| Show CLARK case chandler Chand ter and sewart have personal words over the montana scandal next thursday set for date of argument on bribery charges pettigrew read letters on philippine war that senators wilt ask to have stricken from the records SENATE washington may 3 the senate today agreed to a action by hoar to take up the resolution declaring that W A dark was not duly elected to tho senate from the state ot montana and then in accordance with mr haars hoars further suggestion postponed further consideration of the subject until one week from today before this agreement was reached there was a spirited controversy over some remarks made by mr chandler yesterday mr bacon took exception to the tact that mr chandler said that he had heard it stated that there was a purpose to delay the consideration of the resolution in order to prevent the montana governor making an appointment of a ito succeed mr dark in case ane seat now occupied by him should be declared vacant As for himself h e could not say what his own action would be on the clark resolution he regarded himself as a judge sitting in that case and he would he said claim the right to investigate it thoroughly before taking further action mr chandler said bis remarks regarding a desire to delay the consideration of the resolution had not been called out by anything mr bacon had said but he had especial reference to mr stewarts threat to read in the senate it not given time to read out of it the testimony taken by the committee the threat aad mr sewart threatened to do what threatened mr chandler replied that it any attempt was made to rush the dark resolution the three volumes of testimony would be read for the purpose of delay v mr stewert Ste wirt sal he had made no such statement as a threat but be said and he would repeat that it time was not given to read the testimony outside the senate chamber time would be taken to read it in the chamber the case should be considered deliberately and decently and especially in view of the fact abat michot the was lt was not unreasonable to ask for time tor investigation 1 I dont propose to be lectured be continued tl dont like it and I 1 particularly ticul arly dont like it from the man who has gathered up all sorts of bear say matter and printed jt as testimony when the senator attacks me or the committee over which I 1 preside retorted mr Chandle get a lecture from me to this mr stewart replied well get a lecture from me on the irrelevant scandal youve put into the testimony presented here this closed the incident the senate then passed the house bill for the amendment to the census the belh was amended so as to provide for additional compensation for census supervisors the army appropriation bill being taken up mr continued his criticism of the treatment of volunteer soldiers in the philippines he read a number of letters from members ol 01 the south dakota regiments in regard to their treatment there this caused mr Gall ingerto enter a protest against their being printed in the record such language he said should be obnoxious to any man in the senate to this mr pettigrew replied that the letters were from men who had been conscripted to fight in a cause in which they did not believe and placed in conditions which were generally objectionable abeso conditions he said were calculated to make men swear but while the south dakotans Dako tans occasionally sio nally dropped into this bad habit it was still true that the religious sentiment was as strongly developed in them as in the senator from new hampshire mr hawley referred to the letters as blasphemous and gave notice of bis intention to have stricken out of the permanent record a letter froin pettigrew to the president which the former had read yesterday HOUSE washington may 3 soon after the house met today it went into committee of the whole to consider the tree homes bill the bill provides free homesteads on public lands for actual and bona alde settlers and provides that the government shall remunerate indian tribes for money due them on lands patented to settlers settlors sett lors and pay any deficiency to agricultural colleges it the annual sales of public lands shall prove Q insufficient to meet the pay ments Is mr eddy of minnesota in charge of abo bill made the opening argument in favor of the bill mr eddy said that all party platforms had declared in favor of the bill i mr flynn of oklahoma in advocating the bill said it was a mistake to suppose that it gave the settlers their homes free they would have to reside upon on their lands and cultivate them ir five years before securing title mr maddox of georgia opposed the 11 he said it would cost the government chicago may 3 admoral dewey his wife and the party accompanying him left chicago at 8 this morn ing in baltimore ohio special train for st louis traveling over abo chicago alton road at jacksonville which will b reached at p m a stop of three hours will be made the admiral being the guest ot honor at the state encampment ot the G A R from st louis the admirals special train will go to memphis from memphis to nashville and from nashville to knoxville which will be reached may 11 from knoxville the ad miral goes to washington jollet may 3 about 2000 people greeted the admiral and mrs dewey there was tremendous cheering the special train stopped here only three minutes constantinople wednesday may 3 the egyptian steamer tewfik gabbana Rab bana having on hoard ismael kamal bey who was reported to have mysteriously disappeared passed through the dar da nelles this morning without incident at the jast moment the sultan through pasha unsuccessfully tried to persuade ismael to abandon his decision to go abroad |
