The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-01-26

commission been issued under itf If so, under what authority of law? Is Crum now in of1ce, and if so, under what au- thority of lawn
 Mir. Stewart's resolution calling for an inquiry concerning the number of clerks that would be necessary for the executive departments in order to prevent rns lengthening of the hours of work, at the request of Mir. Stewart was referred to Cockrell suggested tartly that there should be more work and less clerks rather than
 more clerks and less work.
 More like it." commented Mir. Lodge. | MT. Cockrell and several others wanted 1 the resolution referred to the Committee on Expenditures In the Government De-
 partments. but MT. Stewart had his way | as to the reference. Mir. Tillman also presented the following resolution. but on objection by MT. War; | ren. 1t went over:
 Resolved. That the Secretary of War
 be. and he hereby Is, instructed to send | to the Senate information in the nature
 of answers to the following questions: T. What officers in the army were ap- pointed during recess of the Senate occur
 ring between March 1s, 1903. to November l g. 1908? Were the commissions issued to | these officers, and if so. of what charac- |
 during the special session beginning No-
 vember and ending December ', 1905.
 Have these officers been reappointed and
 have commissions been issued to them l! If so. what is the character of the com
 mission and what authority of law is | there for its being issued?
 The Senate then passed the following | bills:
 Authorizing the erection of a statue of Commodore John D. Sloat, at Monterey. Cal; authorizing the erection of a monu- | ment to the memory of John Paul Jones: authorizing the issuance of duplicates of lost Congressional medals; providing for
 the construction of a revenue cutter for | use In Narragansett Bay; providing for a site for a depot for the revenue cutter service; directing the fulfillment of treaty stipulations with the Chippewa Indians of Lake Superior and the Mississippi Mir. Morgan then addressed the Senats
 on his resolution instructing the President to enter into negotiations with the Gov ernments of Nicaragua and Costa Rica.
 looking to the construction of a canal via the Nicaragua route.
 He contended that the protocols with Nicaragua and Costa Rica negotiated by President Mckinley were binding on the
 United States. The pledge then given l was, he said a sacred thing, and to yio- | late 1t would not only be contempt for
 MT. McFSinley's memory. but for Nicara-
 qua and Costa Rica. The arrangement
 could not be obliterated by closing our eyes to them, but. on the contrary, they
 would live to reproach us if we permitted the President to violate them. | Mfr Morgan declared that the Presi-
 dent had wilfully violated the Spooner
 act. requiring him to turn to the Nicara-
 qua route in case of failure to secure
 desirable concessions for the Panama
 route. He said that the President could
 not justify the evasion of the law by any
 attempt to show that he had observed
 ''the essence of the law if that policy
 was to be pursued, the time would come
 when we would be compelled to add to the
 oaths of Presidents the words, without
 mental reservation or purpose of eva | sion."
 Mir. Morgan closed with an appeal to the
 Senate not to aid the President "in his
 open and wayward violation of the law
 and the pledges made to Nicaragua and Costa Rica."
 The Senate. at 5:oe p. m., went into ex.
 ecutive session. and at 5:0S adjourned.