The Asheville citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1885-1889, 1886-04-17

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|ssszda osWAsHraeToNs April 18th. !
RAEENkfE. .ssMn Logantook theRooi
|insappertof the movements for opel
|execnfi i've sessions Of the Senate. He
favored bis own IpropQs QsitiOn because
/ it was broadly for open sessions on
|all matters. aMfr logan asserted
that there WakcneverR p necessity foi
secret tsessiope, geading from the at,
|torney's, ,commentaries onthe CON
stitution that secrecy Was not In ae-
cord with the Spirit Of the constit,l
let senators hdve done with child
|ishness, said MrS Logan, and dputan
the garb Of men, II seemed TO bffae
great Joy to some senators TO see The
galleries cleared and people turned
out as If some great mysterious
thing like turning sticks into snakes
was to he done in executive session.
The whole thing was any absolute
farce, and there was nothing done
ID executive sessions that could not
with pFopfiety be done IN open ses-
sidn. Secret sip0s hoWsvergaf.
forded some senators an opportuni-
ty to talk one way in secret and an
other way in open session, -
Mr.. Hoar inquired whether Mr..
Logan's4ogic would not require the
proceedings of committees to be
thrown open to the people. @
Mr.. Logan said, not at all, but
asked why committee meetings
should not be open if any body
wanted them to be? Continuing,
he said the people now were de-
manding open doors for all proceed
ings of the senate and, he added :
"The doors will be opened, mark
what I tell you; and, it will not be
long, either, you gentlemen may
revel in the darkness for awhile over
the nominations" a% ~re .~e ,s
Mr.. Riddleberger withdrew his
substitute for open executive ses,
sions resolution, saying that when
he offered it he supposed,it would
require a two-thirds vote to pass a
pending resolution, but finding it
required only a majority vote to
pass it, he withdrew the resolution
He thought he could guess how the
executive session secrets got out.
"For instance, 1 have private Sec
retary, and / consider him pdrticu-
larry private. I walk down the av7
enue with him, and ne asks meNa
question or two, and, being smarter
than / ana, he knows more in five
minutes than 1 will learn in a week.
Then he gives it to somebody else
and the whole newspaper fraternity
gets it."aa & - .a..i.. ..'
- When Mr.. Riddleberger conclu-
ded the resolution went over. and
at five minutes to two, Mr., Blair
called up his pension bill, and af-
ter brief consideration it went
over, and 2 o'clock, on motion of
Mr.. Morgan, the senate went into
an executive session, when the doors
were re opened at 5:46 p. M, the
senate adjourned.
HoUsE.-McCreary from the COM
mittee on.coinage: weights and meas
ures, reported albill to establish a
sub-treasury at Louisville, KY. The
house went into committee of the
whole.
Mr.. McCreary from the commits
tee on foreign affairs, presented the
majority report concurred in by all
the members. of of the committee ex-
cept Chairman Belmont, in favor of
the bill to pryvide for an interna>
tionai central and southwest Amer
lean congress in Washington, to
consider the plan Of international
arbitration and development. The
business of intercourse between the
United States and those countries
and appropriating $4,000, therefor.
Mr.. Belmont submitted the MINORS
ty report.
Mr.. Cobb, from the public lands
committee, reported bill repeating
the pre-emption of the timber cult
ure and desert land laws. Placed
on the house calendar.
The house in committee of the
whole took up for consideration the
river and harbor appropriation bill.
Mr.. Willis of Kentucky, reviewed
and approved the provisions of the
bill.
Mr.. Anderson, of Kansas, CRITICS.
ed, various items of the bill as ex-
travagant.
Mr.. Hepburn, of Iowa, character
lied some appropriations as prodi-
gal, wasteful. and throwing away of
the peoples money.
Mr.. Jones, of Alabama, defended
the provisions of the bill, and said
it was a bill to furnish cheap trans
portation for the people.
Other debate followed, during
which.Mr. Reed, of Maine, criticized
the appropriation for the Mississippi
river.
Without reaching the point of ac-
ton, the committee rose and the
house at 5 o'clock adjourned.
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