The age-herald., 1900-05-01
Senate Refuses to Consider il by
 Vote of 29 to 20.
ALASKAN CIVIL CODE BILL
Appeal in Behalf of Garter Amend ment-OpposedG Gobbling Up
 of Claims of Aliens

olution introduced by MT. Pettigrew of South Dakota, which was before the sem ate last Saturday. The motion was defeat- ed by a vote of 29 to 20.
 The conference report on the joint reso- lution relating to the administration of civ il affairs in Porto Rico and providing for the appointment of temporary officers on l the island was agreed to.
 | During the greater part of the session the Alaskan civil code bill was under consid eration, but no progress was made.
 A house bill authorizing both the district and circuit courts of the United States for l the southern district of Mississippi to be | held at Biloxi Miss, was passed. 1 Resolutions offered by MT. Jones of Ar kansas were agreed to calling for informa- l tion regarding alleged irregular practices
 of William H. Theobald, special treasury agent at New York.
 l MT Pettigrew, after ascertaining that his
 resolution expressing sympathy for the Beers, which was before the senate when the body adjourned on Saturday, had gone | to the calendar, moved to take up the res oution. On this motion the ayes and nays | were demanded. It was defeated by vote of % to 20.
 1 tablishment of the intersection of the true one-hundredth meridian with Red river to ascertain the amount of taxes contained by Texas in what was formerly known as Greer county, and the expenditures made on account of said county by the state of Texas and for other purposes. In explanation of the bill, 1t is stated that for a long time the county of Greer was | in dispute between the state of Texas and Oklahoma territory, and during the pen | dency of the dispute the expenditures of | the court and of the system of education | in Greer was paid out of the treasury of | Texas. The bill as passed lays the foun-
 dation for claim against the United
 States for the money thus expended by the | state of Texas.
 | Alaskan Code Bill | Consideration was resumed on the Alas
 kan civil code bill, the pending question
 being the amendment of Mr. Carter of
 Montana, in charge of the bill.
 | MT. Jones of Arkansas offered an amend
 ment, striking out of MT. Carter's amend
 ment all but the following:
 That nothing in this act contained shall
 be construed as changing the existing
 mining laws of the United States" | MT. Turner was opposed to MT. Jones' | amendment. He declared that hundreds and | thousands of claims in the Cape Nome dis
 trict had been located by persons in the | interest of various transportation com
 panes and were now held by those con-
 panies. He said these locations were 'il-
 legal and fraudulent, and were therefore | a proper subject of legislation by con- | gress." He further declared, in response to | inquiries, that these claims were located
 by aliens in the employ of the North | American Transportation company and | other transportation companies
 When pressed as to how he knew these | locations were fraudulent and illegal"
 he said he understood a majority of the | locators who were employees of the trans-
 portation companies were aliens.
 Mir. Turner maintained that the whole country in the Cape Nome district had been | "gobbled' up in the interest of these big | companies, which were now holding the | claims to the .detrment of hundreds of | American miners. He had read a letter | from an American miner who had been in Cape Nome saying that the Laplanders who | had gone to the district in the employ of | the United States had been employed by
 the transportation companies to locate
 these claims, the companies paying about $2 claim for the locations.
 The Carter Amendment
 MT. Hansbrough made an earnest appeal | in behalf of the Carter amendment. He
 held that an alien on the public domain was | trespasser and had no right to treatment
 better than that accorded a trespasser.
 "The American miners," he declared, | Twill not stand by and see claims usurped by men who have no right to them.''
 MT. Hansbrough asserted his belief that | there was monster conspiracy in the op- position to the amendment to grab the rich est gold fields on the face of the earth and
 that the conspirators were the millionaires | and corporations that had acquired the | claims in the Cane Nome district
 | So long as retain a seat in the senate" | said he, T shall oppose such conspiracy | and direct my efforts in favor of the man with the pick and pan, the man in the sands | and gulches, the man behind the rocker l and not in such circumstances in favor of | the millionaire
 With the latitude of debate ordinarily al- | lowed in the senate, MT. Elkins of West | Virginia then delivered a brief speech on | the West Virginia senatorial contest in an-
 swer to that made last week by Senator | Pettus. He declared there never was any | fraud in connection with the election of | Senator Scott, and no charges had ever | been made that there was He paid a high
 tribute to the character of the governor of l West Virginia and other state officials | whom MT. Pettus had attacked and
 charged with conspiracy.
 l 'This conspiracy" said he Eff we are to accept the term of the senator from Ala l bama, was conspiracy of republicans to l eleCl u TSpuDiCdIl StHdtOF py d repuDl1cdn legislature. It was the same kind of con- | spiracy that enabled the senator from Ala
 bama to get into the chamber as senator. l Nothing more'.
 l Mir. Stewart addressed the senate at
 length in opposition to the Carter amend ment. A conference report on the joint resolution for the administration of civil | affairs in Porto Rico pending the appoint | rnent and qualification of permanent civil | officers was agreed to-
 conference report on the bill authoriz- | ing the secretary of war to prescribe rules | and regulations as to the management of loose logs on certain rivers of the United | States was agreed to.
 | After a brief executive session the sem | ate at $40 p. m adjourned.
 THE HOUSE
 Washington, April aQ-The house today
 passed the Lacey bill to enlarge the pow CTS of the department of agriculture, and to prohibit interstate commerce in game
 killing in violation of local laws. It au- | thor,,oc the secretarv of agriculture to