The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-02-25

Peoria and Miami tribes, praying sue
legislation as may abolish the tenure /
common, and to give the Indiana title i
several tracts in the Indian Territory.
Mr.. Vest, in presenting the severa
papers, pronounced infamously false tn
statements OF Jay Gould and others tina
he was lobbying 10 secure the opening O
the Indian Territory. Mr.. Vest knew O
no lobbying in that interest, but the maj
was lunatic who believed the Indial
Territory could remain much louge
blank on the map OF civilization and to al
practical purposes Botany Bay. He in
yoked the favorable action Of Congress or
the bill which he would to-day report
from the Committee on Territories pro
viding for certain changes in the govern
ment OF the Indian Territory.
Mr.. Eaton, from the Committee on For.
eign Relations, reported back Senate joint
resolution providing for treaty OF recip.
roCity with France, and asked that the
committee be discharged from its further
consideration, they believing that the
matter ought to remain in the hands oi
another department OF the government.
The resolution was indefinitely postponed.
Mr.. Voorhees, introduced bill for the
payment to the heirs OF Constantine Bru.
midi Of the $500 held back on certain
vouchers for Brumidi's work, and appro-
priating 500 to deiray his funeral ex.
penses. Mr.. Voorhees, spoke eloquently
Of the services OF Brumidi, and was fol.
lowed by Mr.. Morrill, in the same strain.
The bill was ordered printed and laid on
the table for future consideration.
The House resolutions in regard 10 the
memory OF the late A. NJ. Lay were taken
up, and Mr.. Cockrell eulogized the de-
ceased.
After addresses by Messrs. Cockrell,
Kirkwood and Vest, the Senate adjourned
till tomorrow.
HOUSE.
Mr.. Reagan, rising to a question OF
privilege, sent to the Clerks desk and had
read an article in the New York Sun, of
the llth inst, stating that he, as Chairman
Of the Committee on Commerce, had in
volved himself in trouble in regard to the
commerce bill, and that he had
charged that improper influence had been
used to defeat his bill, and that the Speak
er had stocked the committee so as to se-
cure its defeat. He declared the state
mentto be IA gross perversion OF the truth,
and which showed q desire 10 heap the
odium on him. OF the false statements it
he would call attention to but
three. 1t was not true that the commit
tee had rebuked him. 1t was not true
that the Speaker had demanded that he
should max retraction OF any assertion
which he had made.
The Speaker had called his attention to
10 what purported to be an interview in
the Washington POd. On reading it he
informed the Speaker that the language
was not his, and he was not responsible for
It. The whole OF the interview had not
been published. The committee had not
1eliberated whether 1t should censure
him as the article stated. The effort was
TO bring IN odium on him in
order to dofeat great measure with
which his name had been coupled. He
could not escape false and infamous at
.aCks when engaged in struggle OF people
against the great corporations OF the coun.
ny, but he would continue TO contest
to the end.
Mr.. Randall having called Mr.. Cox to
he chair, took the floor and said,
when his attention had been called to the
article in the Post, he had naturally felt
and had called the attention OF
he gentleman from Texas TO it, and that
he gentleman had said that the language
$as not his, and that he would see that
was made. That correction
lad been made, and there his (Randall's)
with the matter ended. The
had been a wicked and serious
1ne, and there was not ascintilla OF truth
IN 1t from beginning 10 end. In so far as 1t
asserted he had been swayed in the least
1egree in appointing committee by de-
.ire to defeat any particular measure any
such statement was wickedly and outrag-
oously untrue.
Mr.. Wait, member OF the Committee
On Commerce, stated that 30 far as he
could reColleCt there had been no move
nent on the part OF any member OF the
committee 10 censure or rebuke the Chair
nan.
Mr.. McLane, also a member OF the
Committee on Commerce, said that when
he gentlemen from Texas undertook to
say that committee had been stocked by
he Speaker SO as to defeat q particular
Mr.. Reagan-I never used those words.
Mr.. MclIane-The identical words "by
The Speaker" may not have been used,
but not being used what is the sense con-
Veyed by what the gentleman said-that q
committee had been stocked to defeat
billP Who constitutes committee-who
stocks committee-but the Speaker?
The gentleman from Texas, he continued,
had made the observation that the COM
mittee had been stocked, and that obser.
vation had reflected on the Speaker, and
necessarily on individual members OF the
committee. II the gentleman had charged
that improper influence had been used 10
defeat the bill
Mr.. Reagan-No such word or insinua-
ton was made by me.
Mr.. McLane-And yet the language
used was susceptible Of such a construc.
ton. No matter what was the spirit In
which these remarks were made do not
think them proper. do not think that
the gentlemen can maintain agreeable re-
latlons il they indulge in any such re-
marks. 1 think the remarks were i'm
proper and made without justification.
Mr.. Kenna, another member OF the
said that in the final vote on
commerce bill, some remarks
had fallen from the chairman about the
proper construction Of which the opinions
had differed; some OF the members OF the
committee had put upon it an offensive
and the chairman had i'm.
mediately disavowed any such intention
and denied the propriety Of that con.
struCtion and the matter was then dropped.
Mr.. Springer, Chairman OF the Commit.
tee on Elections, submitted majority
report that the committee, relative 10 tho
Pennsylvania contested election case OF
Curtin vs.. Yokum, declaring the election
null and void, and remitting the question
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