The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-06-28
THE HOUSE.
A Refusal to Forfeit the Backbone" Grant
Logan as "A Land Owner.


Logan a Land Owner.
WASHINGTON, June 27.-The conference re
ports on the pension bill and the bill granting
right of way through the Indian Territory to
the Gulf; Colorado & Santa Fe railroad, were
agreed to.
The Senate bill for the relief of William
McGarrahan reported adversely from the
committee on private land claims, and placed on
the calendar
Mr.. Ferry submitted the conference report on
the army appropriation bill. The report an
nounces an agreement upon all items except on
the Senate amendment striking out that portion
of the bill which regulates the compensation to
subsidized railroads for army transportation
The report was agreed to- The disagreement to
the amendment indicated was insisted upon and
conferees were appointed,
Mr.. Henley made an unsuccessful effort to
secure consideration of the Northern Pacific
forfeiture bill, and the House went into com
mittee of the whole, Mr. Cox, of New York, in
the chair on the private calendar.
At o'clock the committe rose for the purpose
of permitting the House to dispose of the Back
bone forfeiture bill
Mr. White. of Kentucky, raising question of
privilege, sent to the clerks desk and had read
letter, published this morning written by Rep
Fesentative Ellis in 1881 to Can't GEORGE in
which he intimated that there had been i'm
proper means used to obtain the original grant
Mr.. White thought a full Investigation of the
whole matter should be made.
The Chair decided that the question was not
one of privilege.
Mr.. Ellis said the letter had been materially
altered and garbled to suit the purposes of its
publishers and at the proper time he would ex-
pose the falsehold. malignity and unwarranted
inuendoes directed against him in the publica-
ton alluded to- 1t is, he said, the last vindie-
tive thrust of professional back-mailer, whose
disappointed greed and avarice directed this
blow at one whose connection with him origi-
mated in a desire to do him kindness
The Speaker announced the question to be ON
the motion to table the motion to reconsider the
vote by which the House yesterday defeated the
Backbone" forfeiture bill.
The motion to table was agreed to-Yeas 124,
nays IA. The bill was lost.
The House then proceeded to consideration of
private business, and the following bills were
passed:
To relieve certain soldiers of the late war
from the charge of desertion.
For relief of Myra Clark Gaines.
Mr.. Valentine, raising question of privilege,
said that some days ago gentleman from New
York Mr. McAdo0 had taken occasion to print,
as part of his speech, very long dispatch sent
from this city to New York. 1t contained the
names of some of native land mouopolists,
saying a full list would fill every page of
the paper Among the names appeared that of
Senator John a. Logan as owning 50, 600 acres of
land. Senator Logan had called his MIR Valen-
finesl attention to this to day, and had desired
him to say to the House that so far as it related
to him, the statement absolutely false. Tho
only land he owned was little homestead in H
linois. The gentleman from New Jersey had
taken occasion, while he was lauding the soldiers
of the land, to stab one of the brightest and
most gallant of those soldiers. Loud applause
on the Republican side.
Mr.. Cox of New York, in order to show as he
expressed it, how gentlemen on the other side
attempted to strain at gnat and swallow
whole menagerie of camels, quoted from a
speech printed by Mr.. Brewer, of New Jersey,
in which that gentleman made very lengthy
extract from Mr.. Blaine's Twenty Years in
Congress" the speech, in fact consisting almost
wholly of the extract
Mr.. ONeill. of Missouri, suggested that the
title of the book should be amended by aeding
the words, And tattooed at last"
Mr.. McAdoo explained the circumstances
which led to his obtaining leave to print, and he
desired to say that he did not retract one word
of that speech. He accepted the authorship in
its entirety. He did not consider for one mo-
ment that he had violated any rule of courtesy,
any rule OF equity, or any rule OF manliness in
its publication. He had done what had fire.
quently been done he had incorporated in his
speech newspaper article without comment.
That article had been published last January,
and had been copied from Maine to California.
and there had not been line of contradiction
from the supersensitive senator in regard to his
name IN that list
Mr.. Cannon said the Record did not show that
the gentleman from New Jersey had obtained
leave to print; and therefore the Record on its
face misled the House and the country. Mr.
McAdoo continuing said the gentleman from
Illinois says he brought the matter before the
House because the Record had been violated.
The gentleman knew better than that. 1t was
not to preserve TIE integrity of the Record; it
was not to bring the attention of the House 60
a violation Of the rules; it was Simply because
the gentleman found the name of John A. Lo-
gan in the list So far as the question of the
Record is concerned, he believed the gentleman
himself had not delivered his tariff speech.
Mr.. Cannon-Nor is it printed in the Record
Mr.. McAdoo said that in the Record of April
% he found the following 'Mr. Cannon ad-
dressed the committee. His remarks will APP
pear hereafter" Did the Record liel
Mr.. Cannon said he would reply in his own
time.
Mr. McAdoo-I say if he had done as some
gentleman did, instead of printing such a fair
thing as q newspaper article and giving the