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THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, MARCH 19, 1896. N ; - BAYARD'S FOLLY BEFORE THE HOUSE The Resolutions of Censure Bring Out Passionate Speeches. COUSINS’ FIERY WORDS. Sharply Denounces the Embassa- dor and Defends the Ameri- can People. A TOADY TO THE COBDEN CLUB, | Hitt, “of sn Embassador to England | quoting the bare letter of a ruleof the de- | partment to regulate the actions and atti- | tude of all its employes, even to the lowest consular officer, and pleading that it had not been violated."” Hitt was followed by McCreary (D.) of Kentucky in opposition to the resolutions. He said: *I am opposed to the pending resolutions and [ hope they will not be adopted. The delay of the Committee on Foreign Affairs in reporting these resolu- tions back to the House and the delay of the House 1n taking them up, show that there are many Republicans who are doubt- ful about the propriety of the action pro- posed and are not eager to vote condemna- tion and censure upon one of the worthiest diplomatic officers in the service of the | United States. The resolutions were un- | precedented in Congressional history. No diplomatic officer had ever in the past been | censured or condemned in the House of | Representatives for freedom of speech. The House might as well censure a Judge of the Supreme Court of the United States for a decision rendered by him or a United States Senator for a speech- made by him | as to censure a diplomatic officer for hisut- | terances.” | The people of the United States, Mc- Creary declared, were behind Mr. Bayard | in his opposition to protection and trusts. Who Should Be Recalled for His| Imbecility and Impudent | Misconduct. WASHINGTON, D. C., March 18.—The announcement that the resolutions re- ported from the Committee on Foreign | Affairs censuring Embassador Bayard would be the special order for to-day’s session of the House of Representatives | failed to attract to the hall any unusual | attendance, and thereby the absentees de- prived themselves of the pleasure of listen- ing to the most notable oratorical effort of the session—the speech by Cousins (R.) of Iowa in support of the resolutions. Theé bour fixed for the consideration of | the resolutions was 1:30 o’clock, and the miscellaneous business of the morning was not sufficient in volume to occupy all of the time after assembling until then, so | 8 recess of fifteen minutes preceded | the beginning of the debate. A number of private bills were passed in the House, | but only one of particular importance—a joint Senate resolution instructing the Becretary of War to transmit an estimate | of the cost of deepening the channel from | Hampton Roads to the Norfolk Navy-yard. | The report of Elections Committee No. 2, confirming Mr. Rusk (D.) in his seat as Representative from the Third Maryland | District, was received and adopted. | When Hitt called up the Bayard resolu- tions about half of the members of the House were in their seats, whiie the public galleries were only comfortably filled. In the diplomatic gallery were Baron von Kettler, Secretary of the German Embassy; | Senor Dominguez, Charge A’ Affaires of the Argentine Republic, and Mrs. Dominguez; Mme. Romero, wife of the Mexican Mi ter; Mrs. J. W. Foster and Mrs. Van Kens- slaer Cruger (Julian Gordon). The mem- bers’ gaie contained the wives and mem- | bers of the families of numerous Represen- | tativ | Hitt was not in good condition physi- cally, and after a few minutes his voice | gave out and he was compelled to close. In conclusion he expressed the hope that | the resolutions would be adopted, saying | that such speeches as those made by Mr. | Bayard destroyed the respect which an Em- bassadof ought to command, difminished | his usefulness and was a'wrong to the peo- | ple he represented. | McCreary (D.) of Kentueky and Dins- more (D.) of Arkansas, in speeches of more than an hour’s length each, defended Mr. Bayard ard opposed the passage of the resolutions. Draper {R.) of Massachusetts, a member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, de- | plored the séverity of the language in the resolntions of censure, and, in accordance with his views of the duty of the House, gave notice that he would ask separate votes upon the two resolutions. Cousins’ speech, advocating the adoption | of the committee’s report, was the feature | of the oceasion. 