Show LIE tiE IS PEED PASSED PEEDIE IN IE THE Mi SENATE I Heated Colloquy Between Gallinger and Penrose 4 TROUBLE WAS OVER OYER SEATING SEATED OF QUAY 4 t N Hampshire Senator Sen tOl Want en to Speak on Question 4 4 t Pennsylvania Man Said He Ho Had HadNot Promised Not to and Was Trying to Delay D ay th ti thA Hatter Hoar Puts Put Pu a aStop aStop aStop Stop to the Unpleasantness Ef Efforts forts Made Hade to Arrive at an Agree Agres Agreement Agreement i ment on the Porto Porte Rican Bican Bill Views of Washington Washinton March 15 1 I r assert most emphatically that when the sena I told him I should not speak on this subject be he does not state the truth tru b This was this the sensational retort made in the fhe he senate today by Mr Gallinger Rep R p N H H to a statement just made by Mr Pemp Pa Senators were as t and the auditors in the galler gahler galleries ies l ea quivered with excitement excitement There had scarcely been the slightest intimation I that the debate would take such uch s a turn For nearly Marly three hours the he t senate had under discussion the bill appropriating for the benefit of o f the people of Porto Ports Rico Mr Fair Fairbanks Fairbanks Fairbanks banks nd Did Ind had just concluded some remarks on the measure meaSure and suggested that hat t the senate proceed to the consid consideration consideration oration of cit executive business Pending a motion to that effect Mr Penrose who ho has charge of or the case of former f ormer Senator Quay suggested that thata a time be fixed for a vote on the case caseIn caseIn caseIn In the course of his remarks he inti lath intimated intimated mated that certain senators were throwing obstacles In the way of a vote ote and indicated that Mr Gallinger GaIlinger was wan one of these senators Mr Gallinger quietly replied that he desired to be heard on the question but had not had an opportunity to speak Falsehood Is Intimated To this statement Mr Penrose retort retorted ed ad that the New Hampshire senator had assured him he did not expect to speak on the Quay case Instantly Mr Ir Gallinger Gailinger was on his hiI feet and with evident feeling and with great vehemence replied as above quoted I 1 dont know whether I dont speak peak the truth hoUr hotly replied Mr Penrose or whether the senator from rom New ew Hampshire failed to tell me rue the truth troth Mr Gallinger retorted that the whole proceeding of Mr Penrose was un unmanly unmanly Unmanly manly and beneath his notice The proposition to fix a time for a ayote vote yote was postponed with until tomorrow but bitt it was some time before the ex cx excitement subsided The debate on the appropriation bill developed a decided difference of or opinion opinIon opinion ion as ah Mr Jones Dem Ark offered as aa a substitute for the measure a bill bUl to return the duties to those who had paid them and providing for absolute free trade between the United States and Porto Porte Rico The bill had not been disposed of when the Quay case was called up p Amendment by Jones Mr Ark offered the following amendment which was adopted Whereas Frequent complaints are I being hein made from many man sections of ot the Indian Territory that the townsite com corn commissioners missioners are incompetent Inattentive to their duties and are not discharging the duties incumbent upon up n them Resolved That the committee on Indian affairs be directed to inquire into the truth of there these allegations and andreport andreport andreport report to the senate When the morning business busIne had bad been finished Mr Sullivan Miss took the floor to deliver dellver his bis announced speech on Our Relations With the Philippines but at the request of or Mr Allison yielded for or immediate consideration of or the bill appropriating for tor the benefit and government of Porto Porte Rico revenues I collected on n importations Mr Jones Ark offered the following substitute for the bill That all duties collected to this date upon articles imported Into the United ed Shies from Porto Rico since the day da of lr April the date of the es ex S n Page 2 s S lE LIE IS PA IH IN THE TE SITE SENATE Continued From F Page 1 I change of the ratifications of the te 0 treaty of peace between Spain Spin and a the te teI j 1 I United States State be returned to the tie pet per persons pr I sons from whom whon they were wee collected clete and ad from and ad after ater the passage of this act no duties ute shall be b collected on ar articles tides coming coring from Porto Poto Rico Ric Question Queston for Congress Mr M Allison Alson explained that the amend amendments ments mets proposed made mad the bill bi simply a specific appropriation measure in including 1900 eluding monies m collected up p to Jan Ja 1 Mr Jones Ash Ark Ak inquired what Mr Ml Allison proposed to do with wUn the duties ditties collected after ater Jan Ja 1 1900 Mr Allison Alson replied that that tt was ws a question queston for congress to deal de with wit in inthe InI inthe the future I r regard r ard this as a most mot Important I measure said Mr Jones one I 1 dont nt believe beleve there thee Is any an law for the th tb cot col collection ol olof lection of these thes revenues and ad I do hold that their heIr collection was ws of the fundamental fundament principles of our government I Mr Mason Il Ill did not believe beleve the i I amendment was w germane gerae to the appropriation appropriation bill bl particularly aa an a the pend pending p pending ing bill bl was distress legislation and anAl every eve hour flour hor of debate was wa adding to tho the suffering of the people for whom whom the te relief was intended Mr Spooner Wis WIs said s ld he had hoped no n senator would endeavor to place on the bill bi any an amendment about