The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-02-23
TWO OF THE IMPORTANT APPRO-
PRIATION BILLS WERE PUT
THROUGH YESTERDAY
POSTAL AND THE DIPLOMATIC
PROVISION FOR SPECIAL MAIL FA-
CILITIEs WAS RETAINED AFT
Err MUCH DEBATE
DAYS WORK IN THE HOUSE
Held Unanimous Consent SesSIon
In Which n Flood of Private
Bills Were RaiIroaded
Through.

through.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 22-Two of +ho
great supply bills of the government Az
FostoInce and the diplomatic and con
SuIar appropriation bills were nasced b,
1he senate today. During tha eyrao+oI,
IaI. OF the session a proposition to dis
Soii1!Iide the appropriations for fast ma il
1aciliieS from New York to New Orleans
va AlIahta' and from Kansas City. Mo.
70 Newton, Kan, were under discussior
Nhlle the debate was protracte1 i no.,
1'ot particularly lively Bv decisive
Vole' the senate continued the anpronriao
LUIS An effort was made to obtain an
opp oprlatlon to continue the pneumatic
Lune service in New York, Boston aud
1ilIIaoelphla, but it failed. An amend
-'leLi1 was agreed to authorizing the
postmaster general to investigate tho
question Of establishing a nostal +el.1
erEph system, and to report his fndines
~ 'He next congress. The diplomatic
anu consular appropriation bill was
passed IN record time, only forty minutes
Oeing consumed in its consideration.
After a spirited debate the conference
IeporL on the Indian appropriation bill
: was rejected and sent back to confer
ence
Early in the day, Washington's fare
wen address, in accordance with a ems
tom Of the senate on Washineton's birth
Qay was read, the reader being Senator
Bacon, of Georgia.
The reading of the address by Mr..
Bacon occupied fifty minutes. It was
accorded attention by the senator's pres
eht' MT. Bacon's reading was in fine
resonant voice
resolution of the legislature of Kan
sas in favor of legislation to prevent I'M
just ndiscrimination in interstate COM
nerce was presented by Mr.. Harris
(kan) and referred.
Mr.. Depew On " presented resolu-
flon OF the legislature of New York in
support of the Oleomargarine bill.
A bill authorizing the attorney gen
eral on request of the secretary of the
interior to appear in suits brought by
states relative to school lands in In
dian reservations was passed
FAST MAIL SERVICE.
Consideration of the postoffce appro-
pration bill was resumed the pending
question being the motion bv Mr. Raw
lins to strike out the two paragraphs
providing appropriations for fast mail
service between New York and New Or
leans and between Kansas City and New
ton, Kan
Mr.. Vest CMo) opposed the motion in
an eloquent and forceful speech. He
day by Mr.. Turley and Mr.. Bate, Demo-
cratic sena tors from Tennessee. that
these appropriations were subsidies
The pending appropriation facilitated
the transmission of the mails and he
never had failed to vote for increased
nail facilities. because he considered the
mails one of the greatest evidences of
civilization.
Mr.. Harris (Kan.) declared that the an
T1yac In
services rendered by the railroads. In
his judgment it was by no means n
subsidy
JOINTS AND HATCHETS.
Mr. Thurston (Neb) in support of the
appropriation made a facetious speech
In which he said Kansas was in IAN un-
fortunate position with its irrepressible
conflict between the unlawful joint and
the illegal hatchet." Naughter)
Il understand" he continued, that
the train leaves Kansas City at a very
early hour in the morning and carries
to the suffering people of Kansas the
consolation of the metropolitan newspa-
pers and the original package. Nothing
san do so much to save Kansas as
newspapers and original packages"
Gaughter)
Mr.. Rawlins' motion to strike out the
appropriation proposed was rejected 10 TO
20 as IOllONS.
Yeas-Bate. Berry, Caffery, Chiffon,
Dillingham; Frye, Hale, Hawley, Jones
(Ark), Kyle. lodge Nelson, PettigreW,
Platt Comm, Quarles, Teller, Turley and
Wolcott-19.
Nays-AIdrich, Allen, Bacon, Bard, Bev-
eridge, Burrows, Carter, Chandler, Clapp,
Clark, Clay, Daniel, Oeboe. Depew, Ell
kins, Fairbanks, Foster Gallinger, Hans
brough. Harris, Jones (Nev).. Keane,
KearnS, Kenny, Lindsay, McEnery, Nc
MILAN, Mallory. Martin, Money, Morgan,
Perkins. Pettus, Pritchard, Proctor, Sew
ell. Shoup, Simon, Spooner, Sullivan, Tai
hafeTro, Thurston, Tillman, Vest and
Wetmore45
SOME AMENDMENTS.
Mr.. Butler IN CO offered an amend
nent directing the. postmaster general to
make an investigation of the question Of
a postal telegraph system and report his
findings to congress, together with the
probable cost of establishing the system
1t was accepted by Mr.. Wolcott and
agreed 10.
Mr.. Depew On. W offered an amend
ment, providing that when any publica-
ton had been accorded the privilege of
second-class mail matter, the privilege
should not be withdrawn without a full
hearing by the postoff1ce department. It
was agreed to.
The bill was passed and then the bill
making appropria tions for the diplomatic
and consular service was taken up, ana
In forty minutes was passed 1t carries
H,S5G, 22S, an Increase over the house bill
of 1920
Mr.LThurstcn (Neb.) called up the con-
ference report on the Indian appropria-
ton bill. He said that two matters had
been embodied in the report which were
not directly at issue between the two
branches of congress. The first was a
provision to ratify a lease made by the
Seneca Indians of New York for the dis
position of sand or the shore of Lake
Erie and the other authorized the secre-
tary of the interior to dispose Of the pine
timber on the Red Lake and White
Earth Indian reservations in Minnesota
and to disburse the proceeds according
to law. Some points were undisposed Of
by the conferees, one Of them being the
subject of mineral lands on Indian res
eryations.
GOPHERS HEARD FROM.
Mr.. Nelson (NIinn.) made a point of
order against the proposition inserted by
the conferees as to the disposal of the
timber on the Minnesota reservations.
The provision. he said, was entirely new
1t never had been considered by the SEN
ate or the house and neither of the sena-