Show LATEST TELEGRAMS XLYIL CONGRESS SECOND SESSION SECOND SESSION SENATE Washington 1 Bayard rising to a personal explanation said he wished to make a statement as to the reason which impelled his colleague col-league Beck and himself to withdraw with-draw from the conference committee commit-tee on the tax bill After reading the resolution adopted by the Senate Sen-ate yesterday directing its conferees con-ferees to withdraw if they found a full and free conference could not be obtained said his colleague and he had been unable under the information brought before the committee by the House conferees to come to any other conclusion than that it was not a full and fair conference The House conferees were bound by the action of the body which had selected them and could not confer fully and fairly with the Senate It was from a profound sense of what was due to the coordinate branch of the government that he and his colleague obeyed what they believed the clear intent and clear and positive posi-tive instruction the Senate The privilege and constitutional power of the benate to possess and exercise exer-cise a coordinate share of the legislative legis-lative power of the government should never be and could never be subjected to the individual judgment judg-ment of five members of the House or of the House itself When the House had declered the Senate had not power to engraft tariff legislation legisla-tion or internal revenue if the conferees con-ferees could not change at their will the formal emphatic clear expression expres-sion of the House the Senate conferees con-ferees could not act on such a tenta tional and capricious proceeding as this and it was their duty to have submitted the matter to the Senate Bayard and Beck were excused Morrill asked the consent that the chair should have authority to fill the vacancies on the committee Agreed to The President then appointed Voorhees and McPherson McPherson McPher-son asked to be excused because he was not in accord with most of his democratic colleagues on the tariff question and also because of the instructions in-structions given by the Senate yesterday yes-terday to its conferees He was excused and the President appointed appoin-ted Harris Harris declared that he was in full accord with Bayard and Beck on this subject and asked to be excused His request was granted Vorhees then rose and declined to serve urging no reason He was excused The President said lie had no means to ascertain who would consent con-sent to serve unless by going around and interviewing every senator but he might find some one during the session The Senate then proceeded to consider con-sider the sundry civil appropriation billBefore Beck and Bayard asked to be excused Morrell expressed profound pro-found regret that Beck and Bayard should have felt it to be their duty to raise this technical objection because be-cause whether so intended er not it tended to defeat a reduction of taxation at the present session The Senate was bound to consider only what the House sent to it and that was merely a resolution nonconcurring nonconcur-ring in the Senate amendments to the internal reyenue bill and asking for a conference the committee on the part of the House to consist of five members What did it matter in the case what opinions the House might have on constitutional questions ques-tions or theological questions It appeared the House had adopted a resolution encumbered with a great many hypothetical Its out whatever what-ever opinion it might have held or expressed at fhat time its later action ac-tion was to nonconcur and ask for a conference on disagreeing votes of the two houses and under these circumstances the Senate could have no knowledge of any limitation placed by the House on its conferees and so far as the committee com-mittee of conference was concerned no obstructions have been encountered encoun-tered but on the contrary it is free as any committee of conference of which he ever had been a member Bayard said he brought the matter up becauss he wished to take his full share of the responsibility and in order that the Senate if it disapproved disap-proved of his action might have an opportunity to appoint somebody i else to carry on the conference He could not consent to stultify himself him-self by acting as a conferee under such conditions Beck declared he would not have left the committee of conference on any merely technical objection but he thought the reasons set forth by Bayard substantial and not technical techni-cal The senator from Vermont was wrong in saying that the only thing the House had sent to the Senate was a notice of disagreement disagree-ment and a request for a conference The House had sent also by adopting adopt-ing the resolution instructing its conferees its protest against the constitutionality of the Senate in the action it had taken on the bill I The House presented no bill of its own but disagreed to the Senate bill presumably upon the ground that the Senates action was without with-out constitutional authority The House conferees had no bill no amendment nothing that the Senate conferees could agree to if willing nothing was left for the Senate to do but to abandon ° the Senate bill and agree to such tariff bill as four or five gentlemen might demand In that case the constitutional constitu-tional objection might be waived He did not regard this as a conference confer-ence at all and he could no longer be a parry to it > The President laid before the Senate a communication from the secretary of the interior announcing announ-cing the completion of the list of pensioners with their addresses rates of pensions etc Anthony said it would cost S60 OOOSto print the document The Senate resumed consideration of the appropriation bill The provision for the payment of old settlers or western Cherokee Indian claims reported from the committee was struck out Vest offered an amendment to the paragraph appropriating 840000 for the protection and Improvement improve-ment of the Yellowstone Park providing pro-viding for a superintendent at a salary of 2000 and ten assistants at 8900 each to be appointed by the secretary of the interior to reside continuously in the Park and have the duty of protecting the game timber andother objects of interest the balance to be expended in the I construction of suitable roads and bridges under the direction of an engineer officer to be detailed by the