Show SENATE HARD AT WORK Considerable Important Business Disposed Dis-posed of Including Passage of Omnibus Claims Bill Washington March Considerable important business was disposed of by the Senate today What Is known as the omnibus claims bill and the measure meas-ure providing for the irrigation of public pub-lic lands v ere passed the conference report on the Philippine tariff bill was agreed to and the shipping bill was made the unfinished business Soon after the Senate convened Mr Turner of Washington announced that after consideration he had concluded that his resolution offered yesterday ought properly to be referred to the Committee on Privileges and Elections The resolution declared in brief that the presiding officer of the Senatehad ro authority to eliminate from the rollcalls of the Senate the name of any member of the body ACKNOWLEDGES KINDLY ACT Tho present occupant of the chair Mn Fryc he said had made a statement state-ment concerning recent occurrences In the Senate In the course of which he did me the high honor to apologize lo tno for not entertaining an appeal which had taken from his decision Mr Turner said that as the Senate was about to attend the memorial service ser-vice of the late President McKinley ho was prevented from making acknowledgment acknowl-edgment of tle kindly and courteous act of the chain Pie desired now to make such acknowledgment although ho felt that the apology of the chair was unnecessary The resolution was then rcferrqd to the Committee on Privileges aml < Elections The protest of Senator Tillman presented pre-sented Thursday was referred to the same committee PROTECTING THE PRESIDENT Tho bill for the protection of the President of the United Slates was then laid before the Senate Mr Hoar chairman of the Judiciary committee said It seemed to the committee that for many obvious reasons any attempt to kill the President ought to be taken cognizance of by the Federal courts rather than by the State courts Relative Rela-tive to section 7 of the bill directing that the Secretary of War should provide pro-vide a military guard for the protection of the President ho thought all careful care-ful observers must agree that the de leclive police upon which dependence now wag had had not accomplished Its purpose upon at least three important impor-tant occasions The purpose of the provision was to make some officers of the Government responsible for the protection pro-tection of the Pr6 ident NECESSITY OF GUARD Mr Pcttus of Alabama maintained that the military guard ought to be provided He expressed his conviction that if there had bean a military guard not one of the Presidential assassinations assassina-tions would have I occurred Perfect protection he thought was not possible possi-ble but he remarked sarcastically that the only blow struck for the life of the Picsldent at Bulfalo was struck b > a negro Such a situation would scarcely have been possible If o proper military guard had been provided The bill then was laid aside without action ac-tion and consideration was resumed of the Irrigation bill which wag passed |