Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-06-20
TO ISSUE GOLD BONDS.
The Senate Provides for the Expense of
the Canal.

After the adoption of the Spooner amend
| ment in the Senate yesterday afternoon,
| Mr. Hoar (Mass) offered a substitute for
| the Spooner proposition making it the duty
| of the President to decide by which route
| the canal should be constructed. 1t was re-
| jected 13 to CT.
! Mr.. Fairbanks then offered amend
ment providing for the issue of $50. 600 900
of gold bonds, bearing per cent interest,
to pay for the construction of the canal
Mr.. Culberson moved to lay the amendment
on the table, and the motion was defeated,
sc to SO.
The amendment then was adopted, 80 to
sc, as follows:
Yeas-Aldrich, Allison, Beveridge, Burn
ham, Burrows, Burton, Clapp Cullom, De-
Doe. Fairbanks, Foraker, Foster tWash.l,
Frye, Gallinger. Gamble, Hale, Hanna,
Hansbrough, Hawley, Hoar, Jones New,
Kean. Kittredge, Lodge McComas. Nc
Cumber, Mcmillan. Mason, Willard, Nelson,
Plat Comm, Proctor, Quarles, Scott,
Spooner, Warren, Wellington, Wetmore-3s
Nays-Bacon. Bailey, Bard, Bate, Berry
Blackburn, Carmack. Clark (Mont), Clark
CWyo), Clay, Cockrell, Culberson, Daniel
Dryden, Dubois, Foster Ua.), Harris, Heit-
field, Jones (Ark.), McLaurin (Miss.), NAL
lory, Martin, Mitchell, Morgan, Patterson,
Penrose, Perkins. Pettus, Plat On. ",
Quay, Simmons, Stewart, Taliaferro, Teller
Turner, Vest-36.
Mr.. Mason then offered an amendment to
Mr.. Fairbanks amendment providing that
all the people of the United States should
have opportunity to subscribe to the pro-
posed loan. The amendment was agreed to
without division.
Mr.. Morgan then offered the Nicaragua
canal bill a substitute for the Spooner
proposition, thus raising the question pre-
viously passed upon.
Mr.. Spooner moved to lay the Nicaragua
bill on the table, and the motion was agreed
to, Al to SO.
The bill then passed, 81 to G. the votes in
the negative being cast by Messrs Bate
(Tenn.), Cockrell (Mo.), Daniel (Va.), Du-
bois Qdaho). Pettus tAla.) and Vest fMo).
On motion Of Mr.. Morgan the Senate then
asked conference with the House upon the
bills passed by the two branches of Con-
gress and Messrs. Morgan, Hanna and Kit
tredge were named as conferees.
Mr.. Quay (Pa0 then announced that the
motion which he entered several days ago
to discharge the committee on territories
from consideration OF the omnibus state
hood bill by agreement would go over until
next Monday. And he added: "It is very
probable that l shall not press the motion
them
Mr.. Proctor then called up the army APP
preparation bill and announced the with
drawal Of his motion made a few days ago
to recede from one Of the Senate amend
ments and appoint a conference on the
other two. He moved that the Senate ask
for full and free conference and name its
Mr.. Bailey CTexas) inquired whether the
peace commission had performed its
duties, referring to the special committee
appointed to confer with the House upon
the matter.
Mr. Proctor replied that several confer
ences had been held, but no agreement had
been reached In the course of a collouuy
which ensued. Mr.. Allison thought the
adoption of the motion would complicate
the situation: and Mr.. Foraker hoped the
motion would prevail, as IT was utterly i'm
possible to make the situation worse than
it was.
Mr. ProctOr's motion was agreed to, and
Messrs. Proctor, Foraker and Cockrell were
named as conferees.
The following bills were passed: To
authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to
adjust the accounts of Morgan's Louisiana
and Texas Railroad and Steamship Com
pany for transporting the United States
mail; authorizing the construction of a
bridge across the Missouri river within five
miles north Of the Kaw river Wyandotte
county, Kansas, and Clay county Missouri;
to set apart certain lands in South Dakota
as public park, to be known as the Wind
Cave National Park: to authorize the Min
neapoffs, Superior, st. Paul and Winnipeg
Railroad Company of Minnesota to build
and maintain railway bridge across the
Mississippi river between the villages of
Campiin and Anoka, Mimi.