Show I COKEB OFF MR LEWIS Wanted to Talk On That Woodfori Banquet at Madrid CORBpTT CASE I SENAT ARGUMENTS TO SHOW ITS AN AXOGY TO MANTLE CASE Mantles Case Had Nothing to Di With Silver Question Disclaimer Made By Gallinger and Paco Grand and Lofty Tumbling In Rhetoric of a Resolution I did i Washington Feb 6The house < the consideration of the < I not complete consIderaton sundry civil bill today but Chairman civi I floor with It until adjournment I Cannon hell the wih unt to Mr journment refusing to yield 1 chairman of the naval Boutelle the I Boutele committee who was anxious to secure commitee by consideration of the bill reported considerqton the relief of the vie J his committee for relef commitee of the Maine disaster dis-aster tims and survivors SUNDRY CIVIL BILL I About 20 pages of the sundry chi efforts I bill were disposed of today Many forts were made by different member and harbor items Into to inject river iems successful the bill three of them being I Amendments appropriating 300000 foi r Cleveland harbor 5200000 for Wimin3 ton Del and Increasing the appropriation appro-priation for Boston harbor from J100 praton 250000 were adopted As contracts > con-tracts for the work were authorized I they were in order under the rules LEWIS SENSATION I Mr Lewis Dem Wash created something of a sensation by offering amend the fohlowisJ resolution as an ment mentResolved disapprove I Resolved That congress of Minister Woodford tendering a i Inister the Spanish cabinet in behalf be-half of the United States and express I between Ing the sense that the relations tween Spain sese and the United States II should until the Inquiry as to the cause of the Maine disaster be determined I deter-mined remain only In the formal and I official way demanded by the needs oi I the respective nations CHOKED OFF I I Mr Lewis was proceeding to remark upon the ghoulish spectacle of Minister I Minis-ter Woodford banqueting the Spanish cabinet while the country was mourn ing the loss of 250 brave sailors whc I were the victims of Spanish hate when I Mr Cannon interposed a point of ordei I against the amendment and was promptly sustained by the chair I Mr Lewis attempted to debate the I point of order saying the amendment I was certainly pertinent to the para graph under consideration which happened hap-pened to relate to national cemeteries I am opposed he said t our people burying their dead while our official l representative abroad Is feasting their murderers At this point Mr Lewis was cut of and the incident closed IN THE SENATE During the greater part of the senates sen-ates session today the right of Henry W Corbett to a seat from the state of Oregon was under discussion Mr Thurston Neb in an extended speech opposed the admission of Mr Corbett while Messrs Foraker Kyle and Mantle supported Mr Corbetts claim The vote on the case it has been I agreed will be taken next Monday at 3 p m The pension calendar was I cleared by the passage of several private I pri-vate pension bills A few bills of general gen-eral character were also passed THE MANTLE CASE Mr Foraker Rep 0 In addressing the senate on the Corbett case said he did not propose to follow the precedent prece-dent established by the Mantle case as he regarded the decision in that case erroneous and it was generally so regarded re-garded by the legal profession throughout I through-out the court I was generally understood said I Mr Foraker That the silver question had more to do with the reaching of a I decision than the application of the principles of law Mr Gallinger N H entered an instant I in-stant disclaimer to the application of Mr Forakers statement to him I want to assure the senator from Ohio that so fa as I was concerned the silver I I ver question had not the slightest weight In determining my vote in the Mantle case I voted against Mr Man N td LIes admission and for similar reasons I rea-sons I expect to vote against the admission ad-mission of Mr Corbett Mr Pasco Fla said he desired also I to enter a disclaimer to the statement state-ment of Mr Foraker He thought that the roll call on the Mantle case conclusively I con-clusively intimated to him that the silver question had nothing to do with I the refusal of the senate to seat Mr Mantle as 17 out of the 35 votes against him were cast by senators who supported sup-ported Mr Bryan for the presidency The names of the 1 are Berry Blackburn Black-burn Coke Faulkner George Gibson Harris Kyle Mills Mitchell Pasco Murphy Peffer Smith Vance Vest and White I am very glad replied Mr For aker to have the disclaimer of the senators from New Hampshire and Florida and I accept them absolutely but I repeat that throughout the country coun-try the impression was that the silver luestlon had a great deal to do with the decision in the Mantle case if it did not control it I wish to say that I lid not have it in my mind to criticize my senator for his vote in that case LAFAYETTE MONUMENT Mr Thurston Neb then called up a joint resolution for a commission to supervise the collection of a fund among the schools and colleges of the United States for the purpose of erectIng erect-Ing a monument to General Lafayette in Paris France the same to be presented pre-sented to the French government and mvelled and dedicated on July 4 1SOO The language of the preamble caused Ir Hale to Inquire what remarkable remark-able document was being read Mr Thurston explained the resolution resolu-tion and then Mr Hale suggested that the preamble be stricken out as the grand and lofty tumbling of Its rhe oric was a reflection upon the sanity of the senate This was agreed to and he resolution was passed |