Morning journal and courier., 1884-12-13
4sth Congress..-seeond Session.

4SGn COMPREHENSION SeSSIOns WASHINGTON, Dec. 12. HoUsE-Mr. Ellisiof Louisiana offered re- solution against Congress adjourning to go to New Orleans and providing for com
 mittee to watch the President open it by the telegraph.
 MT. Warner, tf o1itol stated that by direc- tion of the Committee on Pensions Bounty and Back Pay he rose to question of privi-
 lege. He offered paper charging that on
 July last Mir. J. D. Taylor spoke six
 minutes on the Mexican pension bill, two
 days later obtained 1eaVs to extend his re-
 marks in the Record; that, taking adYaaataee of his Ieave ne naa ,,,rinted in the Record
 August 1, after Congress had adjourned, speech which did not contain the remarks made by him ii the House; but in which he assailed members of the committees of the
 Heusei the House itself,. and at least one
 committee of the Senass. ffr' warnersth then
 vindicated the Committee on Pensions Boun-
 ty and Back Pay.
 J. D. Taylor said that in the redistrieting of the State MT. Warner and himself were thrown into the same district and both were renominated from that district. It was be- ieved to De i Ds1n6etatic district bE at least fifteen hundred majority aid yst thg gen
 tleman claimed to have been elected by 317 majority. He prceeeded to show the figures in the elsetienl when Mr., Warner exclaimed tSoapi" MT. Taylor said 1t did f6t become the gentleman to cry EfSoapl" when the chairman of the Democratic committee in his county was under indictment for bribery at election. Mr. Taylor had read letter from MT. Warner in which he stated that he had voted for Randall for speaker, and had read extracts from the only Democratic paper in Monroe county, asserting that he had vot- ed against Carlisle, who was an eutspoken free tradef. This sally caused much 1atigh- ko. I,f1 ,1E Taylor defended his speech, claiming that it was warranted by existing facts. He also had. read letter from Hon. Edward McPherson in which thgt gentleman said there was no impropriety in the publication complained of by MT. Warner. Mir. Taylor reiterated many of the charges contained in the speech complained of and again insisted that his statements were true. He produced l transcripts from the government printing of | fee to show that the practice of withholding | and revising speeches and of obtaining leave to print had been very common, and that l MT. Warner had repeatedly resorted to it. MT. Rogers, of Afkansas, sdid the gentle man from Ohio seemed unconscious of the charges made. Instead of defending himself or apo1ogizing in a manly way l he went off into the campaign, and in the production of transcripts from the public printer, who he thought could have been bet 1 ter employed in public duties than in furnish l ing data for partisan purposes In view of what had occurred he agreed with MT. Fay Tor F'that there are some people who would 1 do we'll to talk less and think more. " Mir. Warner said there wss never 8 cam paign carried on in Ohio or elsewhere where methods so corrupt, forbidding and abhor-
 rent as were resorted to by his colleague and | his eonfdefates we're pfaeticed. s'His paid
 staff of scoundreis;'' he continued, <iwere em- ployed to circulate the very document which he had printed"
 MT. Taylor demanded that the words be taken down, which was done and the sen- tence was read.
 MT. Warner promptly withdrew his re- ! mark, conceding that his language was un- parliamentary, but he would say that never
 before were methods resorted to so corrupt l forbidding and abhorrent those resorted | to in the seventeenth Ohio district at the last l election. He referred to his own military | record and that of MT. Taylor, asserting that MT. Taylor had almost at the close of the war enlisted in the home guards One of the conditions under which the regiment was raised was that it should not be required to ! leave the State.
 MT. Taylor said the regiment was raise | in a time of intense excitement and 8 mat | ter of fact served year and half outside | the State.
 MT. Cox, of New York, said there was l rule of the House that no speech printed af 1 ter adjournment should contain any per sonality and it was a wise and proper rule.
 MT. Taylor asked that he point to any per sonality.
 "Why, "said MT. Cox, ''the speech is ram | jam full of personalities" ]"
 I After further debate Mr Warner demand l ed the previous question the resolution declaring the speech to be no part of the Record.
 MT. Brown, of Indiana, moved it's refer ence to the Committee on Rules; rejected The previous question was then ordered and the resolution was adopted; yeas 164 nays 50.
 | On motion of Mr. Morrison, of Illinois, i
 was ordered that when the House adjourn i | be to meet on Monday.
 MT. Tucker called up the Senate joint res | olution concerning the ceremonies to be au l thorized on the completion of the Washing
 ton monument and it was adopted.
 At 4:15 the House took a recess until o'clock under the standing order for the con
 sideration of pension bills.
 l Before the recess this afternoon CD. Wise l of Virginia, made point of order that n'
 quorum had voted for recess. On the ap l peal of Democratic members he withdrew hi
 point, but gave notice that he woult
 insist that no bill should pass a
 the night session unless there was
 quorum. At the night session Mr. Wis
 said that in the hurry he had gone too quick
 that what he meant was that no bill absolute i ly meritorious should be passed without
 quorum. He said hundreds of pensioner
 had been placed on the roll for political pun
 poses and that the 411 pension bills passe
 at the last session had been put through be
 cause there was long roll behind who wer l interested.
 MT. Funston asked if he referred to tn
 pension to Mrs. F. P. Blair, jr., as a politics
 pension.
 Mr. Henderson, of Illinois, asked Mr. Wis
 to name pension granted for political pun poses and said if he knew of single cas- where a pension was being fraudulent
 drawn it was his duty to report and have
 stopped.
 Several members took exception to NJ
 Wise's reflections upon the members of th Pension committee.
 A bill was passed giving Mrs. Delons
 l widow of Lieutenant Delong, a pension C $130 per month The next bill was to per sion Joseph Riable, who lost an arm after hi discharge while firing salute at Indianapol
 in honor of regiment returning home afte
 the close of the war To this Mr. Wise ol jected and insisted upon quorum. To avoi
 full stop of the proceedings the bill WE informally passed over, as were other simila } l bills
 Ten bills were agreed to in committee, rt
 ported to the House and passed, and at 101 the House adjourned until Monday. The Harvard Students Slayer Guilty PORTLAND, Dec. 12.-The jury in tn Kelley case this evening returned
 verdict of guilty after being out four hour,