Omaha daily bee., 1888-05-03
ECHOES OF THE ENCOUNTER.
Feeling over Yesterdays Bitter
Fight in the Senate.
VOORHEES, POLITICALLY DEAD,
Paddock Rerutes' Some Statements i'm
Regard to Western Farm
Mortgages Mills Adherents
Growing Anxious.
After the Battle of Words.
HIEFF tHt BHtIIt Oh WUTUH'
WASHINGTON BUREAU THE OMAHA BEE,
513 FOURTEENTH STREET,

WASHINGTON, ~. ", MAY q.
Senator Voorhees, was not in his seat in
the senate today. All sorts Of explanations
were made for his bsence, but late in the
afternoon a distinguished Indiana democrat
and intimate friend of the senior stated that
the absence was due to disability; that the
senator was suffering from the intoxication
Of yesterdays proceedings in the senate, and
that there was no prospect Of his reappear-
ing in the senate for "a day or two. Uni
versal regret was expressed during the day
over the conduct Of Senator Voorhees,. No
one of his colleagues attempted to excuse his
disgraceful words, and IL was the unanimous
expression that when he becomes himself
again he will apologize, but even this will not
redeem him. If he were to apologize in a
public manner and obiectly to the senate and
all the people who were in the galleries at the
time of his utterances, he would yet
be in the eyes OF all who saw him politically
ruined. Although many who heard the battle
of words between the two senators recog-
nized much of the testimony against Voor-
hees, and some aid he had before met the
charge that he was a copperhead, etc, and
that he was in the conspiracy to emba rass
the federal government, all have to-day,
since reading the official report in the Con
gressional Record, frankly said that it politi-
cally sealed the Hoosier senator's doom and
condemned him in the estimation OF all who
were loyal to the unien, as there was vastly
mere admitted by him to be true than wGs
necessary to make a case of disloyalty against
him.
PADDoCK ENTERS A PROTEST.
During the course of an elaborate speech
delivered by Senator Paddock this afternoon
upon the pleuro"-p pneumonia bill, he TOOK &C
casion to denOunce the misstatements which
had been made as to the increase in the num-
Der and aggregate of farm mortgages, and
protested against the charge that what in
crease there had been was the result of UNI
successful agriculture. Items of thousands
of farmers said the senator, 'who formerly
depended upon wheat and corn raising have
now taken to stock raising and have been
obliged to borrow money to purchase such
stock. A large portion of the money bor-
rowed had also gone into improvements,
which represent in their value much more
than the borrowed money. The loans had
for the most part been made for the diverslfi-
cation of an industry which has added enor-
mously to the wealth of the country. The
western farmers, in spite of the charges
made, have been growing yearly more pros
perous.'' The senator insisted that these at
tacks made upon western securities were the
result of attempts to secure partisan ad-
vantage and to turn back the tide of eastern
capital which had been diverted from the
dlstrust of Wall street.
The larger portion of Senator Paddock's
speech, which occupied nearly an hour in its
Go uCNoltu w I'LL di IN u tHS
constitutional right of congress to legislate
upon quarantine regulations to protect our
cattle flocks and droves from contagious
and epidemic diseases. During the
course of his speech MIR. Paddock quoted
extensively from the trainers of the consti-
tuition and decisions from the supreme court
from the earliest time, which gave their in
depreciation of what constituted commerce
between the states, and based his argument
for the constitutionality of the law upon the
power which had been granted to congress
for this purpose. The speech was filled with
interesting statistics of the losses which our
farmers and ranchmen had suffered from
contagious diseases and of the scourges
which had swept over Europe during the
past century, destroying millions Of dollars
of capital invested in agriculture.
DEMOCRATS ANTICIPATING REPUBLICAN, ACTION.
A caucus of democratic members of the
house is to be held on Wednesday or Thurs
day evening of next week. The object is to
anticipate as far as possible what the repub-
licans intend to do in the way OF offering
amendments TO the tariff bill. The friends
of the Mills bill are not only willing
but anxious now to grant concessions
to those who refuse to support
the measure since they have seen that the
bill will fall short of a majority. There are
all sorts of trades and II afiicing going on over
this bill, and it is anticipated that the demo
Gratis themselves will agree to accept almost
any kind of amendments which do not take
free wool out of the list, and that every effort
is 10 DC Uelll lTOlu NOW vi W otCuiS a. MA
jority on the final vote. 1t is stated that Mr..
Randalls men will not enter the caucus and
there win be enough absentees TO hold the
balance of power. Great anxiety is being
shown over the outlook for the measure.
NEBRASKA MEASURES IN THE SENATE.
The senate late this afternoon passed Mr..
Paddock's bill providing for tho opening OF
the Fort Sedgwlck military reservation to
actual settlement under the homestead laws.
During debate upon IT Mr.. Paddock explained
that it protected the rights of all settlers
on the reservation prior to the first of last
January, and those who are protected by the
right TO make a second entry.
A favorable report was to-day made from
the committee on public Sbuildings and
grounds 10 the senate on Mr., Paddock's bill
making an appropriation for u public build
ing ut Beatrice.
FURNITURE FOR THE COUNCIL BLUFFS FEDERAL
BUILDING.
Tho superintendent of the treasury to-day
opened bids for the manufacturing and plac
ing in position in complete working order in
the federal building at Council Bluffs Of Ger
tain articles of special furniture as follows
Otto Duke ~ Co., Baltimore, S3, LOG; Tn
Robert Mitchell Furniture company, Clncln
natl, S3,337; Heresse Il Co., Buffalo, 3,25S.
Conant Bros. Furniture company, Tole dc
S3,09g.
COUSIN DEN IN WASHINGTON.
Benjamin Folsom, consul at Shefield, ar
rived at New York on Friday, and has beer
spending "a few days at the white house witt
his cousin, MIS-. SleVeldnu. liG lcdNCS W
morrow for Los Angeles, where he vii
spend q few weeks before returning Il
Omaha. Mr.. Folsom expects to spend some
time in the latter city, looking after the in
tcrest of the Folsom estate in which he II
largely interested. He stated that at thu
expiration Of his term Of office he would re
move 10 Omaha, enter upon the practice o.
law. and manage tho family property. Yes
terday he was at the capitol visiting thu
Nebraska delegation,
MISCELLANEOUS
Representative Dorsey left for his home il
Nebraska this morning for n short visit.
j. q. Toolc, of Omaha, is here.
Senator Riddleberger has written q lctte
earnestly protesting against General Mason
proposed unit rule in the selection of dele
gates from Virginia TO the republican
national convention. ~ want says Riddle
berger, "Nirginia's delegates TO go to tn
national convention as men ard gentlemen d
from other states, designated from their DIS
tricts 10 the state convention TO elect tn
delegates and electors at large, an
DO hoyo abuye all things Eirginlans will no
appear there contcsting and Guarrelng 80 /
1884, which MAS then caused by the sam
policy which II Is Eow proposedt 10 inaugural
al Petersburg. III health and strength iusttt
IL ! will hire u ball in Petersburg the nigh
before the convention and enaeaYor
frankly, fearlessly, and truthfully pcesen
HE political situation as il concerns and e.