Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1884-12-13
FORTY-ElGHTH CONGRESS-.
HOUSE.
WAsHINGToy. Dec -.

a.
concurrent resolution passed recently, that
the exigencv Of public service prevents the
attendance Of Congress at the opening # the
worlds industry and cotton exposition al
New Orleans, that the President has decided
TO open said exposition by telegraph aud start
the machinery by electricity from the execu
tive mansion in the presence of his cabinet
and foreign representatives, and asking the
president of the Senate, together with COM
miitee of l3 senators and the speaker of the
House, with one representative or delegate
from each State or Territory, to attend at the
executive mansion Tuesday, Dee l6, al
II 30, to witness, on behalf of the Congress
OF the United States, the opening of said
exposition by the President, and to adopt and
forward therefrom such address of congratu.
lation as may seem appropriate TO the occa-
sion.
Mr.. Warner of Ohio, rising to a question
Of privilege, offered a preamble and resolu-
tion reciting that J. +. Taylor of Ohio, on
the 9Th of July. 1884, the House having under
consideration the Mexican pension bill, hav.
ing obtained the floor occupied the time of
the House for six minutes; that subsequently
he obtained leave to extend his remarks in
the Record; that instead of extending his
remarks he had printed in the Record, after
the adjournment of Congress written speech
or paper containing sentiments and para
graphs rejecting on members of the House
committee and of the House itself, and re-
porting or purporting to report the action OF
some one of the committee of the Senate, all
in violation of his leave to extend his re-
marks in the Record and of the House, and
declaring that the parts of the speech reflect
ing on members of the House, on the commit
tee OF the House and on the House, and re-
ferring TO what took place in the Senate COM
mittee, are not legitimate part of the pro-
ceedings of the House; and Mr.. Warner
stated that he was directed by the committee
on pensions, bounty and back pay TO bring
the matter before the House.
Mr.. Taylor, in defence, read some tables
one OF which disclOses the interesting fact
that during the 10Th, 10th, 47th, and the lst
session of the 4Sth Congress, $50 speeches
were printed which were never delivered on
the floor, while 1888 speeches delivered were
withheld for revision and substantially al
tered
Mr. Rogers of Arkansas said that a re-
markable spectacle was presented of the
committee OF the House consisting of demo-
Gratis and republicans, unanimously request
ing their chairman to present certain charges
against the gentleman from Ohio q Mr.. Tay-
lor), and asking that the objectonal features
in the speech of that gentleman be expunged
from the Record. The gentleman seemed to
be totally insensible of the attitude in which
he was placed and instead of undertaking to
establish the falsity of the charges or OF
apologizing to the House in an honorable
and manly way, he went into the discussion
of Ohio politics and brought in certain records
of the public printer, who might well devote
his time to public service instead of answer
ing inquiries of partisan character.
Mr.. Warner, in rising to close the debate,
said the action of Mr.. Taylor in producing
such speech was unprecedented. He didn't
go into a discussion of the Ohio election, but
he would say that never had a campaign been
carried on anywhere where methods so cor
rupt and forbidden and abhorrent were re-
sorted to as were resorted to by his col
leagues, his confederates and his paid staff of
scoundrels to scurrilate the very speech
which he had printed
Mr.. Taylor demanded that these words be
taken down, and they were read from the
clerks desk,
Mr.. Warner-I withdraw the remarks
which can plainly see to parliamentary,
but say this-that | do not think that a
campaign was ever carried on anywhere in
which methods more corrupt and forbidden
ana aunOETent were reSOrteu 10 TO aCnleVe
political ends than were resorted to in the
18th district of Ohio during the last cam
paign on the part of the republican party.
applause on the democratic side
Mr.. Warner continued with a vindcation
of the committee of which he was chairman.
The resolution was adopted-yeas l64, nays
60.
Mr.. Willis of Kentucky, chairman of the
committee on rivers and harbors, reported
a resolution calling on the secretary of war
to inform the House whether any part of the
amount appropriated in the river and harbor
bill Of July 3, 1884, for removing the reef
at Hell Gate has been used for different pur-
poses; adopted
1t was ordered that when the house ad
joHrned it be to Monday next.
The House then took recess until s
O'Clock, the evening session to be tor the
consideration Of pension bills.
At the evening session ten pension bills
were passed including one granting $50 a
month to Mrs. Emma De Long.
Adjourned.