The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1890-07-18
REPRESENTATIVES LAUGHED AT BYNUM.
The Indiana Caesar Raked Up Some
Recent Personalities
And Was Rather Roughly Handled
for His Palms.
Land Grant Forfeiture Bill Passed.
Closure In the Senate.

WASHINGTON, July 1.-THE House today
went into committee of the whole on the
land grant forfeiture bill Mr.. Buchanan
of New Jersey, alluded to the attack made
upon Speaker Reed and the Republican par
ty some days ago by Mr.. Stone of Missouri
and deplored the fact that the unfortunate
dispensation of Providence had taken from
the Democratic party Mr.. Randall, and the
wisdom of the Kentucky legislature had
taken from it Mr.. Carlisle, because it seemed
that pigmies had rushed in where giants
feared to tread.
Mr.. Bynum Of Indiana, read from the man
uscript of the official reporters of the record
the report of the recent colloquy between
Messrs. Cannon and Houk, in which they
referred to each other as nuisances. This
reference was omitted from the record Mr.
Bynum quoted from the speech made by Mr..
Cannon during the 50th Congress deprecat-
ing the mutilation Of the record
Mr.. Cannon said that during the colloquy
referred to, in the heat of debate, he and the
gentleman from Tennessee (Mr. Houk) had
said things they would not have said in a
cooler moment. The colloquy was personal
to themselves and from time immemOrial per-
sonal matters of that kind had been, on
agreement between the gentlemen, left out
of the record. 1t had remained for the gen.
tleman from Indiana to put In the record
what was stricken therefrom by agreement
between the two gentlemen concerned. In
justification of this the gentlemen turned
back to the record of the last Congress and
read where he (Mr. Can nom had protested
against the mutilation of the record. 1t was
a controversy between the gentleman from
Indiana (Mr Bynum) and himself. The
gentlemen had not come to him and agreed
to strike out what had been said, but struck
1t out without consultation. He (Mr. Cam
nom was gratified to believe that no repre-
sentative Of either side of the House, save
alone the gentleman from Indiana, had the
heart or malignancy to seek TO obtrude him
self where, under the parliamentary usage
of the House, he did not belong. Applause
on the Republican side.)
Mr.. Bynum said the gentleman was mis-
taken in regard to the controversy between
tnem at the last Congress. He (Mr. Bynum)
had not kept anything out Of the record, but
had made one of his statements more spe-
clfic. So far as the gentleman's denuncia-
tlon was concerned the gentleman had the
perfect privilege and right to utter it here.
(Republican hisSes)
Mr.. Cannon (deprecatingly)-"I beg the
gallant gentleman from Indiana not to hurt
me outside of the House." Naughter).
:, MI Houk OF Tennessee said both the gen.
tleman from Illinois and himself felt that
they were guilty of an improperly in their
remarks, and they believed that with propri-
ETY. the remarks should be eliminated from
the record and, by common consent, certain
things which had appeared in the newspa-
ders had not appeared in the record. The
gentleman from Indiana had now dug up
from some source what had passed between
the gentleman from Illinois and himself (Mr
Houk). III this were any consolation to the
gentleman, he hoped the gentleman would
sleep better, eat better, and send the record
to bis constituents to show them upon what
theirl Cesar fed Naughter). Naturalists
asserted that the alligator placed himself in
the sunshine, opened his jaws, and waited
for, flies and worms to walk in, when he
sucked them down. If there was any men,
Der who took pleasure in feeding on that
sort Of dirt, God bless his soul, let him take
1t to his hearts content. (Laughter).
The bill was then reported to the House,
the committee rising, and passed. The bill,
which is the Senate bill with the House sub.
stitute therefor, ,forfeits all the lands gIanted
to aid in the construction of railroads oppO-
site to and co-terminus with the portions of
any such railroads not now completed. The
House adjourned at 515.