Show CONGRESS congressional 10 AL SENATE washington dea dez 8 at the opening ot of the session it was as decided that the senate should adjourn until monday it avis V 18 ale also aleo o determined to give one hour of to daya days session on to the consideration of pension bills 11 in connect connection iLli with the consideration of bills on the pension calendar mr vest of missouri said 1 I do not want to be captious about this pension busti business bustness I 1 nd d do not want to set myself up as a reformer me thing of passing a lot of pension bills simply by the reading of the titles and when a quorum of the he senate Is no not present has got to te be stopped s after further referring to the meui methods 0 ds by which pension bills are passed by the senate mr vest balb I 1 f V Y 2 men of the south have sat sa there he re and permitted these bills to be passed having some delicacy about entering objections to the course of procedure recent events have obliterated sectionalism and we are united we can therefore come hero and object to this spot spoliation and I 1 use tha the word advis advisedly ly without fear of having our motives 1111 or our words misconstrued we are paying out in round figures annually for pensions and it Is our duty to find out why it Is that 33 years after the close of the civil war this thing of pens pension ibri claims shows such an enormous sum I 1 have been criticized criticised by some of my people because I 1 have not taken a more determined stand on this pension question I 1 want however to pay munificently and liber ally in pensions I 1 regard such payments as a sacred d duty uty but I 1 flo object to the passage af these toils without proper consideration and with the same restrictions that aro are hedged about other measures mr gallinger N 11 as chairman of the pension committee agreed with mr vest in his desire to have the pen slon sion bills carefully considered he thought a quorum of the senate ought to be in attendance when the pension calendar waa was considered during the consideration of bills on the calendar mr cattery caffery la introduced this resolution that it Is the sense of the senate of the united states that the president enter into negotiations with the government of great britain tor for the purpose of abrogating or modifying the clayton bulwer treaty so far as and to the extent that the same may be deemed to prevent the united states from owning constructing controlling and operating any oceanic cana canal lacross across the isthmus h mus of darlan senator vest today introduced in the senate a resolution providing for the appointment of a joint commission to investigate the charges 0 of corruption j in the conduct of the war with spain the preamble to tho the resolution cites that charges have been made through t the press of the country over the signatures of responsible parties that corrupt and improper means have been used to secure contracts from the government tor for the purchase of vessels I 1 for the navy and for the of 1 I 1 clothing and other necessary articles for the army of tho the united states during tho uie war with spain at excessive excesS ITO and exorbitant rates the resolution calls forthe for the appointment of three senators and five members b e ra 0 of f t the he house 1 1 ou s e a and n d i imposes m p os e s up upon I 1 them b c m t tho h e du duty t y 0 of t 1 I inquiring n q ut ri u g a as s to ton the e truth of all such charge charges s and make report by bill or otherwise I 1 arbo anthe Senator sare to b appointed by the president of the senate and the members of tho the house b by the speaker senator morgan moved to take up i uthe nicaragua bill in the senate today ta motion to adjourn was made jy by mr I 1 pettigrew the roll was called and the motion defeated tho bill was ivaa i then taken up thre the senate then adjourned on mo tion of senator morgan r 1 1 OUSE J de dec 8 SJ str wilfred I 1 lai laubler Laur I 1 der ler premier of N new ew Found land sir louis davies and mr james winter 1 premier ofner of new members of the high commission occupied I 1 seats teats in la the gallery of the house today being the guests of mr dingley the loor floor leader of the majority who Is a 1 member ember 11 of the commission they seemed greatly interested in the proceedings ce and procedure mr dingley pointed out to them the c of the house on motion of chairman cannon ot of the appropriations committee the house went into committee of the whole immediately after the reading of the journal to consider the urgent deficiency bill tor for the support of the military and naval establishments for the six months beginning january 1 1899 washington dec 8 the deficiency bill gave rise to a long debate on the increase of the size of the army and the muster out of the volunteers volunteer sa a number of democrats emo cratt insisting the bill would cole enable the president to retain the volunteers in in service after peace was declared dockery and sayers leading democrats of the appropriations com the bill and said it could not be construed to modify the laoj 1107 ly HD ark art announced a purpose to mo move ve an ri amendment ft declaring elating the bill should not have nave such aai an effect the the urgent deft clency bill |