Show i AUENS AT CAPE Rights of Men Holding Mining Claims Defended I STEWART COMES TO THEIR AID Teller and Nelson also Sustain the Foreigners Coloradoan is Very Bitter on Lay and Order League as Composed of Scalawags Scoundrels Scoun-drels and Blackmailers Who Had Been the Curse of Every Mining Camp Senator Carter Hosents a Statement oC Mr Teller Washington April 18 During almost the entire session of the Senate today the Alaskan civil code bill was under consideration In thin connection Mr Stewart delivered an address oC nearly three hottra upon the mining laws of the United States and their relation to the proposed amendment of Mr Hans brough as to the rights of tlio locators of claims Sir Nelson Mr Carter and Mr Teller discussed the pending amendment at length both Mr Nelson and Mr Teller being particularly vigorous vig-orous in their denunciation of it MEDALS FOR SAILORS Mr Hale reported from the Committee Commit-tee on Naval Affairs on the Joint resolution reso-lution drawn originally by Mr Mason authorizing the Secretary of the Navy j to have struck bronze medals for dls iriiniti > n among certain orllcers and men of the North Atlantic Hqundron commemorating the naval engagements engage-ments between the forces of Spain amid the United Stales Inthe waters of the West Indies and the Cuban coast The measure which appropriates 2s 000 AUS adopted TO BLEED UNCLE SAM An effort was made by Mr Money Miss and several of his Democratic olleagues to obtain consideration of the bill lo revive and amend an act to provide for the collection of abandoned property and the prevention of frauds In Insurrectional dist rets Avithln the United Slates and acts amendatory thereof Strong opposition to time bill developed on the part of Mr Halo Mr Chandler Mr Warren and others Mr Hale declared that I the bill if passed would subject the United Stales treasury trea-sury to a drain of probably loO000000 STATEM EXT CHALLENOED Mr Money challenged Mr Halos statement saying that the bill would take no such amount Crom the treasury trea-sury that It Involved only 5000000 and that a trust fund for which the measure provided was means of distribution dis-tribution to Its proper owners Air Toller as u friend of the bill 1 urged Mr Money not to press the measure mea-sure at this time as some further Information In-formation was needed by the Senate before it acted upon the bill The bill needed amendment he said but he thought It would be passed without serious dcliy when understood by the Senate Mr Money gave notice that he would call up the bill next Wednesday p DEPENDS ALIEN MINERS The Senate then resumed consideration considera-tion of the Alaskan civil code bill Mr ¼ Stewart addressing the Senate on the pending Hansbrough amendment In opposition to any Hmng In tho mining laws of the United States Mr Slew art spoke for almost three hours lie reviewed the mining laws filed the extent that they related to alien rights In the Alaskan gold Holds He defended de-fended the rights of the Laplanders Swedes and Norwegians who had entered en-tered mining claims in the Cape Nome district I Mr Nelson followed Mr Stewart also sustaining the rights of the so called aliens who had located the mining claims in question Mr Hansbrough Interrupted Mr Nelson to read a paragraph from a document drawn by the Law and Order Or-der league of the Cape Nome district which declared that the people who Mr Nelson said had located the claims were not really the locators of the claims DENOUNCES A LEAGUE In reply Mr Nelson said that the time had come to call things by their correct names Ho denounced the Law and Order league as an organization organi-zation formed to Jump claims located by honest prospectors Continuing Mr Nelson said the claims In the Capo Nome district were all either located by citizens of the United Lates or people peo-ple who honestly had intended to become be-come citizens of the United States He declared there was no reason inequity In-equity Justice or common sense why any discrimination should be made against the Swedes Norwegians and Laplanders The Law and Order league said lie had attempted to drive these people peo-ple from the Cape Nome district and had been prevented from doing so only by the United States military forces As a result the league had aslcod the removal of time commander of the United States troops In that district The proposition reduced lo Its ultimate analyses was simply one to fortify claimjumpers as they had never before been lortifiorl TILLMAN AGREES WITH XT3LSON Mr Tillman agreed with Mr Nelson in what ho had said of the rights of the Swedes Norwegians Laplanders and Finns and speaking of the Mans brough amendment said that Sona toms ought to take It by the nape of tile nock and kick it out of the Sonate Mr Carter made nn earnest and forceful uppeaj to tile Senate that the American miner either nativeborn or properly naturalized should have time llrat claims upon the mining laud of the United Slates Ho said in time course of his remarks thathe had no desire to change the mining laws but IntlnnUed that Mr Teller of Colorado and others wore trying lo change them TELLER WARMS UP In a healed reply Mr Toller declared de-clared that Mr Carter under a pretended pre-tended zeal for the American miner had attempted lo shift upon him the responsibility of a demo to change the mining laws of time United States I i resont the statement Interjected Mr Carter and wax about to explain further fur-ther when Mr Teller declined to yield The Colorado Senator said nobody had proposed any change ot the mining laws except Mr llunsbrough and Mr Carlor who by I heir proposed explanation ex-planation were protecting the scalla tags and scoundrels and blackmailers who were making a business of Jump ing claims These people declared Mr Teller with mphasisv arc blackmailers black-mailers or thieves and since mining was begun in this country they have been the curse of every mining camp They are among the worst scoundrels tlvut ever went unhung Without further fur-ther debate the Alaskan bill was laid aside The Senate at fi15 oclock went into executive session and at 021 oclock adjourned |