The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-03-04
Both Houses Sat All Night in
an Effort
To Clean Up the Business Of
the Session.
TALKED IT TO DEATH
River and tiarbor Bill Killed
by Senator Carter.
Worlds Fair Bill Gets
through by Close Shave.
st. Louis VIII Get the S.
100000 Asked For.

Washington, March 4.-ETOm 1O.S9
o'clock last night the senate remained
in continuous session and worked 10
clear up the necessary legislation, which
had to reach the president for his sig
nature before adjournment. The most
interesting feature of the session was
the action upon the sundry civil appro-
priation bill when early this morning the
senate receded from its amendment pro-
viding for three expositions giving So
100000 to St. Louis, s50O,OO0 to Buffalo
and s250,OO to Charleston. S, c. With
out division the motion OF Senator AL
nson to reeede was agreed to. 1t was
the last remaining item in the bill in
disagreement and it meant that all dan
ger of an extra session was over.
The action of the senate on the SUR
dry civil bill was followed by the SEN
ate receding from the Charleston
amendment to the st. Louis exposition
bill which had passed the house as a
separate measure. This action passed
the bill apprOpriating $5,O00,0O0 for St
Louis. It was an interesting occasion.
Senator Vest of Missouri made the mo
ton Though suffering from iIl-health
he remained in the senate all night to
battle for this exposition bill. He mace
an appeal to the senate to. pass the bill
row as a simple act of justice to St
Louis saying that with the utmost
kindness toward Charleston, it was not
fair to make st. Louis suffer because
the house would not make an appropri-
alton for the exposition in South Caro-
lima
Senator Tillman, who had made z
hard fight for Charleston made a speech
showing deep, feeling. He said the leg
islation which had paved the way for
the st. Louis appropriation was placed
in a bill last year as We're the amend
ments from which the senate had re-
ceded in the sundry civil bill. The
xx7a ff,o docs rF Of to
tives had now pounced upon this pro-
position and defeated it. Congress, he
said, had appropriated $11, ,000, 900 for
expeditions and now it was proposed to
Carolina, was regarded as an outcast,
a disinherited dog He would leave it
to the senate whether it was just, fair
and right to give to St Louis Sc. 600 600
Mr. Lodge thought that Charleston
ought to be treated equally with ST
Louis and he with Mr.. Depew, was
among the ten senators who voted
against the motion of Mr. Vest
During The night Mr.. pettigreW crea-
ted something of a sensation by assert
ing that the bill passed yesterday for
ployeS had been lost OF stolen after Il
was enrolled and signed by the speaker
AIr. Pettigrew said that if it was lost
1t as lost Or purpose It was Sub-
sequently learned that the bill Lad been
found In drawer of a desk ir the
house enrolling room and it was
brought to the senate
The persistence of Mr.. Butler IN. C)
was rewarded during the morning by the
passage of a bill appropriating Sc 900 for
1amages done during the civil war to st.
Johns Masonic lodge at Newbern, N. C.
He has been fighting for the bill during |
the entire session.
Mr.. Frye, president pro tenn. said he |
aad received a telegram from the lieu |
-enant governor of Montana which he |
hought should be read, and directed the I
,lerk to read It. The lieutenant governor |
stated that as the presiding officer of the |
le wanted to emphatically say that the |
election of VIM. A. Clark as senator from /
Montana was the elimination Of the ex- I
PRESSED wish Of the people of that state
and that protests against Mr. Clark /
should not be needed by the United +
states senate.
Mr.. Clark had been an issue in the /
sampaign, and his success before the 1
people and in the legislature was a vim
lication of his character.
Mr.. Jones (Ark.) read a telegram from /
T. S. Mcneil saying that H r. Knapp, |
Who files a protest against Senator /
Slarx, was rot a resident Of Montana
Pending the final agreement on the /
uHdry civil bill, Mr.. PettigreW Is. d. /
cad from the Congressional Record the i
emarks Of Mr. Hun of Iowa, made in
he house a few days ago, when the Iowa
,entleman acknowledged he was con
iected with the Philippine Develop
nent company. Mr.. PettigreW severely
riticized Mr. Hull and denounced gen
rally the condition in the Philippines
1e charged the minority in the senate I
With being Influenced by pending legis-
alton which they feared might be de-
Gated. He said the sundry civil bill /
ught TO fail. the river and harbor bill !
s well. He denounced the latter meas
re as a Job. While there were some
neritorious features in the bill he said
was worse than the subsidy bill
Mr.. PettigreW's remarks brought Mr.
'nlman to his feet with an emphatic
enial that he had been influenced by
ny pending legislation He branded as
lie the statement that had been circu-
ated to the effect he had been won on |
ccount of the Charleston appropriation.
Ie believed nothing would be gained IN |
libustering against TIE Philippine leg
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