St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-09-16
The Buckeye Cracks the
Whip, and House Republic
cans Fal in Line.
Senate Amendments Nom
COncupred in After Brief
Speeches.
Several Democrats Mingle
Sense and Sarcasm in
Their Remarks.
MIR. Enloe Introduces a Res
olution Censuring Ken
nedy, Of Ohio.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 15.-Mr. McKin-
ley, of Ohio. from the committee on
ways and means, reported back the
tariff bill to the house, with senate
amendments. with the recommendation
that the amendments be non-cOncurred
i'll. Referred to committee of the whole.
Mr.. Mckinley then offered resolution
from the committee on rules, but, be-
fore it could be read, Mr.. Enloe, of
Tennessee, rose to a question of privi-
lege. He offered the following resolu-
ton:
Resolved, That the clerk of the house of
representatives be directed to communicate
to the senate the fact that the house repro
Dates and condemns the utterapces of Hon.
Robert I. Kennedy, a representative from the
state of Ohio, delivered in the house Sept. 3.
rejecting upon the character and Integrity of
the senate as body.
point of order thht this did not present
such question of privilege as would
take the gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Nc
kInley) from the floor. At the sugges-
tion of the speaker, Mr.. Enloe with
drew his resolution for the present; and
MIR. kcKinley, from the committee on
rules,
Reported a Resolution
for the immediate consideration of the
tariff bill in the house. After two hours
general debate it shall be in order to
move to non-concur in the senate amend
ments in gross, and agree to the COM
mlttee OF conference asked for by the
senate, and the house shall without fur
ther delay or other motion, proceed to
vote on said motion. The previous ques-
tlon on the resolution was ordered
Georgia, protested against the resOIu-
ton, cOntending that it was a parody
upon deliberation. Ii would have been
better to have provided for no
debate, for this course would, at
least, have had the semblance
of directness. The right to vote ON any
separate amendment was denied to
every member by this order. The
house should reject this order. It was
an unfortunate spectacle; an order was
to be made with view of preventing
the testing of the sentiment of the
house on any special proposition. The
purpose of the order was to take the
whole subject of taxation from the
house. The resolution stripped the
rules of the last piece of conservatism
which they contained. Under the pre-
tense of doing business. the majority
had broken down the rules. It had alb
rogated the power of the house to con-
slider the subject of taxation. and had
rele gated that subject to small num-
Der OF conferrees, and (sarcaStically) this
was business. Mr.. McMillin, of Ten
nessee. also opposed the resolution and
criticised the committee on rules for re-
porting it. The majority in caucas had
determined not only that the minority
Should BE Thr ottIed.
but that the Plumed Knight should be
throttled. Mr.. Vaux wished to say to
the farmer and to the laborer that this
tariff bill was cheat; 1900 people
60. 100000 were impoverished. The ma
Jority believed in every trust save one
trust in righteous and just God. Mr..
Cummings, of New York, said that he
was an unwilling passenger on the Nc
Kinley congressional limited express
train. The dOwnEast engineer and
the Buckeye conductor were running
Oh their own hook and in defiance of
the will of the people. He uttered his
protest against it. That was all he was
allowed to do. Mr.. Mckinley said that
II the committee on rules had inter
preted the resolutions it had erred in
giving too much time for debate. He
invited the attention of the house to the
fact that not fifteen minutes of the two
hours had been devoted to the discus
sion of the senate amendments or to the
tariff question at all. The methods of
the majority were known to the coun-
try. The trouble with members on the
other side was that they did not discuss
measures, but called names; and while
they were calling names the majority
oh
business than had been done by any
house of representatives since the foun-
dation of the government. The senate
amendments were nOD-concurred in
yeas 100, nays 81.
Kennedy's Speech.
Mr.. Enloe then called up his resolu-
tion in regard TO Mr.. Kennedy's speech
on Sept. 8. Mr.. Grosvenor, of Ohio,
raised the point of order that the reso-
luton was not in order. The time to
have called the gentleman from Ohio
(Mr. Kennedy to order was when the
gentleman delivered his speech. The
gentleman could not now be called to
order for his utterances. Mr.. Enloe
contended that the point was not well
taken. 1t was question affecting the
dignity of the house and the integrity
of the senate. The gentleman from
Ohio (Mr. Kennedy had no more right
to make personal attack upon men,
ber of the senate than he (Mr Enloe)
had to state that the speaker was cor
rupt, or that the president was Grim
inal. He then sent to the clerks
desk and had read extracts from Ken
nedy's speech as 1t appeared in the
Record this morning. He argued that
it was due to the house that no utter
ances rejecting upon the senate should
be admitted into the record Mr.. Bayne.
of Pennsylvania, said that he concurred
in the remarks of the gentlemen from
Tennessee. 1t was due to the senate of
the United States for the house to adopt
the resolution which had been offered.
1t occurred, perhaps. for the first time
in the history of the country that two
senators of the United States had been
attacked by name in the house of rep
resentatives, and the senate had been
attacked as a body; and that epithets
had been applied to those senators
which would dishonor and disgrace any
man before the country. 1t was in the
interest of justice and truth, and of the
honor and integrity of this body. that
no technicality should interpose to pre-
vent the house from
Doing Its Duty.
The utterances of the gentleman from
Ohio on Sept. 8 had been withheld for
revision. and had not appeared in the
Record till to-day: so that notice could
not be taken by members the day those
remarks appeared, shorn perhaps of
some of their animosities and misrepre-
sentations; but. Notwithstanding, con-