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Show THE DAT 131 SEN ATE AND UOLSK. yilaner and Kitpr at I af. Find ChamploTii In the ll'iuae. Washington, Feb. 4. In the house list evening when the diplomatic and consular appropriation bill was under consideration, McKcnna of California, replying to MrCreary's criticism, a few days ago. of the liirnmdia case, defended de-fended the action of Minister Mizner in the mutter. If he iMcKenua) understood under-stood Mincr's situation, he w;is supported sup-ported by every publicist of repute. Mizner had as strong a regard for the lla aud as tcnderseiisitiv "oness towards it as any gentleman on the floor, lie (MeKenna) asserted that iu his situation at the post in Guatemala Mizner did himself honor and his couutry honor. Dalziel d Pennsylvania came to the defense of Commander Reiler. indue time he proposed to submit some remarks re-marks in support of these propositions: That the secretary of the navy had no right under the law to administer a public pub-lic reprimand to Commander Reiter, as he had done by an insulting letter published pub-lished in the press; second, that Reiter aud Mizner followed international law as practiced in the hist fifty years in the country's history. Hitt of Illinois made a most eloquent defense of the state department. He reviewed the case at length, and said, in closing: "(!od grant that no man of any party shall be ever secretary of state who w ill not disavow tho act of a minister who orders the surrender of a political victim who trusts to our protection, pro-tection, and the act of a commander who sits supinely with two war vessels at bis back and permits such a bloody tragedy and disgrace to our national name. This morning McKinley asked unanimous unani-mous consent that during the remainder remain-der ot the session the house meet at 11 a. in., but Rogers of Arkansas, objected. object-ed. The house then went into committee commit-tee of the whole on the diplomatic and consular appropriation bill; during the debate on the bill McAdoo of New Jersey, Jer-sey, gave his hearty assent to the position posi-tion taken by the secretary of state relative to reciprocity with Canada. The I'nited States should have unrestricted unre-stricted trade and commercial union with Canada, hr it should have no commercial com-mercial relations with her. The only .solution of the problem, the "solution unsought by the United States," was that the people of Canada should, iu thoir sov ereignly, ask for annexation, which w as the ultimate destiny of Canada. Can-ada. SENATE. After the transaction of the morning business, there was a short executive session, and when the doors were reopened, re-opened, the consideration of tho fortification fortifi-cation bill was resumed. |