Which there would be a division of opinion The Te measure was waa one of mercy of hu h ht t inanity manity of generosity and had ha grown out of a condition entirely new ew to the American people people He vigorously ly op opposed opposed posed the te amendment offered ofee by Mr I Jones Jones JonesI Views of Cockrell I In n the re opinion of Mr Cockrell Cockrel Mo o who voiced his hi sentiments In a tem teaL temperate temI i I rate utterance nobody could ques question tion ton the statement that a serious serous emer emergency emergency emergency gency existed in Porto Rico RIc It I was due to the transition from the control of th to that tat of or another and to the destructive humane that wrought untold damage on the island He be believed le q the appropriation ought to 1 be made to help hep them and made at once He opposed Mr Jones proposition to topa pay pa duties dutes collected to the persons persona who had paid them and in answer awer to Mr r Jo Jones said si he based d his hia objection to the th amendment upon the great geat econom economic ic theory in which he had always be believed leed that the te consumer of an im isa imported ported article artcle pays pa s the tax ta pore We all aU know concluded Mr Cock Cockrell Cockrell rell rel that some excitement has lisa been ben created crete throughout the country by this proposed Porto Rican legislation The president the secretary of war and the the governor general of the island tee rec recommended re d free fre trade between the ls is i la and the United States This ques question question tion was wag presented and ad another legis ton c y v h ch had bad authority de decided decided the matter so no far Car as it was con concerned This body or a part of o it It has been een put In a dilemma but that has little pertinence here and now This appropriation ought to be made and at ones once because the people need it and because it is right Loophole for Republicans Mr Bacon took the ground covered by Mr Cockrell While he favored the bill he did not he said by b any means shut his eyes to the fact that the measure was Intended not so muchas a great grent humanitarian project as to af afford afford ford the Republicans an egress from a serious political dilemma Mr Allen Altel offered d an amendment de deClaring daring Claring that the Paris treaty treat had the effect of extending the constitution over mer Porto Porte Rico and its Inhabitants He Ha announced his determination to vote ote for tor forthe forthe the bill but bui said the measure was be being e eIng e ing Inn used as a subterfuge to permit ermit the Republican party to escape from an unpleasant situation on the Porto Porte Rican n question Mr Penrose then asked that the reso rem resolution resolution lution in regard to the seating of M Yo S SQua Quay Qua as senator from Pennsylvania be betaken betaken betaken taken up saying ing that he was satisfied satI ed there were senators who were seeking so to delay the resolution as to render It impossible to secure a vote ote during the present session Threw the Brand 1 The question must be decided in the high tribunals of the consciences of I senators or upon the low plane of poll poU tics which had in the past character characterized characterIzed such proceedings As he took his seat Mr Penrose cast his eyes in the direction of Mr Gallinger Gailinger asking gaking that thata a a time be fixed for a vote and remark remarking remarking ing ingI I look squarely arely sq at these who are creating these obstacles Mr Gallinger rose and stated stat d quietly I that he had bad been b n trying for six d days 9 to get an opportunity to speak In opposition I sItton to the Quay Q a resolution but had bad been prevented by other business He still desired to speak eak and he knew many other senators who wished to be heard To this statement Mr Penrose re replied replied replied plied that Mr Gallinger had bad told him that he did not expect to talk on the Quay matter He may hive have changed his mind Mr Ir Penrose continued but he most emphatically em then told me that be he would POt not speak Mr Gallinger was on his feet before Mr Penrose concluded I assert asselt most emphatically he said that when the senator aerator says sa s I told him himI I should not speak on thIS thia subject he does di eS not state the truth Penrose Was Imperious He went on to say fay that Mr Penrose had bad come to him in an Imperious way w y and asked him whether he intend to ask to be heard and abd that he Gal Gallinger Gallinger Gallinger linger had told him that he h was not entirely decided as yet whether he would speak or not notI notI I dont know whether I dont speak the truth or whether hether the senator from train New Hampshire failed to tell me mothe methe the truth was Mr response but buthe buth he be h was Was he be said very confident c of his bin position j I II I I To this Mr Ir Gallinger replied that t t it I was unmanly and beneath his notice Mr Hoar then came caine forward with a proposition preposition to fix a time tune for a vote and the two senators who were party to the heated colloquy said no more on the subject t There Th re was objection ob to nam flam naming naming flamIng ing a date and Mr Hoar postponed his request until tomorrow Before the discussion of the pending I bill had been concluded Mr Ma Welling ton Md Mil presented pr an elaborate ar r i against the seating of or Mr Quay I Mr Wellington maintained that the I governor of Pennsylvania ought e ft ve ye called together the legislature 01 o the state as had the governor g of California I for the purpose of electing a senator At 5 the senate adjourned until 10 tomorrow the two hours before noon to be devoted to read reading I ing the Alaska code cod bUt bill i i |