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Show JOHN J. IMllLLS Tln Man front Kansas Hises to Muki' a IVrsnnal Statement in tin' Senate. Clearly Defines bis Position on BoUl the Cloturt) and the Election Elec-tion Bill. OPPOSED TO me rORMER BILL. And Only in Favor of tlif Latter with Certain, to lllm. F.ssen-tial F.ssen-tial Amendments. Ee had Been a Republic Sines the P arty was Born and Voted with that Party. CENERAL NEWS FROM WASHINGTON. TU liillr In Senate and Hons. n I Im. porlant IliiKlneiift In th VarU out Iepartment., Washington'. Feb. .1. In the senate today among the bills reported and placed on the ealander was one increasing increas-ing tho pension of General Custer's widow to tUOO per month. lngalls rising to make a personal statement, said he had been absent li't'iu uie sessions oi me senate oonng the past two weeks iu which interval action had been taken on tho cloture and on the election bill. His attitude, ou both these questions had been a subject of comment and censure cen-sure and of animadversion. On the day of his departure after the consultation w ith Allison on w horn he had been accustomed to lean, he had left with Casey (who had charge of the pairs of absentees) a note saying: "1 should vote against the proposed change of rules aud should vote for the motion to proceed to the consideration of any other than the election bill, anil 1 am paired accordingly with Senator Allison, who is at liberty to vote." lie had been opposed, he said, unalterably unal-terably opposed, to the adoption of the the cloture for many reasons Bullicient and satisfactory to himself. There were those present who know that many months ago, while occupying the chair in the absence of the vice-president, he resisted many urgent importunities and many strenuous solicitations to operate in that direction by methods which he then and now believed revolutionary and subversive of the fundamental principles of constitutional government, lie had not since seen any occasion to change or modify his convictions. He was now and always has been in favor of a just and impartial election law, directed alike against force and fraud, non-uartisan and applicable equally to all parts of the nation. The measure under consideration, however, did not, in many of its details, receive re-ceive the sanction of his judgment. It appeared to him to be comhroiis, complicated, obscure in many of its provjsions and difficult of application. It subordinated judicial to political control con-trol and opened tin? treasury to indefinite indefi-nite expenditure, without requisite supervision sup-ervision and in violation, in his judgment, judg-ment, of the spirit, if not of the letter of the provision of the constitution thnt declared that no money shall be drawn out of the treasury except in consequence conse-quence of appropriations made by law. In order to guard against, the enactment enact-ment of such a measure into a law in his absence and without amendments which he n ganled essential to prevent dangers not less distinct than those which it was intended to obviate, he had reserved the right to vote in his absence with those republicans who favored the consideration of other important im-portant measures unless those modifications modifica-tions were made. He had no arrangement, agreement, or understanding, express or implied, direct or indirect. remote or contingent, to have his vote counted against Ihe passage of the election bill, lie had been a republican since the party was born and had voted without variableness variable-ness or shadow turning "for every republican re-publican candidate." During that period he had never espoused the cause, which he believed to he wrong, because it was popular, and had never refused to advocate the cause which he believed to bo right because be-cause it was unpopular. Allison deemed it due himself to say that on every occasion when he had an opportunity, he had stated distinctly that he had no pair with lngalls on votes respecting the election bill. The conference report was presented and agreed to on the bill setting a) art for settlement a portion of the Fort Ellis military reservation in Montana. The pension appropriation bill was taken up. It appropriates for pensions for the year, $i:i:i,i7:).K: for fees and expenses of the examining surgeons, iKiOli.oOli; for salaries of eightee'i pension pen-sion agents, $72. Olio, aud for clerk hir $;;oo,ooo. iimsE. On motion of Melvinley of Ohio, by a unanimous vote, it was ordered that during the remainder of the session the house shall meet at, 11 a. m. The house then went into committee of the whole ou the sundry civil appropriation appro-priation bill. |