1t was by turns sarcastic and eloguent, filled with “triticisms of Mr, | Bayard and glowing with pictures of the greatness and glory of the country and of the individual under the system of protec- | tion which the Embassador haa de-| nounced. He spoke for nearly an hour, | commanding throughout the attention of | his hearers to a marked degree, and at the | close,was given an ovation that lasted sey- | eral minutes. | At the conclusion of Dinsmore’s address, at 5:2 o’clock, the House adjourned until to-morrow. | The resolutions will be the subject of consideration to-morrow and a vote upon | them will not be reached until the close | of the session, and possibly not until Fri- | day. | Bpeaker Reed announced as the House | conferrees on the Indian appropriation bill | Messrs. Sherman (R.) of New York, Mei- keljohn (R.) of Nebraska and Little (.) | of Arkansas. A call of the committees produced no | reports for business and the House at 1:15 took a recess until 1:30, the hour fixed for | taking up the Bayard resolutions. After the recess Hitt, chairman of the | Committee on Foreign Affairs, called up the report of the committee upon the Me- Call and Barrett resolutions in relation to the Bayard speeches. The substitute recommended by the committee recites extracts from them. It declares that they are an offense against diplomatic propriety and an abuse | of the privilege of his exalted position for which the House of Representatives con- demns and censures him, and further de- clares that partisan speeches by consular and diplomatic officers impair their use- fulness as such officers aud diminish the | confidence which they should possess at | home and abroad. The Democratic minority dissented from the views of the majority and recom- mended that the resolutions do not pass. Hitt recalled the circumstances in ‘which the Edinburgh speech was delivered, two days after the elections in November, 1895, in the United States, resulting in the vic- tory of the Republicans and the advocates of the policy of protection, which he de- nounced. The people of that city had that day read the result of the election ir the papers, aresult that was disappointing and unsatisfactory to thewn. It was in such circumetances that the representative had made the speech quoted upon a foreign platform. It was hoped, said Hitt, that an exam- ination of the speeches would reveal some mitigating features of the case—that they bad merely an academic importance—but inyestigation had shown that Mr. Bayapd had spoken with deliberation and bitter- ness, maligning more than half of his eountrymen. We were all wounded by the utterances, and yet when Mr. Bayard was called upen to expiain and his reply had been sent to the House in response to its request it was foand that he justified theém, claiming that no rule of the de- | terization uttered by thisIrecrean; The people knew that Mr. Bayard had proved himself a patriot, a statesman and a faithful public servant; that he had been | conspicuous for many years asa United States Senator and faithful and able as a | Cabinet officer; that he had filled the great | | office of Embassador of the United States in England with ability and honor; that he had won the respect and regard of the | English-speaking people, and that he had done much to promote good will and | friendship between the people of Great Britain and the United States. The attack upon Embassador Bayard was not because he made a brief extem- poraneous speech at Boston, England, when invited to address the grammar school and present the awards, but it was | because of his reference in his Edinburgh | speech to “protection’” and ‘‘trusts.’” The high priests of protection were not | willing to be criticised and they were op- posed to freedom of speech, even in an | academic address on the subject of pro- tection and trusts. McCreary said if Mr. Bayard was to be | tried because of speeches made by him he should not be tried or condemned upon a single phrase, but he should be tried on | the whole context and the full meaning of the speech should be considered. Draper (R.) of Massachusetts said he was not alone in the House 1 believing that, while Mr. Bayard’s remarks merited some attention by the House, the severity of the langunaee of the first resolution was likely to defeat the object of the committee. Therefore he would move, at the proper time, to separate the two resolutions so that gentlemen who believed with him that a conservative course should be pur- sued could express their views, which would not permit them to vote for both resolutions. The next speaker was Cousins (R.) of Towa, a member of the committee. He re- viewed the report of Mr. Bayard’s speeches made to the House by President Cleveland, | and sarcastically commented on the Boston utterances. Referring to the statement that the President is a strong man the | speaker said: ““Of course the President is a strong man; but then, Mr. Speaker, are there not others? Look, for example, in the Senate of the United States. Haveour memories lost the name of that Senatorial Hercules who, less than a year ago, com- pelled our ‘real’ and powerfal and honest President to acquiesce in a bill of legisla- tion which he had designated as ‘perfidy and dishonor?’ ‘‘Aye, Mr. Speaker, it would seem that strong men are found beyond official cir- cles,for hasitnotbeen averred by gentlemen upon this floor—and those, too, who will oppose this resolution—that once upon a time a certain business man of New York City wove a web of speculation about the ‘strong’ and ‘honest’ will of the President and extracted from his helpless, honest hands, below {he market price, §62,000,000 of Government bonds that fasten the chain of debt upon the so-called violent people for generations yet to come? Why, sir, we are evidently a Nation of strong men. But if Mr. Bayard would behold a real Ajax, up-to-date, unterrified, let him go to the Department of Agriculture and I will show him what is strong. “I deny the declaration of Mr. Bayard that the people of America are oftentimes violent. A hundred years of free govern- ment in America challenges the history of the world for a corresponding century of patience, morality and progress. And as for the present time, no people since the creation of the world ever exhibited such enduring patience as have the peopls of America under the past three years of gross and blundering misrule. If there have been acts of violence they have been | exceptional and do ot permit the charac- Em- passador and applied to the people of America as a whole.” Proceeding then to Mr. Bayard’s speech at Edinburgh,Cousins quoted the language complained of, characterizing it as “‘false, extravagant and shameful,” and said: “Mr. Speaker, in the first place, every line and syliable of this diatribe against the people of America is refuted by the history and experience of the United States. Inthe second place it is a political harangue, violating the express regulations and instructions given by aunthority of our own Government to all consular officers of the United States. “Looking across the sea to his native land, whose mission and confidence he bore, the same T. F. Bayard, Embassador of the United States to Great Britain, on the 7th of November last, saw the party of protection and of progress carried back to power on the tide of the popular will. Putting his ear to the ground, even in a foreign land, he could hear the victorious tread of the tricmphant column of protec- | tion once led by the immortal Lincoln, and he could not resist the temptation, even though he had to violate the delicate proprieties of the office which he held and | the instructions which he bore, to satisfy | the vengeance of his ancient prejudice. “‘And so he toadied to the Cobaen Club and to the school of Manchester, and to his own prejudice, and told Great Britain that protection in America had banished men of independent mind and character from its public councils, when he knew that the list of its illustrious advocates, beginning with the distinguished names of ‘Washington and. Madison and Franklin, had never ceased to grow where progress marked the way untilit had recorded in the register of independent minds and | fame the names of Clay, of Jackson and of ‘Webster, of Lincoln and of Grant, of Gar- fieid, of Randall and of Blaine, ana he knew that almost on the very day he nt- tered that indictment the list of independ- ent minds that champion the doctrine of protéction in America had grown to the greatest and most significant majority that ever spoke their independence at a popu- lar election in this country.” _— Condition of the Tréasury. ‘WASHINGTON, . C., March 18.—The treasury gold reserve at the close of busi- pariment had been violated by him. “Think of 1t,” passionately exclaimed ness to-day stood at $127,518,094. The withdrawals for the day were $361,100. THE WOLVERINES WANT MKINLEY, Closing Scemes of the Wisconsin Republican Convention. ALL FOR PROTECTION. Impossible to Stem the Tide That Carries Along the Ohioan. A PLATFORM TO THE POINT. Ex-Senator Philetus Sawyer Wins a Victory That Surprises His Friends. MILWAUKEE, Wis,, March 18.—Ex- Senator Philetus Sawyer won out in the Republican State Convention this after- noon, and his victory demonstrated that notwithstanding ihe fact that he has nearly rounded his eightieth year, he is still a master of the art of political manipulation. Against admitted odds the venerable statesman was pitied with ex-Governor Hoard, the recognized leader of the younger and aggressive element of the Republican party in the State, for the honor of heading the delegation at large to St. Louis. Last night and this morning his op- pon ents were confident that they had re- tired him from the political arena, ana when a third of the Congressional districts on the roll had been called, it looked as though their claims were well founded. The upper districts, however, came nobly to his support, and after the figur® had been footed he was declared the winner by a majority of 99 in a total vote of 673. To-night his supporters are enthusiastic over the outcome and insist that the vic- tory makes