The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-02-21
AGREED TO AFTER A TILT
n1p DIRECT TAX BILL SENT TO
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND.

A.. s+ewart of Georgia Makes a Lively
eneech in Opposition to the Adop-
+,on of the Conference Report-Re
GERS III Mr.. Grosvenor by Personal
Attack.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 20.-In the House
.,,is morning Immediately after the reading
- the journal the contest over the direct
- hill was resumed, Mr.. Caswell of Iowa
saTl;no I'D the conference report as a mat
torof privilege. He refused to yield to enable
.ho sneaker to clear his table of Senate
hills although he was warned by Mr..
Hooker of Mississippi that he had better
do so.
Mr. Crisp of Georgia raised the question
If consideration against the conferences
ranort. stating that while be was willing to
1--WE preference to appropriation bills, he
9Tould antagoniZe any other measures with
the contested election case.
The House determined by vote of 1874
.-oas m Q6 NAYS to consider the conference
JJeport but Mr.. Bland of Missouri moved
reconsideration, having voted In the affirm
alive TO enable him to make that motion.
Mr.. Kelly moved to table the motion to
reconsider
STIRRED UP BY STEWART.
The motion to table the motion to recon-
slider was approved by a vote Of 159 yeas
10 II NAYS, and Mr.. Stewart of Georgia
proceeded to address the House in oppOsi-
zion to the adoption of the report. Referr-
inc 70 the speech made by Mr.. Grosvenor Of
ONO he declared that it was calculated to
produce irritation between the north and
the south and he protested solemnly against
the issue the gentleman sought to raise. be
mr. Steward did not raise it, and be
81, lam n "a 20 hnT
r,embeys were to observe constitutional re-
onirement, obey the law and if need be to
defend the flag; but that they were not to
be deferred from doing what was right by
ANYTHING coming from him Mr. Grosve-
norl.
WARMLY CONGRATULATED.
Mr.. Stewart had a large and distinguished
audience when he took Air Grosvenor to
task William Walter Phelps, MIR. Reed,
Mr. Hill and other republican leaders came
over to the democratic side and joined the
circle around Mr.. Stewart as he vigorously
and eloquenty arraigned Mr.. Grosvenor.
Afterward Mr.. Stewart came over on the
republican side to hear Mr.. Grosvenor, who
backed right down on his explanation. MIR.
Stewart was congratulated on all sides.
GRosvENoR DENIES IT.
Mr. Grosvenor den ed that in the remarks
made by him, criticized by the gentleman
from Georgia, he had used any offensive
language, or any language which could be
construed as a threat against tne people of
the south. He was not open to a lecture on
the subject OF Cancellation from the gentle
man from Georgia. He had never intro
duced sectionalism into any debate over a
business proposition, and he never would.
Mr.. Bland of Missouri opposed the con-
ference sport, declaring that the object of
the bill was TO squander the money In the
treasury in order that the onerous, dis
honest protective system Of taxation might
be psrpetuated.
Mr.. Oates Of Alabama, one of the con-
ferrees, said that be had refused to sign the
report because Of his ,alterable, unwaver-
ing opposition to the bill from the time Of
its inception.
The constitutional features of the bill
we're discussed by Messrs. Oates, Hooker
and Caswell, and the conference report was
then agreed to by vote of los yeas to SO
nays.