Show Wt SKY fOR + L ALASKA I > Prohibition Proposition Voted Down By the Senate CRIMINAL ODE PASSED > FUT DISCUSSION OF TAR A MOB PLATE SUJCT 4 Grm Believes the Acton of the I Senate Will Embrms the G cent and Cripple the Navy Lodge Fvor Surrender to the Armor Plate anufacthrers 4 Washington Mach 2The chaplain t his invocation at the opening of the senate today paid a touching trIbute to the late Lord Herchel of the high joInt commission who dIe in Wash Ingon yesterday and the prayer was ordered printed in the Iecor The conference report on the bill au thorlzlng governors of state to be re ibursed for expensf incurred In rs ing and equIpping the volunteer army was agreed to An effort was made to obtain con efort Jlderton of a bill to incorporate the atonal White Cross of America but Jlr Gray Del objected on the ground that the united Hate had no corsIutonpi power o a etherize such a corrat even though It did come to congres In zho garb of whltcwlngd conlc charity The Red Cross was recognized br treaty and not by act of congress Mr Carter Mont secure consideration consider-ation for the bill providing a code of crmimJI laws for Alalm The senate comIttee amendment were adopted by unanimous consent with the understanding under-standing that the entire text should be subject to amendment Mr Galnger N lL argued against the abolition of prohibition of the liquor trfc in Alaska and the subst tton of the license system He de dared that there nevr had been an honest earnest and determined effort to enforce the llrohbltor r laws in Alaska He offered an amendment thexfore striklnr out the license pro Yisbns of the bill and inserting in thplr pace the present provision of the revised statutes relative to thc sale of liquor States In he territories of the UnIcd 111 Perkins CaJ speaking from personal experience believed It impossible impos-sIble to enforce a prohibitory law in aka and declared that a high 1 l carso was the bet and strongest laW in favor of good government god morals and good society Mr Vest who recently visited Alas ita dr < red that prohibition In Alaska vas not only a broad farce hut absolutely abso-lutely detrimental to the interests of lute1 detrimcnt te the people The amendment of lIr Galnger was dtfatedl to 46 The affirmative votes were cast by Mosers len Frye Galnger Hans brugh Hoar Lodge McLaurIn Platt Conn Proctor Roach and Ross The bill was then passed without dl Islol The senate then devoted forty five minutes to passing a number of private pension bills and bills to cor root military records bIll to amend sctlon DR of the revised statutes was passed and the conference report on the census bIll agreed to Mr TUll 1 Tenn moved to tale up a house meaLun limItIng the hour of daily srlt s of laborer workmen and mabanies employed upon the public v rls or work done for the United ftat 01 any territory or the Die tllt ot C tmnbIn Tfle motion pre Hd30 t 20 11 Perkins the moved to take up tho f1nltCations bill and it was agreed to30 to 1 Tb vote Ult ttJ fortifications bill dIsrced r the labor bill DILLS PASSED Piing consideration of the forll catn bill the following measures la passed Athoiizing the commissioner of the Fndtaul Savings Trust coman i ry 62 per cent dividends to deposit er a house bIll to encourage the hold ir of a PalAmerican expositon ont on-t e iaarl frontier at Buffalo N Y Ir 90l I r enate then roecodod with the f tueatms bill the bIll being In prey C pre-y tlo same form as it passed the h us 1t < arre 47U79S In the coure of al argument on the plHes paid for fortification guns 11 t r an adverted to the action of the s > 1 yesterday on thc armor plate Cu J when the prIce of armor plate t 5 tuiiced to t0G a ton While a < Imy haG been provided eser tl WI indIcated that no effective I hd been made for the nay Th lULOn of the senate on the armor p tf mater would prevent the comple t cr ff a1 war vessels the armor for flr v J 1 ha not already ben contracted SO he said we shall have until 101 u tophev army and no Irper 1 at to go wit It I believe there is a so understanding among the armOr t r u acturer of tie world and that V y have received larger prices for arncr than wa just 1b belief Is LcA vr that in our desire to e ono lIz anJ prevent extortion we wi f n1al 1 rfS the government I we were r t m position to get into quarrels with c t t10ns it might be wIse to heIr he-Ir Ixanufacturer a object lesson I b WY hat while we are spending clx ln1rd to seven hundred millions of d JrE to elevate foreign peoples Il mbht have been wise perhaps to submit sub-mit to this crtortQn in the interets of s lr Mr Pettgew proposed an amend iat strikIng out an appropriation of G5tC for the purchase of n Gathmann r in and om of HOO for the amuni The amendment tl n was defeated Ti marlts made by Mr Gorman regardng armor plate drew out a brief rcuiy from 1Ir Chandler LODGE ON ARMOR PLATE 31 Lodge declared that while mi 21 1 of dollars were expended for the imrrnment of r1crs and harbors ana an-a ten1t was being made to cntmIe Pl th navy a great national defense He 1 lltespd against such a policy He th > ught the amount that might be saved on armor platE would be lucia n fcant lfl1Pad WiU1 the loss j the rnltl Stats Fhould become involved 11 a luy wIth any of the great 1a tOS He edare the CrA were JOYUIg rir per ton for armor for the RussIan ShillS they were betiding and that England had contracted for armor at LilT per ton He held that If our prie f0r the armor was fixed at 300 i tvuld tP armor making Mr Hale at this point reported the general deficiency appropriation bill and gave notice he would cal i up early tomorrow The senate on motion of ir Hoar atC at-C odJCk went into 2ecuthe e ion At the conclusion af the executive esiIOfl the senate resumed legislative business at 65 p m After remarks by Mr FOaker on the death of Representative SteDhen A orlwa of Ohio the usual resolutions ot regret were adopted and the senate took a rece unt 815 P m When the enate reconvened Mr rco1enec Qua moved that the senate concur In 1e amendment or the house to the measure pro1dlng for tile erection < f U building for tue department of jus ice f the nendment limiting the cost to SIOOCO The motion wa agreed to wldl passed the bI COT OF ARMOR eonslderiron or the fortifications bill vas resumed and Mr TIma wa recognized rec-ognized to reply to speeches made ear 4l 4 P leI in the day by Mr German and Mr Ledge Be said that it was an anoma bus condition that the conference on the naval bill was in control of men i who wcre oPPoStd to the senate amend meat to reduce the price of armor plate He VS willing md anxious to give the administration all the support i nee cd both for the army and the nan I Later Mr Platt Conn inquired i Mr THman believed the Krpp armor I could be procured at even H5 per tonI ton-I Mr Tlman replied that perhaps i could not be but he was convinced that the extra price for Krpp armor was i simply a scheme to rob us out of 115 a ton He was willing to complete every battleship now on the stock and pay 400 a ton for the armor but he wante congress tp proceed to the erection I erec-tIon of al armor factory and thus free j aor the count trst from the clutches of the I 11 Platt Coun sad he desired simply that the war vessels of the II United States should be covered with I the very best armor mae and he thought every other America felt a he did He dId not believe that Enrlad I Russia and Germany were submitting I to the exactions of an unconscionable trust and it was in evidence that they I were paYing about 55 a ton for the Krupp armor I Mr Chandler N H declared in answer an-swer t questions that there was no evIdence that the Krpp armor was I any better than the HereIzed armor ar-mor as no investigation had been mae of armor sInce Secretary Herbert mae his Investigation without The fortifications divIsion bill was then passed Mr Money called up the special order or-der whIch was eulogies on the late Representative Love of Mississippi He presented resolutions and tributes were paid to the deceased At the conclu I don of the address the senate at 1005 I p m adjourned until tomorrow |