The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-10-10
CnIEp JUSTICE NAMES WlpOw


Refused the PitthuCe Asked f0r--Ihc De-
bate in the Senate.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 9.-In the Senate
to-day the conferences report on the Def
cheney bill was presented and read in
full.
Mr.. Edmunds inquired OF Mr.. Hale
way the Senate conierees had agreed to
the striking out OF the provision grant
ing the balance OF the years salary oi
Chief Justice Waite to his widow. .,
Mr.. Hale stated that the subject had
been fully discussed over and over again,
md that the House contcrces had taken
the ground that they could not consent
to it. The House COnieFces had claimed
that there was no precedent for an item
OF such kind being put in an apprOpria-
tCon bill, but had intuHated that II a.
special bill were passed by tho Senate
they (the conicrees) would iavorit.
Mr.. Edmunds expressed lis regret that
the House Of Representatives could not
see how proper the item was and that
the suitable place for it was in an ap.
preparation bill. 1t was not a claim OF
the widow, but proceeded from public
sense of its propriety and justice. The
fact that there was no precedent for itin
the case OF Il Chief Justice was accounted
for by the fact that there was no similar
case within memory. Chief Justice
Marshal had died without leaving Il
widow; Chief Justice Tanoy had
died without leaving widow, and Chief
Justice Chase had died without leaving
a widow. Chief Justice Waite, after y
long, honorable and useful career, had
LETT the service, by death, leaving u
widow in such circumstances MS made
it delicate and right for Cangress to
make some suitable recognition-not
as pension, hut aG substantial
gratuity. There was only one precedent
that he knew OF in the case OF United
States Judge, that was OF a Judge who,
after cafeer not one-iourth us long as
that OF the Chief Justice died in Florida,
at his post, in his field OF duty, OF dis.
ease peculiar to that limRte-yeilow
fever Congress hadgiven to the widow
OF that Judge his whole years salary
mot the balance ofit). In this instance,
the Chief Justice had died ut his post in
Washington OF pnGUmOgla-9 disease
incident to the climate, and It's House OF
Representatives could not find it in its
heart TO make provision Tor his widow.
He would try the experiment, to-day or
tomorrow, oil introducing a special bill,
and he hoped that both houses would
pass it,
Mr.. Hale remarked that all the efforts
OF the Senate ConfereCs in the matter
had. been met with broad and unre-
lentinG nay or the part OF the House
Conferees.
The conference report WAS agreed to.
Mr., Hoar's bill relating TO the meet.
ing OF Presidential electors was passed;
also, the House bill making Lincoln,
Ncb., port OF entry; also; with minor
amendments, the resolution for the in
vestigation OF the killing OF Joseph HotT.
man, in Washington county, Texas.
Mr.. Blair then took the floor and
spoke at length on his resolution con.
cerning the execution Of Louis Eiel.
The Senate then resumed the consid-
Grafton of the tariff bill, and was ad-
dressed by Mr.. Hiscock. 1t was proper,
he said, to criticise the recent attempt OF
the President and OF his party to explain
away and to misrepresent the effect and
purpose OF the Mills bill, which they
claimed to be calculated to benefit rather
than to iniurc American labor and capi-
tai. The issue was fairly drawn between
the two political parties. The question
was: Free Trade or Protection to Amer
lean labor. Neither subteriuge nor
new confessions Of faith would con-