secretary of war Adopted The committee having reported a provision authorizing the secretary of the interior to lease for not more than ten years small tracts net exceeding ex-ceeding eighty acres for the erection of hotels etc Vest moved to reduce the quantity quan-tity of land to be leased in one tract to = acres Agreed to Vest offered another amendment providing that not more than ten acres shall be leased to any one person per-son or corporation and that no tract will be leased within a quarter of a mile of any geyser on the Yellowstone Yellow-stone Agreed to I I HOUSE Washington IThe conference report on the fortification appropriation appropri-ation bill was agreed to It appropriated appro-priated 293000 more than when it passed the House Page moved suspend the rules and adopt an order to limit the debate de-bate on the river and harbor bill except in regard to items for the improvement of the Mississippi River Lostyeas 133 naysa 8 not the necessary twothirds in the affirmative The House tnen went into committee com-mittee of the whore on the state of the Union but Hiscock objected to the river and harbor bill and the committee rose and reported the objection to the House The House yeas 124 nays 107 ordered the consideration of the river and harbor bill to be resumed and immediately went into committee commit-tee on that bill Turner Kentucky offered an amendment providing 825000 oft i e sum appropriated for improvement of the river shall be used in improving I proving the Grand Chain Rapids Adopted On motion of Willis an amendment amend-ment was adopted providing that 20000 be expended ia improving the Indiana Chute On motion of Lewis an amendment amend-ment was adopted providing that 10000 be expended at the mouth of Muskingham River i Randall moved to amend the proviso pro-viso which prohibits the expenditure expendi-ture oC any appropriation until a commission of five three of whom shall be civilians shall report whether the interest of commerce warrants the completion of the project pro-ject by reducing the membership of commission to three all ot whom shall be engineers of the army Adopted At this point a message was received re-ceived from the Senate announcing the appointment of Senators Ma hone and McDill as conferees on the internal revenue bill to fill the vacancies occasioned J > y the declinations declina-tions of Senators Bayard and Beck The announcement was received with laughter by the democratic sideThe The item appropriating 2155000 for the improvement of the Mississippi Missis-sippi River caused a long and acrimonious acri-monious debate but was finally adopted The committee then rose and the speaker announced the appointment appoint-ment of Steel Townsend and Sparks as members of the I board of visitors to West Point and of Harmer UDpdegraf and Wells as members of a similar board to Annapolis Moors offered a resolution calling on the secretary of the interior for information as to the amount of the Indian trust funds invested in Tennessee bonds and whether Tennessee has made any proposition I looking to their settlement Referred Re-ferred RecessEVENING 1 EVENING SESSION Mr Hiacock New York moved to suspend the rules and pass the deficiency appropriation bill The motion was agreed to and the bill passed with amendments The only amendment of any importance is the one authorizing the appraisal of allnaval vessels stricken from the navy register under the provisions of the last naval appropriation bill and also authorizing the secretary of the navy if he shall deem it for the best interest of the United States fo sell such vessels and advertise ad-vertise for proposals for the purchase pur-chase of the same The House then resumed in committee of the whole consideration of the river and harbor har-bor bill VanVoorhees moved to strike out the item for the improvement of the Sacramento River He claimed that if the chairman of the committee commit-tee had not been from California no such item would have been put in it It is so outrageous he continued contin-ued so damnable that nobody but a gambler and cutthroat would think of tacking such a thing as that to such a bill as this I Hoar demanded that the words be taken down PageOh I hope not McLaneIt is an insult to the House The words were read at the clerks desk and reported to the House McLane rising offered a resolution resolu-tion for expulsion HiscockI know the gentleman will yield to me for a moment I believe as other members that the words were spoken in the heat of provocation as he thoughtby something some-thing that has transpired I believe he has been guilty of an infraction of the privileges of the House and yet I believe the measure presented too severe and I trust he may be allowed to make explanation McCook am sure the gentleman gentle-man from Maryland will not insist upon this summary measure without with-out my colleague being heard I admit the language of my colleague cannot be defended I concede that unless he apoligises in the most full and complete manner not only to the House but to the gentleman who reported this bill he ought to be expelled but it is only fair and I just to hear him and hear whether he will apologize before we put the motion Robinson of MassNo one can more heartily condemn such language lan-guage than mjself It is an infraction infrac-tion of the rules and decorum of the House but what my friend His cock says is true that in justice to his colleague we should pause I suggest = in justice to ourselves that we should pause This is the House of Representatives it is true and yet day after day scenes transpire here not creditable to a national house of representatives Applause That is no excuse for the gentleman from New York Van Yoorhees It ts time this should be stopped but I say it is justice to ourselves that we should pause before we take the summary proceedings provided for iu the Constitution We should give the offending member time to make the amplest apology to the House If he declines de-clines If he wavers if he attempts to justify himself then I will go to the other extreme Applause Hoar said he had asked that the words be taken down because that is the only method in which the dignity and good breeding of members mem-bers could be maintained It was an unprovoked attack which the House out of respect to its dignity ought not to submit to While he was willing to give the gentleman an opportunity to apologise the House could