The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-06-15
White. of Kentucky, and "Pig Iron
Kelley" Of Pennsylvania, he.
come Involved In a
Controversy,
In Which Harsh and Unpsrliamentary
Language is Freely Used-A
Little Scene.
A Resolution of CenSurc Offered by
Spraguc is, After Explaha-
tion, Withdrawn.
TreScOtt Tells the Foreign Relations
Committee What He Doesn't Know.
The Wineom Investigating Committees
Work Yesterday.
Other Foreign and Domestic News.
Other Foreign and Domestic News.
Forty-Seventh Congress.

foiiy-schtHan SbngTess.
SENATE.
WASHINGTON, June 1i.-Mr. Miller, of
New York. reported from the commerce
committee the original bill to provide tor
the construction of the Illiaois and Missis-
sippi canal and to cheaper TRANSFORMATION
Placed on the calendar. y
Mr.. Kellogg introduced bill by request
to aid in the construction of the raiiroad
and levee of the Memphis a. New Orleans
| railroad and levee company,
The senate took up the calendar without
Delay, ana upon motion of
Mr. Maxey resumed consideration
of the senate joint resolution
to pay mail contracts in the various south
ern states the amounts due them on their
contracts for 1889, 1860 aud 1861, and reap
propriaiing $4,000 for that purpose. The
vote upon proceeding with the bill was
yeas, 3Oi nays, PA party vote, Davis OF
Illinois, voting mo with the republicans.
Conger, in opposition to the bill, denied
any liability of the United States to make
the payment, as the service was rendered
solely TO the Confederate States by disloyal
contractors, who violated their contracts
with the government by turning over to
agents of the Confederacy property
belonging to it. He reviewed the
history of the claim to show that
after its passage through former
congress, under democratic auspices,
payments were withheld by the postmaster.
general to await q more complete record OF
claim, and that subsequently the fact was
developed by an examination of the Con-
federate. records that payment for the
service had been made by the Confederate
government in many of the cases, if not in
I tI,n 81
cords in support OF the objections to the
bill, showing that in the spring of 1862 the
Confederate government appropriated $500.
900 to pay claims, that about the same time
South Carolina voted $4,000 for the same
purpose. He further objected that the bill
contained none of the limitations of TN,
original bill, appropriating 1915, 900, which
was Overwhelmingly defeated in the house
and that 1t virtually appropriated an un
| limited amount.
Mr.. Maxey rose TO reply. hut as ouiy .
lew minutes remained Of the morning hou.
yielded TO suggestions of members 'oun
him, and deferred his remarks until th,
Dlll IS resumed IN the morning hour to
morrow.
A message was received from the presi
dent, transmitting In response TO senat,
resolution of the 9TH, from the secretary O
slate, copies of the full corresr ,dence O
the state department with Envoy Trescot
and Assistant Secretary Walker Baire
Ordered printed and referred to the com
mittee on foreign affairs.
.Aitera long struggle for precedence o
bills the house bunoed.spirits bill was takeI
up by vote of 30 to q, and the sennt,
finance committees substitute wa
read. The substitute was reported /,
me senate on the 26,h, ult, 1t wa,
originally prepared by the commissioner o
internal revenue, with view to the bette
guarding OF the revenue with respect q
eynuoration and leakage.
Messrs. Bayard, Vest, Williams. Brown
and Sherman debated the bill
The senate finally went into eyecutiy,
session and soon thereafter adjourned.
HOUSE.
The morning having been dispensed with
the house, ut l2;2D, wen, into cumm,,,cc a
tue who'e, Robinson Of Masslcnu>cus. IL
! the chair, on the legislative. G. ecutiye nm,
| ludlCiary apprOpi al Tons biz.
! unanimous consent having been given 4
1 lew days ago that Whitc. OF Ken, y
should have The privilege of going back. loi
| amendment, to a paragraph rcla,iye To the
internal revenue bureau, that gentlemar
/ moved io strike out the clause anpropriat
inG ) .,5,5,t , for sala les and expenses q
COLLECTORS anu their deputies. In the cours,
| OF his remarks he said il was Stated beIo ,
! thc c9mm.lee at the o,her end OF me c?nt
| iol that the chairman of the cnmni, A.,
on ways and means had entered
into some kind of n bns.air
TO help. the whisky men II they
would help the tariff
helley, ,ol Pennsylvania, entered III,
chamber shortly amer and asked that tht
words used by White be read, as he has
not heard them.
White-"l will repeat the statement.
said that Mr.. Miller, president of the West
ern Export association, had stated on oatl
before the Window investigating commit
tee that the chairman of the committee O,
ways and means tkelley) had gone into
me Kind OF an arrangement with the dis
tliers TO help each other; that they were /,
help the tariff men and the tariff men we !,
20 nelp themi and that the tariff men ha,
succeeded and then Tilted them.n
Kelley desircio say that no such state
ment rs that was ever made by Mr.. Mile
committee
White-"That Is question of veracity:
heerd him make the statement mysclf.n
kellcy-"And / dcnounce the statemen
as the ravingo q maniac or deliberat,
lie,n lScnsation.l
White-"The gentleman may be
enough to make that statement
Holman, OF Indiana, demanded that IN,
words be taken down, and they were re
ported 10 the house. "
Then White rose and said: III have beer
informed that the gentleman from Pennsyl
vania didn't intend his last remark 10 role
10 me, and ~ so withdraw my remark,
kelley-"lt was TO the gentleman alon,
and exclusively that my remark replied"
White-"Then reiterate everything
:. In the interest Of peace and harmon,
Mason. Of Iowa, rose and read that portio,
of Miller's testimony In which kellev,
name was not used, But some statemep
was made that the tariff men had gone bael
on whisky men. The gentleman from
Kentucky had evidently confused IN, G
gentleman nom pennsylvania with IN,
general statement, those tariff men
In view of that fact he. thoueh
that boih gentlemen would 10,
what their obligations TO the house we're.
White--"1 recognize that ts part of An,
testimony which heard. No man wo,,i,
more gladly consent 10 acknowledve IN i a,
hat was all that was said by the witness \
II was true; but what said Ia true n