him the logical candidate of the party to return to the United States Senate as the successor of William F.Vilas. The remaining significant feature of the convention was the voting of McKianley resolutions, despite the action of the com- mitiee on resolutions in deciding to re- main silent upon this point. It was the largest convention of the party in the bis- tory of the State, and by the same token the platform was one of the shortest on record. An audience that taxed the Academy of Music greeted Colonel J. J. Esch of Mil- waukee when, at 12:30, he was presented as temporary chairman of thé convention. His speech was a vigorous denunciation of the policy of the present National Admin- istration and a eulogy of Republican doc- trines. The applause that greeted the names of the various candidates ranged from three seconds for Allison to six for Reed, seven for Morton and thirty-six for McKinley. Three cheers. for the Obio man were de- manded by a delegate in.the body of the parquet and théy were given with a will. Then the recess was ordered. When the convention reassembled at 8 p. M. the temporary organization was made permanent. The report of the com- mittee on resolutions was short and to the point. It reads as follows: The Republicans of Wisconsin, in conven. tion assembled, renew their devotion to the doctrine of protection. We believe in an ad- justment of tariff duties for the twofold pur- Pose of providing suffidient revenue to meet the requirements of the Government and to furnish reasonable and adequate protection to American industries and labor—a tariff both for revenue and protection. ‘We also renew our allegiance to the doctrine of reciproeity, We favor as a logical and bene- ficial result of protective tariff laws, mutual trade arrangements with foreign countries that will provide for our menufacturers and producers a market for their surplus product and at the same time enable us fo buy from them under advantageous conditions such ar- ticles as they produce and we need to pur- chase. The Republicans of Wisconsin are unyield- ing in their demand for honest money. We are unalterably opposed to any scheme that will give this country a depreciated or debased currency. We favor the use of silveras cur- rency, but to the extent only and under such restrictions that its parity with gold can be maintained. AN The platform had scarcely been adopted when Delegate H. C. Adams of Milwaukee asked unanimous consideration of a reso- lution that he waved in the air. Numer- ous objections were raised, but they were withdrawn when he explained that the subject matter related to ‘‘a distinguished son of Ohio.”” Then, in stentorian tones, he read the following: Resolved, That the Republicans of Wisconsin recognize in Hon. William McKinley of Ohio the most distinguished champion of the Re- publican policy of protection and reciprocity; that we honor him as the defender of & sound system of finance and believe in him as a type of the best American citizenship in both pri- vate and public life, and we hereby express to the delegates elected to the St. Louis conven- tion our judgment that they should use all reasonable effort to secure his nomination for the Presidency. Fifty seconds came from all over the auditorium, and when the question was put the affirmative shout and the accom- panying cheers produced a deafening cli- max. Nominations for delegates-at-large were next in order, and on the callof the roll ex-Senator Sawyer and ex-Governor Hoard were named. A motion that both be se- lected - by acclamation was ruled out by Colonel Esch. The ballot resulted : Sawyer 386, Hoard 287. A motion to select ex-Governor Hoard as the second delegate appeared to carry by an overwhelming viva voce vote, but the chair ruled otherwise, and the friends of the president of the Naiional Dairy Union demanded a ballot. Eugene 8. Elliott of Milwaukee was alsonamed. The ballot resulted : Hoard 408, £iliott 271. For the third delegate Elliott was chosen with but five dissenting votes. The con- test for the fourth place was between Major Edward dchofield of Oconto and J. H. Stout of Menominee. Geographical considerations were urged in behalf of the latter and he was elected by & vote of 374 to 304 As altérnates H. D. Smith of Appleton, ‘W. F. Heine of La Fayette, J. R. Lyons of Monfoe and Judge W. Plummer ot Peppin were selected by acelamation. Major Schefield and Paul Lachman of Bault County were elected with equal unanimity as electors-at-large, but later in the proceedings the former sent from his hotel a declination of the honor and J. D. Nels Sr. of Ashland was elected In his stead, H The names of the Presidential electors l chosen at the meetings of the Congres- sional district delegations were next re- ported and at 6:15 the convention ad- journed sine die. i g OPEN WaAgr IN ILLINOIS. The Cullom Forces Ave Arrayed Against McKinley’s Adherents. CHICAGO, IrL., March 18.