Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1886-02-04
WRTY-NINTH CONGRESS-.
First Session,
SENATE.
WASHINGTON. Feb. 3.

Witnesses referred to the committee on an
preparations.
among the measures reported favorably
oih Tue committees was a resolution by
NJ Frye, reported as he believed with
unahiihilv' from the committee on foreign
ieiatlohs, declaring 1t the opinion OF the
senate that Congress ought not TO provide
for joint commission of Great Britain and
IEe United States in relation to the fisheries.
The resolution was placed on the calendar
The chair then placed before the Senate
theFesolutlon submitted yesterday by MIR.
hiddieoerger and the substitute to it sub
niitted by Mr. Pugh, relating to the relations
between the president and the Senate in re-
garu 10 lhtormation and papers affecting gov
efnment ohcers suspended or appointed.
Hr. Edmunds said that practically but four
months OF the session were left for business
lhe resolution offered embodied no practical
question, only moot questions, and it would
oe Tune enough 10 debate the question when
II should become a practical question He
moved TO lay the resolutions on the table.
Mr. Rlddleberger then addressed the chair
Inc chair said that the question was not
debatable.
MI Rlddleberger criticised Mr.. Edmunds
motlon, IN view of the fact that he (Edmunds) J
had first debated the matter and then moved
=" Siiut vi ueUhtc ne dskeu IUal ne might
be allowed TO answer Mr.. Edmunds' remark
Mr.. Hale asked that Mr. Riddleberger
might have unanimous consent to make his
remarks
Mr. Van Wyck thought that he (Riddle-
berger) should be allowed to proceed in or
der, and he would so move.
The chair said that the motion would not
be in order at this time.
By unanimous consent Mr.. Riddleberger
was allowed to proceed. He did not object
TO the first three sections of Mr. Pugh's res
oiutlon. 1t those were introduced two
propositions would be asserted, namely,
that senators have no right to require
OF the pres ident reasons for removals or sus-
pensions of officers, but have a right to de-
mand any reasons or papers or proofs going
on to question an appointment The rest of
Mr.. Pughs resolution as to public policy,
etc., Mr.. Riddleberger saw no necessity for.
Mr.. Pugh protessed ignorance of parlia-
mentary law, but inquired of the chair if the
object of the motion to lay on the table was
to cut off debate.
Chair-It has that effect. Further than
that the chair cannot express an opinion.
Mr. Pugh-I never would have offered the
resolution if the question had not been pre-
sented by leading republicans.
Mr.. Cockrell-Vote, vote.
A motion to lay on the table was then
agreed to, only one voice being heard in the
negative.
Mr.. Dawes offered q resolution directing
the secretary of the interior. to transmit to
the Senate copies of all papers presented to
any officer of the interior department and in
possession of that department vouching the
official and personal conduct of kenney
Ward, inspector, during his continuance in
office. On objection the resolution went over
one day under the rules.
Mr.. Riddleberger then rose and again
called the resolution that had few moments
before been laid on the table. He said that
the gentleman from Kansas Ingalls) had
yesterday given notice that he would today
move to refer that resolution to committee.
He moved that it be taken from the table to
permit of that disposition.
The motion was agreed to without debate
and the resolution was again placed before
the Senate. After a pause, no motion being
made, the chair inquired of Mr., Riddleberger
whether his motion was to refer the resolu-
ton to committee.
MIR. RiddlebergeI said that he had nothing
to do W with the motion to refer, he had called
up the resolution SO that the senator from
Kansas (Ingalls) could move according to the
notice. Mr.. Riddleberger criticised the
course of the senator whose voice is too op
pressed to be heard except by himself who
first makes speech and then makes an un-
delectable motion. | don't mind being run
over by n railroad train, continued Mr.. Rid
dleberger, but don't like being washed by
wheel-barrow. [Great laughter
On motion of Mr.. Morrill, the resolution
was. without debate, referred to the COM
mittee on privileges, and Mr.. Morgan sub
initted motion that until fnrther orders the
Senate would take a recess each day from
until 2.30 p. NJ referred to the committee
on rules.
The Senate then proceeded to the consid-
Grafton of the bills on the calendar under the
five minute rule.
At2 o'clock the Dakota bill was placed be-
fore the Senate and MIR. Logan took the
floor.
He differed materially, he said. with the
senator from South Carolina (Mr. Butler)
and the senator from Missouri (Mr. Vest) in
regard to the question under consideration.
There were certain conditions necessary to
provide for the admission of a Territory
a State into the Union. These conditions had
varied in the past in cases of such admission.
Two lines of precedents had been followed
by Congress, either of which might now be
follow ed. one, that of the preliminary ''enbling
act by Congress, the other the recognition of
the existence of the necessary conditions of
population, and Developments in the
Territory making application. The condi-
tions referred to were conceded by all to ex
ist in the case under consideration Going
directly to the arguments of objections by
Messrs. Butler and Vest. Mr.. Logan said
that fourteen States had been admitted under
the force of the enabling acts" and eleven
without any "enabling acts" Congress.
therefore, was free to adopt either course ac-
cording to the circumstances which in each
case might seem best adapted to the public
good Dakota had come before Congress
and asked for admission into the Union. 1t
had shown that it was ready with population,
not transitorv but fixed and permanent popu-
lation. and that it had all the other resources
and developements necessary aud desirable
for State. The objections made to its ad-
mission were objections of the most technical
nature, unworthy of the great question in
yolyed Dakota had over quarter of
million of people, more than any of the other
States had, except three, when admitted to
the Union Mr.. Logan showed that the OBJ
lection to admission on account of the sparse
ness of population in one part of the State
was an objection that applied with equal
force to many other States at the time of
their admission. As to schools. Dakota had
more now than some of the older States had
for the first fifty years of their existence in
the Union What then was the substantial
objection to admission? By reading para
graph from Mr.. Buffers speech We might get