Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1885-03-25
II. w. RANDALL,
WASHINGTON NEWS.
MEMBERS TAKE EXCEPTION TO VAN
WYCKS ONSLAUGHT,
And Want the Language Printed in The
Record El.hotly as Uttered "A Joke
on Attorney general Garland
The Trade olar.

WASHINGTON l. sl'.4 2S The chair
laid before the senate Saturday toe resolu-
ton offered by the senator from New Hamp.
shire pike authorizing the committee on
claims to compile the laws relating to pri.
vate claims; to digest the judicial decisions
relating thereto, and to continue and extend
the list of private claims. Edmund IS
moved to amend SO as to limit the work of
the committee to an extension of the list Of
private claims presented t. congre,S SO that
the list Will cover the claims Of the Forty
seventh and Forty eighth :on yreSs.
After q debate, a division was called fer,
but before the roll was tated. Mr.. Sherman
moved to recommit the re-olution to the
committee on claims which . motion was
adopted.
Mitchell, of Pennsylvania, submitted
resolution looking to the appointment of a
special COMMITTEES Of five to inquire into
matters pertaining to the trade dollar.
Cockrell offered substitute provii-
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 aui
substitute lie on the table; 80 orlared.
Hawley criticised the striking out Of the
rec, ord certain portions Of Van Wyck's speech
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 be hal stricken
out the personal language because he found
that a brother senator took offense thereto,
and he had spoken to that senator about it
before striking it out 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 whom he had re-
ferred in harsh terms. Vest corroborated
the statement of Senator Van Wyek respect
ing the elimination Of the personal matter
from his speech. IIe did not wish to
debate the subject, but as the publication in
The Reccri reached but comparatively few
persons, he thought there should be some
method by which tho wrong done by the
publication of such matters through the
press could be properly rectifed. The sena-
ter hal greatly wronged his friend Gen.
Reynolds, and in conversation ne had told
him so.
Dawes thought that the gentleman from
Nebraska might better have allowed his re-
ments in the morning from his seat.
Van Wyck thought that the senator mis-
understood. He had no apology to make
md would ask the unanimous consent of the
senate for the printing of his speech i'll Tne
Record precisely as it was uttered.
Hawley made spirited speech, during the
course of which he said that ours was the
greate,t and best government Of the land,
and in substance denounced the practice of
desaming or attempting to defame its public
institutions and representatives. He called
upon the senator from Nebraska either to
stand by, or back out from what he had
said yesterday and not strike it from The
Record
Van Wyck retorted rather warmly and
concluded by offering the following resolu-
ton: Resolved, that the official reporter of
the senate; be instructed to correct the
record Of yesterday, so that it will be a
faithful copy of what was said" The in
PRODUCTION of this resolution brought senator
Teller to his feet He said Van Wycll had
told him yesterday that during
the heat of debate he had made
certain remarks which he regretted
respecting his Teller's) administration of
the department Of the interior, and proposed
eliminating them from The Record. He
tTellerl had no obje ctions to the senator's
doing this, and he had decided to make no
response to the criticisms which were made,
but now that the senator repeated, reiter-
ated, and desired that his remarks should
appear in FULL he was compelled 80
defend his administration of the de-
partment, which he proceeded to do, citing
various authorities to show that in granting
the patents for lands to the Backbone" rail-
road he had followed law and precedent. At
the conclusion of his remarks, Van
Wyck's resolution that the entire debate as
taken down by the official stenographers
Friday be reprinted in The Record was car
ried, and at 2:10 p. m. the senate went into
executive session. At $50 p. III. the doors
were reopened and the senate ad jou rnsd
until Monday at 10 a. m.