Morning journal and courier., 1889-02-15
Fiftieth Congressional Session
7AsMINGEoN, Feb. 14

SEvATE.-Messages returning from the President without his approval, bills granting pensions to Frank D. Worces- ter and Michael Shawn were read and refer red to the committee on pensions.
 MT. Morgan offered an amendment to the resolution reported from the committee on privileges and elections which was laid on the table and ordered printed. It instructs the committee so to frame legislation on the subject of elections that it shall not apply to any State whose constitution and laws provide ample security for the honest exercise of the right to vote. for the just and impartial counting and return of the votes and for the just, impartial and true ascertainment and certifcation of the results and in which State those requirements have been honestly complied with.
 Mir. Hoar offered resolution, which was agreed to, directing the Secretary of the Treasury to transmit to the Senate forthwith certified copies of all the sworn testimony in regard to alleged frauds and undervaluation in the New York custom house taken by Special Agent BYrne.
 MT. Wilson of Iowa addressed the Senate in support of the bill relating to imported iquors, introduced by Mr. Frye the 21st of December, 1887, reported back adversely from the judiciary committee on March 10, 1888, and then placed on the calendar. MT. Wilson dwelt at considerable length on the benefeent effects of the auti-saloon law in
 
 the remarkable reduction of crime since the law had gone into operation. No action was taken on the bill, which still re- mains on the calendar. A conference committee was ordered on the legislative appropriation bill and Senators Allison Dawes and Cockrell were appointed con- ferees.
 The Senate at 2:15 resumed considera- tion of the resolution reported from the con- mittee on privileges and elections and was addressed by MT. Coke. He mentioned the pleasure with which he had listened yester- day to the amiable and even-tempered state- ment of Mir. Evarts and said he would have said nothing if that Senator's remarks had not been supplemented by the report of the committee on privileges and elections which had been published in to-dsy's record. But that report he could not permit to go unchal lenged. He declared on his responsibility as Q man and 6 senator that it was uni just. If the committee had been prosecutors instead of judges the inculpetory testimony could not have been thoroughly coDgregated in the re- port the exculpatory testimony more thoroughly excluded. The Senate and the country should recollect, on reading the re- port, that it was politics. It was based, principally on the testimony of three me- morialists, Hackworth, Moore and Schutz, and took no note of the testimony of twenty seven witnesses to the effect that Hackworth and Schutz were men of infamous character and unworthy of credit, and that Moore was about as bad as the others. He declared that when the memorialists lost the public office held in the country they were covered, all over, with indictments for official mal- feasance.
 Mir Coke sent to the clerks desk and had read the counter memorial of the citizens of Brenham, painting in dark colors the charac- teri of Hackworth and Schutz denying all their material allegations and presenting the Democratic wide of the troubles in Washing ton. He also sent to the cleak's desk and had read testimony in corroboration of this counter-memorial. Without concluding his speech Mir. Coke yielded for other business.
 MT. Vance was at his own request excused from service on the committee on privileges and elections and Ar. Gray was appointed.
 After brief executive session the senate at 5:10 adjourned.
 HoUsE.-On motion ot MT. Rogers, of Ar kansas, the Senate bill was passed providing for writs of error to the United States Su- preme court in all cases involving the ques- tion of the jurisdiction of the court below.
 On motion of MT. Forney, of Alabama, the Senate amendments were non-concurred in to the legislative, executive and judicial ap- propriation bill, ana Messrs. Forney. Ram dali and Cannon were appointed conferees.
 MT. Peel, of Arkansas, called up the bill to divide portion of the Sioux reservation in Dakota into separate reservations and to se- cure relinquishment of the Indian title to the remainder. The first vote was taken upon amendment opening the land to free entry under the homestead law, and it was re- iected. The next vote was on an amend ment providing for free entry by honorably discharged soldiers and sailors. The amend ment was rejected and the bill was passed. MT. Springer, of Illinois, called up the conference report on the Senate bill for the admission of the State of South Dakota. The k-,-I,s s.l, A1xH HI wa agreed to. MT. Springer moved that the House insist on its amendments and ask for another conference. This motion having been agreed to MT. Baker, of New York, offered resolution giving the House conferees the following instructions: First, to exclude the territory of New Mexico from the bill. Second, to amend the bill so as to provide for the admission of South Dakota by proclamation of the President under the Sioux Falls constitution to be re- submitted to the people of South Dakota with provisions for new election of State and federal officers, and without new vote on the question of divison. Third, that the proposed States of North Dakota, Montana and Washington shall be admitted on the same basis, either all by formal proclamation of the President or all by formal acts of ad. | mission. MT. Cox of New York offered g | substitute for the resolution differing only | from MT. Bakers proposition in that 1t pro
 
 Montana and Washington by proclamation o1 | the President. He earnestly favored the ad- mission of these territories.
 MT. Breckenridge, of Kentucky, demanded | @ division of the instructions, and the vote was first taken on that portion of the resolu tion instructing the conferees to eliminate New Mexico from the bill. It was agreed to- yeas 1855, nays 106, but at the last moment MT. Breckenridge changed his vote from the l negative to the affirmative for the purpose of l moving a reconsideration.
 On motion of Mr. Baker the motion to re. consider was laid upon the table. The next clause of the resolution which was voted up
 on was that instructing the conferees so te
 amend the bill as to pr ovide for the admis
 sion of South Dakota by proclamation with
 out further vote on the question of divi
 sion. This clause was agreed to, yeas 137
 nays 102
 Fillibustering followed, and after severa
 motions to adjourn had been made and vote,
 down an arrangement was effected whereby vote on the resolutions shall be taken to
 morrow at 12:45, and the House then ad