Show WILL T THERE f BE BEAN f fA A AN I INVESTIGATION TIO Senate Spends the Day Discussing Question of One With Post Postoffice Postoffice office Affairs CORMAN GORMAN INSISTED ON ONE Declared Conditions Were Serc Such as to toMake toMake toMake Make It Imperative Want Wanted Va 3 nt ed cd explicit Charges Washington April ll The Cul Culberson Culberson Culberson berson amendment to tho the ap aim appropriation bill providing for tor ti It com coni commission commission mission to Investigate the de dc department was vas before the senate s nn te all of ot today toda anti and after being ruled out ot of order In form torm was pending when time the senate adjourned Mr Gor Gorman man maim made mado nn an earnest earliest plea for tor an aiu Investigation saying tho the tI part uncut ment had cast cut reflections upon mom memo members bore bers of ot Congress anti and that a n thorough examination eX be he lied had Mr Alt Aid Aidrich AldrIch Altrich rich answered that the tho amendment meant nothing that It ir Itan an all Investigation was Willi to be had hud It should bo Lo a 1 live lire ono one He lie salt said that hint If It any nn am specific charges brought In they should be b looked Into by Congress but that thia time the demand not be ide mode made a apart Putt part of ot a n general appropriation bill bum speeches were made mad by b Tellurium Simmon At the time conclusion of ot Mr h Simmons speech le eh Mr Ir Lodge urged his hili point of ot or order tier doe against the Culbertson amend amendment ment tint and Mr tr Gorman insisted that under a n liberal 11 construction of tho hue rules the chair or ho tho senate could hold anything in iii order Tho The point of ot order was sustained but bul Mr Ir Gorman persisted and anti made vail Gus modulations of ot the time proposition In imi order to bring It within the rule nod finally eliminated all nil provisions for tor appropriations Mr Ir Gorman said con conditions In the tue department were such ns os to moke mako an on Inquiry Im tin Imperative Tho The report of ot the fourth as ad postmaster general practically charged members of at Congress with be beIns belag lag Ins confederates confederate of at Machen and hear Herl Heavers Herler ers era er and on this account Congress Congre could not muot In justice to Itself refuse to tomake make nn inquiry Tho The presidents mom memo memoranda oranda In the tho Machen case ho ha said also raised a question ns as to the conduct of ot members anti and under tinder thesa theco charges Congress could not afford arford to let the time mat matter mator ter or rest Tho The departments reflections upon congress he denounced as nil an tl said that Instead ot o there thero lacing being a 1 question of ot politics Involved the honor ant and Integrity of at Congress were In question quest 1011 He lie pronounced tho the general an nil honest nina man but said he hu was to be criticised for tor tailing falling to demand a n congressional Investigation tion with only four tour Democrats out of ot nine members of ot the tho commission noth auth nothing nothIng ing mit would be he permitted to get gel out If It the mutter matter was to have any effect In Inthe Inthe inthe the present campaign It was wall ne now In Inthe Inthe Inthe the best beet condition to accomplish that end because as ns It now stood ho ha said Bald time the Republican an party refuses to permit an on Inquiry Senators on time the other othet side he ho said may amy mn regard their case so desperate that they will not miot permit nermit any an peep JI ep Into tho hooks Well you have ha 0 tho the power Ilow r rot of ot course you OU can prevent an In Inquiry If It you wish vish to Lo do so eo as you ou barn havu of ot tho the members of ot the tho sen son senate ate ut Mr fr Aldrich replied Tho Time amend amendment mont ment In Its present shape shown showe tim folly tolly of attempting such legislation nn its this thin on oil nn nil appropriation bill 1111 Mr lit r Ocr Gor Gorman man mail has emasculated It so that It In III of ot no effect whatever If It we wo lire are to have hll an nn Investigation let It bo lie a II live 1113 I one omits Then let lot us Uti have hao one suggested Mr Gorman Mr Mv Aldrich con continued on I liVe Give us till explicit charge churgo amid oud we wo will I take It Il up though not lIot on nn tin I appropriation bill There Thero never lie 4 r line has been heen mid n 1111 I t hope to God there hero norm never will be bt a IL time limo when this Ronnie has refused to Investigate u II charge of ot misconduct mt conduct against liRA III lit an nIH ocr of ot the tho government Hut flat It If wo we are aro areto to 10 ii have tut au Inquiry let us 1111 intro havo ji J t gen genuine Ohio one and anal not hot tin nn Inquiry to meet macat a amere mere macro political exigency Mr Culberson that lint If it explicit charges ell erf necessary they time the could bo ho In tho tIme case calle of ot Montague Indi Indicator In l enter cator and In that of ot John Johll W Pettit In 11 tho thin former case there thero IP Is ho said according to the report a I toys mys mystery tery my as all to 10 whether former First Assist Assistant AH ant alit Postmaster General Heath had re received MOO too of ot tho the shores of at the stock lock of ot that concern In the tho case of or Pettit that Individual It had been developed had luul boon been nn aim the Ihl pay roll of ot tho the Haiti Balti more flora for tor four our years without doing oily any work worl ork and amul It never noor had huati been h n whether he hue lund had boon been appointed to this work tork by b Mr Heath or aI by Mr Beavers He lie that the tho case woo wan nil all tho moro moore pertinent b at nt tho thin time he lie getting pay lilly from tram tho tIm government haul had been In the em employ employ em employ ploy of ot tIme tho Republican national com committee of ot which General Payne was wan at nt the tho time vice chairman and Mr Ir Heath tenth secretary Mr lodge lo h o soul said l that both Heath and alit Heavers Beavers are arc out of ot the tIme department and that Beaters Is under tinder course courso of ot prose ru Ion bum hence ht ho hn mild did nut not consider tin lit charge of ot a 1 character to 10 affect the tho pres pros present out ent conduct of Ut If the tho department More Moreover Moreover over the case had beet been thor thoroughly Investigated by lIy the tho department not and also by b time the department of Justice with the result that a n pro proceeding tradIng against tho the bondsmen of ot tho the postmaster to recover tho time money lIney paid to hut hud hell been Instituted tOted He Ito 0 considered tho time character of ut time th demand for tOl an no Investigation to Iw be Iwa bea a n sham chap Mr Allison opposed the tho amendment an as untenable contending that tho the post committee Is IN perfectly competent to mako any nn desirable Inquiry To ro adopt the tha amendment would be 0 for tor the senate to 10 surrender Its III powers to tho the hOIl of Mr I Gorman referred humorously to toMI MI dt power to postpone that hunt which In Is unpleasant Ho no was familiar with that gesture or the sen senator tutor ator from ron Iowa 10 In iii waving R oft off Mr Ir AldrIch Mentioned Mr herman Gorman Gormanns hermanas ns nR to what luat particular Investigation ho hue wanted All of It paid Mr Gorman I want to 10 know whether nil nit of or toe trie appropriations In this lii bill are proper I r do donot not aunt believe that they tle tho are lire IIo Ho cited a cm number of appropriations in lii thin tho 1 haul and several In Iii the allies ollie of ot the tha sixth auditor which he lie said old ho wanted In Investigated Inc c Mr Gorman that hunt In regard to the tho New York anti Washing Washington ton tom cu a hid had been bean withheld from ran Mr lr Aldrich said Bahl that If It there lucre nrc arf Im Improper in proper In iii tIme the bill they tho be lie considered now not mint through a 1 department Investigation At t 01 the adjourned with the him bill still 5 i t |