The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-03-02

thus do its duty as committees of this body are presumed to do"
 The Maine Senator's remarks caused a slight stir in the chamber but no reply was made except by Mrs warren. who asked why Mr. Hale did not move to take up the bill reported. MT. Hale replied that he was not member of the committee on agriculture and could not interfere.
 Rivers and Harbors.
 The rivers and harbors bill was then taken up. After being amended SO as to increase the aggregate appropriation to the extent of $332,000 the bill was passed including tthe following: West Galveston Bay. Texas. $30.000: Cumber- land River. Tennessee. $So,000; Missouri River, $25,o00; mouth of the Coiumoia River, s150.000. Mr. Bailey introduced resolution decreasing the Senate con ferees on the statehood bill and reced- Ing from the Senate amendments. He said he would call 1t up tomorrow if in the meantime the conferees did not re- port.
 MT. Bailey's order has the effect of striking out the Senate provision for the admission of New Mexico and the House provision for the admission of New Mexico and Arizona and leaves the remainder of the bill as 1t was passed by the Senate. If adopted it would provide for the admission of one state consisting of the Indian Territory and Oklahoma, adopting all of the Senate amendments in regard to that portion of the bill The Senate then went Into executive session.
 During the day a bill was passed authorizing the appointment of an ad- ditional justice in Arixona: authorizing the construction of . bridge across the Big Sandy River at Louisa, Ky, provid- Ing for an investigation of leprosy, au- thorizing e bridge across Cumberland River in Trigg County, Ky.
 When the doors were reopened the Indian appropriation bill was sent to conference with Stewart, McCumber and Dubois as conferees.
 Senator Proctor presented the final conference report on the agricultural conferees had receded from the Senate amendment requiring bi-monthly re- ports on the cotton crop.
 Telegram From Jordan.
 Mir. Bacon read a. telegram from President Jordan of the Southern Cot ton Growers Association urging the is- suing of more frequent reports and himself dwelt on the wisdom of the amendment. He said. however. that he appreciated the unyielding opposition of the House and that the Senate could not do otherwise than yield. He attributed this opposition to the Agri- cultural Department. saying that sub ordinates and not the head of that de- partment had haunted the capitol to defeat the legislation. No one, he con- tinued. except stock gamblers could be, benefited by keeping the condition of the cotton crop in the dark.
 wA- A- rx |. a person who may have exclusive in- formation as to fluctuations in the condition of the crop in the long inter- vals between monthly reports would have a chance to make millions of dol lars. I do not charge that any one in or out of the department has profited by such information, and know that the secretary would burn his arm of before he would be guilty of such an able that facts concerninS the report had leaked out aud he instances the circunnstapce that on one occasion they had been known in New York and Sn- vannah an hour in advance of the ap- pearance of the report.
 The conference report on the agri- cultural bill was agreed, to and the conference on the military academy bill was presented.
 Senator Bailey criticized placing General Joseph R. Hawley and General Peter J. Osterhaus on the retired list of the army. He said that the Gov ernment had done It's full duty by those gentlemen. True" he added, General HawIey has served his coun- try well. but 1t is also true that the country has done well its duty by him, so that fairly and fully as he has per- formed his duty. he has been compen- sated." He protested against the en- largement of what hs designated as a civil list.
 MT. Warren defended the provision. saying that both Haw1ey and Oster- haus had served the country faithfully in its day of need.
 Spirited ColIoany.
 Messrs. Bailey and. Warren then en- gagged in a colloquy in which the Wyo- ming Senator took his antagonist to task for calling private soldiers '"hire- lings." MT. Bailey replied that he had little respect for any army private in time of peace. but said he thought he should be better paid than he is
 Mir. Warren remarked that "libera1- ity with the army prevents the neces- sity of a large standing army to which MT. Bailey replied that in this assumption the Senator insults the in- telligence. the patriotism and the courage of American citizenship when he tells us that we are only being saved by being liberal towards our of- fcers." He said that soldiers should be paid what their services are worth. just as we pay Senators what they are worth. Of course. we don't pay all the senators as much as their ser vices are worth, but others are paid 6 great deal more. If we could scale the wages of senators, would be in favor of a readjustment."
 q am glad" said MT. Warren, 70 hear that the senator holds the Senate in as low estimate as he does the army" &
 NO; but some of the Senators" re- piled MT. Bailey. who proceeded to dis avow any intention of reflecting on the Senate. He delivered a panegyric on the Senate and added Tt is true I should sometimes like to have a mo- ton made to clear the calendar. Some- times there are charges against Sem ators that think ought to be investi- gated and decided, but that is of such rare occurrence as not to be equal to a spot on the suns bright face"
 The conference report was agreed to.
 MT. Hepburn sought to secure con- sideration of the pure food bill, saying that the country demanded the legis- lation and would hold the Senate re- sponsible for failure in that respect.
 Messrs. Spooner and Platt of Con- necticut replied that the bill was not tn shape to become a law without amendment. and said there was not time so late in the session for the con- n