Omaha daily bee., 1888-05-04
VOORHEES, SEEKS SECLUSlON.
The Hoosier Senator Playing Possum
in a Private Hotel
eLAoKeuRN's SUPPRESSED RAGE
Spooner's Scheme to Trick the Direct
Tax FiIlioustcrs -CieveIand's Op-
position TO the Sioux Reserva-
ton Bill--An Allison Man.
The Tall Sycamore in Hiding.
WASHINGTON BUREAU THE OMAHA BEE,

5l3 FOURTEENTH SpTREET, :
WASHINGTON. ID. c.. May B.
With significant unanmitv all of the
Washington papers announced that Senator
Voorhees, has gone to Indiana on law bust
ness One paper stated that he left on Tues
day Immediately after his encounter with
ingalls,. learn tonight that Senator Voor-
hees is in seclusion at private hotel in this
city; that he has been there for forty eight
hours; has no idea of leaving the city, and
that the announcements in the press were
made at the request of his friends to explain
his continued absence from the senate. II is
stated that the senator is very i'll.
Just before the Ingalls-Voorhees debate
opened in the senate it was reported around
the capitol that Senator Joe Blackburn
was "loade2 for the man from Kansas" and
that he was anxious for an opportunity to
participate in the affray. 1t was noticed dur
ing the early part of the debate that Black
burn squrmed nervously in his seat and
evinced the keenest interest. Three or four
times he was on the eve of rising to put in
his oar, but was admonished by senators
around him not to do so. The senator from
Kentucky could hardly control himself when
ingalls, made n broad intimation about con-
federate brigands and banditti raiders aud
guerrillas, and the crime there was in send
ing clothing-infec with deadly diseases
into the families of innocent people to destroy
their lives. The face of the Kentuckian
blanched and he grated his teeth. He said
not word, however. Presently note
was brought to Senator Blackburn by
n doorkeeper He took it and read
IL nervously, and after that sat back in his
chair and watched the proceedings with in
tense interest and extreme nervousness, but
made no effort at any time to offer reply or
engage in the combat. During the awful can
nonading and the discharge of painful shots
by Ingalls, and at a moment when the sensa-
tion in the senate beggared description, the
senator from Kentucky left his seat and re-
tired to the cleak room. Those who saw him
were amazed as they expected him at every
moment to spring to his feet in defense of his
helpless friend from Indiana
WHY HE DID NOT ENGAGE IN THE DEBATE.
A friend says that the note the senator re-
ceived was from n very dear friend on the
outside who begged him to say not word at
the hazard of his reputation. He said that
ingalls, was loaded to the muzzle for him,
having procured certified copies of his war
record, and that he would ruin him (Black-
burn) if he took any part in the debate
There were also wonuers heard from the
lips of the people In the galleries and about
the senate at the time of this furious fusilade
over the extreme quietude of Mr.. Turpie,
Senator voorhees, colleague from Indiana.
Many of Turpie's democratic friends de-
clared that he would himself extinguish the
senator from Kansas, but Mr.. Turpe said
not word 1t now becomes clear why he
was quiet. Senator ingalls, was loaded to the
muzzle for Mr. Turpie also He
would have placed him in the same copper
head category and despcable role in which
he arraigned Voorhees,, and he had the docu-
ment over Turpie's own name IN his posses
sion to prove his assertions.
Senator Beck of Kentucky and Senator
Vest of Missouri were also remarkably quiet
on this occasion, and it developes that they
were forewarned by friends who learned that
the senator from Kansas was likewise pre-
pared to club them if they rose to interfere.
He had several records at hand. Before
the Congressional Record could be
procured about the city. There
was an unprecedented demand for the Rec
ord notwithstanding the fact that only the
running debate and cutting dialogue between
Senator ingalls, and voorhees, was published
in yesterdays edition, the two long speeches
being withheld for revision. There have
been many thousands of copies of yester-
days issue of the Record ordered by Sena-
tors for distribution among their constituents.
INGALLS, TO HAVE PUBLIC RECEPTION.
AT meeting of the National league held
last night, NJ which General Il. f. Beale
presided, resolutions thanking Ingalls, for his
fearless and patriotic defense of the repub-
lican party and his arraignment and exposure
Of Voorhees, and his copperhead allies, who,
in the nations hour of need and peril, sym
pathiZcd and plotted with rebels encouraged
the enemies of our country in their treason-
able work, but lacked the courage to openly
unite with the traitors and fight for their
cause, were adopted amid enthusiastic cheers,
and special resolution was passed proposing
public reception to the senator from Kansas.
A committee representing the league will
call upon him with an engrossed copy of the
resolutions and ask him to fix date for the
reception.
TRICKING THE FIIIIBUsTERs.
Senator Sp0oner is to conduct n vigorous
fight IN support of his proposed amendment
to the sundry civil appropriation bill when it
comes up for action in the upper house of
congress. The bill came over from the house
TO the senate about the time the fillibusters
succeeded in defeating the direct tax bill
The passage of the sundry civil appropra-
ton bill is absolutely essential TO the legis-
lativc executive and judicial departments Of
the government, aud cit never fails of pas
sage When the tllibusters defeated the di-
rect tax bill, Mr.. SpoOner determined to offer
the measure rs AN amendment to the sundry
civil appropriation bill, which would guaran-
tee u yotc upon 1t. But there is to be u point
Of order made against the proposed amend
ment. IL is to be made under the
rule which prevails in both houses of
congress that new legislation cannot be in
serted in regular appropriation bills. sMr.
SpoOner will hold that the direct tax bill is
not nmendable and the bill us it is is not new
legislation; that 1t is in the nature OF an APP
propriation and therefore comes properly
within the jurisdiction of regular nppropri-
Rtion measure. Ii is not improbable that
there will be fillibustering in the senate, and
then another session of IL when the bill goes
over TO the house for the concurrence of that
body to the amendment, should it not be
thrown out on the point OF ordor in the senate.
THE SIOUX INDIAN RESERVATION
IL was asccrtained today that President
Cleveland's object in refusing TO sign the bill
opening to settlement the Sioux reservation
in Nebraska and Dakota until the last day of
grace TUESDAY of this weclt) was TO afford
him every opportunity TO veto il il he could
find any grounds upon which to do so. He
was opposed TO the bill, and also the one
opening the reservation in Montana, but
there being no objection made to the measure
he attached his signature about noon on Tues
day, and at half past l O'Clock the constitu-
tional ten days elapsed. Delegate Clifford
said to-day that the president would appoint
the two commissioners the bill provides
for, and also the interpreter ard
stenographer who make up the commission,
within the next ten days, and that they would
proceed to their duties at once He had no
hopes of securing commissioner FROM his
territory, believing that the president will
appoint men from the east, who can have no
possible interest in the transaction, but he
expects TO secure the appointment Of the in
teTpretcr and stenOgrapher from Dakota.
The commission will negotiate with the In
diaus, and as soon as fun cOnsen: has been
obtained, the president win issue his procla-
mat ou throwing the reservation open To set