| Show JLU ARMY Bill IS PASSED f Senate Acts on the Measure Without Division I pJ TRAVEL PAY FOR SOLDIERS iI i I I J I I Amendment Providing Cor its Allowance i Allow-ance Was Favorably Acted Upon The Clark Case Was Taken Up and Then Postponed for One Week Ono Hundred and Thirtyseven Private Pension Bills Aro Acted Upon There Were Several Lively Tilts Between Senators The Senate today 3The t Washington May 3 motion of Mr Hoar to tho day adopted resolution of the Committee the take up declaring that Mr Clark of Election on duly elected to the not Montana was I postponed ionsldera Senate and then for a week The i lion of the question 1111 amendment for I appropriation army < the allowance of travel pay made yesterday I sustained The bill was i was terday amended without division passed as Tho Senate then passed 137 private hills Among them were bills pension irranllns pensions of 50 a month each Lorojslreoi who was a to Gen James In UK United States army before Major the Confederacy to Mrs he went Into Badger widow of Commo Margaret Badger and to Mrs Grldley dore Cupt Grldley of tho widow of the late Olynipln and of 100 a month to Mrs Julia Henry widow of Gen Guy Vii V-ii en ry passed restoring apt A bill was I3S D Hale to the revenue cutler aienry service I A resolution requesting the Civil Service Ser-vice commission to supply the Senate information confirming violations of the civil service law in 1S9S was adopted adopt-ed The Senate then at 525 p m adjourned ad-journed CLARK CASIC Tho Senate agreed to a motion by Mr declaring Hoar to take up the resolution ing that Y A Clark was not duly elected to the Senate from the State I of Montana and then in accordance with Mr Iloarrt further suggcsl i I I postponed further consideration of ilii j subject until ont week from today Before this agreement was reached spirited controversy over there was a some remarks made by Mr Chandler yesterday BACON WARMS UP took exception to the Mr Bacon fact that Mr Chandler had said that I I 0 he had heard It staled that there was a purpose to delay the consideration of the resolution In order to prevent the I Governor of Montana making an appointment ap-pointment of a Senator to succeed Mr Clark In case the seat now occupied by him should be declared vacant As for is himself he could not say what his own action would be on theClark resolution reso-lution lie regarded himself as a judge sitting in that case and he would ho L paid claim the right to investigate It thoroughly before entering Judgment CHANDLER EXPLAINS Mr Chandler said that his remarks I r regarding desire to delay the consideration i con-sideration of the resolution had not 1 been called out by anything that Tjlr Bacon had said but that ho had had f especial reference to Mr Stewarts threat to read In thc Senate If I not given linn lo read out of It the testimony I testi-mony taken by the committee 0 ROW WITH STEWART I I The threat T said Mr Stewart Threat tQ do what Threatened Mr Chandler replied that U I any attempt was made to rush the Clark resolution the three volumes Y vol-umes of testimony would be read for the purpose oC delay MADE NO THREAT Mr Stewart said he had made no such statement as n threat hut he had r said and he would repeat that If lime f was not given to read the testimony P aLl outside the Senate chamber time would be taken to read it In t he chamber The case should be cVsidered deliberately de-liberately and decently and especially or especial-ly In view of the fact that much of the testimony was irrelevant It was I not unreasonable to ask for time for Investigation WONT BE LECTURED i air dont propose lo be lectured he continued 1 dont like it and I particularly par-ticularly dont like It from the man who has gathered up all sorts of hearsay hear-say mailer and printed it a tesil mony CHANDLER A FIGHTER When the Senator attacks me ort I or-t e committee over which 1 preside retorted Mr Chandler he will get n 1ecture from me INCIDENT IS CLOSED To this Mr Stewart replied Well youll get a i lecture from me on the Irrelevant scandal youve put Into the testimony presented here This closed the Incident I I AMENDIXC CENSUS LAW I The Senate then passed the House bill for the amendment of the census I law Tho bill was amended s as t provide for 2 additional compensation compensa-tion for census supervisors