—The Illinois supporters of Major McKinley have per- fected their plans to secure the indorse- ment of their candidate by the Republican State convention, which meets in Spring- field April 29, and thereby nullify the election of uninstructed delegates to the National convention in each Congres- sional district. The Business Men’s Mc- Kinley Club of Cook County has been chosen as the medium through which the plan is to be carriea out, if possible. General McNulta, who is chairman of the club’s executive committee in the ab- sence of Samuel W. Allerton in Europe, sent out to-day by direction of the committée a circular leiter to every county commit- teeman, State and National deiezate and Republican of prominence throughout the Stale, urging ail to support and work for the indorsement of Mc&mley by the State convention. The letter frankly admits that the club wants to_know what State delegates favor the nomination of the Obio citizen and who are opposed. Blanks for reply are in- closed and those marked ‘confidential’” are to be treated so. Among Chicago Republicans identified with the State organization or the city ad- ministration, the news that this circular had been distributed was received as a direct and open effort to defeat the no- instruction policy of the party managers and undermine the candidacy of Senator Cullom. Open war 1s declared from now on by the Cullom forces against the Mc- Kinley adherents in Illinois. POPULISTS. They Elect Delegates to the National Con- vention of the Party. HUTCHINSON, Kaxs., March 18.—The Populists ot Kansas held an enthusiastic convention here to-day and elected ninety- two delegate§ to the National convention at St. Louis. There was unusual interest attached to this convention, for it was expected to out- line the policy of the Populist party in reference to National politics in the com- ing campaign. The delegation will be headed by ex-Governor Liewelling, John ‘W. Breidenthal, chairman of the State Central Committee, ex-Congressman Har- }ris and Judge Frank Foster as delegates-at- arge. The platform adopted demands the free coinage of both gold and silver at a ratio of 16 to 1, and, if necessary for the protec- tion of tue producing classes, the Govern- ment ownership of all publiz utilities. The convention was attended by leading Populists from other States, and it is un- derstood efforts will be made to unite with the Independent Bimetallists at their St. Louis convention upon a ticket, though each convention may adopt its own plat- form. Taubeneck of [llinois and Me- Dowell of Tennessee are here pressing that scheme. KANSAS oL SOLID FOR MORTON. The Governor of New Tork Makes a Sweep in the City. NEW YORK, N.Y., March 18.—Delegates from the Congressional districts of this city to the Republican National Conven- tion were elected to-night at district con- ventions. Ex-Senator Platt’s men were in this district, and where they were in doubt about winning they put up contests, in the liope that the National Committee’s body on contested seats will recognize the Platt men at St. Louis, Some of the Congres- sional districi conventions were turbulent and disorderly. The deiegates elected to- night declare that they dre solid for Gov- ernor Morton for the Presidency. The results in the different districts were: ¢ y Eighth District—Platt candidates, Lucas R. Van Alen and Lispenard Stewart. Ninth District—Platt, Carroll H. Murray and John J, Collins. Anti-Plats, Theodore F. Rueil and Rudolph Mras. Tenth District—Platt, Frederick 8. Gibbs and John N. Windolph. Eleventh District—Platt, Jacob M. Patterson and George Hillyard. Twelfth District—Platt, Howard Carroll and Thurlow Weed Barnes. Anti-Platt, Cornelius Bliss and 8. V. R. Cruger. Thirteenth District — Anti-Platt, William Bl'{JLukflE]d and Anson G. McCook. Platt, no re- sul Fourteenth District—Platt, Lemuel Eliquigg and Abraham Grubber. Eighteenth District—Platt, Joseph Murray and David Friedsam. Anti-Platt, Robert J. Wright and C. H. T. Collis. it e Y Republican Conventions Called. RALEIGH. N. C, March 18.—The Re- publican State Committee this afternoon called the Btate convention to meet here May 14, to elect four delegates and four alternates to the National convention, and to nominate a State ticket or such part thereof as may be agreed upon. BALTIMORE, Mp., March 18.—The Republican State Central Committee has selected April 22 as the date and Balti- more as the place for holdinfi the State convention for the election of delegates to the Republican National Convention. st maries Will Not Oppose Senator Jones. LITTLE ROCK. ARk., March 18.—In a card published in an afternoon paper Gov- ernor Clark announces his withdrawal from the race against United States Sen- ator Jones. He bases his conclusion upon a desire to maintain harmony in the party, but it is a fact that nearly every délegation thus far named for the State cohvention ‘I]:eam iastructions to support Senator ones. 5 . R R Unpledged Mississippt Delégates. MERIDIAN, Miss., March 18.