Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-03-03
DEM0CR }CY'S JUBILEE.
GEORGIANs PREVENT The Ar.
SENCE OF THE HOUSE.

tunate ActiOn-Strangers Pouring Into
the Capital from Every Direction-The
Movements of the Hours Two Heroes
WASHINGTON, March 2.-Tn the House
to-day Mr. Mills, of Texas. moved to sus-
pend the rules and adopt a resolution
that the committee appointed to arrange
for the inaugural ceremonies. having de-
clined to give to the Representatives In
Congress their proper place, we will de-
cline to take any part in said ceremonies
at the capitol" This resolution. said Mr..
Mills, reflected the sentiment Of large
numbers Of the House.
Mr. Hammond, Of Georgia, demanded
second, and the motion was seconded
by vote OF 13S to s. Mr.. Hammond felt
that the House was about to do under
passion a very uaseemly thing. On March
President of the United States was to
be inaugurated. II was usual that the
House of Representative should be with
the Senate and other public officials to
witness that great scene. The House
was about, in a personal, childish freak
to decline to be present, because some
body had offered it an insult. He denied
that an insult had been offered
The Senate had had no such intention.
Its committee had had no such intention.
If the House believed that there had been
such an intention there was a dIgnfied
way OF arriving at the facts, and digni-
ned way OF maintaining the dignity OF
this body. The resolution which declared
That because the House had to sit behind
other gentlemen in the Senate it would
not SIT there at all was peurile. He had
nad the pleasure of "A like seat when
fiaIA
the House had sat with him, and no man
had dreamed that he was insulted by his
location. Whence came this sudden
insult to-day? Why was il wrong that
members OF the House should sit in the
rearE True dignity consisted in taking
the seats that were offered, and it was
childish TO quarrel about the location of
the House OF Representatives. Instead
OF maintaining its dignity it was losing
its dignity. 1t was Offering Intentionally
what seemed to be an insult to the
Senate, which had never intended to
insult or to infict upon it an affront OF
any sort.
HASTE DEPRECATED.
Mr.. Young, of Tennessee, earnestly pro-
tested against hasty and incOnsl6erate
action. 1t might be true that the Senate
had not been quite as cOnsiderate in this
matter as 1t should have been. 1t might
AliSEOuIL1sY
the House, but admitting that to be true,
did that furnish any reason why the
House should infiict an equal or greater
discOurtesy on the President of the United
states? He did not believe that anv dis
courtesy or indignity was intended on the
part of the Senate. 1t would present a
most unseemly spectacle to the country
for one branch OF the government to alb
sent itself altogether from the inaugural
ceremonies.
Mr.. Cox, of North Carolina. thought
tnat no discOurtesy was intended on the
part Of the Senate, and referred to the
spectacle which would be presented to
the world II one body OF the national
legislature should absent itself from the
inaugural ceremonies to which the people
of the whole country had been invited.
In his opinion the House was making a
good deal of matter which did not
justify it.
Mr.. Reagan, Of Texas, supported the
resolution, and said that the House
should not submit to the Senate taking
control and ignoring the Representatives
of the people. Preference had been given
20 diplomats, judges, military officers
aud the heads OF bureaus over the Repre-
sentatives. The Congress of the United
states was authorized TO make arrange
ments for the inaugural ceremonies, and
single body was not authorized to die
tate and arrange it. The Senate COM
mIttee had not done otherwise than offer
an intentional and deliberate discOurtesy.
fDe Representatives would have TO
answer TO their constituents for their dis
courtesy.
MR.. LORE'S ADVICE.
Mr.. Lore, of Delaware, said that if the
Senate had deliberately intended to cast
a slight upon the House, it would be un-
worthy of the House to notice it, and it
would be still more beneath the dignity OF
the House 10 notice the slight, which he
believed to lie unIntentiOnal.
Mr.. Kelley, of Pennsylvania, stated
that he had been present at six inaugu-
ratIOns, and that the programme on this
occasion was no departure from prece-
dent. The House would dishOnOr itself
by refusing to attend the ceremonies on
such an apparent slight.
Mr. Hammond said that he had no in
tentiOn of allowing the Republican SEN
ate to keep MIN away from seeing Grover
Cleveland inaugurated. 1t was the first
time that he had had a chance 10 see a
Democrat inaUgurated, and he intended
TO see 1t. Applause. He did not pro-
pose that anything should keep him from
his proper place to witness tue inaugu-
ration of the man in whose hands the peO-
pie had placed the sceptre for the next 4
years.
John S Wise regarded the place which
lad been assigned 10 the Representatives
as one Of the many slight Outcroppings of
the growing evidence of the inside supe-
ri0ritv supposed to exist IN the Senate OF
the United States. In the programme
presented the Senate assumed to repre-
sent the legislative branch OF the govern
ment and allow the poor House of Repre-
sentatiyes to follow along az a little dog
under a wagon of entertainment. He
was not willing to accept back seat and
be quiet.
wISE's DIGNITY.
He did not look upon the subject from
any party standpoint, but be did feel thai
lt involved the question of Representa-
tive dignity, which the House had no right
to ignore, or pass. 1t was an example OF
the selt-assumed superiority of the Sen
ate, a superiority which the Senators were
inclined to make grow, and grow, and
grow, which exhibited itself in the little
social courtesies of the capitol year by
year, until the Representatives of the peo-
pie, coming directly from the people, came
10 ask themselves ''upon what meat do
these our Caesars feed, they have grown
so greatY He would rather be door
keeper in the House of Representatives
than Il prince in such IA palace Of Sena-
tors. He was glad of the opportunity
here, and now, to enter an emphatic
protest on behalf of the Representati, es
of the people against these encroachments
of the wOuld-be aristOcratic bOdy-the
Senate of the United States. 1t was the
right of the House TO be present at the
inaugural ceremonies as the equal of the
Senate, and il it could not be there as an
equal, dignity required that it should not
20 at all. He wanted to see the Inaugural
ton. The gentleman from Georgia Ham,
mOnd) wished to see it because it was the
first Democratic Inauguration. He
wanted to see it because he thought it en-
tirely likely that it would be the last.
Mr.. Mills, of Texas, spoke in support of
his resolution, and inveighed against the
action of the Senate as being a deliberate
slight upon the House. He also wanted
to see the inauguration, but he. as a Rep
resentative of the people, was not going
to be in the taIl end with the boOtblacks.
The House owed it to its dignity, and to
the respect of the people it represented,
that it should not accept the inferior sta
tiOn which the Senate had ASST Lned to it.
Mr.. BlOunt, of Georgia, apprehended
that the House was acting under the i'm
pulse of temper and a misunderstanding
of the facts. He trusted that, as the peO-
pie of the country were gathering here to
witness the Inauguration, the House
would not do what he believed to be
puerile thing.
The motion to suspend the rules and
adopt the resolution was lost by 55 yeas
to 1SS nays.
COMPLETING THE PLANS FOR THE CERE-
MONIES.
The National Democratic Committee
met to-day in the Arlington Hotel
annex. Hon. w. II. Barnum pre-
sidad and there was a fuIl attand