The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1900-05-19
In the Senate.


following resolution:
Resolved, by the senate. That the
committee on relations with Cuba is
hereby ordered to investigate and re-
FORT to the senate as early as prac-
teal regarding the moneys reserved
and expended in the island of Cuba by
and through the officials of the United
States, both civil and military, from
the date of occupation of Cuba by the
military forces of the United States,
until and including the 30th day of
April, 1900"
By a close vote the senate Saturday re-
jected the proposition to erect, without
reference to the price at which the gov
eminent could secure armor plate for its
warships, an amor plate factory. The vote
upon the direct proposition was p to "A
and subsidiary amendments were rejected
by about the same vote. When the COM
mittee's proposition was about to be voted
upon a filibuster was organized, the quo
rum of the senate was broken up and the
question is still in the air. During the
debate Senator Chandler delivered a SEN
sational speech, in which he charged that
the government had been defrauded in the
adoption of the Harveyized armor. He
declared a similar fraud was proposed in
the attempt to force the government to
admit the Krupp armor.
Senator Spooner and Senator Hale made
speeches deprecating the war talk yes
terday by Senator Lodge. Neither the
senator from Wisconsin nor the Senator
from Maine were fearful that we might
become involved in difficulties with Ger
many on account of the Monroe doctrine.
Senator Hoar protested against the
'swretched imperialistic business" and the
talk that this nation had only recently
become "world power" asserting that
it had been a world power since the war
of 1912.
The senate Monday resumed the con-
sideration of the naval appropriation bill
and by vote of 80 to 10 adopted the COM
nittee amendment relating to armor plate.
1t provides for the payment of $545 per
ton for three ships and $445 for the Others.
If the armor can not be obtained at the
latter price, the secretary of the navy is
directed to build an armor plate factory.
The senate committee on interoceanic
canals ordered favorable report on the
Nicaraguan canal bill as it passed the
house.
A motion was made to report the bill
and without debate the vote was taken.
Senators Morgan, Mcbride, Harris and
Turner voting in the affirmative and Sen
ator Hanna in the negative.
The senate committee on commerce or
dered favorable reports on the amend
ments to the sundry civil appropriation
bill, appropriating $250,00O for an emer-
gency expenditure on the Missouri river
and the same amount for the mouth OF
the Columbia river.
The later developments in the Cuban
postal scandals have produced feeling
among a number of senators and represen-
tatives that congress has not been treated
in all respects with entire frankness by
some of the officials of the war department
which is especially charged with the adj
ministration of civil affairs in Cuba, as
well as in the Philippine archipelago, and
until recently, in Puerto Rico.
A sensation was sprung in the senate
Tuesday soon after that body convened
! Scarcely had the routine business been
concluded when Mr.. Clark of Montana
rose and addressed. the chair ON a ques
ton of personal privilege to himself.
) Acting upon my own judgment, and
holding no one responsible for the result
! l have concluded to place my resignation
III the hands of the chief executive Of
Montana, and l here submit a copy o.
. the letter addressed to him, under date
OF May IL, and which is now in his
, hands"
! After reading his letter to the governor
of Montana resigning the office, Senator
, Clark concluded by saying:
} Mr. President, l desire in retiring
from the senate to state that have herr
+ formed some warm friends whom L re
greet to leave. l have received from thu
? honorable presiding officer the most cour
/ teous attention. L am deeply sensible
l of the generous sympathy and support o
5 almost all of my democratic colleagues
4 and for the cordial good wishes of grea
e number of my republican friends, wisl
to express my profound gratitude"
Resolution Not Taken Up.
, At the conclusion of Clark's speec
| many of the senators crowded around hin
and shook his hand most cordially. A
soon as order was restored Senate
, Chandler asked that the consideration G
the resolution declaring the seat vacan