Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-06-27
I'm THE SENATE
CLEANING UP BUSINESS IN THE
UPPER HOUSE. !.
Many Odds and Ends Disposed of-West
Point to Give Instruction to Cadet
from Costa Riea-Salaries Of Postoffice
Clerks to Be Ciassified-Several Other
Bills Passed.

Washington, June 25.-When the
senate convened yesterday a partial
report on the naval appropriation bill
| was presented and agreed to. The
senate insisted upon the amendments
| still in disagreement and asked for a
further conference.
A joint resolution was adopted au-
thorizing the secretary of war to receive
Arturo X. Calvo, of Costa Rico, at the
West Point military academy for in
struction.
The army appropriation bill was laid
before the senate and Proctor moved
to recede from amendment 13, relating
to the construction of barracks at per-
manent military posts. After some
discussion the motion was agreed to.
Allison called attention to the fact
that the house had not agreed to the
full and free conference asked for by
the senate, the effect of the action of
the house being to eliminate entirely at
least two amendments of the senate.
Proctor moved that the senate insist
on the other amendments. After some
discussion the motion was agreed to,
amended so as to insist upon the senate
amendments, including No. IA.
A bill was passed for the classifica-
tion of salaries of clerks employed in
postoffices for the first and second class.
Quay then formally entered his
motion to dismiss the committee on
territories from further consideration
of the bill to admit as states the terri
tories of Oklahoma, New Mexico and
Arizona. He made an argument in
support of the motion, urging that in
making it he had :, no motive to en-
barrass the committee on territories.
He cited several instances in which
the senate bas acted upon similar
motions. He said that five of the IL
members of the committee desired to
be discharged from further considera-
tion of the bill and pointed out that
both the Republican and Democratic
parties in their national platforms
had declared in favor of the admission
of the territories as states.
Quay then presented statistics con-
corning the three territories affected by
the bill, showing that they are remark
ably we'll equipped to become states.
Beveridge, chairman of the commit
tee on territories, said the subject has
gone over until the next session, when
it is to be taken up early and fully
considered. In answer to inquiries to
Quay, Beveridge said the bill has not
been considered by the committee; that
it has been before the committee only
five weeks.
At O'Clock, the unfinished business,
the house bill to ratify the agreement
with the Choctaw and Chickasaw
tribes of Indians, was laid before the
senate.
The senate then concurred in the
house amendments to the bill fixing
the pay of the superintendents of the
various lighthouse districts.
The following bills were passed:
Providing for the resurvey of certain
townships in San Diego county, Cali
fornia; to provide for record of deeds
and other conveyances and instruments
in writing in Indian Territory; to pay
Captain F. ]. McIndoe, Corps of En-
gineers, $1.142 for personal property
destroyed at Fort Hancock in 1901; to
amend existing laws relating to the
of lands in Oklahoma, SO
that the secretary of the interior may
be authorized to cause to be expended
out of the proceeds of the sales of town
lots in Lawton, Anadarko and Hobart,
Okla, for the construction of water
works, school houses and other i'm
provements, $3.50, 900 for Lawton, $780,
900 for Anadarko and $4,000 for
Hobart, and to increase the amount
authorized to be expended for a court
house in each of the places named $10,-
900, to 10000.
Without completing the Indian
treaty measure, the senate at 5:55 P.
NJ, went into executive session and
soon afterward adjourned.