Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1902-03-17
VOTE ON SHIP
SUBSIDY BILL
The Voting on the Bill and All Amendments
Offered to It Began at Three O'Clock
This Afternoon.
THE DARIEN CANAL SCHEME
The Resolution Providing for the Appointment Of .
Board to Investigate the Project Is Reported Un-
favorably by the InteroCeanc Canal
Commission.
SENATE.

Washington, March 1.-THE senat
convened at II o'clock, this being tn
day the final vote on the ship subsi
dy bill is to be taken. BY agree
ment the voting on the bill and al
pending amendments is to begin at
p. m. The resolution providing for tn
appointment of q board to investi
teroceanic canal across the isthmus a
Darien was reported unfavorably b,
the interoceanic canals commission
and indefinitely postponed
Pending discussion of the subsidy
bill, the following bills We're passed
Appropriating $15O,O0O for a public
building at Colorado Springs, Colo
Granting the Central Arizona Railway
Company right of way for railroad
purposes through the San Francisco
mountain forest reserve. Appropriate
ing 100000 for a public building at
Laramie, Wyo.
AS the last public bill on the calen-
dar was passed, Hale remarked that
in all his experience he had never be-
fore known the last public bill on the
calendar to be reached and disposed of.
"It is an indication that the senate is
doing business"
The ship subsidy bill was then taken
up.
In his closing speech on the ship
subsidy bill, Frye said he would ac-
Allison limiting the time of the opera
ton of the measure because he be-
lieved they were in the interest of the
bill. Various amendments offered by
Vest were voted down.
The vote on the Vest amendment
stood % to 49, a strict party vote with
the exception of McLaurin who voted
with the Republicans. The amend
ment of Allison that not more than
s5,0O0,0OO shall be expended any one
year up to July 1, 1907, under contracts
provided for by the bill and after that
date not more than $S,OO0,O0O per an
nun, We're agreed to without division.
Patterson of Colorado, discussed
briefly his proposed amendment to
prevent the employment of Chinese
. the amendment had the approval of
the American Federation of Labor and
International Seamen's Union. Amer
lean labor had been driven from en-
ployment on ships on the Pacific coast
by Chinese labor.
Do sv,o
that no subsidy be paid upon any ves-
sci employing in it's crew any Chinese
person not entitled to admission into
the United States or territory thereof,
was lost, 20 to A..
The ship subsidy bill passed the sem
ate at 5:52. Vote AZ to 81.
HOUSE.
Washington, March 1.-THE house
went into committee of the whole and
commenced consideration of the river
and harbor bill. Burton, Ohio, in
charge of the measure, in the opening
statement, said he would confine him
self to discussing some popular misap-
prehensions. He said the impression
existed that the bill carried something
over $6O,00O000 for the ensuing fiscal
year, whereas it carried but $24, ,000,-
900 of actual appropriations, the re-
naming s36,OOo,OOO being simply au-
thorized to be appropriated under the
contract system. There was also, he
said, mistaken idea that the pend
ing measure carried larger appropria-
tions than any previous bill. In 1890,
he said, the actual appropriations in
the bill exceeded $25,OOOoOO. Burton
said that the appropriations for river
and harbor work instead of increasing
with other governmental expenditures
as popularity supposed, were in reality
decreasing. Burton then entered into
the details Of the bill.
RECIPROCITY TREATIES
Washington, March 1.-THE senate
committee on foreign relations has de-
cided to again take up the reciprocity
treaties which are before the senate,
with view to securing such amend
ments to them as will insure their rat
ification.
AGAINST CUBAN RECIPROCITY.
Washington, March ia meeting
of the Republican members opposing
the ways and means committee Cuban
reciprocity lasted an hour and resulted
in an agreement not to accept any
compromise involving the reduction Of
tariff duties. This is an instruction to
insist upon the rebate plan.
PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATIONS.
washington, March 17.-The presi-
dent sent the following nominations to
the senate:
Postmasters: Texas, James A. Gam
mill, Calvert; Florence Sheasby, Elgin;
VIM. P. Fleming, Georgetown; Fritz
Ahrens, Granbury.
Cecil Rhodes T. Worse.
Capetown, March 1.-THE heart
symptoms of Cecil Rhodes are worse to-