Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-04-15
CONGRESSIONAL.
The Question OF Open Executive SEES.
sions Is Warmly Discussed
by the Senate.
Majority Resolution Confirming ROmeis'
Right to His Seat Agreed TO
by the House.
XLIN Congress.
THE SENATE.

XIX Congress.
THE SENATE.
WASHINGTON, April ll.--The chair laid
before the senate q letter from Senator
Jackson saying that he has accepted the
United States judgeship Of the Sixth Gil
cult, that his seat in the United States
senate therefore becomes vacant and
requesting the president pro tempore of
the senate to inform the executive Of
Tennessee The chair said the informa-
tion would be accordingly sent to the gov
ernor of Tennessee.
The chair also laid before the senate
q memorial of the wool-growers' conven-
tion held at st. Louis complaining OF the
proposition TO place wool on the free list
Referred
Mr.. Morgan said he had been instructed
by the committee on foreign relations to
give notice that tomorrow at O'Clock,
or as soon after as practicable, he would
ask the senate to 20 into executive SEES
sion for the consideration OF an important
matter.
Mr.. Dolph gave notice that Friday he
would ask consent to address the senate
on Indian depredations,
Mr.. Butler then addressed the senate
on the subject of open executive sessions
MIR. Butler charged the Republican ma
iority in the senate with interfering with
the constitutional prerogative Of the pres
ident for party purposes, and said he
wanted the senate doors wide open when
action was being taken on the presidents
nominations in order that the country
might be advised OF the frivolous charac-
ter of the grounds on which action was
refused on nominations. His But
ler's) experience in the SEN
ate had convinced him that there
was no use and no necessity for
secret session except perhaps In consldl
eiing treaties with foreign nations. The
surest, safest and nearest road to civil
service reform, Mr.. Butler said, was
through the wide open doors Of the sem
ate for executive as well as legislative
sessions, and then to permit by law menu
bers of the presidents cabinet to come
on the floor of congress from time to
time and participate IN the debate,
but without q vote, as provided
by the bill introduced by Mr..
Pendleton. No other course could
so well tend to proper understanding Of
public questions or the better mutual re-
lations of the executive and Legislative
departments Of the government.
Mr.. Riddleberger submitted as sub
stitute for the pending resolution relat-
ing to executive sessions Il resolution
providing that all matters other than
those relating to treaties should be con-
sidered and acted upon by the senate in
open session. 1t was ordered printed.
On motion Of Mr.. Blair the senate took
up the bill reported by him from the com
mittee on pensions "for the relief of sol;
diers OF the late war lonorably discharged
after six months service who are disabled
and dependent upon their own labor for
support, aud Of the dependent parents of
soldiers who died in the service or from
disabilities contracted therein" Mr.
Blair said the bill was substantially the
same bill that had been passed by the sen-
ate at the last session, but had failed in
the house. At O'Clock the matter went
over for to-day, and the interstate COM
merce bill was laid before the senate.
Mr.. Cullom detailed the provisions OF
the measure at great length.
Mr.. Palmer said he would vote for
the bill, not because he thought it per-
feet, but because it looked ia the right
direction. Among the servants Of civili-
cation, he said, none approached the
fnllfOhu IN BinclehCy. ~ Hah
not only made the wilderness to
blossom as the rose, but had also
enabled the rose to be readily exchanged
for the products Of the city. Il had re-
duced the cost OF the transportation of a
years food from the West TO the Eastern
seaboard to the price of one days labor.
Mr.. Palmer entered at considerable leng'h
into the question OF railroad history 1.-THE
United States as well as In Europe,
TO show the rapid and extraordinary de.
velopmenU Of railroads and their increas.
ing tendency TO concentration. To-day
said Mr.. Palmer, half dozen gentlemen
In Wall street could meet together, anc
By piece OF financial iugglery dictate
the profits or losses Of thousands Of meI
and Of many communities. by their Ia
Rochester was stopped that Minneapolis
might thrive. All but one OF the manu-
featuring establishments at Niagara Fall
had been destroyed In orde
that one might prosper. AL
the capital and labor inyeste,
In oil wells must be lost in order tina
one great company might grow. II wa
undlsputed that business went ia cei'tai
directions, not because those were III