TREATMENT OF VOLUNTEERS Tho army appropriation bill being taken up Mr Pettlgrew continued his criticism of the treatment of the volunteer volun-teer soldiers in tho Philippines lit t read a number oC letters from menu hers of the South Daicota regiment j complaining of their treatment there PROTEST FROM GALLINCER Some of these contained profane expressions I I ex-pressions which fact caused Mr Gal Jlneger to enter a protest hgalnst their being printed In the Record Such language I lan-guage should ho said be obnoxious to any man occupying a seat In tho I Senate SenateMADE MADE MEN SWEAR j To this Mr Petllgrcw replied that I the letters were from men who had been conscripted to light In n cause In which they did not believe and placed In circumstances which wore generally objectionable Their conditions were he said calculated to malt men swear I I hut while the South Dakotans occasionally I occa-sionally dropped Into this bad habit it wan still true that thc religious sentiment was as strongly developed in them as In the Senator from New Hampshire Hampthlrc r j SAY THEY ARE BLASPHEMOUS Mr Hawley referred to the letters as blasphemous and gave notice of his Intention Lo move to have Htrlcken from the permanent record n loiter I from Mr Pctllgrcw to tho President which the former had read yesterday PETTIGREWS CONTENTION I I Mr Tlllman and Mr I Pettlgrew had a discussion as lo affaire In the Philippines I Philip-pines Mr Petllgrcw contending that I I no mere fragments of a tribe were opposed op-posed to the United Slates In the Philippines but that the entire popu I latlon was antagonistic Only I JI1 cycle of the country around Manila had I been conquered by our forces and he I I assorted that a standing army of JOOOOO I men would he necessary to maintain i order In the Islands TELLER ADVOCATES TRAVEL PAY Mr Teller advocated the amendment I for travel pay saying that we could maintain an army In the Philippines only by pursuing a liberal policy SUppoSe It did cost 7000000 that was t mere bagatelle compared with the iiu1 entire cost of the war Mr Teller said assured by an army oin ho had been aHRUlel l 01 boon recently returned cer who had rccenty Philippines that we did not from the Phippines district In the island of actually hold a dltrlct Luxon higher than the District of Columbia Co-lumbia This was no more territory Ihls He did not held ago a year than was hllr a 00 mention this fact as a discrimination he said at ust the Government on this nation against thl account ablnst the other hand It I I was duo the puerile to say that the money UI troops should be withheld for mere motives of economy PROClOR EXPLAINS MATTERS Mr Proctor road extracts from the report of the AdjutantGeneral explaining ex-plaining the circumstances under which travel pay cn been allowed to some of the troops and withheld from others He said that no military organization as surh has received travel pay from Manila but that such allowance had becn made In many individual cases The Astor battery was composed largely large-ly Mr Proctor said of men In the regular regu-lar army and on he I whole they had fared nol so well as some of the purely volunteer organizations n SOMEWHAT 1NCONSSTEN l I Mr Turnertrcferred to the fact that I a resolution had been adopted by the resoluton Senate two months ago asking for a travel I I list of soldiers who hud received lst pay and that the PaymasterGeneral I bail replied that his force was InBiifll the duriinr dent to supply the dala durln cent this 1C of Congress present session ConsrC was true lie said It was hardly consistent had said as Mr Proctor sistent to say i1 scattering instances that there were only alcrlng had stances In which the extra pay been allowed crlticistd the Val department Mr Tlllman crilcl ll partment Tilman not supplying the information infor-mation asked for by l the Senate INSANITY AMONG SOLDIERS Replying to Mr PetMgrews charge ReplyIng ealencc of Insanity and as to the prevalence Insani the soldiers in the suicides amonc stllel Philippines unonG llawloy read n statement state-ment from 111 SurgeonGeneral saying that Insanity had not been above the I average Mr Hawleys point o older against spirited debate Turner after a rather spiried division was passed without The day closed with the passage of a number of private pension bills |
