Morning journal and courier., 1889-02-27
Fiftieth Congress-second Session
WASHINGTON, Feb. 26.

plll tVetoed by the presldent) TOT the rel1ef
 of William R. Wheaton and Charles H.
 Cham mberlain of California. with recom-
 mendation that the bill pass not withstand ! ing the objections of the president. Mir. Dolph made explanation claiming that the presidents objections made under misap- preheneion. The bill is to reimburse the former register and receiver of the land office l in California for clerk hire paid by them. l The vote resulted: Yeas 35, nays 8. So ths l bill was passed.
 The restitution of MT. Sabin calling on the 1 Secretary of the Interior for 8 statement of his actions towards discontinuing certain United States land offices was agreed to. 1 The House amendment to the Senate bill l granting pension of $100 month to the widow of Major General Fitzpatrick was agreed to. The amendment reduces the rate 1 to $75.
 The Senate at 1915 resumed consideration 1 of the army appropriation bill. An l providing S15O,00O for the purchase of 225 acres of land directly south of the mil l itary reservation at West Point, belonging to the estate of Edward V. Kinsley, was oppos- l ed by MT. Hiseock on the ground that the l price fixed was much to high and that the 1 possession of the property by the government l would prevent the growth and extension of the town. After long debate the amendment was agreed to.
 Thirty eight bills were passed, including | the House bill appropriating $1,Oo0 for l light at the mouth of Otter Creek, Lake l Champlain, and at 6:O5 the Senate adjourn \ ed until tomorrow.
 HoUsE-The Speakers table having been cleared of business the Speaker, acting in l conformity with the special order, reoog- nized Ar. Abbott, who called up bill for l the erection of public building at Fort | Worth, Tex. Mir. Bland wes instantly on I his feet with motin for half an hours re- cess, and after further dilatory tactics with drew his motion and MT. Randall reported the sundry civil bill.
 ! The recommendations of the committee on appropriations relative to the Senate amend- ments were agreed to, conference was or dered and Msssrs. Randall, Ferney and Ryan l were appointed conferees. No effort was made to call up the contested election case | and the House went into committee of the ! whole (Mr. Cookery, of Missouri, in the 1 chair) on the deficiency appropriation bill. ! MT. Sayres of Texas, read letter from l Colonel Lamont stating that when he had l accepted the position of private secretary to l the president, he had done so with a full | knowledge of the pay attaching to it. He preferred not to be the beneficiary of re- l troactive legislation and he therefore asked l that the committee recede from it's amend I ment appropriating $6,000 for his benefit. 1 After some discussion the committee rose and | the bill WAS passed, the Lamont amendment | being eliminated.
 The conference report on the pension ap- propriation bill was presented by Mir. Foran | of Ohio, and agreed to. The House then went into committee of the whole on the Indian appropriation bill.
 Mr. Kennedy, of Ohio, referred to speech upon southern elections made by him in July | last. No answer to that speech had been made until few days ago when MT. Crisp, \ of Georgia, had alluded to the speech of a man whose name he believed was Kennedy. k1o had %1of | he (Mr. Kennedy) had been mistaken when | he said that the committee on elections had been appointed by the speaker. If the selec- ! tion of the gentleman from Georgia for the ! ohairmanship of that committee had been an | insult to the house and to the intelligence of | the United States was it not as much an | outrage if he was selected by a democratic | caucus as if he appointed by the speak CT. The records of the 18th and 18th con. gresses showed that the speaker had sp- pointed as the chairman of the committee l elections Mir. Turner, of Georgia, a gentle ! man elected by the same sort of fraud and intamy which had returned MT. Crisp to this | floor. If it was an infamy to appoint MT. Crisp, was it not an infamy to appoint MT. \ Turner?
 Mir. Crisp, instead of getting the chairman ! ship of the committee on Pacific railroads to ! which, by the unwritten rules of the House. he was entitled, for the committee on elec- ! tions. The people of the United States had been insulted and outraged by the selection l of man whose election was challenged by \ every sense of decency and honor. The com ! mittee had been appointed for purpose; \ with undue haste the committee had report | ed the case of John G. Carlisle to the House. ! At this point MT. Taulbee and MT. Bland | broke in with the exclamation that the gen | tleman from Ohio had selected good time
 to make his speeeh-Mr. Carlisle being ab- | sent.
 l Utterly ignoring the interruption Mir. Kennedy said that be desired to show that | the gentleman from Georgia at the head of \ the elections committee did not treat the l Carlisle election with the same precision and exactness with which he treated the case l of Robert Smalls of South Carolina. Eleven ! months after the Carlisle case had been con- ! sidered the case of Robert Smalls had been | brought into the House.
 Mir. Bland energetically demanded that the ! gentleman from Ohio should be kept to 8
 strict observance of the rules governing the | debate.
 MT. Cutcheon-The gentleman is yielding l two-edged sword which will cut both ways.
 Mir. Bland-It will cut your way first. Qaughter).
 MT. Cutcheon-He laughs best who laughs
 last.
 Mir. Kennedy said that by his reference to
 the Small case he wished to show that the
 Democratic party had done and never would
 do justice to black man.
 ! After various interruptions Mir. Kennedy
 was permitted to proceed. He contrasted the l Butterworth case in 1879 and the action of a Democratic house upon it with the action of a Democratic house in the Carlisle case. The | speaker, he said, had remained as silent as
 the sphinx. Never but once in the history of the government had there been such pro- ! ceeding. He would not mention any names,
 but the gentleman would go out to private life condemned by his political associates and ] | L -ls 4. ! ciety, save that only which ill-gotten gains | could purchase him-too low for pity and l beneath contempt. Was it any wonder that
 the contestes should after the vote be cover
 ed with humiliation and shames Was it any
 wonder that he left the exhilarating effects l of Washington society and sought the
 breezes of Old Point Comfort to restore him
 to mental and moral equilibrium. The gen. | tleman had said that he knew nothing about 1 Georgia. If in 1863 the gentleman had not
 been moving swiftly to the south he might
 have made his acquaintance. His (Mr. Ken.
 I nedys) standing might not be as high 1T Georgia because the gentleman had worn the
 Confederate gray and he (Mr. Kennedy ths , Union blue in the great contest. He had nt desire to compare records with the gentleman
 from Georgia, but he believed that the es timation of every loyal man in the country was high in that conflict. The gentlemant
 distinction at home and abroad cam, F from the fact that he was elected by smal , Ter number of votes than any other membe
 who had ever been elected to congress. H , trusted that the national distinction th gentleman had thus achieved would neve again be achieved by any man within tn limits of the government. The gentleman . from Georgia had said that elections wer fair and honest in Georgia, but the gentle man had not attempted to answer tn
 figures given by him in his speech of Jul.
 i last.
 Mr. Crisp of Georgia said that before b r l would characterize the gentleman's remark as they deserved to be characterised he woul, expose to the House and to the country thei t deliberate and wilful inaccuracy. A charg r had been made by the gentleman in speee delivered in July last-a charge that he eoul \ not evade by prating about his loyalty. N f assault had been made upon that; no intims D tion had been made that the gentleman wa l. not loyal soldier, and it was entirely out Q D place for the gentleman when charged wit J, deliberate inaccuracies to say that he was t soldier in the army of the Union. The ger :, tleman had charged that the committee o
 elections had been appointed by the speaker
 This he (Mr Crisp) had denied, and he no'