Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-03-12
FlFTY-FIRST CONGRESS.
WASHINGTON. D. c., March II. 1920.
Senate.

The attendance Of senators at the open
inc PRAYER was so small that a call OF scia-
tors was ordered. and after quorum was
thus obtained the journal of yesterday
was read and approved.
The credentials Of Mr.. Allison for his
new term commencing March 4, 1871, were
urcscntcd and ordered TO be placed on hlo.
Among the petitions presented and re-
forrcd was one from Florida asking duty
Of one dollar per box on foreign oranges.
Mr.. Hoar called up the resolution re-
ported bv him yesterday for exclusion
from record of sentences inteTpolated by
IIr. Call i'm the report Of his rcmarksin dis
cuesiOn with Mr. Chandler some weeks ago.
Dir George opposed tho resolution as be-
inc. SO far as his experience IN the Sehate
went. without a precedent. While II did
not expressly contain censure II was GER
family capable of that Interpretation. Iie
had recently looked over the debate N
Question and found it 10 have been cha
racterized by extreme acrlmouy and by
hitter personal illusions contained III
more speeches than one. For instance,
he found that the Senator from Com
necticut (Mr. Hawley), Il very ahie
and discreet senator, had charac-
terized Mr.. Pasco's speech as 2
sort of premature apology ior H HulS.
He had looked over the report Of Calls re-
marks and found that what he I'D actually
say contained every allegation o. 5tluatelY
and uneuuivocallY that was contained
the clause which the committee recon-
mendcd TO have cXpungcd from record.
He read some Of the extracts and asked
Mr.. Hoar why the committee had not or
dered them to he struck out, they beng
lust AS Objectionable a. tho clause that had
been interpolated.
Mr.. Hoar replied that the committee had
fell restricted to the sentences set forth III
the resolution under which 10 acted.
Mr. George went on To compare the words
actually spoken with those inserted IN tho
Roc1rd and argued that while there was u
verbal change there was no change OF
meaning. The same idea, he said, was ex-
pressed in the paragraph introduced oe
moro as in tho words actually spoken, but
without as much precision and force. II
was mere rhetorical ampilhcatlon.
Mr. George went on To speak OF the tlmo
when personalities in the Senate led TO
personal conflicts. but said that now there
was no safer place in oil the universe for Il
man who desired TO insult another with
IMMUNITY than the American Senate.
Everybody knew that. And It was no evil
dence OF spirit, TO evidence on courage Tor
q senator 10 get up and use insulting and
abusive language to another senator. Nor
was II an evidence of the want of spirit or
ol the want of courage that asenatOr about
whom such insulting and personal language
was used that he did not call the other
senator TO personal Recount. The duello
was clearly out OF the question now. \
personal conflict on the street was equally
ont OF the question. How. then, had the
senator from New Hampshire been in
iured bv the change Of phrase? Was 1T
because he ought % have had IN oppQrtu-
uitv to answer backl Because be had not
the fsherwOman's opportunity 10 black
o,lard back That was all. and that was
the wav the thing stood. The adoption Of
the resolution would TO an implied CEN
sure on "a amiahle and as truthful ana as
good man Us ever sat IN the American
Senate.
Mr. Hoar said that the observations Of
the Senator from Mississippi had proceed
ed on AN entire miscOnception OF the effect
of the resolution. Of opinion OF the COM
uittac. and of the practice of the Senate.
One thing settled by general parliamentary
law and affirmed by the rule Of the Senate
itself WAS that no senator was amenabie
10 censure or to a call 10 order Tor any,
thing said i'm debate except the point was
made Immediately at the time OF the ut
ferance and the words taken down. The
Committee on Privileges and Elecuons
had been unanimously OF opinion tngt
neither 10y parliamentary law nor ny
usage Of the Senate WAS IL permitted
10 make substantial changes IN the report,
which WAS security and prOtectlonOt the
uubhc character of all senators, ana onthe
PHOTOGRAPHIC accuracy OF when they had
t. stand or fall in the judgment on thelr
countrvmon, contemporaries, and OF the
future, For himself he acquitted the
senator from Florida Of any desire 10 es-
cape censure or responsibility by change
of language because the language when
the Senator did actually use repelled any
such idea. But at the same time the senator
from Florida had done something DIN erent.
il was not true, in his judgment, that
there was no substantial difference pc
tween the words uttered and words PRINT
eli. There was most substantial ana lln-
pOrtant difference.
Mr., Fusus said that he proposed 10 con-
slider the real question without passion
Tie complaint in the resolution by Mr.
Chandler was not that the Senator from
Florida had used unparh0mentary language
towards him, or had violated the customs
OF the Senate 10y indulging in harsh ana
severe and personally abusive language 70
wards him, but that certain language pun
lishod in the Record had never been utter
ed III the chamber. That was me en-
tire complaint made by the Senator
from New Hampshire, and that was
the only question within the jurisdiction
OF the Committee on Privileges and Elec-
tons; and the demand made by him was
that an order should be reported eensur-
ing the Senator from Florida. There wa,
! no censure reported, but the order impiedi
censure and had no other meaning.
ask what it is that the committee has
found him guilty of? Is it falsihcation
of the Recordl Is it that he has violated
the custom ofthe Senator" On this qnes-
ton the committee INDUCES in absolute
and serene silence, leaving every one d.
I liberty to draw his own conclusions.
Mr.. Edmunds, after an extended exposlss
ton of his views of what the standard OF
| decorum in the Senate ought 70 be, con-
| cluded by saying that under oil the circunl !.
stances of the case he did not think that ~
would be proper to place on the records OF
the Senate a resolution which would new
| tably be construed as censuro on the SEN
ator from Florida.
Mr.. Gray, Democratic member OF the
Committee on Privileges and Elections. de-
| Tended the action OF the committee ID re-
| porting the resolution. and said that he
had supposed 1t would have been accepted