Show CREDENTIALS IN INT Senate Sanate Hear Bear Charges on Armor Plate Washington Feb ll Shortly after the senate convened today the naval appropriation appropriation bill was passed pa The bill was then taken up and kept before the t senate nate during du the remain remainder der of the legislative day y Mr liE Caffery I bern Dem La Lai occupied the floor throughout t bolt the t he e session n Opposition senators made the point of or no quorum several times and demanded a call of the senate When the senate convened at 11 n clock o Mr fr Turley Tenn Teun presented pre the creden credentials tale 1 of his Edward W Car Carmark Carmack Carmack mack mark elected a senator for tor u II term of six Mx sixt years ears t ar beginning l March Marci 4 t uN um Mr ir r Teller Colo Cole presented the cre credentials creden den of Thomas M Y Patterson elected a H senator frem from Colorado for fr the term of FIX ix i years beginning March 4 4 ISM 1501 The There Thet t re ot or both befit senators elect were tiled Carnegie Accused of Sad Bad Faith When the naval appropriation bill bW was taken lakeit up Mr Tillman 3 S C said ahI be he de do ired to present pr which would show the bad faith with the Car lIgh and It Bethlehem Bt companies had bad treated the government The companies com les had said Maid positively po they were to tomake toma tomake make ma Krupp KniPP armor for less leu than per ton I on yet ret they had bd entered into a contract for armor at a lower price He would be l he said if the chairman oc ot the thella naval lla val affairs train committee Mr Hale would corroborate froat bat he said Mr Hale replied that there was wu no question about the accuracy o ii at Mr Till mans statement Mr Pettigrew P w said that A hen rhen a member of one of Ir f the armor plate concerns COnO was before the appropriations committee he h admit admitted ten that the Carnegie and Bethle ethle Bethlehem hem h m companies haJ had an agreement ment to bid bidI the t I he same Kame sum for to the armor Mr Tillman declared dt that the high price irlee named flamed in ii the ike contract for tor armor armora wat a as flIed d as an Inducement to the Car rr Hegle and aud Bethlehem em companies to make mak makIt H It large contribution to the Republican Rt campaign fund The bill lit wan a u passed pa ed without ton Calls Ct 18 for AntiTrust t Bill During the consideration o 0 the th subsidy bill Mr Jones Ark thought there mu must t be some good reasons for the manifest St StI I indifference of so large a part of or the I Republican senators to this bill In his hia hiso opinion o the reason reaM for the manifest in 18 was that no idea prevailed that in the seventeen days of the th the bill bUl a senate measure which h would W uld have hav Vf to be passed by b the house to become a law Jaw could not be dis die disposed dIsposed posed of He regarded it as aR absurd that tiny any ny of passing pa ing the measure at this session he lit t entertained He then moved m ved that the judiciary committee b diM difo discharged barged from froth of ot the theS S antItrust t bill passed pa Ed by the louse house and that the senate proceed ty t its consideration con idera lion tion Pi that Vr Mr 1 r Wolcott olcott folo j i ht 11 felt et it m i a duty to taj say in reply to toJ tot t 1 J I I oc f J Mr Ur Jones statements tS that ait t this s mo In tit the session on many Vu obliged ed to absent ab themselves them el from the IO senate chamber in order to attend to Important committee work Their absence ence ab did old not at all ali indicate an indifference as to t the subsidy sub bill 1 lf ell objection ob on by y Mr n fr Chandler Oha he motion of Mr Mi Jones Jone under the rUles rule r l went over oer until tomorrow the Ule Arkansas an as senator gi giving ing notice noU that he be would press it I at that time if It he could do so tIO without antagonizing the appropriation bills Mr Platt PIatt Coon ColL explained that the judiciary committee for several days had had the antitrust bit bill under consideration tion lion and he be protested that the committee should not be discharged summarily front from its work Information on On Subsidies Su Asked Mr speech 1 h na f inter interrupted interrupted interrupted by a brief executive suasion session S and the passage of a resolution offered by Mr Spooner calling opo th the tha secretary of f the treasury to h tHe me senate the number and tonnage of vessels vesela y engaged in commerce comer e the number new lia engaged in rn inthe anth the th coast wt e trade that could enter the foreign trade under uder the t sending pending lull bill bi and ad also the amount lun of subsidy Pr each el vessel vl would wold receive e under the 11 The Th resolution tion ton also ahm calls callb cn for the t number of oC foreign foren built vessels authorised to come cm under American Amera registry by the tt bill and the amount of ot subsidy each would t receive rele and the number of foreign fO ro Ip ships register registered re str ed as contracted to IQ be b bUt under the tha provisions of the bm bilL Senators Aldrich Alch Allison A and Jone of Arkansas Arkans w we appointed aDte conferees on o the wr revenue bill biu Resuming Rumi Mr c h th tb bill bi is a ol bold grant of ot tire the t peoples ples money to fill fil the pockets of Shipbuilders and As A such weh it is absolutely ab an unconstitutional and void voi It I is 1 robbery under the form of an law You YO can c tax t the o people for fei a public purpose pmt you can cannot cu cunot cannot not pe give away the peoples money for lor er a private purpose S Senator Yv arrn arren reported from N the tb corn com committee rm claims omnibus bill aggregating ml tee on claim an sit bU gating The claims daImi include un under under under der the 90 Bowman B set 1999 E French spoliation a 7 Selfridge board bo findings state claims clas 4 44 H Hr SM Mr r Morgan gave notice noUe of Q an nat around mont ment to MOr the sundry civil or the river and ai men harbor bill authorizing the tha th acquirement of bi land from rota t t Rica RIc n nd l 1 Q Nicaragua for the construction ef of the Nicaragua a canal canal Senator ForakEr r reported a bill bl provid providing lug ing that Hawaiian coins may mAybe be received reve at par for tor all government nt dues duea and that tt al gover d when wh pr once so received they shall s al not no b bagain be again put into circulation |