| Show FIGHT HAZING HAliNG PENALTY Senators Say Proposed Law Is Too Severe REPORT IS REJECTED I I I BROUGHT UP AND AD PUT OVER j jJ I J i I II Washington Feb IS DBy By the emphatic k vote OtE of af 18 to 42 f the senate ramie te late this aft at J noon rejected the conference report on the military academy appropriation bill Mil I This Thi came at the conclusion ioa of ot a af soil spirit it O cf i debate the f upon provisions against hazing inserted in the report by the conference committee of the th two bm bra of j congress engros c L Discussion ston of the ision which was wan J precipitated at the doe 0 oe 0 of e by Mr Daniel Dantel I of Virginia occupied the greater creater part of I toda today s session and aDd the report of the vol e rt s was rejected because bec h cause it ft was I reg i ie l by bv a large laree majority m of the sen en at aU ate as a too drastIc hue no DO Instructions S cou oud d L Lt L given the conferees by the sen see ate aU it was stood tha to secure fa f oi b by the senate senaLe a modified ion as to the Penalty for hazing hae have t tl be bt pr and agreed upon h hy by the conferees t arly d 1 in the aa day da Mr Deboe of Kentucky delivered del l his hh anno meed s speech h upon the i anal canal He lie reviewed at t h M th proceeding which ltd led no tip tu to tl the pros pre pres i in 1 n lit MI nation and I advocated the theco co 0 of the waterway by the th I L i Ii 11 ed States Action of Vice Admirals I w A lL the hc h opening of the n ben Senator tor H ila Ha A hirman h irman ot of the commit committe C te on naval al art ur r ported irom that con cons tee a bill to the grade of vice ice admiral of th navy ivy ni and a d authorizing the jm with the thc th advice and consent of th the senate nat natt to ai int two vice vic admirals admiral from irom the list of or active act c rear admirals of ot th thc n navy i He Immediate consider ati aU i tor for the thi bill witch which w is intended to pr MU for th ad d lv of both botha ha a 11 i 1 Hot ot i J iid id ld Sell a v vI I ch M tN X X O t and Mr hir r Petti gi A t is D t wei wel I tin In n their et instantly Wil WI Ii objections 1 nd r too turn tion s said Jd Mr Hale Halt till tl hill bill will fu o to 0 the calendar I give givet gi t senators senator ei notie tl that it a as soon goon as ble Me I will wili call i 11 p the bill ii 11 a anything n thing ia is isto to c e done it shou should tl Lt te done tione within a H ew W da days s in order th that it t it may ma haw have ha consid consideration cration era t Ion b by the house of representatives and anal president sl ent If I it bedela hO delayed ed too long it will fall b by the th v wayside ay side and nothing will be done dont enate committee re reported x favor favorably favorably abl ably upon all ail tin the nominations ot ut na naval val al rs tor br advancement except those or Sampson and Schy There Thee Therewa Ii Ava wa some indication in the committee commit Ce me that the contro er tTY might be 00 rai over the question y ot r cement in naming the two vice ad admIrals mii ds proposed some senators desiring to th h A Schley Behle should hould be I Hit ht 1 named Th Tl s same ime same contention arose rose over Ot r the th re resolution n of thanks suggested j b by th v nd the measure was WIl WIlnot not acted upon I Debate Over Hazing J I Mr 1 5 St Sewell w 11 calleo tip lii U the re ree e po pert t on the mint 11 y Oni J d tie de dei T i nid the oi of the conferees He tie Ie declared that thai mony eople thought Booz I was killed by bv h z ng and nd md that thit if there was anything tv ti t j s country d demanded it was a law to prevent suc a crime as ast t a b Mr argued that the sion of the conference l ft r port which debarred barred e a at t cadt convicted cf f hazing from ever er hold hoid holdIng ing a commission in the arm army na nay navy or marine corps w was is clear tu 1 Mr Butler un url urged d I that congress ought j not to be b swept ott Iff n it its f et by popular clamor He jai i hazing Sizing in mod modEration ration was not nut a thing to t hf ht h put down by penal legislation He Ht 1 01 kus OWl s i men in col tol colleg j leg who were ti V l tt i for hazing in HK ration It Ii t 1 m K g Jed c took the Con out of the M IH Chandler ier and Lodge i e e ed etl the 1 he that the conferees 1 j i t tn c I had gone goite o e too far and ami said sail that while hazing should be suppressed no perpetual stigma tl 1 should put on convicted cadets Mr Depew in opposing the hazing peaty pe Y declared it had been beEm adopted un nit der public clamor lie ITo argued that die dis missal miseal from the academy ought to fol io 10 lost conviction of hazing but the young man wt be he said should not leave West Vest Point with a brand upon him hIma a brand that would remain upon him through life that was going too far He sug aug ed that a conspiracy might be or against some seme cadet at the academy so 80 that by toy his conviction of haz leg ing he would be posted as a criminal for life He could not run ron for office as the brand braud would stand Mand against him and it would stand against him in business a It would be a punt punishment almost t to the Russian method of banishing students to Siberia and to th tb mines for violation of college regulation Mr Allen Alien Neb Nob In opposing any change in the penalty prescribed by y the confer conference conference ence once report for hazing had bud read a part of the report of the house houe committee which Investigated the death de th of young Boos Roes which he declared had Uno no parallel for barbarity in prize price fighting in hi bear baiting or in bull fighting Mr Wolcott thought congress had en upon a trilling piece of business The enactment of the provision would make of the cadets milksops and prigs He related rotated snipe mime personal experiences of basing baaing in his hl college COIl days and re marked m lT that some of the won name and fame tame while others othe went from bad to worse some even landing finally dually in the senate of the United States Mean S Sewell well and Harris were rr as members of a new conference confer ence en e committee on the part of the senate Mr Nelson Neison reported the river and bar har bor her bill and gave notice that at t the potable poble time he would call It up for consideration Senator Depew has bas reported favorably from the committee on expositions exl the house hous bill for the Louisiana purchase ex position at ft Louis Senator S Hanna from the committee on e today made a favorable re port to the senate upon Senator Perkins amendment to the sundry civil bill authorizing authorising preliminary con CO tracts to tobt be made for a submarine cable from San Francisco to Honolulu The amendment makes an appropriation of oC I to be immediately available aval ble |
