The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-03-07
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To the Western Associated Press.
WASHINGTON, March GA joint resolution
was passed. directing the Secretary of the In
terror to Investigate the practicability of con-
strSctiug reservoirs for storage of water in the
arid regions of the United States.
Mr. Sawyer reported back, adversely the bill
for the construction of a bridge the Mis-
sissipi river at Memphis. Placed the calen-
dar. A minority report was pr esented.
Mr.. Aldrich called mp the report made by
him. some weeks ago, from the committee on
rules to amend the rules The rule as to execu-
tive sessions was modified, without discussion,
so as 60 read
When treaty shall be laid before the Senate for
ratification it shall be read 6rst time and motion
committee, TO print it in confidence for the of
the Senate to remove the INJUNCTION of secrecy
consider 1T in open executive session.
On motion of Dir. Berry, the House bill to en-
able the Secretary of the Interior to allow the
additional of hot water at the Hot Springs
reservation. in Arkansas. was taken up, and.
after long discussion, went over without ac-
tion
The Senate then resumed consideration, as the
unfinished business, of the bill granting pensions
TO ex-eoldiers aud sailors who are incapacitated
from the performance Of manual labor. and pro-
vIdlnR for pensions TO dependent relatives OF de-
ceased soldiers and sailors, the question being
on the amendments offered by Mr.. Wilson, of
Iowa. TO insert the words from the inirmities
! Of age"
Altar brief debate, Mr.. Sherman, referring to
Mr.. Beck's speech of last week, sent TO tho
Clerks desk and had read the paragraph in
which he Mr.. Shermanl had been most severely
criticised for his connection with silver demon
etization. He would not have regarded it, he
said. as worthy of notice. because the Senator
/ from Kentucky mad been under some excitement,
but that he bad used tie word ''secretly"-that
ia was done under cover by some pretense, and
that he Mr.. Shermanl was responsible. He
had not behaved that the Senator from Ken
lucky would have permitted those words 70
stand, but as they did stand in tho Record, he
would endeasor to show that they entirely
false and unfounded. NOT only in point of fact
but in point of reflection, not only as TO himself
but TO Others and he would do so from the
Record, without resorsing to defamation of
other remarks. He proceeded to show how the
principle OF the decentralization law had been
reported in bill three years before 1t went into
effect; how il had been discussed and known to
nll meni how. at that time, silver was at pre-
MUM of per cent, aud how. for forty years
prior thereto, no silver dollar had been coined,
of the people.
Dir. Teller denied that the silver dollar had
been found not adapted to the wants Of the
people.
Mr. Sherman repeated his assertion, aud said
that it was because silver dollar was then worth
SLO3 He wanted 20 know why such matter
had bean lugged into a debate with which il had
nothing to do.
Mr.. d. Beck asserted that be would, to NOR
row, prove all his statements.
Mr. Ingalls,. the presiding officer, having
3alled Dir Platt to the chair. procee ded to ad-
dress the Senate the galleries being crowded 10
their full capacity. He said he had been sur
prissd, one day last week. returning to the
chamber. after brief absence. that the Sena-
tor from Missouri Mr. Vestl had referred to
him ia terms not complimen tary, in . debase in
which he had taken part. and had coupled
with the personal remarks an intimation that
the people of the District of Columbia We're in
capable OF cisinterested patriotism, and that
the veterans of the Republic were mob of sor-
did plunderers. AS TO himself, he would say
shat the nomination and election OF Grover
Cleveland had made the pretensiops of any
American citizen to the presidency respectable.
There was man in this country whose ignor-
so profound, whose obscurity so inn
penetrable. whose antecedents degraded,
that ne had not the right aspire to the presi-
aential nomination by the Democratic party. He
regretted that the Senator from Missouri
not in his seat to-day. He should
not initiate that Senator's bad example. and would
couhne himself. so far as be was concerned, 70
that Senator's autobiography. That Senator
born IN State that had not seceded-the
State of K~ntucky-and had represented in the
confederate Congress the State of Missouri.
State which had secaded IG would be
gratifying to historian to find ont how he had
been admitted TO represent State which had
never seeded But that was matter OF
ancient history. The Senator from Kentucky
5Mr. Blackburnl had also referred sneerlngiy
10 the auper-lovafy Of the soldier OF the Cnion.
He did not challenge the honor or courage of
sEs5e Senators IN their devotion TO the South
ard 70 the Southern ConfedarAcy. They could
Ilnt be auepsrtsd Of insincerity. They had gone
into she C0a9ederMcy because they wanted 20 CO.
bechSsp they believed that slavery was batter