Show THE FISHERY TREATY s ttp Senator Morgan Expresses Himself on It r I AND DEFENDS THE PRESIDENT JQP c The House Discussing tho Tariff Bill l Terrible ThunderStorm Turf v Other Notes SENATE WASHINGTON Jane 7In the Senate Morgan asked leave to offer a preamble I and resolution setting forth the report of the committee on foreign relations Sherman objected to this introduction Morgan demanded the right to speak on the motion to refer The chair held he could not be permitted to speak until the unanimous consent for reduction reduc-tion of the resolutions was given CameronIoI move we proceed to executive business Morganl do not yield the floor for that purpose This important treaty has been made a mere political football of a great party for the sake of advancing advanc-ing the interests of certain gentlemen National Convention to be held in Chicago Despite the ruling of the chair against him Morgan maintained his ground IK the readdress delivered by him upon the subject in executive session one of the sentences in his speech was The Senate may make war necessary as I am very much afraid we are doing here today The action of the Republican Republi-can Senators he said was doubtless with a view of exciting t antagonism of Irish voters to the President becinse of his alleged sub serviency to British influence That charge rankles with injustice Congress Con-gress he said had given the President Presi-dent the power which all Presidents possessed since 1850 to wage war on paper on the British commerce If the President has pushed it to a point of real war the country would have cried out for his impeachment but having filled to do so he was charged in the report of the majority the committee on foreign relations with usurpation and abuse of the Constitutional power The resolutions went over without action I ac-tion tionAfter After the routine of business the Senate adjourned till Monday HOUSE WASHINGTON June 7The House went into committee of the whole on the tariff bill Dingley speaking in opposition op-position to Breckenridgos amendment to the provision attached to the lumber schedule of th f list which proposes to admit Canadian fish free of duty upon allowance by that country and the commercial rights to our vessels and also for reciprocity A protracted debate followed but finally the lumber schedule was completed without change Weaver read a bulletin announcing the approval of the Mills bill by the convention To all appearances the Republicans took as much comfort as the Democrats in the announcement Cox sent up and had read the announcement an-nouncement of Thurmans nomination A scone of wild confusion followed Nearly all the Democrats were on their feet shouting and cheering Bandanas Ban-danas appeared in every hand and a portrait of Thurman was displayed Biggs of California added to the excitement ex-citement by calling out in a voice broken with emotion I have worked thirty years in California to see Thur man nominated Thank God he now i8 in the secend place Bayne of Pennsylvania sarcastically enquired of the Democrats why they manifested so much enthusiasm overt over-t tail of the ticket and so little over the tOld Orosvener of Ohio in explanation as he said of the action of the Democratic Demo-cratic convention in omitting all mention men-tion of Mills bill from the platform and patching it up in a subsequent resolu tion had read two telegrams one sent by Breckenridge of Kentucky to Wat erson saving a failure to endorse the Mills bill might defeat it The other was from McMillan of Iowa to Governor Gover-nor Brown making the same statement Kelly ironically enquired if the convention con-vention had fixed a date upon which the Mills bPI should go into effect The salt schedule having been reached the committe rose Adjourned |