The semi-weekly messenger., 1900-06-01
IN THE NAVAL APPROPRIATION BILL
STILL UNSETTLED.
THE HOUSE DECLINES TO YIELD
To This and Other Amendments by the
Senate "A Modification of the Orig
inal Armor Plate Clause The POST
offico Bill Settled senate Agrees to
aS5,OOO,OOO Appropriation to the
Louisiana Purchase Exposition-The
Boer sympathy Resolution.
SENATE.

before adjournment this evening the
senate added to the sundry civil ap-
preparation bill an amendment appro-
priating 5000, 900 for the Louisiana
purchase exposition to be held in st.
Louis in 1903, the condition being that
$40, ,000, 900 in addition be raised by the
exposition authorities. The amendment
was offered by Senator Cockrell, of
Missouri, and was adopted without de-
bate and without division. Because an
amendment offered by him subsequent
ly was stricken out on a point of order,
Senator Gallinger, of New Hampshire,
moved to reconsider the ST. Louis fair
amendment and that motion is now
| pending, but probably will not be
adopted.
Senator Fairbanks, of Indiana, en-
| deavCred to secure consideration of the
bill providing for the extradition of
| criminals from the United States to
| Cuba, but Senator Allison declined to
lay aside the appropriation bill for
that purpose.
No session of the senate will be helS
| tomorrow.
Senator Daniel, of Virginia, present
| ed the credentials Of is colleague,
L
Virginia or the term of six years be-
| ginning on March 4. 1901. They were
| placed on file.
The Teller resolution was then laid
| before the senate and Senator Bacon,
of Georgia, addressed the senate.
No senator could fail, he thought, to
| sympathize with the Boers-such SEN
ators, at least, as are devoted to lib
erty and free government. This is a
! case of two weak republics engaged in
| a struggle for life with the greatest
| empire in the world, of %, 900 or 80, 900
plain farmers in death struggle W;
| an army of 250,000 men.
The pending resolution was, in his
| opinion conservative, proper and not
in any way violative of international
| law.
Senator Davis, chairman of the ccn
! mittee on foreign relations, moved
| that the resolution be referred to the
| committee on foreign relations. TT
| motion was carried-40 to 26.
Consideration OF the sundry civil ap-
preparation bill was resumed. The
| committee amendment relating to the
| enforcement of the contract labor law
| and the Chinese exclusion act, which
had been passed over, was so modified
| as to read that the enforcement of
these laws should be under the su
pervision and control of the secretary
| of the treasury" The amendment then
was agreed to.
Against the committee amendment
providing the adjustment and settle
ment of certain claims Of various states
| arising out of the war of 1872, of
| civil war and of certain Indian wars,
Senator Pettigrew made a point of or
| der that it was new legislation. An
| amendment which he had offered to
include Nebraska and South Dakota,
in the amendment, had been defeated
! The point was sustained.
Senator Daniel took an appeal from
the decision of the chair (Mr. Frye
| and addressed the senate in support of
his appeal, dealing particularly with
the claim of the state of Virginia. S
| Sequently he withdrew the appeal &Ila.
on the point of order the amendment
| went out of the bill.
| Senator Wolcott, of Colorado, mad
| a vigorous and humorous attack upon
| the geological survey. He declared that
| it's work of investigating streams for
| which 1865, 900 had been expended, was
not worth S65 cents. He denounced the
whole scheme as gold brick game.
Senator Butler, of North Carolina,
made an appeal for the adoption of the
section offering an amendment to in
| crease the amount appropriated to
$3.50, 900.
After other speeches defending the
survey, Senator Buffers amendment
|
ment as amended was then agreed to.
| Senator Allison announced that an
| adjournment over tomorrow would
postpone final adjournment at least one
day. On motion of Senator Sewell,
however, the senate decided to adjourn
over until Thursday on account of
Decoration day.
committee amendment authorizing
the president to appoint an architect
and a landscape architect to be aSso-
ciated with the chief of engineers tC
report plans for the enlargement OF
the white house, was agreed to.
The. senate then adjourned until
Thursday.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,
The house today by a vote of 1O7 te
) 124, refused to accept the senate
amendment to the naval appropriation
bill relating to armor plate and adopt
J ed a modified proposition leaving the
| price of armor plate to the secretary
, of the navy with power, in his discre
| ton, to erect an armor plate factory
if he cannot purchase armor at rea
/ Sonable price.
With regard to ocean and lake sur
veys the house refused any appropria
: ton for surveys by the navy ana tiet
up the conferees with instructions. 1
also refused to concur in the senat
amendment to abolish the two years
: sea cruise for naval cadets. With tn
above action the naval bill was sen
t back to conference, the conference re
port on the other items having beel
agreed to.
The conference report on the post
E office appropriation bill agreeing on al
: items except the senate amendment ap
propriating s225,0O0 for pneumati
: tube service was adopted, and tn
house then concurred in the excepte'
amendment. The opponents of the ex
tended service in the house reconcile
their concurrence in this action upol
the ground that the S225, 900 simply car
ried out the existing contract. The bill
now goes to the president.
Mr.. Grosvenor, of Ohio. from tn
committee on rules, presented a specia
rule, ordering the previous question
upon the pension bills, 100 in number
favorably acted upon in committee o
the whole last Friday, the order not {
interfere with conference reports. Nj
Grosvenor explained that the rule wa
made necessary by the obstructive tao
tics of the gentleman from South Car
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