Show COMMITTEE REVIEWS SENATORS SENATORS' OFFENCE WASHINGTON Feb 26 The The meeting of the Senate Committee on Privileges leges and Elections this forenoon did not result in supplying any solution of ot the difficulty that the Senate Is in In connection with the McLaurin Tillman matei matter The rhe Republican members of the committee frankly confessed that they had hadnot hadnot hadnot not been able to formulate a scheme which would relieve the situation situation and asked that the committee adjourn after aHer less than an hours hour's discussion discussions t they ey until 2 marked by the best of feeling but it was The meeting of ot the committee was i evl evident ent that the Democrats were inclined to to apprehend some effort enort at political capital by the Republicans This manifested itself when Senator Foraker made degree of punishment meted out outto outto outto the suggestion geston that there should be a n severer to Senator SEnator Tillman Timan than to Senator McLaurin Senator Dubois met this with wih a negative and the suggestion was after acer afterward ard made that Senator Tillman Timan sho should ld b be called caled upon to prove before the committee the charge which he had repeated in the Senate that his col- col loague Iague had yielded to undue influence During Durin the morning moring meeting of the committee Senator Bailey notified the Republican members member that tha the Democrats would not submit to the the adoption of ot a resolution suspending the South Carolina Senators He said he agreed that they should be punished for their breach of the peace in the presence of the Senate but he was satisfied the Democrats would not submit to any which would deprive a State of representation While no prospective statement of ot policy was made from the Republican side there was enough said to lead to the conclusion that the proposed resolution resolution t tion tion m for suspension had been abandoned and that the punishment suggested will be le in the form of censure wl Indeed some of the Republican members of the committee say this is practically practically the only course open to them The Republicans however will wi contend for more severe rebuke to Mr Tillman than shall be administered to Mr McLaurin McLaurin McLaurin Mc- Mc Laurin and the Democrats will wi resist this discrimination That is now the I point of greatest difference ce |