Morning journal and courier., 1886-06-09
FoRTY-NINTH CONGRESS.
WASHINGTON, June 8, 1886

WASHINGTON. June 8, 1886. Morrill, from the cIetary of the Treasury. He urged immediate con emergency Mr Hoar objected as the matter was too important for nasty action and the bill went on
 Mr Dawes offered a resolution directing the Sec retary of the Treasury, to furnish the Senate the authority s on which orders were issued extending and upon which 0nd the 0 tax of ninety cents aR due and payable, the extension of time amounting whiskey exported under the prior order to be re turned to the United States without the pay nent Of the duty provided by the law. The resolution asks for the decisions rendered in the case, the amount of whiskey involved, etc. The resolution
 The bill for the relief of the Annapolis cadets came 4p, MT Hale speaking in opposition to it. and Mir Butler spoke in its favor. After further debate MT. McPhersons second amend nent pro viding for a new examination of cadets was agreed
 Tie vote was then taken on MT. Buffers amend of 1889 the cadets who entered the academy prior to the passage of that act Mir Buffers amend MT. Hale then moved to lay the bill itself on the table The motion was agreed to by viva
 The Senate then proceeded with bills the cal endar in their order A bill was passed providing by the President investigate the truth of alleged discoveries of the specific of yellow fever necessary to Cuba, Central America and Brazil for the purposes of investigation.
 At 5:1O the Senate adjourned.
 HousE-on motion of Mr. Reed, of Maine, a Sen Arthur and William H Robel tson, late collectors of customs for the district of the city of New
 MT: Kelley. of Pennsylvania, called up prvi legged question the motion submitted by him yes, Mr. Wheeler. of Alabama. upon Edwin NJ. stanton. made seng tha Mr Whee'er had been guilty of an @ Ss had no been npon any bill and declaring that as the delivery of the speech travention of the special order said speech be punged from the Record, and prohibiting the public printer from publishing it in pamphlet or other
 MT. Reagan of Texas raised point of order by unanimous consent of the House and therefore could not be offense agairst the House.
 The Speaker replied that it was not in the prov ince of the chair to decide whether it was abuse or not. It was alleged to be an abuse by the gen. tleman from Pennsylvania and the question was to
 MT. Kelley then took the floor and his remarks future readers of the Record should by any possi billity suspect him of having sat by through what islanders which had been refuted for twenty five years and many of which were putrescent on one of dnced and one of the most beIoVed friends he had ever knewn in his long life He was listening to a paper which feebly regretted that in a moment of neat it's author had denounced
 
 rators and stanton as an arcn-conspirator against the character of certain American citizens and combining to thwart the success of the army. He unwilling that posterty should be told through the Record that She Republican party had sat islanders Lincoln and Stanton poured out hour fter h1ur and that no man whS 10 had had peri led his by Lincoln and stanton for the support of the are offensive to the ol factories of all honest loyal Union men, having festered in heaps breathing noxioqs odor or been consigned scores of years country owed something to the illustrious. as was embodied in twenty five columns of this pa per would be sent to po5terity with the sanction of own order, must declare that there was warrant for uttering the speech and none for declaring unanimous consent of the House. The speech had been made at night session when the House was ner % in wSeh i the speech was delivered 9r .n Kelley cited letter by MT stanton in which he anticipat- seeking objects of islander in the grave, would re hash the scandaous stories that must bring read the letter, which written to friend in 1863 and in which he recited the principal gave the influences which brought about the orders, the letter being intended to vndicate Mir. Stanton Mir. Kelley then inquired whether it needed corrob oration against these midnight slanderers. He thought not, but said it should have confirmation and should have It from the men to whom garbled villainous diatribe The confirmation Mir. Kelley read in short extract from a letter by Gen Grant Mr. Kelley asked House to v.ndicate it's orders; to protect them against conscious deliberate, per orabe man who knew stanton that there should be a possibility of posterit believing that he quietly ny as member of Congress and listened to the mem Der from Alabama make his speech on Edwin M. Stanton. Applause on the Republican sidel
 MT. Wheeler arose to a question of privilege and said he wished to correct some statements made by MT. Kelley regarding him which were not true.
 The Speaker said mere disagreements between members did not constitute question of privilege unless the gentleman was charged with knowingly did not remember that Mir. Kelley had charged that Mir. Wheeler had knowingly falsi1ed a state ment.
 MT. Hepburn said while he. did not agree thought that Mir. Wheeler had the right to deliver his speech at the time he did. He did not endorse any one of them and at the proper time would say something in the matter.
 MT. Wheeler again rose to question of privilege. He had been charged with having perverted the or der of the House and with having slandered a man dead Ire caption to the speech had been put on gretted to that the caption Edwin M. Stanton was placed upon his speech.
 been anything of conspiracy about the transac tion. The gentleman from Alabama had been ac corded the floor in execution of an agreement made in good faith among gentlemen on both sides.
 MT Morrison cut snort further discussion by nov tee on Rules. which was agreed to- '0 ''-0 '''''
 The House then went into Committee of the propraon 5 Mr Holman sad the b nvoSad appropriation of Sa0,560 119, while the appropri 6s5. He wished to call attention to the startling rapidity with which the expenditures of the gov it more apparent than in the civil list of the gov ernment He read in support of his argument priations made since the--Forty- second Congress; There had been, he said, very little accumulated in reducing the expenses of Congress itself. One two offices had been abolished and one two salaries reduced, but nothing of importance had been done. He trusted that the action of the House in regard to that part of the bill affecting the expenses of Congress would be such as to sustain hereafter the Committee on Appropriations in making more thorough revision of expenses. Af ter some debate the committee rose.
 Mir. Oates, from the Committee on the Judiciary. asked leave to report back the Edmunds anti-po- Iygamy bill, but Mr Caine, of Utah, objected. The point was made that delegate had no right to ob- ject an the Speaker took the point under advise ment
 The House then at o'clock adjourned