Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-08-21
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ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHES.
Proceedings of Congress.
WASHINGTON, D. o., Aug. 81.
SENATE,


passage OF the federal election bill and one
by Mr.. Vance to the same effect, from the
Board OF Trade OF Raleigh, n. @.
Mr.. Blair INTRODUCED, at the request OF
the Fsrmers Alliance, bill to provide for
banks of deposit.
The resolution heretofore ofdrad By Mr..
Plumb to prevent the sale OF spurious,
vinouz, and malt liquors in the Senate wing
of the Capitol was laid before the Senate;
the pending questions being on Mr.. Blair's
amendment to edd the words land drink
Ing" and on Mr.. Buffers amendment, d.
recsing daily search for liquors Of commit
tee rooms and other apartments.
Mr.. Gibson suggested jokingly the exten
sion OF the amendment go as to direct the
search OF Senator'S desks.
Mr.. Buller-I have no OF sction.
Mr.. Plumb objected to both amendments
es calculated to belittle the resolution which
be had offered seriously, and In Difference to
public opinion. Irrespective of the quea.
tlon of personal habits and tastes he thought
was carried on 10 the Senate restaurant was
hurtful. He did not believe that there was
any legislative body In the world, certainly
oct in the United States, that permitted
liquors to be sold publicly in the buildings
where 1t held its sittings.
A question whether Mr.. Blair's amend
| ment was still pending or whether it had
been accepted by Mr.. Plumb gave rlse to
discus sion affecting the accuracy of the re
port In the Record. The question remained
undecided.
| Mr. Aldrich, chairman of the committee
on rules, referred to the existing rule on tbs
subject adopted In 1884 and to the fact
that it only forbade the sale of intoxicating
liquors, leaving the assumption to be that
vine and beer might bo sold by the caterer.
Mr.. Butler thought that the existing rules
we're sufficient to guard against the alleged
improprieties in the restaurant; and he con-
demned the spasmodic outbreaks of virtu-
Gus indignation in the Senate chamber. Hs
believed that there was as much absti-
nence 10 the Senate as 10 any similar body
In the world and yet those discu sons
gave currency to the opinion that Senators
INDUCED too frequently 10 spirituou5 liquors
MIR. Blair agreed with Mr.. Butter and said
that he had never intermeddled with menu
personal habits; what he had warred with
was intoxication in the mass. He had not
noticed anything out OF the way in. the res
taurapt, but he thought that II there was to
be reform in the Senate wing Of the Capitol
that reform should be extended to Senators
and to committee rooms Such an exter-
sion of the reform be intimately would have
tho effect of preventing Senators becoming
so befudded as to interfere with the consid-
eraticn of the election bill. Laughter
King Alcohol, be added, would not then be
interfering in debate and bringing about that
perpeluity Of debate about which all CON-
planned. Laughter
Mr. Hoar expressed his concurrence with
Mr.. Buffers remarks and his belief that
there could not be found in this country the
same number of men, in middle or advanced
life, whose habits of life were more temper
ate and austere. The hard work ofthe Sen.
ate was not compatible With intemperauce.
Names of Senators Cd both sides of the
chamber, in the present and in the past,
would occur TO many to whom the Senate
had been cause of reform and of change OF
OF life in that particular; aud any
suggestion that Senator's life was life of
self-indulgence vas according to his obsev-
walton and belief absolutely without fcun.
dntion. He was obliged to the Senator
from South Carolina for his emphatic and
spirited assertion of that fact.
The matter, at the suggestion Of Mr. Pas
co, went over till tomorrow.
The resolution heretofore offsrsd by MIR.
Plumb in regard to the charges against
Lieutenant Guy. of the police force, was
taken up and agreed to.
Mr.. Hoar, from the judiciary committee,
reported bill e1empting the real estate in
Washington owned by James and Julius
Lansburgb, from the operation of the allen
land act and. after explanation. it was
passed.
The presiding officer made the usual IL
quiry whether there was any other morning
business, and (receiving no reply declared
that business closed.
The consideration Of the tariff bill was
then resumed.
HOUSE.
Mr.. r gers, of Arkansas. was the nam.
Der who this morning called the attention
of the Speaker to the fact that there was no
quorum present; and on motion of MIR: Nc
Kinley. of Ohio, call of the House was or.
dered. 139 MEMBERSHIPS than quorum
responded to their names, and the sergeant
at arms was dispatched to hunt up absen-
tees