Show In the Senate WASHINGTON April 10 Among the bills reported re-ported from the committees and placed on the calendar were the following A bill to provide an American register for a steamer to be named Australia owned In California to provide pro-vide and equip two steam launches to be used i the collection district of Puget sound Consideration of the Montana election case was resumed i and as no Senator sought the floor the yeas and nays were ordered On the first resolution a vote was about being taken when Evarts suggested that i no Senator on the other side desired to speak he would make the closing argument in support of the committees commit-tees report Morgan said that after hearing the Senator from New York he might feel himself required to say something Evarts then proceeded to state in detail the facts and circumstances of tho Montana election elec-tion and to dsicuss the powers of tho territorial returning board on which he said there were no limitations imposed by tho statute In words by that he meant he saidoits powers are unlimited un-limited within the sense that they belong the phrase to which i was applied After a long dissertation on the duties and doings of the county and territorial canvassers in the course of which he critclsed the governor of the state for placing a janitor a Cerberus at the door of tho court house assembly to admit only such persons as were entitled to go in thus making him for the occasion judge of who were and who were not elected as representatives representa-tives Everts said the proposition on the Democratic Dem-ocratic side was that the Senate was to be a canvassing board higher than the territorial canvassing board while the proposition on the Republican side was that the Senate had no such power of revision Gray defended the governor of Montana from the criticism mado on account of tho instructions instruc-tions to the janitor and asserted the only direction di-rection given the janitor was a letter of instruc tions that he should admit tons everyone who claimed to be a member of the house of representatives repre-sentatives After further debate Hoar gave notice that on Monday he should ask the Senate to remain in session until the Montana case was disposed of Hawley from the select committee on the quadricentennial celebration reported back with amendments the House bill for the Worlds Vords fair at Chicago and said he hoped to have it passed Monday After an executive session tho Senate adjourned |