—The Re- publicans of the Fifth Congressional Dis- trict to-day chose Captain A. J, Hyde of this city and R. A. Simmons of Holmes County " delegates to the National conven- tion at 8t. Lounis, and M. L. Reddock of Yazoo City as Presidential elector. J. K. Everett was nominated for Congress. They are uninstructed and unpledged. g ke oA Missonrians for McKinley. JOPLIN, Mo., March 18.—In thp Repub- lican Congressional convention for the Fif- teenth District, which met here to-day, Congressman Charles G: Burton was re- nominated by acclamation. The delegates to the National convention were instructed to support McKinley. i SR Instructed for McKinley. MUSKEGON, Mrca.,, March 18, —The Muskegon County Republican Convention to-day elected delegates to the State con- vention, and instructed them to vote for McKinley delegates. NEBRASKA LAND SUIT. The Government May Bé Induced to Dismiss Proceedings. ‘WASHINGTON, D. C., March 18.—Sen- ator Allen, Representative Meikeljohn and ex-Senator Manderson of Nebraska had a conference to-day with Attorney-General Harmon, Secretary Smith and Commis- sioner Lamoreaux of the Land Office in regard to the pending suit of the United States against the settlers uvon 200,000 acres of lien or indemnity lands of she Burlington Railroad companz. _ By the terms of the act of March 2 the title of the railroad company to these lands ‘was confirmed, as were also the titles of all bona-fide purchasers of railroad lands, and the Nebraska gentlemen contended that the question of good faith of the purchasers could be determined by the Interior De- partment without suit, and the dismissal of the proceedings in the Circuit Court for Nebraska was urged b{ them. Their rep- resentations favorably impressed the Gov- ernment officials and they expeet that within a few days the suits will be dis- missed. If that shall be done the same course will doubtless' be pursued toward the settlers upon about 250,000 acres of land |in Iowa. DEPARTMENT CIRCUMLOCUTION, Secretary Hoke Smith Is Scored by Western Senators. VEST'S BITTER ATTACK. How Laws Are Rendered Inop- erative in the Interest of Monopolies. THAT MISSIONARY SPEECH. The Gentleman From Missouri Drops Into Poetry and Roasts the President. WASHINGTON, D. C., March 18.—The feature of to-day’s procoedings in the Sen- ate was a short debate upon the joint reso- lution directing the Secretary of the Inte- rior to execute the law for opening to set- tlement some 2,000,000 acres of land in the eastern part of Utah, which had been part of the Uncompahgre Indian reservation. Severe strictures upon the Secretary of the Interior for attempting to nullify the act of Congress were made by Senators Cannon of Utah, Wolcott of Colorado and Vest of Missouri. The latter inveighed with much vehemence agzinst the Secre- tary, declaring that the time had been when the head of a department would have to answer at the bar of the Senate for such an attempt to trample upon the legislative branch of the Government. Vest caused much amusement by his witty and caustic eriticism of President Cleveland’s recent speech before the Home Missionary Society of New York. The Dupont election case was taken up after the morning hour and Thurston of Nebraska made a three hours’ speech in advocacy of Dupont’s right to the seat. After passing numérosu bills, unobjected to, the Senate at 5:55 o’clock adjourned until to-morrow. The joint resolution introduced yester- day by Cannon (R.) of Utah directing the Secretary of the Interior to open to public entry the Uncompahgre Indian reserva- tion in Utah, excepting the agricultural lands aitotted or selected for allovment to the Uncompahgre Indians, was taken up and Cannon asked about its présent condi- tion. The Secretary of the Interior, he de- clared, had not complied with the law and this joint resolution was to require him to do so. He said that the existence of as- phalt in the reservation was as well known when the act opening it to settlement was passed as it was known now. The Secre- tary of the Interior, Carnon declared, had never intended to bave the reservation opéned to public entry and could not have acted more in the interest of rich and wealthy men and less in the interest of the common people. The care of the Interior Department was not how to do, but how .not to do it ‘Wolcott argued that the effect of the passage of the joint resolution would be not to give away the lands in question, but to let them go where they belonged— to the settlers. Vest (D.) of Missouri made a passionate speech on the subject. He began with the remark tht there was a time when a Cab- inet officer who deliberately failed to exe- cute an act of Congress