, 1890-03-13
TUESDAYS PROCEEDINGS.
senator Edmupd- Onends senator
DnuieI with His Sharp Tongue.

WAsniSGroN, March ll.-Thc house
amendment TO the senate concurrent
resolution instructing the senate and
house committee ON Immigration to in
ycstigatc the working OF the various
laws on immigration, was taken up.
The amendment adds to the scope ut
the inquiry the subject OF the purchase
OF American industries by foreign capt.
tai. Attcr some discussion the matter
wen, over without action.
Among the petitions presented and
referred was one from Florida asking q
duty OF 81 a box ON foreign oranges,
Senator Mitchell introduced joint
resolution proposing AN amendment to
tho constitution providing for the cleo
tion of senators by direct vote,
Mr.. Morrill, offered u resolution, which
was agreed to, directing the secretary of
the interior TO report any information in
the possession of his department In re-
lation TO authorizing q lottery company
by tho Indian territorial government oi
the Creek nation
Senator IIoar called up the resolution
reported by him yesterday for the cN.
cluslun from the Record of the sentences
iutcrpolated In his discussion with MIR
Chandler some weeks ago.
Mr.. GcOrgc opposed thc resolution rs
being without precedent.
Alter some iurthcr debate MriEustis
said that there was not any eNUggefutiOn
In what had been inserted in tie tcCord,
us compared with what was publicly
uttered on the floor. The language was
not the same, but the nCcusuutiOn was
/ lie idea was the same, aud the arrJign
fItn .IIlInItWn Inc
lrssod thnt the language inserted in the
Record was probably u little more How.
rGy than that uttered on the floor.
MI Edmurds illustrated the question
by an illusion to an election In Louis
ilna OF the legislature To which the sun
ate was Indebted for the pleasure oI Mr.
EustiA' presence. It might say on the
floor of the senate" lao added, "that
believe the senator misrcprCseuted the
state Of louisiana. and ID there las bcru
an honest vote and an honest count in
that state the senate would have had
this pleasure. Now, If to-mOrrow there
uppcdrs ia tic Record the additional
statement that tins was accomplished IN
some way by The action ul the senator
himself 9ui that with bloody hands and
wicked intentions he had mlnagcd hy
fraud and violence To construct u lc!isla.
ture OF that character, ! suppose my
friends from Louisiana would say that
all that had been suid yesterday, and
that IL was very proper for me, behind
his hack, to have 1t inserted IN the Rec
ord
Mr. Daniel INTERRUPTED to ask that Mr..
Edmunds be called down.
The presiding officer Ungalls) asked
MIR. Daniel to State the worus To which
hp took exception, SO the official report
er might know exactly the sentence to
be written down.
MIR. Daniel said that he understood
the senator from Vermont to imputo dis
tinctly To the senator from Louisiana the
crimo of muricr. and II was to that Ian
gtugc that he took exception.
Ino sentence was written out by the
official reporter.
Having been read by the clerk, Mr..
Daniel siid those were not the words
hc excepted To,
At the suggestion of Mr. Honr. Mr..
Daniel ANA tho reporter retired to find
tho Objectionable sentence. After few
minutes Mr.. Daniel returned, ana said
that Ms II was ditficult TO find tho sen.
toncc, he would not press the matter
MIR. Edmunds said that tho Record
purportcd 10 bu u true account of the
proceedings, but that tho senator from
Florida so iur forgot himself in IA mo-
mcnt of heat as tn cause to he printed AN
apparently carefully drawn up state
ment, impuIing to "A senator from un-
other state and in new language crime.
Alter further debate MIR. Call submit
ted some remarks IN his own yindication.
un,! quoted some OF Mr.. Chambers ex-
prcsslOns, impar.ing to MIN (CnlD The
possibility oi provoking homicide etc
The vote resulted, yeas ~, noes ll-no
quorum, Among tho affirmative votes
were; Mcssrs, Gray, Pusb, rurpie and
Vance.
Without disposing of the matter, tho
se..Ato adjourned.