Morning journal and courier., 1885-12-16
FORTY-NINTH CONGRESS.
WAsH1NGToN. Dec. 15.1995

l
 MT. Edmunds from the Committee on Ju
 dietary reported favorably the bill to relieve l General Alexander R. Lawton of Georgia ot
 his political disabilities and asked for it's inn l mediate consideration. The bill was read l three times and passed.
 l MT. Edmunds introduced bill granting 8 pension to Mrs. Julia D. Grant (such as the | widows of President Tyler, Polk and Gar 1 field now reeeive), and another bill granting l her the franking privilege. MT. Ednunds said the bills were precisely in the form l adopted in similar cases heretofore.
 Going to the calendar the Senate took up
 MT: Hoar's bill to provide for the presiden-
 tial succession, and NIT. Hoar took the floor l and addressed the Senate ou the bill. l At the conclusion of MT. Hoar's remarks, 1 the s; nate took up the bill increasing the
 salary of United States district judges to 1 $5,060 per anuum. After a short debate it was laid over until tomorrow. 1 The Senate then proceeded with the
 consideration of the bill providing a code of joint rules for the l Senate and House of Representatives, l MT. Frye briefly explained the rules. Rule
 13i providing that no intoxicating liquors be 1 sold in the Capitol, the committee thought 1 dealt with a subject that ought to be left to 1 each house separately and the committee 1 has therefore recommended that the rule be 1 stricken out.
 Mr. Ingalls, thought that if it was intended l to legislate on prohibition in the Senate, the House and the President would all be called l on to do their share. He thought the matter | excluding liquor from the Capitol one of l legislation rather than of action by the Senate | in it's individual capacity.
 l On the committees proposition to strike l out the rule the yeas and nays were demand ed and resulted: Yeas 20, nays 56. The yeas | were Messrs. Beck, Brown, Call, Coekrell, l Coke, Eustis, Gray, Hampton, Harris. In gals, Jackson, Kenna, Manderson, Maxey, l Morgan, Ransom, Riddleberger, Vest, Wall thall and Voorhees.
 MT, Riddleberger rose and insisted that if there was to be prohibition in the Capitol it should begin with the committee rooms and Senator should be made liable to fine and imprisonment for keeping whiskey in his committee room.
 MT. Vest said he had no committee room, V, l but was opposed to the rule as setting up system of espionage. Everyone knew if a l Senator wanted liquor in his committee he would have it and would visit the severest punishment in his power any clerk who should Uniform" on him. The whole thing was simply an attempt to meet fanatica1 spirit in the country on this question to which he would not give his countenance. Mir. Cockreu offered an amendment to the effect that any Senator or member of Con- ! gress violating the rule should be liable to ex- pulsion. It looked small for Senators to be passing rules infiicting punishment on com mittee clerks for eonniving at the use of whiskey in the Capitol when 1t was notorious that distinguished Senators who voted to keep this rule in kept intoxicating liquors in their committee rooms. He (Mr. CockrelD had never had any liquor in the Capitol, but it was useless to deny that it had been kept there by Senators.
 Mr Ingalls, sent to the desk copy of bill of fare of the Senate cafe at which he sup posed Senators took lunch.
 pla at 1iS, cad
 aloud the wine list with the prices of the different brands, much to the amusement of
 Senator's Under the head of ''Madeira
 wines" he found ''Blackburns reserve" the reading of which was greeted with shouts of laughter and someone was heard to say, sotto voce, "Good for Joe' When another brand was announced as ''bottled expressly for the U. s. Senate cafe'' the laughter was renewed and on the conclusion of the reading Mir.
 Butler expressed his surprise that the clerk had not found ''cold tea" on the list.
 Mir. Cockrell said he disliked drunkenness anywhere, but had seen more of it among the Senators than the employees of the Sen ate. Senators kept whislzey in their rooms and invited their friends to go there. If the Senate not fit to stop that it was not fit for self-government. He had known of an appropriation bill to be occasionally delayed because of the intoxica- tion among the subordinates and had known the Senate to be adjourned because of the condition of some of it's members. He would not say the Senate had to adjourn in conse- quence, but certainly the Senators had been in such a condition that business could not be carried on. Senators knew that his point was we'll taken.
 MT Frye said he had been told by ex- Senator Simon Cameron and Senator Hamlin that twenty or thirty years ago the Senate had been time and time again with out a quorum because more than quorum was drunk, that he had seen distinguished .iijfaaat -neeans st- fdngsffhess.a MT. Frye remembered when the night sessions of the House were broken up by drunken members. Things had very much improved since then. MT. Eye re- gretted the remarks of the Missouri Senator as conveying to the country the impression that so many Senators were drunk during the ordinary business of the Senate that the Senate had to be adjourned on account of drunk enness.
 Mir Cockrell said he had not stated. He had not seen so many Senators under the in 1uence of liquor that public business could not be transacted He had never seen any thi1g even approaching it, but had seen two or three Senators or more-a mere minority completely under the influence of liquors He did not think he had ever seen more than half dozen at time in that condition and he could give the names if the Senators de- sired them Qaughter.)
 MT. Maxey regretted that an impression should be conveyed to the country that the Senate was 8 band of drunkards and de- bauchees He had served in many delibera- tive bodies and had never seen more sober or well ordered body of men than the United States Senate.
 MT. Logan did not know that the sale of wines merely would be obnoxious to the rule, the word ''vinous' not appearing in the rule and distinction existing in law between vii nous and spurious liquors.
 MT. CockrelFs amendment was disagreed to; yeas 20, nays 3S.
 On motion of MT. Edmunds the clause pro viding for the dismissal of clerks who should eonnive at the of liquors was stricken out in order make the rule harmonize with the sense of the Senate MT. Cockrells amendment.
 With that clause the thirteenth rule was then adopted by viva voce vote.
 After some further efforts at amendment, on motion of Mr. Manderson the rules were laid over until tomorrow and the Senate went into executive session. At 6:05 the doors were reopened and the Senate adjourn ed.