would be brought before the bar of the Benate because he had trampled upon the Legislative De- partment of the Government and had violated his oath of office. He happened to know the facts in regard to the matter. Some years agoa company had been or- ganized in Bt. Louis for the purpose of opening up certain asphalt deposits in the Uncompahgre reservation, In the eastern part of Utah, and invested a large amount of money. Reécent discoveries had been made in Utah of the largest de- posits of asphalt in the world. The St. Lonis company had not gone into the reservation; it had bought land outside, and wagoned the product down to the Union Pacific Railway, by which it was sent to the different cities. The company did not want the lands, because the asphalt existed in such enormous quanti- ties that there could be no monopoly in it. " There was also. Vést said, a New York asphalt corporption which came on the scene last summer and which made some adjustment with the St. Louis company. The question was whether Coneress knew what it was doing when it passed the act to open up those lands. Congress did know it and knew very well that there were great asphalt deposits there. He knew personally that in 1893 the Interior Department was told as to the extent of these deposits. He had gone himself with the president of the Bt. Louis company to the Secretary’s office with specimeéns of the asphalt and had heard the statement made to the Secretary in regard to those veins. What sort of right, Vest demanded angrily, had the Becretary of the Interior to nullify that act of Congress? That practice had grown up under ifand de- manded the attention of Congress and at once. The action of the Secresary of Agriculture on the seed question wasan- other instance of the same kind, and now, said he, comes the Secretary of the In- terior and says that Congress did not know anything about these enormous de- posits, and he takes the responsibility of saying to the President of the United States that the proclamation opening these lands to settlement shall not be 1ssued. Here 1s a positive stztute nullitied by tne head of 4 department with no other excuse except the paltry one that he assumed that Congress had not the information which it hasg had for the last seven years. ‘There seems,” Vest continued, “to be a disposition on the part of the administra- tion to treat the Western people as if they were in a condition of puvilage, as if they do not know their own rights or their own interests, and as if they must be informed ex-catheara from the East in reference as to what is best for them, and what should be done for them. Even the President of the United States lately, on a missionary occasion [laughter], spoke of the West as a land of immorality and erime. He stood with the light—the ghastly lighf—of the hellholes and rum-cellars of New York blazing upon him, and cantingly said that home missions must be used to eivilize, to Christianize the men who have left their homes in the civilized East and gone out among the mountains and valleys of the wild and woolly West. [Loug and general laughter.] “Our President stood with Dr. on the one side, and the Rev Sheldon Jackson on the other, and gave us a new version of that beloved old missionary bhymn: From Montana’s sinful mountains, From Utah’s wicked plains, They call us to deliver Their land from Error’s chains. [Continued laughter.] “We are told upon high ecclesiastical authority that his excellency has lately 1aid down his honors at the feet of Jesus. Iam glad to know it. It has been the general impression of Democrats that the mugwumps and incense-burners had got those honors and intended to _keep the}n. 1 have respect for the Christian religion and for missions at home and abroad, lgut this was a slander on the men who with rifle in one hand and ax in the other have gone out and blazed that pathway of civ- ilization in the Western wilds. # “This, Mr. President, is what we have come to at last, that the President of the TUnited States in his official capacily says to the people of the whole world that in one portion of this country the sprrauu.d- ings are such that missions—home mis- sions—are necessary in order to bring the people to the proper knowledge of what is right and true.” At this point the Vice-President asked Vest to suspend his speech until a mes- sage should be received from the Presi- dent of the United States. Vest stopped an the message was delivered—general laughter being excited at the incident— and when Vest continued he remarked with assumed gravity that he would be glad if the presiding officer would exam- ine the message and see if if was in re- sponse to anything that had occurred in the Senate to-aay. Vilas (D.) of- Wisconsin offered as an amendment to Cannon’s joint resolution a proviso that any lands containing as- phalt or gilsenite, or like