Daily Kennebec journal., 1906-04-12

When the Senate met the Vice Pres
ident designated Messrs. Lodge, kean
Burkett. Sutherland, Foster and Lat
inner to represent. the Senate on the oc-
caSiOn of the celebration of the 2O0th
birthday Of Benjamin Franklin at Phil-
adelphia.
At the instance of Morgan resOlu-
tiCn Of the Illinois Legislature, endors-
ing the permanent retention of the Isle
of Pines as American territory Was
re&d.
4 bill was passed prohibiting the use
of diving apparatus in the taking of
sponges.
Also a bill prohibiting aliens from
gathering spOnges in American waters.
NeWland was appointed a conferee
on the statehood bill to take the place
of Patterson who is i'll Colorado.
Page, n. c., opposed the appropria-
tion for special railway mail facilities
on the ground that the section which
he represents did not need the appro-
priatiOn.
An echo Of the dispute between Small.
y. c.: aiid Macon, Ark. which ATTRACT
ed attention yesterday growing out Of
the special appropriation for the South
ern Railway, broke forth when Macon
arose to q question of personal priVi-
lege. He said that the newspapers had
given Small'S side of the controversy in
which he tMacOn) had been accused of
libelling the president of the Southern
Railway, but there had been no men
ton Of the libel which Small had put
~ ;,,t1
but the gavel fell as Macon uttered the
sentence: You are no gentleman"
Il guess | will be able to survive
the imputation,'' was all Small said in
reply.
Sulzer. n. Y, made a plea for con-
gressional action in putting stop to
the destruction of Niagara Falls.
McDernott. n. j.. spoke against the
Pomer OF the Greek church holding it
responsible not only for past massacres
but Cor massacres of the Jews in Rus
sia. He said the Russian Greek church
has not taught peace and good will. but
had walked with the wicked and cruel
The senate then took up the report
of the conference committee on the Dill
for the settlement of the affairs of the
Five Civilized Tribes of Indians and
Tillman opposed its adoption because
of the retention of the Senate amend
mont ratifying the disbursement of
SlS6, 900 made by A. j. Brown and
James L. Jenkins to the loyal Seminole
Indians under an act Of Congress OF,
May 81, 1900.
Teller defended the action of the con-
ferees and in the course of sharp col
loquy with Tillman expressed appre-
hension that before the matter was dis
posed Of the South Carolina senator
would accuse him of stealing some
thing.
THE senator expects nothing of the
kind" responded Tillman, Il contra
dict him fatty"
Teller responded that Tillman's ar
raignment of the committee did not
come with grace from senator who
confessos that he knows nothing about
the question. IF, he said, the sena-
tor were even a gOor cornfield lawyer
ne would know that the Indians lose
none of their rights by the addition OF
the Senate provision"
Clapp, Dubois and McCumber also
defended the action Of the committee.
In the course of his remarks Ciapp
said that the conference report had on
ly been formally recommitted yester-
day and Tillnlan made the point of or
der that the conferees had transcribed
their authority in proceeding with the
conferecs when the bill was not for
mally in its possession.
The Chair, however, sustained the ac-
ton of the committee.
While the conference report was
pending the railroad rate bill was laid
before the Senate and Tillman made
another effort to secure an agreement
to fix date for final vote. In doing
so, he made complaint that the debate
on the rate bill was Tagging"
Aldrich challenged that statement,
saying he had never known. a time
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