Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 May 1900 — CANAL BILL IS PASSED. [ARTICLE]

CANAL BILL IS PASSED.

House Adopts Measure by a Vote oi 225 to 35. After a stormy debate which developed much bad blood and nearly provoked several physical encounters the Nicaraguan canal bill passed the House late Wednesday afternoon by the remarkable vote of 225 to 35. Democrats and Republicans vied with each other in an effort to get on record In favor of the waterway that Is to connect the Atlantic with the Pacific. The only party division during the two days’ debate was over the committee amendments substituting the word “defense” for “fortifications.” The Democrats voted almost solidly for fortifications, claiming that the Clayton-Bulwer treaty was dead. The Republicans stood by the committee on interstate aud foreign commerce. A motion to recommit the bill with instructions to report back another bill leaving the selection of the route to the President was buried under an adverse majority of 52 to 171. The passage of the Niciragua canal bill by the House docs not mean that the bill will become a law. A Washington correspondent declares that the Senate will not pass it at this session, and may not com aider it.