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Show , FORTY-NINTH CONGRESS.. The Senate. Washington, December 15. Referring to the rule providing that no intoxicating liquors li-quors be sold in the, Capitol, Frye said the majority of the committee believed the subject sub-ject to be one that should be left to each house separately, and the committee had therefore recommended that Lho rule be struck put. - i '. ;" - - -. ! Mr. Ingalls thought if it were intended to legislate on prohibition, the Senate, House and President would all be called upon to do their share. ? While ha (Ingalls) might have his opinion. as to the propriety or impropriety impropri-ety of the use of alcoholic liquors in the Capitol, he thought the matter one of legis- i lation rather- than of action by the Senate in its individual eapacity:r.-"" ' Mr. Riddleberger moved to strike out the words "for sale," so that the rule would exclude ex-clude liquors, whether for sale or not. . ' On this he called for the yeas and riaysj but the call was not sustained. On the committee's proposition to strike out the rules, the ayes and nays were demanded, de-manded, and resulted, yeas 20, nays 36.- ' Brown, in offering an amendment similar to the one that had been offered by Riddleberger, Riddle-berger, said that he (Brown) did not suppose sup-pose the Senate cared to go beyond the idea mcorporated in the prohibition laws of the prohibition States. He thought a Senator should not be prohibited from- taking a social so-cial glass with a friend in the Capitol. 4 Vest said he was opposed to the rule, as setting up a system of espionagel Every one knew if a Senator wanted liquor in his committee room he would have it, and would visit the severest punishment in his power on any clerk who should "inform" on him.. The whole thing was simply an attempt to meet the fanatical spirit m the country on this question, to which Vest would not give countenance. Brown's amendment was lost yeas 21, nays 35. Morgan's amendment was agreed to, confining con-fining the joint rules to so much of the Capitol Cap-itol as was in the control of the two houses of Congress. This excludes from their operation op-eration so much of the Capitol as is controlled con-trolled by the Supreme Court.' Cookrell offered an amendment to the effect ef-fect that any Senator or member of Congress violating this rule should be subject to expulsion. ex-pulsion. "It looked very small," he said, "for Senators to be passing rules for the purpose of inflicting punishment on com-mitte com-mitte clerks for 'conniving' at the use of whisky in the Capitol, when it was notorious that the distinguished Senators who voted to keep this rule in, kept intoxicating liquors m then committee rooms." Cockrell's amendment was not agreed to yeas 29, nays 38. On motion of Edmunds, the clause providing pro-viding for the dismissal of clerks who should "connive" at the use of liquors was stricken out in order to make the rule harmonize with the sense of the Senate on Cockrell's amendment. With that clause the thirteenth rule was then adopted by a viva voce vote. On motion of Manderson the rules were laid over until to-morrow, and the Senate went into executive session. When the doors were reopened the Senate adjourned. Washington, December 16. Among the bills introduced and referred were the follow-I follow-I ing: By Teller To provide for free and un- limited coinage of silver dollars. By Ingalls To provide for determining the existence and removal of the inability of the President to discharge the powers and duties of his office. The resolution heretofore offered by Beck was laid before the Senate, requesting the President to cause inquiry to be made and inform the Senate whether any consular officer of the United States had, since 1868, had any interest or received benefit from any notarial, consular or commercial office of foreign countries. Referred to the committee com-mittee on commerce. '- |