The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-01-29
The ABERDEEN AFFAIR
Again the Subject Of Lively Debate In
the Senate.


WASHINGTON, Jan. 2s.-After consider
able debate in the senate to-day, MIR.
Vance offered an tn the prop
osition to refund the cotton tax. which
was rejected. The bill then passed, yeas
"A. nays q. The nays were: Berry, Blair,
Call, Coke, Plumb, Vance and Vest. The
bill makes il the duty of the secretary of
the treasury tn credit each state, terri
tory and the District of the sum
equal to all the collections made from
said states and territories und0r the act of
August 4, 1851 and amendatory acts there
To. IL appropropristes the necessary sum.
Hoar's resolution calling upon the secre-
tary of war for information of the seizure
and Imprisonment of the Apache PRISON.
sidieration of resolution, which
was discussed yesterday, and George made
an argument against II, holding that the
senate had no jurisdiction to pass a law
to punish the men who committed the
Aberdeen outrage and asking if such was
the case, what right the senate had to
make an inquiry into the matter. He
condemned the ngi in cfligy OF Sec
rotary Proctor. SpoOncr said he was glad
the day had come when the United States
notice of an outrage on an American citi-
zen. The hanging i'm efiigy of Secretary
Proctor not only brought out the feeling of
bitterness that existed in the south, and
which had no counterpart i'm the north,
but also brought into sunligh the reck-
l~essness, cruelty, and brutality. and the
Indifference to law, and To decency.
which the country for many years had oc-
c;assion to- complain of; Referring to the
rope which held the Proctor cttigy,
Spooner spoke of Tauncc being led down
or 30 people with a man laying the lash
on him at every step. The appeal to the
mayor of the city had been i'm vain. Think
tones. Alone, far from his home, dashed
and scourged i'm the market place in the
presence of 300 chivalrous gentlemen and
- .,, Aan rs.D- rlnnf
brutal arm. Spooncr expressed rcgret
that George had felt called upon i'm liis re-
marks to pronounce euiogy Oh jefferson
Davis. He had hoped no one would
deem il necessary tn do this in the senate
chamber of the United States. 1t would
strike n harsh chord in the breasts of n
People do not believe as George
said. that jefferson Davis, either
acy, ''nevcr betrayed his trust" They
believe, on the contrary. that Davis sat in
the senate chamber. betraying daily The
highest trust ever rcposcd in man, but II
was not for that they exccrated his
memory. 1t was because they held him
able. devil,sh. horrible crrieitics visited
upon the union prisoners. In closing.
Spooner said the resolution, if it ac-
one good purpose, il would show there
was "a community, tAbcrsleenl. where the
love of jefferson Davis memory il
Gray said the hanging of an high official
i'm eiiiRy while to bc condemned was not
AN unprecedented outrage. Quite recently
President Harrison had been hung i'm
effigy i'm the state of Indiana. He moved
to amend the resolution. by adding the
words. land also letter instructions To the
marshal tn which the report was N re-
spence and also the following, land he
he requested to inform the senate whether
i'm the alleged assault on Taunce, amy
rights secured him by tho: constitution or
laws of the United States were violated"
Butler offered an instruct
ing the attorney general to furnish all pa
peers i'm the office of the district attorney
OF Indiana, or i'm the United States court
there, relating to the Dudley case. After
further debate the first part of Gray's
was agreed to. The second
part was not voted on. Call offered an
calling Oh the attorney gem
eral to report the hanging in efliRy of
President Harrison i'm Indiana and Presi-
dent Cleveland i'm ans Without ac-
ton The pending to the reso.
luton went over. The bill To aid the
state of Colorado tn support the school of
mines was passed, after which the exc
cutive session adjourned.