The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-03-06
CARTER SPEAKS
ON QUAY CASE
He Will Vote to Seat the
PennYslvanian. Y' an:
THE FINANCIAL BILL.
Final Vote on Conference Report Will
be Taken To-Day.
PENSION APPR0P RATION.
The Oath Of Office Administered to
Hon. Thos r, Bard-Mr. Bailey, in
the House, Filibusters on the
Douglass Memorial Associa-
tion and is Rebuked by
the Speaker.
Final Vote on Conference Report Will
be Taken To-Day.
PENSION APPROPRIATION. N.

WASHINGTON, March 5.-A1r Carter,
of Montana. dealt vigorously with the
Quay case in the Senate to-day in the
course of an explanation as TO why he
will vote for the former Senator from
Pennsylvania. He voted against the seat
ing of Mr.. Corbett in the last Congress be-
cause he said, Mr.. Corbett was endeavor-
ing to benefit by wrong perpetrated by
himself. He declared Mr.. Quay was the
victim of a "diabolical plot in his own
State such as had no counterpart IN Amer
lean political history.
Soeeches on the financial bill were
made bv Mr.. Fairbanks, of Indiana, and
Mr.. Butler, of North Carolina. The In
diana Senator demanded the gold standard
and apDlauded the action OF the confer
ence committee, while Mr.. Butler attacked
the pending measure, particularly 1or lhe
power it conferred upon national pahhs.
A final vote on the conference report VIII
be taken tomorrow afternoon at o CLOCK:
Hon Thomas r. Bard, recently elected
senator from California, was administered
the oath of office to-day.
Mr.. Lodge, of Massachusetts,. gave nouce
that he would address the senate 5neA1
Wednesday on the Philippine question
When the routine business had been
concluded, Mr.. Aldrich called up the imam
ciai bill conference report and MI. !eiler
resumed his speech begun last Saturo.s.
Mr. Teller believed that the e1ect OF
the pending bill would not be ruinous. al
though it would be, in his opinion, dlsas-
trous on application greater than tho civil
war The rich v3uld become r1cher,
he said: great fortunes would be built up
b,,t the attiiction would come oy tIe
making of the poor poorer.
PENSION BIDL PASSED.
The pension appropriation bill. carrying
s145. .245,2 $50, was called up, and after some
technical amendments had been MADE,
was passed.
Mr.. Carter then spoke. He regarded
it as against both State and national
4,olicy not ito have every State fully
represented
Mr.. Carter declared that the Mantle,
Allen and Beckwith cases had been decld-
ed by the Senate by political eNpediency.
Mr.. Carter said that for four years
there had been in operation a scheme IN
the tSayte of Pennsylvania to prevent
representation in the Senate If that rep
resentative was to be Mr.. Quay.
81 don't believe said Mr.. Carter, "that
this country has ever witnessed such
another deep. dark. damnable. dlabollc
plot to destroy a mans political ana
private character"
Mr.. Fairbanks then spoke on the pend
1HS report VI Tie SolllCl Ci1SS SoiiAtAAA>
of the financial bill. 'iThe enactment OF
the BILL he said, would put al rest the
monetary question in the United States
for years to come"
Mr.. Foraker, in charge of the Porto Rico
tariff and government BILL gave notice
of amendments to the measure, imposing
duty of five cents a pound upon coffee.
chicory roots and chicory Imported into
Porto Rico, and to prevent the importa-
tation from Porto Rico to the United
States OF goods or products not actually
of Porto Rico origin
Mr.. Butler, Of North Carolina, followed
with a brief general discussion of the
financial question. He particularly at
tackled the power which, he said, was
conferred Supon the national banks by
the pending bill. He declared that under
the provisions of the bills the banks could
Initiate the currency Of the country
SS4, COO O0O. This was dangerous power
to put in the hands of a few men. He
maintained that a currency should be
issued by the government, and not by
the banks, and every dollar should be
I government paper.
After a brief executive session, the
Senate, at 4:45 P. NJ, adjourned.
In tho House.
WASHINGTON, March 5.-Considerable
miscellaneous business was transacted ir
the House to-day. Much of it was of q
| minor character. The most important