Morning journal and courier., 1886-04-28
FORTY-N1NTH CONGRESS-.
WASHINGTON, April 27.

| FOh1 1.NlNIH CUNGhESSs
 WASHINGTON, April 27.
 SENATE.-The report of the committee o1
 the Ohio legislature which has been investi
 gating Senator Payne's election wss submit
 ted to the Senate and he himself moved its
 reference to the Committee on Privileges and
 Elections. He charged the majority of the
 committee with unfairness in refusing to
 notify him of testimony prejudicial to him, | as they omitted to call on him for his pri l vate pspers, he having in advance notified l the chairman of the committee that he
 would be prepared to meet every charge
 made against him and that his private papers the committee. He entered the most emphatic | denial of the charges and invited the closest scrutiny of all his acts and of his private | correspondence. The whole thing, he said, was an attempt to circulate baseless gossip and scandal He said that everything snb- stantial in the way of Congress had been dis credited and disproved by the testimony He expressed his entire trust in the Commit tee on Privileges and Elections, to which committee it was referred.
 On motion of Mir. Beck, MT. Whittehorne was appointed member of the following committees: Claims, Pensions, Tenth Census and Naval Affairs, during the temporary. ab- sence of MT. Jones of Florida.
 A bill appropriating $300,00O for an ex- tension of the executive mansion was passed. bill was also passed appropriating $250, ,000 for third story to the public building at Dallas, Texas.
 The Senate took up and passed bills au- thorizing bridges across the Willamette river, Oregoni across the Missouri river at Council Bluffs, Ia; across the Missouri river and the line of railroad between either Clay or Jackson county, Mo, and Wyndoatte county, Kansas across Missouri river, AL chison, Kansas; across Missouri river near Saline City, Mo; across Missouri river near St. Charles, Mo; across Missouri river near St. Joseph; across Missou- ri river at Chamberlaine, Dakota; across the St. Croix river near Saltwater, Minn.
 A dozen bills on the calendar were cut off by limitation of time and at 2 o'clock the in- ter-State bill was taken up, the pending question being MT. Camden's amendment on long and short hau1s.
 After debate the Senate went into execu. tive session, and when the doors were re- opened adjourned.
 The executive session was occupied in the reading of some reports on unimportant nominations. from the Committee on Judiciary, reported adversely the bill to prohibit aliens from &C., quiring titles to owning lands within the United States; House calendar.
 The House was kept amused for nearly an hour by personal explanation from Mr. l
 
 tion from Mir. O'Neill of Missouri. MT. For an quoted from Cleveland paper to the eff l feet that MT Foran had denied the statement ] that he had expressed the desire that the | labor troubles should be settled by blood, l but that O'Neill swore that Foran had ex- pressed that sentiment. Foran went on to | say that he had sought several occasions to ! make personal explanation denying that he l had ever uttered any word that could l be tortured into desire that the labor troubles should be settled by bloodshed, but that the gentleman from Missouri had kept away from the House, thus depriving him of an opportunity. He desir- ed to say now that neither in committee nor out of committee, neither in the House nor outside of it, had he ever uttered senti- mant or word which could be twisted into 1 any such construction as that. He proceeded l to ridicule the state of nervous prostration into which the press said that,O'Neill had fall en consequent on his great efforts in secur- ing the passage of the arbitration bill, of which he (Foran) stated that MT. Grain was the author. He knew that the effort by the | gentleman from Missouri had been 8 great | one. He believed Victor Hugo had said ! of the battle of Waterloo, that it would effect | a change of front of the universe. There l had been no change of front yet. The uni | verse had gone whirling along just as | before. Referring to the statement ire quently made of lack of harmony among | II said that harmony swould not be restored 1 should he resign from the committee, be- | cause all the gentlemen of that committee ! had been subjected to the petty tyranny and | little annoyance which could only spring l from the uneultured mind of a small man. | E' He doth best ride the narrow world like | colossus" and the little men of the commit | tee walked between his legs.
 At this point MT. O'Neill read a letter from J. J. Noah, Washington correspondent ! of the Chicago Herald, to the effect that dur | ing O'Neill's absence from the Labor com | mittee he had appeared before the commit l tee and Foran had remarked that the trou- | bles should be fought out; that he (Noah) | had suggested that fighting it out presuppos- | ed bloodshed and that Foran had made no | reply save to repeat that no legislation could ! accomplish any good and the only way was | to f'let them fight it out.''
 MT. Beach objected to further discussion | The Speaker did not see that question was | involved which reflected upon either of the Il gentlemen in their representative capacity.
 Finally MT. O'Neill was given five minutes, | in which time he denied that he left the l House for the purpose of preventing Foran fl from making 8 personal explanation and | charged that ever since he (O'NeilD had been chairman of the Committee on Labor Mr. ! Foran had been fretted and worried, refer | ring to Mr. Foran as ths ''sorehead gentle | man from Ohio.'' The trouble with the ar bitration bill he said was that his (O'Nei1ls l name was connected with it. The discussion | then terminated and the members took their | respective seats.
 A number of reports from committees were | then presented, among them one from MT. | Grain from the Labor committee to provide ! for the distribution of the proceeds of the | sale of public lands for educational pur- poses, to the Committee of the Whole. MT. Buchanan, of New Jersey, presented mi nority report and upon his request the Will | lis bill was placed on the calendar with an l adverse recommendation.
 MT. Robertson, of Kentucky, from the committee on expenditures in the War de partment, submitted a report as to alleged | unlawful expenditures in the signal bureau.
 In the morning hour the bill to establish sub treasury at Louisville, Kentucky, was called up and considered. Messrs Morrison, of Illinois, and Dingley. of Maine, opposed it and after discussion it's further considera- tion was deferred until May 15.
 The House then went into Committee of l the Whole on the river and harbor bill.
 Pending action on the bill at $40 the com: | mittee rose and the House adjourned