Evening star., 1886-06-08
AT THE CAPITOL TO-DAY.
SECRETARY STANTON DEFENDED
Mr.Ke1ley's ExpunGing Reso-
luton In the House.
NAVAL CADET BULL IN THE SENATE.
The Senate.

The Senate.
ADDITIONAL SECRETARY OF THE HETREAsURY.
In the Senate Mr.. Morrill,, from the committee
On finance reported bill creating an additional
Secretary Of the Treasury. He asked imme-
oiate consideration of the bill, in view. he said,
OF the emergency known to all Senators.
On objection by Mr.. Hoar, the bill went on
the calendar. Mr.. Hoar saying it was . bill of
TOO much consequence to consider on the in
slant.
RELIEF OF THE ANNAPOLIS CADETS
The Senate then resumed consideration of
the bill for the relief of the Annapolis cadets
and Mr.. Hale continued his remarks in opposi-
ton to the bill.
House of Representatives.
MISPLACED IN THE RECORD.
Mr.. Henderson Qa.), rising to q question of
privilege, stated that a remark made by him
In colloQuy with Mr.. Wheeler (Ala.), when
that gentleman was delivering the speech at
tacking Edwin NJ. Stanton. had been "by some
mysterious mistake misplaced in the Record.
Mr.. Wheeler stated that the displacement
was entirely accidental. and he had no objec-
lion to the correction being made.
RELIEF OF Ex-PRKsIDENr ARTHUR
On motion OF Mr.. Reed (Maine) Senate bill
was passed for the relief of Chester A. Arthur
ana VIM. II. Robertson, late collectors of Gus
toms for the district of the city OF New York.
MR.. KELLEY'S MOTION TO ExpUNGE MR.
wHEELER's SPEECH FROM THE RECORD
MIR. Kelley (Pa.) called up as privileged
question the motion submitted by him yester-
day to expunge from the Record the speech of
Mr.Wheeler fAla.) upon Edwin NJ Stanton. He
based his question of privilege on a conscious
deliberate. persistent abuse of an order of the
House by the Representative from the eighth
district OF Alabama. In lieu of the motion
made yesterday, he submitted resolution re-
citing that Mr.. Wheeler had been guilty of an
n q iYo ,r1Nh 90
his speech had not been made upon any pension
bill, and declaring that the delivery of the
and in contraventton OF the special order, said
speech be expunged from the Record and pro-
hibiting the Public Printer from publishing it
In pamphtet or other form.
Mr.. Reagan fTexas) raised a point of order
aga1nt the resolution. The speech had been
therefore could not be an OffenSe against the
House.
The Speaker replied that 1t was not in the
an abuse or not. 1t was alleged to be an abuse
| by the gentleman from Pennsylvania, and the
question was to be decided by the House.
MIR. KELLEY'S DEFENSE OF STANTON.
Mr.. Kelley then proceeded to speak and his
| remarks were listened to with great attention
by the House. He was unwilling, he said that
future readers OF the record of the proceedings
OF this Congress should by any possibility be
what must have involved three hours, listen
ing to the SANDERS which had been refuted for
% years, and many of which were now absO-
luteiy putrescent, on one OF the most unselfish
patriorts the country ever produced and one of
the most beloved friends he had ever known in
his long life: He was unwilling that he should
be suspected of listening to paper which fee
bly, regretted that In a moment Of heat its
author had denounced Abraham Lincoln and
as arch-cOnspirator against the character Of
particular American citizens, and as combining
to thwart the success OF the Union army. He
was unwilling that posterity should be told,
through the Congressional Record, that the
republican party had sat quietly in the hours
of midnight to hear these ISLANDERS on Lincoln
and Stanton poured out hour by hour, and that
no man, either republican or democrat who
had perled his life under the administration
OF their power by Lincoln and Stanton for the
support of the Union should have failed to say:
These ISLANDERS are now offensive to the olfac-
tories tor Of all honest loyal Union men. having
been consigned scores of years ago TO the cess
pools Of gossip" The country owed something
that such scandalous matter was embodied
in 25 columns OF this paper would be sent to
posterity with the sanction of the American
Congress, which, If 1t vindicated its own order,
must declare that there was no warrant for
uttering the speech and none for declaring
through the Congressional Record that it had
been made with the unanimous consent Of the
House.
Mr.. Kelley made an able defense of Stanton
and read letter written by that DISTINGUISHED
gentleman in 1862 in reply to the ISLANDERS
that were then circulated about him. Judge
Kelley criticized Gen. Wheeler very severely
An attempt on the part of Mr.. Wheeler to
reply Jailed through the Speaker ruling him
prolong The deUate or to lead it into political
CHANNELS.
The resolution was referred to the committee
on rules by q vote Of 73 TO 52.
THE LEGISLATIVE APPROPRIATION BILL.
After the transaction Of some routine bus-
ness the House went into committee of the
whole on the legislative appropriation bill.
SHARP DEBATE.
Late this afternoon quite sharp debate oc-
CURED over the clause restricting the powers of
the civil service commission.
The District I'm Congress.
MINOR MATTERS.
Senator Plumb's bill to prevent the sale of
aduiterated food in the District of Columbia,
which was introduced in the House by Mr.. Bar
bour yesterday, was SO amended as to include
the territories within Its provisions and to pro-
vide for the appointment of a board of three
skilled chemists.
Representative Gibson, of Maryland, yester-
day introduced "A bill in iavor of the owner OF
lot %, spare 1896, whose property was con-
demned and taken for alley purposes in 1870
and has not yet been compensated.
John 81. Rollins, a private of Company F,
District Volunteers. has petitioned Congress to
relieve him from disabilities, growing out of
his having sworn allegiance to the confederacy
while a prisoner OF war, and SO reduced from
starvation as not to be accountable tor his act.
Capitol Topics.
IMPORTANT BILLS PASSED IN THE HOUSE.
The House, under a suspension of the rules
yesterday afternoon, took up and passed Mr.
Payson's bill to repeal the pre-emption, the
timber culture, and the desert land laWs and q
bill to authorize the construction of q bridge
across the Arthur Kill. The first abolished
laws under which 1t was possible for specula-
tors to commit land frauds The latter enables
the B. g. O. railroad to construct q bridge to
complete its communication with New York
city. The vote on the Payson bill was 1873 to
4Os on the Arthur XIII. SO to g.
A TOP HEAVY NAVY.
On motion Of Mr.. Butler, the Senate yester-
day afternoon took up the bill providing for
the admission to the navy of naval academy
graduates excluded by the act Of 1882. Mr.
Hale opposed the bill as one that would increase
the number OF officers in o navy already top
heavy. After q debate in which Messrs Hale
Dawes, Butler, Mcpherson, Whitthorne Maxey
and HOar took part, at 4:45 the Senate went
into executive session.
SURVEYOR GENERAL DEMENT,
of Utah has forwarded to the Senate committee
on public lands q sworn statement to the effect
that the alleged interviews with him published
when he was in Washington were not author
lied; that he uttered no such Statements The
correspondents who sent out the interviews will
be examined under oath.
INFORMATION WANTED AS TO GOVERNMENT
CLERKS.
Representative Taulbee, OF Kentucky. intro
duced resolutions In the House yesterday ask
ing the civil service commission upon what