Vest Did Not Speak

Washington, Dec. 22.- Senator Vest's anticipated speech concerning öeeretary Olney's attitude toward the Cameron resolution filled the galleries to overflowing Tuesday. The urgency deficiency Wil was reported and passed with minor amendments. It carries $884.886, the larger part of which is for the continuation of the work of the navy department. Pettigreiv called up nis resolution appropriating $10,000,000 to take up the trust notes of the Union Pacific railvay. He said this step was imperative to protect the interests of the government against a scheme of those who held those notes, whose purpose was to absorb the branch lines of the Union Pacific. He declared his belief that the Union Pacific was not and is not insolvent, and that the floating debt was created ior the express purpose of complicating and embarrassinj the government Hens. Coultl Not Manage Them Worse. Gear. chairman of the committee on Pacific roads asked if Pëttigrew fa vored the operation of these roads by the government. The South Dakota senator answered that certainly the government could not poasjbly manage the Pacific roads worse then they had been managed. It would do away with pools, combinations, and discrimination in rates which made the American railroads a target of criticism. Pettigrew urged that the government should embrace this opportunity for an experiment in government ownership of a great continental line. He believed the sovernment should take possession and opérate the Union Pacific road and its branch Unes. Platt spoke of tbs imperative necessity of considering the important question of settlement with the Pacific roads. The indebtedness, reaching $115,000,000, was in danger of being lost, and yet this vast debt and the peril of its being lost seemed to disturb no one. He hoped it would be one of the first subjects considered after the holidays. Of a Grave Cliaracter. Morgan said the statements made by Pettigrew were of a most grave character. In effect they meant that certain individuáis had made a fraudulent combination to load down these Pacific roads so as to absorb them. It was difficult for any single mind to grasp the labyrinth of fraud and rascality that had made this subject a perfect "saturnalia of fraud." It was, Morgan declared, a twin brother to the Credit Mobiler frauds, carried on by the same methods of bribery and corruption. The Pacific railway discussion continued in the senate up to 2 p. m., when the morning hour expired, apparently ending the prospects for a Cuban debate. Much lMsappointment. A Iarge audience in the senate galleries was considerablydisappointed Tuesday over the failure of Vest to make a speech on the president's preiogative on Cuban recognition, and the consequent failure of Senator HUI to reply to him. "I don't know," said Senator Vest, "how the impression got out that I would speak today. I never said that I would." "I certainly can't reply to Vest if he does not speak." said Hill. The senate became aware of this condition of affairs early in the day, but the galleries remained in ignorance during the greater part of the session, many retaining their seats in the belief that they would be regaled with such a debate as the present session has not witnessed. The diplomatic and private galleries of senators were both well filled.