepted the amendment and
it was agreed to.
Senators Frye, Elkins and White
were appointed as conferees on the riv-
er and harbor bill.
An amendment was agreed to, Gu-
thorizing the secretary OF the navy to
contract for two submarine boats Of
the Holland type. at q cost not to ex-
coed $135,00O each
Mr. Hanna offered an amendment
authorizing the secretary of the navy
in his discretion, to purchase from the
Chatham Torpedo Gun company of
Chicago the gun equipment for one or
more harbor defense monitors. subject
to the usual inspection of the bureau
of ordnance, at a cost not exceeding
S25O,O00 The amendment was agreed
to.
ARMOR PLATE STEAL.
The controversy over the price of ar
NOR plate was then precipitated by Mr..
Tillman, who offered an amendment,
reducing the price fixed by the bill
from $445 per ton to $500. Mr.. Tilman
declared that millions of dollars were
being squandered by the government
in feathering the nests of the arnor
trusts. and he felt that the senate and
country ought to know what kind of
steal was going on" He said it was
perfectly evident that the two Pennsyl-
vania armor plants had a pull" in the
other house of congress. and were able
to hold up the price of armor
Mr.. TillInan favored the doing of the
work by the government, even at an
increased price, for then labor and not
capital would receive the benefits.
Mr.. Chandler, in support OF the
amendment. said the Carnegie and
Bethlehem factories We're in com5ina-
ton and together were in cOmbiua-
ton with European manufacturers.
They We're making desperate effort to
hold up the price of arTnor, and the de-
vice had been resorted to of bringing
forward new armor, which they main
tanned could rot be manufactured for
less than $40 a ton. He did not pro-
pose. he said. to be led away from his
opinion by these statements. He did
not believe that it would cost 500 more
a ton to make the Krupp armor than
to make the HarveyiZed armOr.
Mr.. Tillman's amendment was adopt
ed, 81 to 20.
ARMOR PLANT AUTHORIZED.
Mr.. Butler of North Carolina then Of
fered an amendment providing that if
the companies refused to accept $500
ton, the secretary of the navy should
proceed TO erect an armor factory at a
cost of S1,500,GO0. and appropriating
$4,000, 900 for operating the plant.
Mr.. Buffers amendment was adopt
ed, 80 to %, as follows:
YEAS.
Allen. Nelson,
Bacon, Pascoe,
Safe. Perkins.