Show S FAiLE 1 O CCUfl ill HBHSP and Seaato Fail ta AKTCC oa o InllhlD Apyroprlatlon Bill W9sllington D C Feb 25The House nonaoneurred In the Senate r amendments to the Indian appropria L riOrt roill and it was sent to conference 1ie House In committee f the wool t resumed consideration ot the Kenef1 deficiency bill The amendment to pay 4251000 to Great Britain In settlement ot the BerIng Ber-Ing Sea awards was carried yeas 93 nays 85 Mr Dockery raised a point of order asMnt the amendment The amendment to pay Great Britain 425000 the amount of the awards made by the Paris Bering Sea tribunal against the United States precipitated quite a long debate Mr Brecklnridge Democrat of Kentucky Ken-tucky in pbarge of the bill explained the details of the Paris arbitration and the decision against the justice and the legality of the seizures the United States had made In the Bering Sea Great Britain through Sir Julian Pauncefote had demanded 5500000 and Secretary Gresham had agreed to 425 000 The government U fairness should accept the Judgment and pay the damages Mr Gannon Republican of Illinois said the fatal defect In the judgment of the I aris tribunal wes the fact that the citizenship of the claimants had never been passed upon He called attention at-tention moreover to the fact that under un-der the modus Vivendi agreed to in 182 by Sir Russell representing the British government and E J Phelps representing repre-senting the United States all claims for speculative damages had been solemnly sol-emnly waived In the Geneva award all claims for speculative constructive damages amounting to hundreds of millions had been ruled out on the ground that they depend on contingencies contin-gencies too uncertain What made sauce for the goose made sauce for the gander Some 258000 of the present award was purely speculative damages Besides he had reason to believe tHat several of the owners of vessels were American citizens and not British subjects sub-jects At most but 8000 could be claimed When Secretary Gresham offered of-fered Sir Julian 425000 the British government he said jumped at It like a bass at a fly He would never vote to carry out the agveomant made by Secretary Gresham Mr Henderson JepibUcan > of Iowa analyzed the statement of exSecre tary Foster to the effect that 1000 represented the maximum damages that could justly be assessed against the United States and ten of the vessels seized were owned in whole or In part by Americans and therefore were excluded Mr McCreary Democrat of Kentucky Ken-tucky chairman Qf the foreign affairs committee favored the appropriation on the ground that the United States must do one or two things pay this i425000 or submit the question of assessment as-sessment of damages to a commission If the latter course was followed It would cost the government twice S42o 000 before the matter was settled Mr Hitt attacked the amendment vigorously Mr Breckinrldge closed With a declaration that the Paris arbitration was an unfortunate chapter in OUt diplomacy and Its result a complete fiasco Yet we must keep our faith and pay the award Mr Cannon demanded a roll call on the amendment to pay the Benrlng sea award and it lost 122 to 113 The amendment to pay the employees em-ployees of the House and Senate and the Individual clerks to members an extra months salary carried 143 to 103Mr Mr Henderson Democrat of North Carolina presented the conference report re-port on the ppstoffice bill The only point in dispute between the two louses was the Senate amendment to require railway mail clerks hereafter to be appointed to reside at one of the terminals of the routes to which they were assigned Without action the House at 510 adjourned until 11 o lock tomorrow |