| Show I In the Senate WASHINGTON July 3 Messages from the President as to postal and cable communication com-munication between tho United States and LatinAmerican states and as to the cele bratiou of thejfouith centennial ol the dis icovery of America were presented and felre Allison moved that the adjournment today to-day be till Monday Agreed Plumb offered resolution agreed to call ing on the secretary of war for information as to whether articles are being manufactured manu-factured at any national military homes that come in competition with private enterprises if so the reason and authority therefore d Plumb alsoj offered a resolution directing < tlie secretary of the interior to inform tho Senate whether he has knowledge of auy guarantee actual or proposed by the Union Pacific railroad company o the bonds or stocks of any other corporation more especially those of the Oregon Navigation Navi-gation company and the Deuvcr South Park railroad and whether the Union Pacific Pa-cific has paid out of its surplus earnings or otherwise the indebtedness or any part thereof of those or other companies and i so whether such guarantee or payment or both is in accordance with the law and and eonsisten wth the obligations of the Union Pacific to the United States Edmunds suggested t add the words and that the secretary of the interior communicate all imowaatrm jtn 160 possession posses-sion of his department on the subject Plumb accepted the amen meut Butler satirically suggested that the secretary sec-retary of the interior also report if ho had any knowledge why the Senate does not proceed to the consideration of the report of the select committee on Pacific railroads He supposed the caucus had acted on the matter Ihis led t a ttit between Butler and Edmunds which consumed some time Edmunds bid so far as he was concerned he would bt glad to have the resolution CI brace a call tq know whether the in 47 liquor department is in possession of in llfc mtion that at least one of the govern icnt aided railroads has not ever since the passage of the Taurman act deliberately disobeyed its injunctions in respect of increasing in-creasing ib obligations and making dividends divi-dends 1 it be true that in spite of the law with the penalties imposed there has Lot bcm force enough in the administra ton either under Democratic or Republican auspices to compel these companies to i obey tie law he did not know that there i wMt1 1 be any use in passing a settlement billrAt all The resolution was finallj agr ed to jnesibject of the bill passed yesterday as to land patents undelivered t 1 tnts remaining undelyered ud the facilities afforded a firm of Wash JL gtoii attorneys to take a list of them lrl a hi by Berry of Arkansas who had a i ttcr read sent oy those attorneys to the c l k J c I i Columbia count Arkansas offer ig t < supply patent in that county for 4 u l which the fee clerk was a retain SI > A letter from Assistant Commissioner Sum then acting commissioner to this firm extending such facilities t it and from Assistant S cretary Busscy certifying to tie ifpntaolechaiacter of the firm were C orira Berry said if any explanation CxuJ tie givfin o that transaction or ex ci s that most scandalous conduct on the I tIt ci government ofiiaials he would be tld to hear it Where were the2oO000 01 tfl rd livered patents and this firm W0udat the low ratementioned in its letter wrench lGftWO from citizens unjustly and witLout authority He understood one member of the firm Thomas H Mc hoc irs a ofiicor of the House of Repre sunUtUvcs The matter was discussed at 6oae L nztli by Teller Paddock and Cock rtii Paddock stated that under the present pres-ent cdmiristration the number of undelivered unde-livered patents had been reduced by some twenty thousand The Senate bill to establish es-tablish a United States land court was thl n diocusscd until 2 pm when the 1 1 u JUL LbU UUbU ual O4JJW up IdWU Vt st continued his arguments against the I bills He was as anxious as Mr Blaine to briar bd tlc supremacy of the United Stales ci the ocean and t open theports of I South America American products but tile question was also as to the means to bring about that end The Senator from I Man c Kryc wanted the subsidies Hei Vc t opposed tLem in toto Test went j r n to speak of Ihc late PanAmerican con j ferenct and sent 10 the clerks desk and i l4 rat a clipping from the New York Her atu of its Buenos Ayres correspondent ito ito i i-to show what Sefior Pierra vno aeoia panied the Argentine delegates t Vasii in ton thought of tho conference of Blaine I and of the United States delegates As soon as tho clerk finished reading this vcr caustic criticism Hawley asked Vest whether he knew who wrote that whether it was quite fair and decorou to have printed such a mess of irresponsible blackguardism gardism Vt su r plied Tho gentlemans name was given in the communication Hawllyt reaffirm what I said that the man wno speaks as he does of the honora bo gentlcuan and who says of American can colleges that degrees can be ob 1 med for 530 says wilfully that which is faispi trc is the secretary of a society in Bur CS Ayres and accpmpanieJ the dele Ration from the Argentine republic to this Pan American conference liawley And you may add 1 that de sctiptiou that he i < liar and a blackguard Test Tho article is a criticism of a pub lie assembly and I had it read t show the impression made upon a prominent man who attended that conference in respect to the personnel of the conference and its obJect ob-Ject It was in order to show that no wining win-ing and dining no public exhibition nothIng noth-Ing but self interest would affect cur corn inercialrclaJoas vith the people of South cpnerica I bah bad that article read as a nelca I Wjinmunication published all over the 4orntry and In South America tot t t o i show that the men who come here from South America are among the keenI I cst shrewdest and most farseeing met chants 01 the world and that when we by any international Americar conference orb or-b any other spectacular manner seek to draw them away from self we are simply fooling ourselves and throwing away the money of the public Vet went on t say if the subsidy system sys-tem were established ifi should be made equalthe cattle raisers should bo subsidized subsid-ized I ho wanted to emasculate and tncr rate the people he would teach them to depend on the government gOYC1nmt I Wilson of Maryland addressed the Senate Sen-ate on the appropriation bills which went over The conference report on tho agricultural agri-cultural appropriation bills was presented and agreed to Adjourned t 1 Monday The Senate committee military allairs has ordered a favorable report upon the nomination of Lieutenant Colonel Richard I X Batcheller to be quartermastergeneral I of the United States army |
