Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-06-25
House Debate on the Silver Bill Con-
tinued to 3 P. M.
THE NAVAL BILL Is PASSED.
Mr.. Call Occupies Large Part
of the Senate's Time.
Mr.. INGALLS, CHARGE AGAINST HIM.
THE NAVAL BILL Is PASSED
Mr.. INGALLS, CHARGE AGAINST HIM.
SENATE.

Among the bills reported from committees
and placed on the calendar were the following:
The Senate bill to authorize the Canaveral and
South Florida Railway Company to construct a
bridge across the Indian river and one across
the Banana river in Florida.
The House bill authorizing the construction
OF bridge across the Tennessee river near
Guntersville, Ala
The House bill to amend the act to authorize
the Cairo and Tennessee River railroad to con-
struct bridges across the Tennessee and Cum
berland rivers, also adversely Senate bill to
prevent the transportation ill bond of mer-
chandise between the United States and
Mexico and to restore that right whenever the
zona libra is abolished.
Mr.. Reagan (who had introduced the bilD
said he would seek an early opportunity of ad-
dressing the Senate on the subject.
BILLS PASSED.
House joint resolution authorizing the use of
a government pier in Chicago was reported,
amended and passed
The following bills were taken from the
calendar and passed:
House bill increasing by $50, 600 the limit of
cost OF the public building at Springfield, Mo.
House Dill authorizing the erection of hotel
tor colored people, upon the government
reservation at Fortress Monroe
MR.. CALL ON CUBA.
MIR. Call rose to address the Senate on the
subject of resolutions heretofore offered by
him (and reported back adversely from the
committee on foreign relatons), one authoriz-
ing the President to open negotiations with
the Spanish government for the purpose of in
duclng that government to consent to the es-
tablishment of a free and Independent republic
Ill the island OF Cuba, and the other in relation
to the German ownership of large proper
ton of the bonded bcbt of Cuba
When the clerk Was reading the second reso-
luton MIR. Sherman rose and moved that the
doors be closed
Mr.. Edmunds seconded the motion. and the
VICE President directed the galleries to. be
cleared and the doors to be closed
NOT WHAT MIR. CALL EXPECTED.
Mr.. Call, being thus unexpectedly cut off in
his desire to make a speech before the public
said that he would withdraw the resolution,
but the order to close the doors was insisted
upon by Messrs. Sherman and Edmunds and
was carried into execution.
The doors were reopened at 80 and the
Senate then took up the House bill for the ad-
mission OF Wyoming into the Union as a state
MR.. CALLS Personal EXPLANATION.
The bill was laid aside temporarily and Mr.
ingalls, offered resolution instructing the COM
mittee on privileges and elections to inquire
into the publication IN the Congressional Record
OF today OF a personal explanation by Mr.. Call,
and to report whether it is in accordance with
the rules, regulations and practice of the
Senate. and directing that such personal expla-
nation be withheld from the permanent edition
of the Record until further order of the
Senate.
[The personal explanation" referred to by
MIR. ingalls, was one delivered by Mr. Call Mon
day. June 2, in which he pronounced as false
statements made In pamphlet by ". D. Chip
ley sent to each Senator. 1t was printed in the
Record today, with liberal "subheads." and
took up the tirst fourteen pages of that publica-
ton.
MR.. CALL DEFENDS HIS ACTION.
Mr.. Call said that he did not think that the
resolution should be adopted. There was no
possible ground or reason for it and no excuse
for it. He had asked leave of the Senate OH
the I'd OF June last TO print extracts from the
record IN vindicatiOn of his career in the
Senate, In response to q pamphlet attack
ing him, and that was all that he had done to-
day. The libel to which he had been replying
had contained statement of bills which he
had introduced In the Senate and which had
not become law. At his leisure he had pre-
pared statement III his own vindication and
had submitted it to member of the
committee on printing (Mr. Gorman)
on whose judgment he relied and who had in
formed him that there no impropriety
whatever i'll having it published. That was the
whole statement OF the case, and where he
asked, was there any breach Of privilege in it?
MIR. INGALLS, CHARGES MR.. CALL WITH DEL1BER-
ATELY fALsfFYfNG THE RECORD.
Mr.. Ingalls-The Senator from Florida has,
in my Judgment, not only grossly violated and
abused the privileges of the Senate, but he has
deliberately falsiiied the record of what oc-
CURED on the day when the transaction took