| Show I 1 CONGRESS us H FA A A bif a AV senator r vest yest waltzes 9 into sc see 4 r detary et ary Chii chandler koush rough shod I 1 by ay betru Ve tru aud press ire to the hp I 1 A i I 1 HOUSE S r w ashington dec resumed consideration of the luter state bill the pending question being on the motion to table the motion to reconsider the vote tate by which aich the house yesterday adopted the amendment offered by oziar Ol laris ar I 1 dec 17 tho the chair laid before the senate a comin communication from the secretary I berf of the navy in response to the recent of vest which inquired whether any surveying party bad had been or waa Ws about to be sent to nicaragua to survey for lie of the pro proposed canal and if it had been sent stent anier what atIt authority hority of law the secre reply is sis as follows yar PF sir responding to the resolution of the sanate J I 1 have tho tile honor to santo that orders haye have been issued to civil engineer AJ A J menocal Mc nocal civil engineer it I 1 E peavy peary and eno eni sign washington 1 I chambers to visit Nica nicaragua i carasia ragna in order to ma mako a survey of the route for the proposed nipra uan canal orde orders rs have been issued in in the exercise of the general power of this department under the president to issue such or dera to all of ficera of the navy as may be b deemed beat for the public I 1 int ri creet terest the rhe arrangements which have been made contemplate the revision of the auncy made on a former occasion by civil engineer menocal Mo nocal and the investing invest investigation ig g aaion ofa of any ny change in tto tc route which haa has been c w possibly available for tiie the canal and diminish ing ita its cust cost the cost of the arrangement made and contemplated in addition to the pay and mileage of the naval officers ig is expected to beSl as the outfit and about 1000 a month during tho the stay of the ilia party in nicaragua WM WU E secy sedy of lie the tre treasury abury on 1 vests eats motion the letter was wa laid on the e table he lie said lie would call it up at an early opportunity with a bew view to discussing the apropo siaion advanced by the cf of the navy that the right was vested in any department of at to order such expedition without action by Coh prees dawes presented a petition which was referred against the proposed lease of three million acres of the crow reservation Re serration to a syndicate of cattlemen dawes fairno information concerning alic lease existed in the interior department and anti to quiet the fears of tho the people of montana be would say ray a lease could not exist without the sanction of the secretary of the tile Interi interior orand and dawes did noti nok think the secretary could possibly sanction such ft A lease 14 |
