The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-03-08
OF THE fIFTY-SIxTH CONGRESS OUT
OF THE USUAL ORDER
NO RIVER AND HARBOR BILL
Senator Carter SIgnalfzes the Ending
OF His Senatorial Career by Talking
the Bill to DEATH Senator Tfllman
Pleads I'm Vain for the Charleston Ex-
position-New Senate Organized and
Called to Order by Vice President
Roosevelt.
SENATE.

Washington, March 4.-One of the
most notable occurrences in the history
Of congressional legislation marked
Of the senate OF the Fifty-sixth con-
gress. Senate Carter, of Montana.
signalized his retirement from the
senate after six years Of brilliant SER
vice, by talking the river and harbor
bill to death. He occupied the floor.
hours.
At 11:40 o'clock last night. after the
senate conferees on the river and har-
Dor bill had reported a disagreement,
Senator Carter began his speech. He
denounced it as vicious and pernicious
legislation.
Shortly before 5 o'clock nat AL
lison submitted a further disagreement
on the sundry civil bill. the item in
contention being the Appropriation for
the three expositions. From this the
senate receded and hen passed the
st. Louis exposition bill. Senator Till
man, who has championed the appro-
PI IL u SudIleSliOH Jug
the session, made a final appeal to the
senate to save Charleston's item. but he
realized that the Missouri senator's
were more powerful than he. By a
vote of 80 to 10 the senate receded from
the Charleston appropriation and the
bill Ia passed.
Senate Carter resumed his speech
finally announcing at 6:34 o'clock that
it was his intention not to permit the
ft-ar go Lo~h@- hin - haonrAa N nm,
He yielded h floor only after the
vice presidents ceremony had begun.
From 1890 o'clock last night the
senate remained in continuous session.
The most interesting feature of the
SESSION was it's receding from its
amendment to the sundry civil bill
providing for three expositions giving
S.. 00O, 900 to st. Louis. $500, 600 to Buff
falo and $3.50, 900 to Charleston, S. c.
Without divis.o on the motion of Sena-
tor Allison to recede was agreed to.
Then the senate receded from the
Charleston amendment to the st. Louis
exposition bill which had passed the
house as a separate measure. This &C
ton passed the bill appropriating So
600, 900 for st. Louis. Though suffering
from ill-health, Senator Vest, of Mis-
souri,, had remained in the senate all
night to battle for this exposition APP
preparation. He said it was not fair
to max ST. Louis suffer because the
house would not make an appropria-
ton for the exposition in South Caro-
lima.
Senator Tillman showed deep feel
ing. He said the legislation which had
paved the way for the st. Louis appro-
priation was placed in a bill last year,
as were the amendments from which
the senate had receded in the sundry
civil bill. The watch dogs of the house
of representatives had not pronounced
upon this proposition then and defeat
ed it. Congress, he said, had appro-
priated $11 900, 900 for expositions and
now it was proposed to give $4,000, 900
more. His state, South Carolina, was
regarded as an outcaSt, a diSinherited
dog. He would leave it to the senate
whether it was just, fair n right to
give to ST. louis S., ZOO. 900 and deny
Charleston a small $3.50, 900.
Senator Lodge and Senator Depew
thought hat Charleston ought to be
treated equally with st. Louis.
During the night Senator Pettigrew
asserted that the bill passed yesterday
for the better protection of railway
employees had been lost or stolen af-
ter it was enrolled and signed by the
speaker. The bill however, was found.
The persistence of Senator Butler, of
North Carolina, was rewarded during
the morning by the passage of a bill
appropriating, 5000 for damages done
during the civil war to st. Johns Ma
sonic lodge, at New Bern, N. G.
Senator Frye. president pro tempore,