not afford to allow its rules and the rules of common decency de-cency to be violated Unless the man using such language retracted I it he should meet the most summary sum-mary punishment I McLane said it never entered his mind that action should be taken on his resolution beforethe gentleman from New York should have ample opportunity to make explanation Robeson of New York And something more He should make more than an explaaation under these circumstances McLaneBut it never entered my mind he could say anything I that can excuse mm before the country and before the HOUSP The meanest mean-est and commonest criminal in the land has a right to a hearing but when I come to ask the House to pass upon this resolution where I take the responsibility of moving it I have a duty to perform and 1 recall re-call to the House that the gentleman gentle-man from New York previous to the words taken down addressed the gentleman from California as the chairman of the commerce committee He knew perfectly well to whom he addressed his language and it is fresh in the mind of every member Last night we were discredited and disgraced by this same member from New York He then addressed the chair I man of the commerce committee in language although it could give no disgrace to the gentleman from California Cal-ifornia gave infinite disgrace to this House and to the gentleman from New York who uttered the language lan-guage List night he made some reference to the gentlemans early life and spoke of him as mule driver and stage driver It would be quite in the line of current retort if the gentleman from California Cali-fornia had said to the gentleman gentle-man that if he had been born a mule driver or a stage driver he would have remained such probably to the present hour Laughter and applause I call the gentleman himself to order interrupted Hiscock McLaneI am quite in order The SpeakerThe chair must caution the gentlemen that It is not 1 i in order to make personal remark j Take his words down suggested i some members while Mills and Atherton in an excited manner r held an indignant colloquy with q McLane who folding his arms de fiantly said I know what I have said take my words and demand that they be withdrawnandMcLane i r continuing said he only referred to + t the language used by VanVoorhees t I last night in order to show the ani Emus E-mus which impelled him this even L ing He McLane was satisfied the House had not only reached a point where an example was necessary but he regretted to say it had found i fan f-an Individual who ought to l > made 1 that example Applause I Mills said the man ought not to be tried without a hearing and sharp words followed between him and i McLane not audible on account of w a the great confusion in the hall Finally Van Voorhees was s 4 accorded the floor and standing in i1 I the centre of the aisle said that he had been very earnestly i 1k opposed to the river and harbor bill I In opposing he found it very difficult 1 dif-ficult to be heard in consequence of i V t the confusion in the House so that t in addressing the chair he always 1 < f t found it necessary to speak with a if good deal of power and difficulty I fIn V f-In other words he had been compelled com-pelled to raise his voice to its extreme t J1 ex-treme strength He was not an orator as his friend from 1 I Maryland oj Jrf 1 j McLane was His vocabulary was i much more meuger than that gentle nt f mans and sometimes he might express ex-press his opinion in words other than gentleman would use What 1t i he intended in the instance before ft the House was simply tojoharacter o r ire the measure under consideration i iHe had not the slightest intention r to be personal to anybody nor had r f I he supposed he was using language different from what others used with V I r perfect impunity so farasthe chairman h chair-man of the committee on commerce was concernedhehadnot the slight lest v l-est feeling towards him unfriendly r or maliciousHe wished withdraw the words to which exception had ia i < 1 V V been taken stating that when he i i used them he did not intend to apply f V ap-ply them to the chairman of the t committee on commerce or make I any personal application He i f wanted to express his disapproval r of the measure and had no intention inten-tion to make any personal allusion f to anybodv He regretted thai any V exception should be taken or that I K < 4 i he was under the necessity of withdrawing lJf I with-drawing those words laughter f He desired to make the fullest z J ° apology to the House for having V i p 1 used the words i McLane then witndrew resolution t I > ° V reso-lution but Herbert of Alabama Yf f offered a resolution censuring Van Fir Voorhees for advocating its adop i I tion Claiming the retractiondid not 4 IiI Ii-I wipe out the offense Gentlemen Y 1 should not say on this floor what they would not sty on the outside 4 and convert the House of Representatives Represen-tatives into a mad house i W Page asked that the resolution be j FI of withdrawn in the interest of business t busi-ness but Herbert declined Thompson of Kenducky moved i J the resolution be laid on the table t 1T Mk V J l Lost 69 to 82 1 f Calkins said everyone understood fk i 4 the language and understood parliamentary tt i par-liamentary law and what ought p 1 V to take place in adignified body He t therefore booed a vote would betaken f k be-taken on the resolution and the t f business ended Applause 1 r Van Voorhees was again accorded i 1 the floor If he said the river and 1ft harbor men want to censure me M after what occurred I suppose I jli1 I can stand it I dont know but they 1iJ1i are in a majority here and the only i misconduct which seems to affect my friend from Alabama Herbert d dh is that I criticised this bill Murmurs ie of disapproval From what I said I oefore 1 meant to be understood as J withdrawing in the fullest possible rj manner the language objected to a and in addition to that I apologized rI1 to the House for using it and to the gentleman from California if ° i anybody supposed it applied to him i 11 The question recurred on the resolution i re-solution f Kasson stated that he could find ° Cf no precedent for a resolution of censure after an apology had been H offered r = L Herbert hoped if there was no i f T J precedent for the resolution the j r House would make one on this occasion 1 t1 oc-casion Applause l Resolution lost 66 to 73 p i + 9 > I r |