The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-01-15
SCOLDING SENATOR'S.
Call of Florida Mad With
Plumb of Kansas.
SPECIMENS or ELoouEncE.
The swamp Land BiIi Creates Row In
the Senate -shermsn's Trust
Bni Reported.

WAsRIyGTox CETT. jan M-The Senate
committee on pensions today unanimously
directed ChirmAn Davis 70 report the de-
parsEAent pension OH The title Of the bill
is as follows: - bill granting pensions 10
soldiers and sailors xho are incapseisafed
for the performances OF laboY, assd pEovia-
ing foF gensions 20 their widows, minor
children and dependent parties
The senate committee on finance today
continued consideration Of Senator Sher-
mans bi.i 10 declare trusts unlawful. Alter
adopting several amendments which do not
affect the principle or scope OF the measure.
the committee ordered favorable report
to he made 70 the Senate.
Among ether bills reported from coIn-
nittees and placed on the calendar today,
were the following:
shermaa's bill authorizing the purchase
Of site for = baIding for the supreme
court
George offered resolution instructing
the committee on finance % inquire into
the prcprIesy OF reducing penal bonds re-
quireG OF manufacturers OF cigars in all
caseS. or at least. where the manufacture
is carried on by manual labor Of the manu-
facturer
The resolutions heretofore offered by
Call in return to the ciaiuls OF Florida
under the swamp land grant. and in rela-
ton 20 the alleged unlawful selections OF
land in Florida. we're taken up. and Cah
addressed the Senate and the bgrdeR of
his remarks was that lands which were not
swamp and oyerflowed, bat which were tit
Tor cultivation. had been settled under the
swamp land act to the injury OF tie peo-
pies rights. He asserted that ~. .0o0. 600
acres bad been selected and appropriated
as swamp and oyeraowed lands, while
every body knew there was no such extent
OF territory-as large as Europe-consist-
Ing OF swamp aud oYerfowed lands. OF
l6,09.O00 acres. which had passed In
Florida under the swamp and overfcwed
land act. he asserted eleven millions we're
high and dry.
Plumb said Florida contained about 40.
0t1.0o0 acres. and more than one-half OF
this had been given by the United States to
the state for various purposes. Every single
acre of land so granted has been placed
under the control Of the legislature OF Flor
ida Some I6, o., ,to) or Il, &C., .000 acres had
been granted as swamp and overfowed
lands Senator Call had jest told the SEN
ate that most of il was ros swamp, but
arabic land. So much greater Nss the
=
betrayed It's trust For himself, he would
resign his seat ii be we're 70 bring forward
such complaint against his own state
after being too eowardly to proclaim il on
the stump within it,
Plumb went on to say that Call had, some
sessions ago. appealed 60 him as chairman
ef the COMMITTEES on public lands 70 report
4 bslg 10 ratify and confirm .ifIe to certain
railroad lands in Florida 30 that ali alleged
frauds, said Plumb. were 20 be condoned
under certain circumstances bat were never
70 be condoned in speech. The senator
had always been in the habit OF impugning
other senator's covertly or openly. and he,
Plamh, had sometimes been inclined TO re-
ply &c him ii but 10 convict him of false
hood.
Call replied to Plumb. He said: "T will
not be moved. Mr.. President, by this ex-
traoFdinary example OF the senator from
Kansas. 81 follow his bad manners nor his
contemplate methods. He cannot have a
poorer opinion oi me than / have of the
senator from Kansas. | have not been in
the habit of violating the decorum OF
debate or discussion. but IL the senator
thinks BY his idle bravado, by his defense
OF this vast spoliation OF public domain in
the interest of those who have profited by
il. that he can intimidase me from defend
ing the rights OF the people Of MY state,
s.ea. him with the scorn and contempt
that be deserves. Ny position is well
known in relation 20 this question in the
state Of Florida. The officials of that state
are as honorable and as able as the senator
from Kansas: By their side he would sink
into insigniiicanee. The statements OF the
senator in relation to their violation of
trust are entirely untrue and as chair
man 81 the committee on public lands
which has jurisdiction over the matter, he
should be ashamed of himself not to De
better informed in regard TO the peculiar
circumstances.
III the things be SAYS were tree ard il /
were as bad man as he as weak man rs
be is, as vain man As he i. even il ] we're
all he SAYS | ara. stili woald remain true
10 thsf large number x people who have
been deprived OF their rights to these
Janis.
Without action On the resolution. the
Senate after executive session adjourned.
THE sILCoTT MATTER