Salt Lake Telegram | 1903-02-25 | Page 8 | Hard Words in Senate

EARD'WORS) -ffSENATt , . . . v.. . WASHINGTON. Feb. 25. The Ben-ate Ben-ate met at 11 o'clock today.- Immediately Immedi-ately Mr. Quay asked tor unanimous consent tor a rote on the Statehood bill today. Mr. Keen, New Jersey, objected. ' A resolution Introduced by Mr. Dubois Du-bois calling on the civil servloe commission commis-sion for Information regarding the die- , missal of Klmer F. Foreahay as an. employee em-ployee of the Surveyor-GeneraTs offlci of Idaho was laid before the Senate. Mr. S poo ne r cent to the desk and had read a letter from Commissioner Foulke of the civil service commission, crltlcls-. lag certain statements made by Mr. Dubois Du-bois and giving some reasons for Fore-shay's Fore-shay's removal. Mr. Dubois expressed his surprise at the presentation of such a' letter, which he said was ex parte when his resolution was under consideration by the Senate, Mr. Bacon of Georgia, questioned th propriety of the matter being brought to the notice of the Senate In the way Mr. Foulke had done. It was an act of supreme effrontery and an indignity to the Senate for such a letter to be written while the resolution was pend- f lng. . . . Mr. Spooner said be could see no if f of effrontery In the matter. If the-was the-was any breach or effrontery M.t Spooner said be thought he was person A ally chargeable with it, but he thought It proper to hare read a statement of ' the facts.