The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-03-23
W ASnINGT0N NEWS.
MEMBERS TAKE EXCEPTION TO VAN
wYck's ONSLAUGHT,
And Wat tho Language Printed il Tie
Eeoor: Exactly n Uttered a .lste
OF Attorney General Garland
Tho TrA3e ;oIar.

WASHINGTON -. ~ 23-T,a chair
laid before the seaatt Saturday the rasolu-
tioa offered by the senator ron New H4mp.
shire tpike) authorizing the committee on
claims to compile the laws relating to pri.
yate claims; 10 digest the Judicial decisions
rotating thereto, and 10 c,ltiAue and extend
'he list OF private claims Eimun1s
moved to amend 50 as to lim,t the work of
the committee to an exteu,ion of the list OF
private claims presented 20 c ngre $ SO thai
the Lit VIII cover the claims of tie Forty.
seventh ami Forty eighth congress
After debate, a division was called for.
but BEFORE th5 rod was ca.ieI, Mr. Sherman
moved 30 rccoulmiL the resolution to the
COMMITTEES GA claims which motion was
adopted
Mitchell, OF Pennsylvania, submitted
a resolution looking to the appointment of a
special committee of five to inquire into
matters pertaining to the trade dollar.
CocSrell offered a substitute progid-
ing that any two or more senators might
constitute Themselves into committee to
investigate anything and employ clerks, etc,
and then moved that both the original and
substitute lie on the table; so ordered
Hawley criticised the striking out of the
rec nd certain portions Of Van Wyck'sspeech
Of Friday. He hoped that the official would
be instructed to report exactly what should
be spoken on the floor of the senate.
Van Wyck explained that he had stricken
out the personal language becau;e he found
that brother senator took oiTense thereto,
and he had spoken to that senator about il
before striking it ont But if any senator
desired it, he was perfectly willing that the
entire debate SHOULD appear as it was ut
| tered
Plumb took exception to the remarks Of
| the senator from Nebraska made Friday.
and defended the members of the Central
American commission, to VIII, IN he had re-
ferred in harsh terms Vest corrob1rated
the statement of Senator Van Wyck respect
ing the elimination Of the personal matt8t
| from his speech lie dill not wish a.
debate the subject, nat rs the publication in
| The Rec RI reached but comparatively few
| persons h. Thought tnore should be somc
method by which tne wrong done 10y the
| publication of such matters through tie
| press could be properly recti6ed. The sena
| r hat greatly wronged his friend Gen,
| Reynolds, and IN conversation lie had told
| him 50.
Dawes thought that the gentleman from
Nebraska nj 5at better have allowed his re-
marks to appear AMI made proper amend
mants in the morning from his seat.
Van Wyck thought t!slt tho senator mis-
understood. He had no apology 10 make
| and would ask the unanimous consent of thC
senate for the printing of his speech in The
| Record precisely as it was uttered.
| Hawley made a spirited speech, during the
course of which he said that ours was the
| greatest and best government of the land
and in substance denounced the practice OF
! defaming or attempting to defame its public
| institutions and representatives, He called
upon the senator from Nebraska either K
| stand by, or back out from what he had
said yesterday and not strike it from The
| Record.
| Van Wyck retOrted rather warmly AM
concluded by offering the following reSolu
ton: "Resolved, that the official reporter o
the senate, be instructed to correct the
| record of yesterday, SO that it will be {
faithful copy Of what was said" The in
PRODUCTION Of this resolution brought senator
Teller to his feet. He said Van Wyck haC
told him yesterday that during
certain remarks which he regretted
respecting his Tellersl administration o
the department OF the interior and propn5ei
eliminating them from The Record Il,
Teller had no ohie etions to the senator
doing this, and he had decided to make Ii,
response to the criticisms which were made
but now that the senator repeated, reiter
atei, anl desired that his remarks shoul.
appear in full, he was compelled t.
defend his administration of the de
partment, which he proceeded to do citin!
various authorities to show that in granting
the patents for lands to the Backbone" rail
road he had followed law and precedent. Al
tine conclusion of his remarks, Van
Wyck's resolution that the entire debate a.
taken down by the official stenographer
Friday be reprinted in The Record was car
ried, and at &:10 p m the senate went int
executive session. at $3.50 p. m. the door
were reopenel and the senate adjournet
4 until Monday at 10 q. m.