Show I WHO HELPED 1 THE REBELS iI i I iI I 1 A Resolution Calling on the President For Information II In-formation I I i EE1LLY FUNDING BILL AGAIN t IT IS BITTERIiT OPPOSED BY BOWERS I BOW-ERS OF CAfclFORXIA nnn of Jfehraslca Sngrsests a Xeiv Title For It Men Who Hold Stock Want Dividends anti Those Who IVowbed the Road Dcaive Immunity Immu-nity Says Bonn A Burlesque ou the MrceliinridseHeard Incident fTashlnston Feb 1The personal enCounter en-Counter between Mr ecklnridge oft of-t Kentucky who figured more notoriously because of the breach or promise suit last bflmmer and Mr Heard of Missouri who was a member of the Housa for ten years overshadowed in importance all else that I occurred in the House today and was almost al-most the only theme of conversation An hour was devoted to debate on the Pacific railroad bill a resolution was adopted calling on the president for all correspondence and information regarding the alleged aid furnished the rebels in Hawaii by representatives of our government govern-ment and the remainder of the day was taken up by the District of Columbia committee com-mittee The FundIng Bill The House met at 11 oclock and gave an hour to the debate on the Pacific railroad funding bill before taking up the District of Columbia business to which the day vas to be devoted by an order made Wednesday Mr Bowers Republican of California opposed the bill bitterly In doing so however he severely condemned the t methods pursue ky some California opponents oppo-nents of the measure notably Mayor Kutro of San Francisco who had been flooding the members with frantic appeals TO kill the bill The foes of the gentleman claim that Mayor Sutro is in reality attempting to aid the passage of the measure said Mr Cr ninetti Democrat of California I do not replied Mr Bowers but I believe that is the real effect of his circu lame Mr Bryan Democrat of Nebraska also opposed the bill which he said dealt with two classes those who had been guilty of mismanagement and those xho would use 1 the lines in the future The title in his opinion should be amended so as to make I I it read Thou shalt not steal hi small amount to visit the intqulxos of the lather on the son on the fourth generation end for no other purpose Laughter Mr Bryan devoted most of bin time to a discussion of the equities between the people on the line of the road and the stockholders The real purpose of the bill he said was stated by Mr Powers yesterday when he said most of the stock was held in Kew England They wanted fli IdenQs and the men who had robbed the road wanted immunity Mr Caruth Democrat of Kentucky consumed the remainder of the hour with a speech in favor of the bill At 12 oclock the House resumed its routine business On motion of Mr Grosvenor Republican Republi-can of Ohio a joint resolution was passed providing for a Joint committee of the House and Senate to report a plan for participation in the exercises connected con-nected with the dedication of the Chickamauga Chicka-mauga military park on September 19 1E95 hawaii Again Mr Hitt Republican of Illinois then Fubmitted from the Foreign Affairs committee com-mittee a privileged report en Mr Storers resolution calling upon the president to transmit all correspondence and information Informa-tion regarding the report that the rebels against the Hawaiian government were Incited supplied with arms and partly led by persons who claimed to be Brit ish subjects and that the minister of Great Britain intervened in order to pre int the application of martial law to tho e concerned in the rebellion The re pcrt recommended the passage of a substitute sub-stitute covering the same ground in dif brent phraseology Mr Hitt made the report in Mr 1 I Storers absence and asked for its im meddate passage 7 > ir ilcCrcary chairman of the Committee Com-mittee on Foreign Affairs deprecated what he called a further display of Hawaiian history He said his committee was unanimously In favor of the resolution end It should be passed without stirring this old question again Mr Heard then demanded the previous question This led to the bandying of epithets and a personal encounter between be-tween 1oIr Breckinridge and Mr Heard an account of which is given elsewhere in these dispatches Another Brush After it was over Mr Reed demanded tellers on yeas and nays stating rather sharply that the demand for the previous question had summarily taken Mr Hitt off his feet This led to another exciting excit-ing scene The speaker replied be was willing to take the responsibility on himself him-self After he had explained the parliamentarY parlia-mentary situation Mr Hitt explained the reason he had not been able to give way to Mr Heard was that he did not know that the gentleman wanted to speak on I the Hawaiian question Then Mr Breckmridge fin his usual tone with great coolness said I had I cleared to say a few words of opposition to the resolution but had not had time to do so He would in the future have occasion to say something upon it Then Reilly Spake Then Mr Relay of Pennsylvania shouted shout-ed regular orcer and after the speaker 1 had with difficulty persuaded the members mem-bers to take their seats Mr Hitt went lack to his speech on the Hawaiian resolution reso-lution Possibly he said part of the remarks I re-marks had been lost because of a little confusion which had diverted the attention atten-tion of the members Messrs Breckinridge and Heard were t then in their usual seats thirty feet away from each other Mr McCreary made a brief reply in the course of which he and Mr Hitt got into a goodnatured wranjrle Mr McCreary contending that the Hawaiian cable of I v hich Mr Hitt had spoken had nothing to do with the question Then the resolution resolu-tion was adopted without division and with little opposition Then Mr Springer Democrat of Il linois and Mr Cox Democrat of Tennessee Ten-nessee became involved in a discussion over the s + atus of the report of the administration currency bill which Mr Springer asked permission to report Mr Cox thought the report would cut off the minority from the right to present its views Mr Reeu was demanding to known does the gentleman from Tennessee object to the report when Mr Tracey of Ken York shouted to him The gentleman from Tennessee 1 able to take care of himself1 adding he Reed i wanted to queer the whole thing Thereupon several sev-eral members made a feint of holding Air Tracey back from Mr Reed The report was received with permission given to the other members of the committee com-mittee to file views The remainder of the duy was consumed by the District of Columbia Committee Mutual Apologies After mutual apologies from Mr Heard and Mr Breckinridge for the scene earlier in the day a bill was passed to give an additional judge in the Seventh judicial district and then at 5 oclock the House took a recess until 8 oclock the night session to be devoted to the considera r tion gf private pension bills |