substance, shall be reserved for further disposition by Con- gress. He went on to argue the matter, suggesting that perhaps the Secretary of the Interior did not know a certain fact. ““There is no fact,”” Wolcott (R.) of Colo- rado broke in, “‘that the incumbent of the Interior Department does not consider he knows.”” [Laughter.] At another point Vilas suggested, in connection with Vest’s missionary re- marks, that he was not véry certain that the first missionary ought not to be sent very near to the place where Senators were now sitting. At 2 P. M. the Vice-President announced the unfinished basiness, which was a Sen- ate bill to approve a compromise and settlement between the United States and the State of Arkansas. After some colloquy it wasarranged that the Arkansas bill should not be pressed until after the Cuban resolutions and the Dupont case were disposed of, and that it should be succeeded as unfinished busi- ness by the joint resolution as to the Un- compahgre reservation. The Dupont election case was then taken up, and Thurston (R.) of Nebraska ad- dressed the Senate in an argumept sup- porting Dupont’s claim to the seat. Thurston closed his speech at 5 ». ., and Chandler (R.) of New Hampshire took the floor to speak on the same side of the question. The following bills were taken from the calendar and passed: Senate bill for the relief of settlers on the Northern Pacific indemnity lands (allowing them to take up quantities of land in Minnesota equal to the. canceled patents); House bill for the reconstruction of the Rock .Island bridge; House bill authorizing the Rock Island, Muscatine and Southwest Railroad Company to build a bridge across the Illi- nois and Mississippi Canal; Senate bill to authorize the leasing of landas for edu* cational.purposes in Arizona (reported . in { place of a similar bill vetoed by the Presi- dent); Senate bili fixing the salary of the Chief Justice of the Court of Claims at $6500 and of the justices at $6000; Senate bill granting a pension of $50 a month to the widow of Brevet Major-General Sam A. Duncan; Senate joint resolution for the disposition of the real estate, rents, etc., now in the hands of the receiver of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (to be delivered to the presidency of the church); Senate bill granting to the Siate of California 5 per cent of the net proceeds of the cash sales of publi¢ lands in that State for school purposes, and Senate reso- lution authorizing the Committee on In- dian Affairs to continue investigations during the recesses of Congress and to visit the several Indian reservations. After a short executive session the Sen- ate at 5:55 o’clock adjourned until to-mor- row. NEAMEU CABL BIL, Text of the Measure Which Will Be Reported to the House. The Governments to Be Protected by Coming Into the Possession of Stock. WASHINGTON, D. C., March 18.—The sub-committee of the House Commerce Committee, which has been engaged for several weeks in the preparation of a Nicaraguan canal bill, finished its iabors to- day and will report to the full committee on Friday next. The bill agreed upon is substantially the Mahon bill, withycertain amendments. It provides for a reorganization of the Mari- time Canal Company. It permitsthe com- pany to issue bonds to the amount of $100,- 000,000, of which $7,000,000 shall be beld by the company to reimburse it for the money actually expended in Nicaragua for their franchise. The United States guarantees the prin- cipal and interest of the bonds, which latter shall be sold as needed to complete the waterway. The United States is pro- tected in its liabilities by an issue of Rich, Red Is absolutely ésséntial to health. It is impos- sible to gét it from so-called “nerve tonics” and opiate compounds. They have tempo- rary, sleeping effects, butdonot CURE. 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All the bonds will bear interest at 3 per cent per annum, the net earnings of the canal to be placed in the sinking fund for their extinguishment from time to time. Additional security is given to the Goy- ernment by a first mortgage on the canal. The work will be_constructed under the “Rm on of the War Department. The bill reserves theright to the Government to purchase at it pleasure the $7,000,000 of bonds held by that corporation. A hearing will be given by the commit- tee to ex-Senator Warner Miller of New York on Friday next. 2 gk i President Cleveland’s Natal Day. ‘WASHINGTON, D. C., Mirch 18.—Pres- ident Cleveland is 59 years old to-day. Tnere has been no particular celebration at the White House. The President spent the day as usual. Some\personal friends, including Senator Vilas and Rey. Byron Sunderland, his pastor, remembered the occasion and called during the morning. o] Nominations Confirmed. A WASHINGTON, D. 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