Show COMMITTEE OMMITTEE C REVIEWS SENATORS SENATORS' OFFENCE WASHINGTON Feb 26 The The meeting of the Senate Committee on Privileges leges arid and Elections this forenoon did not result in supplying any solution of the difficulty that the Senate is In in connection with witti the Tillman Tillman-McLaurin matter The Republican Republica members of the committee frankly confessed that they had hadnot hadnot not been able to formulate a scheme which would relieve th-e th situation and after less than an hours hour's discussion they asked that the committee e adjourn until 2 The meeting of the committee was marked by by bythe the best of feeling but It was wasel el evident ent that the Democrats were ere Inclined to apprehend some effort at political political capital by the Republicans This manifested Itself when Senator Foraker made madet t the suggestion suggestion- that there should be a severer degree of punishment meted out outto outto outto to Senator Tillman than to Senator McLaurin Senator Dubois met this with a negative and the suggestion suggestion was wasa a afterward tel ard made that Senator Tillman should be called upon to prove rove before the committee the charge which he had repeated repeated in the Sen Senate te that that his coll colleague colleague col col- col- col l league ague had yielded to undue Influence j During the morning meeting of the committee Senator Dalley d the Republican members that the Democrats would not submit to the adoption of or a resolution suspending the South Carolina Senators He sath sala said he agreed that they should be punished for their breach of of the peace in the presence of the Senate but he was satisfied the Democrats would not submit thi to any arty which would deprive a State of representation While no prospective statement of p policy licy was made from the Republican Republicans s side de there was enough said to lead to the conclusion that the pro proposed resolution resolution tion for suspension had been abandoned and that the punishment suggested will be In the form of censure I Indeed some of ot the Republican members of the committee say this thin is Is' Is practically practically the only course open to them The Republicans however will contend for more severe rebuke to Mr Tillman than shall shaH be administered to Mr McLaurin Mc Mc- Laurin and the Democrats will resist this discrimination That i is now the point of ot greatest i difference |